📅 Date: Monday, 16 November 2026
📍 Location: RMIT University, City Campus, Melbourne
🧠 Presented by: ABACBS Professional Bioinformatics Committee (APBC)
🤝 In partnership with: ABACBS Annual Conference
About the Symposium
The Symposium on Bioinformatics Empowering Industry (SBEI2026) brings together researchers, technologists, and industry leaders to explore the state of the field in bioinformatics across health, biotechnology, agriculture, and scientific discovery.
Held just before the main ABACBS conference (16 - 20 Nov), SBEI2026 offers a focused, high-impact program designed to foster collaboration in industry bioinformatics.
Themes
🧬 Population-Scale Bioinformatics: Infrastructure, National Initiatives & the Australian Genomics Landscape
🔬 Clinical Genomics in Practice: Comprehensive Genomic Profiling, Regulatory Frameworks & Overcoming Clinical Bottlenecks
🦠 Applied & Environmental Bioinformatics: Environmental Genomics, Metagenomics, Agri-Bio, Wastewater Surveillance, Microbiome & Pathogen Surveillance
⚙️ Bioinformatics Engineering: Tools, Pipelines, Scalability & the Future of Bioinformatics Infrastructure
EARLY-BIRD Registrations NOW open!
SPONSORS
This symposium is generously supported by:
Keynote Speakers
Director Centre for Population Genomics,
Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Melbourne
Co-Founder & CSO @ Cell Bauhaus
Confirmed Speakers
Professor Lyn Griffiths - Director Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health at QUT
A/Professor Jimmy Breen - Chief Data Scientist at Black Ochre Data Labs
Dr Jeff Christiansen - Director Australian Biocommons
Dr Simon Sadedin - Head of Clinical Bioinformatics at Victorian Clinical Genetics Service (VCGS)
Dr Lynn Fink - Laboratory Director at LifeStrands Genomics
Professor Mathew G. Lewsey - Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Sciences, La Trobe University
…Stay tuned for additional speaker announcements, panel sessions and program updates.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Bioinformaticians, Computational Biologists
Bioinformatics Engineers
Health Tech and Biotech professionals
Agritech and Biotech professionals
Students and Early-Career professionals
Organising Committee
Chris Love (Convenor)
Belinda Cornes (Founder and Principal Consultant at Doppeldata)
Mansi Aggarwal (Mass Dynamics, Victoria)
Anubhav Kaphle (CSIRO, Victoria)
Roxane Legaie (Children’s Cancer Institute, New South Wales)
Adele Barugahare (Monash University, Victoria)
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on which this event will take place. We honour their enduring connection to land, waters, and culture, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
