The Forum is only online and will consist of two sessions:

1. A Scientific Session primarily focussed on hearing from WDS Members. This will be organized by theme, where selected pre-recorded talks will be shown and panelists of the presenters will address the major issues coming out of their talks. Themes will be determined based on a review of the presentations, but examples may include Technology, Sustainability, Use of The Cloud, and so on.
   Breakouts by theme may be also organized at the end of session. WDS will facilitate these discussions, but will mostly be in listening mode, so as to hear from the membership and identify ways for WDS to be of support.
2. A Plenary Session in which four topics will be discussed with the community. WDS will present its activities related to technology and the new Data Together initiative (joint with CODATA, RDA, and GO FAIR). It will also propose a new mentoring programme for candidate repositories. Finally, time will be allocated to a discussion of the growing role in the global data ecosystem of generalist repositories.