2026 AgBioData Community Workshop
Dates: April 20-22, 2026
Location: Kansas State University, Olathe & Virtual
Workshop Description
This meeting will feature presentations from current AgBioData working groups (WGs) about their accomplishments and recommendations, breakout room discussions on data-related issues, and discussions on the role of artificial intelligence and the long-term financial sustainability of the database ecosystem. Below, you can see a draft of the workshop agenda.
Agenda (All times are in Central Time - CT)
Monday, April 20, 2026 (Find your local time here)
4:00 PM - Welcome & Orientation (10 min)
4:10 PM - PI Report: Grant Objectives & Progress (50 min)
5:00 PM - Coffee Break
5:15 PM - Grant Writing Team Report (30 min)
5:45 PM - Dinner
6:30 PM - Presentation from Element Biosciences (60 min)
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 (Find your local time here)
7:30 AM - Virtual Re-Watch Party of PI Report & Grant Writing Team Report (90 min)
9:00 AM - Discussion: International Priorities for the Next Phase of the GGB Data Ecosystem
10:00 AM - Working Group Brief Introductions & Reports
Introduction (5 min)
WG Wrap Ups:
- Standards for Genetic Variation (5 min)
- Phenotypic Data Standardization and Management (5 min)
Current WGs:
- AI-Readiness (10 min)
- FAIR Scientific Literature (10 min)
- Natural Language Processing for Biocuration (10 min)
- scRNA-Seq Biocuration (10 min)
11:00 AM - Coffee Break
11:15 PM - Working Group Sessions: Next Steps Discussions & Activities (90 min)
- AI-Readiness - Room 1
- FAIR Scientific Literature - Room 2
- Natural Language Processing for Biocuration - Room 3
- scRNA-Seq Biocuration - Room 4
12:45 PM - Lunch
12:45 PM - Working Group Brief Introductions & Reports (60 min)
1:45 PM - Working Group Report-Backs (60 min)
2:45 PM - Coffee Break
3:00 PM - Database Sustainability Deep Dive (60 min)
4:00 PM - Outdoors Break
4:30 PM - Database Sustainability Working Session: One-Pagers (60 min)
- Stakeholders
- Legislature
- Industry
5:30 PM - Outdoors break
6:15 PM - Networking Reception (60 min)
7:15 PM - ID3A Presentation (45 min)
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 (Find your local time here)
7:30 AM - Virtual Re-Watch Party of Database Sustainability Deep Dive & Networking Questions (90 min)
9:00 AM - Awards Reception (30 min)
9:30 AM - Coffee Break
10:00 AM - Network Sustainability Working Session (90 min)
11:30 AM - Network Sustainability Working Session - Commitments & Next Steps (60 min)
12:30 PM - Closing Evaluations/Boxed Lunch