Agenda: GA4GH April Connect 2025

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Opening Remarks

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Auditorium

Plenary session: from standards to practice: overcoming barriers in genomic data sharing

9:15 AM - 10:45 AM

9:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Auditorium

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

Lobby

Plenary session: workshopping best practices for community engagement in product development

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Auditorium

12:30 PM - 2:15 PM

12:30 PM - 2:15 PM

Lobby

Expanding and evolving the Federated Variant Level Matching platform for rare disease

12:45 PM - 2:10 PM

12:45 PM - 2:10 PM

Yellowstone

gNBSeq: progress and planning

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Olympus

GA4GH's global engagement strategy updates: progress on key deliverables

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Monadnock

Leveraging Use Cases for Standardizing Data Structures, Variant Stores, and File Formats Working Session

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Yellowstone

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Lobby

Service Info and Service Registry: present and future

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Olympus

GKS Connect Hackathon report-out: outcomes, challenges, and next steps

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Board Room

Genomic health data ecosystem (HDE) development and maturity level

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Yellowstone

Data visiting

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Monadnock

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Lobby

Beacon v2.0: updates and insights

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Yellowstone

Towards clinical application of GA4GH products

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Monadnock

(hts)Get compliant with it: hackathon edition

9:00 AM - 12:45 PM

9:00 AM - 12:45 PM

Olympus

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Lobby

Beacon for Metadata Discovery: Expanding the Scope

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

Yellowstone

Data access modelling for GA4GH ecosystems

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

Monadnock

12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

Lobby

GA4GH data model best practices lunch session

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Monadnock

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

The "TASC-athon"

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Olympus

The path to implementation of Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS) products

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Monadnock

Cloud Work Stream: new standards

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Yellowstone

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Lobby

Experiments Metadata Standard: now and beyond

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Monadnock

Future of the Data Connect standard

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Olympus

Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream road map

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Yellowstone

refget Sequence Collections standard

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Board Room

Connect Welcome Reception

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

MIT Museum

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Lobby

Passports, visas, and task-specific tokens

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Monadnock

Brainstorming technical next steps for the pathoplexus pathogen genomic data sharing ecosystem

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Olympus

Standards for enabling federated machine learning

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Yellowstone

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Lobby

Visa encoding in verifiable credentials data model v2.0

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

Olympus

Exploring AI-driven innovation: benchmarking large language models for rare disease diagnostics

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

Monadnock

Data Repository Service (DRS) working session

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

Yellowstone

12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

Lobby

Collaborative brainstorming for the next phase of GA4GH Implementation Forum (GIF) activities

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Olympus

Finding synergy: Technical Alignment Sub-committee (TASC) and Data Model and Schema Consensus (DaMaSC)

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Yellowstone

VLM + VRS = NextGen Beacon

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Monadnock

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Lobby

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS) in focus: bridging regulatory and ethical gaps across GA4GH

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Monadnock

Adapting GA4GH standards to meet the needs of the Neuroscience Community

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Yellowstone

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Lobby

Querying Phenopackets with Beacon v2.0: a prototype implementation in the prenatal space

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Olympus

GA4GH Schema Registry specification

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Yellowstone

Informing clinical data sharing standards

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Monadnock

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Lobby

Pangenome structural variant reporting and representation

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

Yellowstone

Automating patient matching to clinical trials

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

Monadnock

GA4GH Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) Quality Control standards meeting

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

Olympus

12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

Lobby

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

GA4GH in the real world

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Yellowstone

Identifying core consent elements for pangenomic studies

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Monadnock