GA4GH Virtual Connect is two weeks away!

View the preliminary meeting agenda below.

Join GA4GH Active Contributors for a series of virtual Connect workshops aimed at making progress on GA4GH products and cross-Work-Stream initiatives. Register to ensure you receive meeting updates. 

Note this agenda is subject to change. If you have any questions or concerns,  please don't hesitate to contact us.

Correction: VCF 4.4 Release Candidate 2 Public Feedback and REWS Genetic Discrimination sessions take place on 14 November.

14 November • Day One

Opening Remarks

14:00 UTC - 17:00 UTC

19:30 UTC - 21:00 UTC

Mapping REWS Deliverables

19:30 UTC - 21:00 UTC

REWS Genetic Discrimination

21:00 UTC - 22:15 UTC

VCF 4.4 Release Candidate 2 Public Feedback

21:00 UTC - 22:30 UTC

15 November • Day Two

QC of WGS Study Group

12:00 UTC - 13:00 UTC

Schema Registry Service: exploring the uses of a standardised data model sharing API

14:00 UTC - 15:30 UTC

Best Practices Development

14:00 UTC - 15:30 UTC

Crypt4GH: enhancing the use of encrypted data

15:30 UTC - 17:00 UTC

Experiments Metadata

15:30 UTC - 17:00 UTC

Paediatric Pharmacogenomics Secondary Findings Workshop

16:00 UTC - 17:30 UTC

Resources for getting started with GA4GH APIs

19:30 UTC - 21:00 UTC

Passports/AAI v1.2 Q&A 

19:30 UTC - 21:00 UTC

21:00 UTC - 22:30 UTC

21:00 UTC - 22:30 UTC

16 November • Day Three

The GA4GH Cloud APIs in 2025 — where do we want to be?

14:00 UTC - 15:30 UTC

FASP Builder Session

15:30 UTC - 17:00 UTC

Beacon v2 — Beaconize your data type

15:30 UTC - 17:30 UTC

GA4GH Community Updates

19:30 UTC - 20:30 UTC

30 November • Day Four

GKS Maturity & VA Knowledge Model v1

14:00 UTC - 15:30 UTC

Sequence Annotation Integration with the GKS Work Stream

15:30 UTC - 17:00 UTC

DaMaSC — got schema?

17:00 UTC - 18:30 UTC

Bad Actors in Research Environments — who’s bad?

19:30 UTC - 21:00 UTC