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• Mroczkowski, Tony [European Southern Observatory (ESO)]
• De Breuck, Carlos [European Southern Observatory (ESO)]
• Kemper, Ciska [European Southern Observatory (ESO); Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics (ASIAA), Taipei, Taiwan]

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) is the most sensitive observatory spanning millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths. To maintain this position, however, a vibrant and concerted development programme is necessary. Since each partner region in ALMA conducts its own development programme, we hosted an international workshop at ESO to promote further cross-regional discussion of our parallel development efforts. As we describe here, an overriding goal for this was to align our development activities with the goals of the 2030 ALMA development roadmap — a report recently produced by ALMA to provide guidance on what directions we want the ALMA observatory to go in, and how to get there.