Technical discussion and review of updates to the GKS maturity model and release process for supporting transparent and scalable standard development, with a focus on how the process applies to the developing VRS 2.0, VA-Spec, and Sequence Annotation products. New features to be showcased include Sequence Reference annotations, variant object metadata, structural variation, the GKS common models, and schemas for VA Spec objects. 

Audience: Software engineers and technical team leads/managers interested in implementing or contributing to genomic knowledge standards as well as GA4GH data model specification developers