The 6th SDMX Global Conference will be held from 2 to 5 October 2017 at the ECA Conference Centre (ECACC), Menelik II Ave., in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This year’s conference is hosted jointly by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), with the theme "SDMX for the Data Revolution". Topics for this year’s event include:

• Global data sharing
  
  
• Data validation
  
  
• Applying SDMX to improve statistical business processes
  
  
• SDMX infrastructure and tools
  
  
• SDMX and global standardization