This session will explore how to leverage GA4GH products when implementing the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles to connect data and services. It will briefly outline a systematic and practical approach for projects at any scale, and then engage participants in a guided exercise on goal setting, pre- and post-assessment, and how to iteratively take steps toward increasingly FAIR data. The session will conclude by synthesising a statement on how the participants see GA4GH products' role in the broader landscape of FAIR implementations.

The FAIR principles have been reinterpreted and adapted to apply across a range of digital assets beyond data but also to describe desirable characteristics of systems and services that enable the exchange and processing of them. The FAIR-in-action approach is flexible and the exercise guiding this session can easily be adapted depending on participants and co-organisers interests, e.g. FAIR for research software, vocabularies and semantic artefacts, or infrastructure services, etc. The primary thesis of the session is that the FAIR principles provide a valuable perspective and that GA4GH products can and do support their implementation.