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-**BOSC 2026**, the 27th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, will take place **July 14-15 in Washington, DC**, as part of [ISMB 2026](https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/home). We will again join forces with [Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation (BOKR)](https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/) for half a day.
-We hope you will join us in person or online!
+Since 2000, BOSC has covered all aspects of open source bioinformatics and open science. **BOSC 2026**, the 27th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, will take place **July 14-15 in Washington, DC**, as part of [ISMB 2026](https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/home). We are excited to announce our two [keynote speakers, **Eric Green and Maryam Zaringhalam**](/events/bosc-2026/bosc-2026-keynotes/), and two [panels](/events/bosc-2026/panels/) on important and timely topics: *Policies and Strategies for Resilient Open Science* and *Open Source in the Age of AI*.
+We will again join forces with [Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation (BOKR)](https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/) for half a day.
 
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-Since 2000, BOSC has covered all aspects of open source bioinformatics and open science. [BOSC 2025](/events/bosc-2025/) took place July 21-22, 2025 in Liverpool, UK (as part of
-  [ISMB/ECCB 2025](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/home)). Read our [BOSC 2025 report on F1000Research](https://f1000research.com/articles/14-887/v1)!
-BOSC 2025 included two days of [keynote talks](/events/bosc-2025/bosc-2025-keynotes/), talks from submitted abstracts, a [panel discussion on data sustainability](/events/bosc-2025/panel), and posters. It also featured a [joint session](/2025/03/17/BOSC-BOKR-2025) with the
-[Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation (BOKR)](https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/2025-meeting), which opened with a [joint keynote by Chris Mungall](/events/bosc-2025/bosc-2025-keynotes/) followed by talks on some of our favorite topics, including open data and reusable and reproducible science. The full lineup of BOSC 2025 talks and posters, including links to talk videos, is available on our [Schedule page](/events/bosc-2025/bosc-2025-schedule/).
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 ## BOSC 2026 Key Dates
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 - May 7: Late poster submission deadline
 - July 12-16: [ISMB 2026](https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/home) (Washington, DC and online)
 - **July 14-15:** **BOSC 2026** (part of ISMB 2026)
+- July 17-18: CollaborationFest (more info coming soon!)
 
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-![Maggie Fu by poster at BOSC 2025](/img/2025/bosc2025-img/Maggie%20Fu%20by%20poster.jpeg)
+![Three people at CoFest 2025](/img/2025/bosc2025-img/CoFest%20-%203%20people%20working%20at%20table.jpeg)
 
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-### Topics
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-![Three people at CoFest 2025](/img/2025/bosc2025-img/CoFest%20-%203%20people%20working%20at%20table.jpeg)
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+![Maggie Fu by poster at BOSC 2025](/img/2025/bosc2025-img/Maggie%20Fu%20by%20poster.jpeg)
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+### Topics
 
 - Open Science and Reproducible Research
 - Open Biomedical Data
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-### 2025 Platinum Sponsor:
-
-<a target="_new" href="https://chanzuckerberg.com/science/"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CZI_Logotype_RGB.jpg" style="width:60%" alt="CZI" /></a>
+### 2025 Gold Sponsors
 
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-**2025 Gold Sponsor:**
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-<a target="_new" href="https://seqera.io/"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Logo_Seqera-Color.png" style="width:95%" alt="Seqera" /></a>
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-**2025 Silver Sponsor:**
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-[![GigaScience](/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gigascience.png)](https://academic.oup.com/gigascience)
+<a target="_new" href="https://datascience.nih.gov/"><img src="/img/2026/2026-04-01-NIH-ODSS-logo.jpeg" alt="NIH ODSS" /></a>
+<center><small>The <b><a target="_new" href="https://datascience.nih.gov/">NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS)</a></b> leads the implementation of the NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science through scientific, technical, and operational collaboration with the institutes, centers, and offices that comprise NIH.</small></center>
 
