Events
Forthcoming events
2026
International Conference on Real Estate Statistics, co-hosted by the IMF, BIS IFC, OECD, Eurostat, Bank of Japan and Hitotsubashi University (Call for Papers), preceded by pre-conference events on 18 February 2026.
Conference on "External statistics in the age of geoeconomics: challenges and opportunities in a changing global landscape", co-organised with the European Central Bank and hosted by the Narodowy Bank Polski, in Krakow, Poland.
Call for papers and ESC Data Challenge
IFC participation at the 5th Regional Statistics Conference of the International Statistical Institute, Malta (Flyer)
13th biennial IFC Conference
BIS Basel, preceded by the IFC Committee (restricted) meeting on 19 August 2026
Workshop on "Data security and privacy", co-organised with the Banco de Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal.Call for interest
Past events
International Conference on "Building a Primary Product-level Emissions Data Platform", co-hosted by: De Nederlandsche Bank, Argonne National Laboratory, BIS IFC, University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government, operating Partner: E-ledgers Institute, Amsterdam. Link to conference page (the event is by invitation).
IFC contributionsat the65th ISI World Statistics Congress , in The Hague, Netherlands, including all six Invited Paper Sessions (IPS):
- IPS 956: Keep Your Data Providers Close, But Your Users Closer
- IPS 959: Sharing and accessing granular administrative data
- IPS 960: Carbon statistics, carbon disclosure and carbon accounting
- IPS 964: New developments in seasonal adjustment
- IPS 966: Data science and innovation: steering Central Banks statistics towards agile governance
- IPS 968: Digitalisation in financial markets and new horizons for data and reporting
co-organised with De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam, Netherlands (agenda, call for papers, presentations), followed by the IFC Committee (restricted) meeting on 5 October 2025.
Rome, Italy, organised by the SDMX sponsors and hosted by the Bank of Italy.
Further information on SDMX Global Conference 2025.
Lisbon, Bank of Portugal, organised by the Bank of Portugal, the Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys (CIRET) and the KOF Swiss Economic Institute of ETH Zürich
Brasília, Brazil, co-organised by the Working Group on Securities Databases (WGSD) and the Central Bank of Brazil, with BIS/IFC support (agenda)
Rome, Bank of Italy, co-organised with the Bank of Italy
(agenda, presentations)
The proceedings of the workshop were published in the IFC Bulletin no 65 on New insights from financial statements.
Launch webinar agenda
The proceedings of the workshop were published in the IFC Bulletin no 63 on Addressing climate change data needs: the central banks' contribution.
"Carbon content measurement for products, organizations and aggregates: creating a sound basis for decision making" – an international workshop, Hamburg, Deutsche Bundesbank Regional Office, co-organised by the IMF, the IFC, Eurostat, the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Central Bank of Chile and the University of Oxford (agenda)
Conference on "External statistics after the pandemic: addressing novel analytical challenges" (agenda with presentations), Madrid, Spain, co-organised by the European Central Bank and the Bank of Spain.
The proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin no 62 on External statistics in a fragmented and uncertain world.
9th SDMX Global Conferenceon "Empowering Data Communities"
Manama, Bahrain, in collaboration with the Bahrain Information and eGovernment Authority
Further information onprogrammeandSDMX website.
Rome, Bank of Italy, co-organised with the Bank of Italy
The proceedings of the workshop were published in the IFC Bulletin no 64 on Data science in central banking: enhancing the access to and sharing of data
WGSD DGI G20 Workshop on Securities Statistics
Cape Town, South Africa, co-organised with the Reserve Bank of South Africa and the Working Group on Securities Databases (WGSD) (agenda, summary )
IFC contribution at the64th ISI World Statistics Congress in Ottawa, Canada, including all presentations on eight Invited Paper Sessions (IPS):
- IPS 205 - Sustainable finance statistics
- IPS 224 - Evolving statistics in support of central bank policies
- IPS 239 - Financial innovation and official statistics
- IPS 240 - Central bank statistics re-branding and purpose-driven communication
- IPS 241 - Rethinking data governance in official statistics: the central banks' experience
- IPS 243 - Data science in official statistical production: insights from central banks
- IPS 244 - Commercial real estate indicators: progress and challenges
- IPS 245 - The present and future of access to granular administrative data
IFC Satellite Seminar on "Granular data: new horizons and challenges for central banks" co-organised with the Bank of Canada in Ottawa
agenda, papers and presentations
The proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin no 61 on Granular data: new horizons and challenges.
High level panel on "The Role of Data and Statistics in the Digital Transformation of State Services", co-organised by the IFC.