ACC 2026 - AnVIL Community Conference 2026

Conference
Monday, August 31, 2026 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM EDT
Tuesday, September 1, 2026 8:00 AM to 7:30 PM EDT
Cambridge, MA
#AnVILCommunity2026

Save the date for the 2026 AnVIL Community Conference! We'll be kicking off in the afternoon of August 31, 2026 at 2 pm ET and ending in the evening of September 1, 2026.

Join us in Cambridge, MA to hear the latest and greatest of genomics analysis in the cloud, get hands-on experience with AnVIL, and meet the AnVIL community!

AnVIL Community Conference 2026

Agenda

Day 1 Monday, August 31

Time (ET)Event
2:00 PMWorkshops Kickoff (Ava Hoffman)
Broad Auditorium
2:15 PMPart 1: Platform (concurrent)

AnVIL101
Led by: Ava Hoffman
Broad Auditorium

AnVIL Program Retrospective: What went well, what didn't, what to improve
Led by: Jonathan Lawson
Broad Board Room
3:15 PMBreak
3:30 PMPart 2: Applications (concurrent)

All of Us & AnVIL Imputation Service Workshop
Led by: Chris Kachulis

Exploring AI-enabled analyses with AnVIL
Led by: Vincent Carey

DREAM Challenge
Led by: Kyle Ellrott
4:30 PMBreak
4:45 PMPart 3: Fishbowl Discussion (Frederick Tan and Jeremy Goecks)
Broad Auditorium
5:30 PMClose Day 1

Day 2 Tuesday, September 1

Time (ET)Event
8:00 AMRegistration table opens
9:00 AMWelcome to ACC26 at the Broad Institute
Speakers: Jonathan Lawson, Mike Schatz and Robert Carroll

Auditorium
9:05 AMAnVIL Top 10
Speakers: Jonathan Lawson, Mike Schatz and Robert Carroll

Auditorium
9:45 AMKeynote 1 -- Ben Heavner
Five Years on AnVIL: An Early Adopter's Experience with Consortium Data Sharing

Auditorium
10:15 AMCoffee break + Poster Viewing
Lobby
10:30 AMTalks: Data
Auditorium

Invited Talk 1: Heidi Rehm
Tools for rare disease diagnosis: seqr genomic analysis platform, automated reanalysis and federated variant level matching

Invited Talk 2: Jill Moore
From Cohort to Cloud: Building the Multi-omics for Health and Disease Resource on AnVIL

Invited Talk 3: Benedict Paten
The Human Pangenome Reference Consortium Release 2: Available in AnVIL!
12:00 PMPoster Lightning Talks
Auditorium
12:15 PMPoster Session
Lobby
12:45 PMLunch + Networking
1:30 PMKeynote 2 -- Kristin Ardlie
The GTEx project(s) and AnVIL - protecting and sharing data

Auditorium
2:00 PMTalks: Compute
Auditorium

Invited Talk 4: John Landers
ALS Compute: A Central Repository of Case/Control Whole-Genome Sequencing Data for ALS/FTD Gene Discovery

Submitted Talk 1: Isis Narvaez-Bandera
Secure Cloud Native Machine Learning for Age Prediction with Galaxy on AnVIL

Submitted Talk 2: Charles Hadley King
From Data Model to AnVIL Upload: Implementing GREGoR Data Submission in the ICTS Dashboard

Tech Talk 1: Chris Kachulis
The AnVIL/All of Us Imputation Service

Tech Talk 2: Dannon Baker
Galaxy as a Reproducible Substrate for Agentic Analysis

Tech Talk 3: Vincent Carey
Bioconductor and AnVIL: Fostering Symbiosis
3:30 PMSnack Break
Lobby
3:45 PMTalks: Community
Auditorium

Submitted Talk 3: Angela Page
Think Globally, Compute Locally

Submitted Talk 4: Julie Jurgens
The Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) Incubator for Pan-NIH Resources: Enhancing Scientific Interoperability

Invited Talk 5: Scott Harrison
Principles, Structures and Implementation of Experiential Education in Computational Genomics

ELSI Talk 1: Sarah Nelson
Adoption, governance, and democratizing potential of cloud platforms

ELSI Talk 2: Pilar Ossorio
Governance of Human Data Sharing for Research: Beyond Controlled Access
5:00 PMClosing Discussion + Ask Me Anything
Auditorium
5:30 PMPoster Session + Networking Reception
Lobby
7:30 PMClose

Abstract Book: https://bit.ly/anvil2026-abstractbook

Key Dates

Registration for In-Person or Virtual Attendance

  • Opens May 5, 2026
  • Closes August 17, 2026

Abstract Submission

  • Opens May 5, 2026
  • Closes August 12, 2026

Event Details

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