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+<a target="_new" href="https://seqera.io/"><img src="/img/2026/2026-04-01-Seqera-logo.jpeg" alt="Seqera" width="90%"/></a>
+<center><small><a target="_new" href="https://seqera.io/"><b>Seqera</b></a>, built by the creators of Nextflow, is the enterprise-first bioinformatics platform trusted by leading pharma and diagnostics companies to build, validate, and scale bioinformatics with confidence.</small></center>
 
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-### BOSC 2026 Organizing Committee
+## BOSC 2026 Organizing Committee
 
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 ***Chair: Nomi L. Harris*** (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
 
 - Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin)
-- Jessica Maia
+- Jessica Maia (BD)
 - Hervé Ménager (Institut Pasteur)
 - Mónica Muñoz Torres (Univ. of Colorado Anschutz)
 - Tazro Ohta (Chiba University)
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-#### BOSC _2025_ Review Committee
+#### BOSC _2025_ Review Committee (2026 list coming soon)
 Aziz Khan*, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras*, Bhavesh Patel, Christopher Fields*, Damien Goutte-Gattat*, Daniel Korn, Deepak Unni, Fortune Ogo-Ndah Awala, Gayathri Jonnalagadda, J. Harry Caufield*, Karsten Hokamp, Kartik Khosa, Konstantin Okonechnikov,
 Luis Pedro Coelho, Monica C Munoz-Torres, Naouel Karam, Nomi Harris, Olawumi Olasunkanmi, Peter Cock, Rafael Gonçalves, Sayali Talware, Sepideh Mazrouee*, Tanya Berardini, Tazro Ohta*, Tyrone Chen, Van Truong, Yuvanesh Vedaraju
- * indicates reviewers who did extra reviews
 
-**Interested in reviewing abstracts for BOSC 2026?** [Contact us on Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/obf-bosc/shared_invite/zt-n5ur1gsj-z2C~69_4lYTFPg5tbWA8Ew)
+\* indicates reviewers who did extra reviews
 
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 ### About BOSC
 
 The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) has been [held annually since 2000](/events/bosc/about/). BOSC is organized by the [Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)](/wiki/Main_Page), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of open source software development and open science within the biological research community.
 
-Since its inception, BOSC has provided a forum for developers and users to interact and share research results and ideas in open source bioinformatics. BOSC’s broad spectrum of topics includes practical techniques for solving bioinformatics problems; software development practices; standards and ontologies; approaches that promote open science and sharing of data, results and software; and ways to grow and sustain open source communities.
+Since 2000, BOSC has covered all aspects of open source bioinformatics and open science. BOSC’s broad spectrum of topics includes practical techniques for solving bioinformatics problems; software development practices; standards and ontologies; approaches that promote open science and sharing of data, results and software; and ways to grow and sustain open source communities.
+
+Last year's conference, [BOSC 2025](/events/bosc-2025/), took place July 21-22, 2025 in Liverpool, UK (as part of [ISMB/ECCB 2025](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/home)). Read our [BOSC 2025 report on F1000Research](https://f1000research.com/articles/14-887/v1)!
+BOSC 2025 included two days of [keynote talks](/events/bosc-2025/bosc-2025-keynotes/), talks from submitted abstracts, a [panel discussion on data sustainability](/events/bosc-2025/panel), and posters. It also featured a [joint session](/2025/03/17/BOSC-BOKR-2025) with the
+[Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation (BOKR)](https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/2025-meeting), which opened with a [joint keynote by Chris Mungall](/events/bosc-2025/bosc-2025-keynotes/) followed by talks on some of our favorite topics, including open data and reusable and reproducible science. The full lineup of BOSC 2025 talks and posters, including links to talk videos, is available on our [Schedule page](/events/bosc-2025/bosc-2025-schedule/).
 
