📅 Date: Monday, 16 November 2026

📍 Location: RMIT University, City Campus, Melbourne

🧠 Presented by: ABACBS Professional Bioinformatics Community (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, Marine, Microbiome & Pathogen Surveillance

  • ⚙️ Bioinformatics Engineering: Tools, Pipelines, Scalability & the Future of Bioinformatics Infrastructure

Registration

Coming soon


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 Doppledata)

Mansi Aggarwal (Mass Dynamics, Victoria)

Anubhav Kaphle (CSIRO, Victoria)

Roxane Legaie (Children’s Cancer Institute, New South Wales)

Adele Barugahare (Monash University, Victoria)