 ![BOSC 2025 organizing committee](/img/2025/bosc2025-img/Carlo%20Moni%20Deepak%20Nomi%20-%20CoFest%20table.jpeg)
 

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+---
+author: monicacecilia
+date: "2026-03-31T18:50:23+00:00"
+title: BOSC 2026 Panels
+url: /events/bosc-2026/panels/
+bosc: yes
+
+---
+For the first time ever, BOSC will include **two** panels on important and timely topics.
+
+# Policies and Strategies for Resilient Open Science
+
+As we gather in Washington, D.C. for BOSC 2026, we stand at the literal and figurative crossroads of the policies that dictate the pulse of our field. For years, the open science community has operated under a steady wind of progress, but the past year has shifted the weather. We have moved from an era of "open by default" to an environment where the infrastructure of open science—funding, federal data repositories, and international collaborations—is increasingly under scrutiny. This panel moves beyond theoretical support for open science to focus on the strategies of resilience and active advocacy required to navigate a landscape that is being rapidly redefined.
+
+The current climate in the United States has seen federal agencies, which are the traditional engines of open research, reorienting under new mandates that prioritize "national interest" and "operational efficiency." While these shifts have created uncertainty, they have also demonstrated **the power of the community**; despite early threats of deep cuts, concerted advocacy has kept certain key research budgets remarkably stable. Resilience, therefore, is not just about surviving these shifts; it is about building a proactive presence in the rooms where these decisions are made. We will explore how these domestic tensions mirror global trends, from the rise of protectionist data policies to the decentralized alternatives emerging in the wake of federal volatility.
+
+Our discussion will range from high-level policy to the practical "how-to" of remaining principled and productive, addressing topics that include: the Advantage of Advocacy, Navigating Funding Fragility, Protecting the Digital Commons, and Institutional Fortification.
+
+# Panelists
+
+### To be named
+
+### MODERATOR: Mónica Muñoz Torres
+Dr. Muñoz Torres is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz. Her work focuses on the critical challenge of developing the socio-technical foundations needed to realize the promise of artificial intelligence in biomedical sciences. Her expertise includes genomics, biocuration, knowledge representation, and data harmonization. She leads the NIH-funded Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI)’s teams focused on Standards, Practices, and Quality Assessment. She is also Co-Lead of the Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture Work Stream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH).
+
+
+# Open Source in the Age of AI
+
+Open-source software has been a key part of the bioinformatics landscape for decades, enabling large-scale collaboration and supporting reproducible science.
+The emergence of generative AI represents a fundamental shift in how code is authored, maintained, and shared. This panel will examine the "elephant in the room": is generative AI a powerful advantage for open-source communities, or a threat to their long-term health, or both?
+We will explore how AI tools—which can generate thousands of lines of code in seconds—challenge our notions of contribution, reuse, and the value of human-authored frameworks.
+
+While AI makes it easier than ever to code solutions from scratch, it raises critical questions about the sustainability of existing projects and the scientific accuracy of machine-generated results. As the difficult part of software development shifts from writing code to verifying it for scientific integrity, our communities and the way they operate must evolve. From assessing pull requests submitted by AI agents to debating the merits of bans on AI-generated submissions, the open-source community is at a crossroads in defining how humans and AI agents can best work together.
+
+This panel will bring together a variety of perspectives to discuss topics including: Reuse, Attribution and Accountability, Licensing, Sustainability, and the Future of Open Data.
+
+# Panelists
+
+### To be named
+
+
+### MODERATOR: Jason Williams
+Jason Williams is Assistant Director of Cold Spring Harbor's Dolan DNA Learning Center.
+He was elected an AAAS Fellow in 2026. In 2025, he won the Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education!
+Williams has been instrumental in helping to bring the latest technologies and teaching approaches for working with DNA into classrooms around the world through dedicated hands-on programs for students and teachers.
+He develops national biology education programs and leads education, outreach, and training for CyVerse, the U.S. national cyberinfrastructure for life sciences. In addition to his work at the DNALC, Williams is the founder of LifeSciTrainers.org, a global initiative promoting a community of practice among professionals who develop short-format training for life scientists.
+He is also the Lead Investigator of the [Arecibo Center for Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Science Education, Computational Skills, and Community Engagement](https://areciboc3.dnalc.org/).