đź“… Date: Monday, 16 November 2026
đź“Ť 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: Synthetic Biology, Agri-Bio, Wastewater & 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
ARC Laureate Fellow and Fellow of Australian Academy of Science, University of Melbourne
Co-Founder & CSO @ Cell Bauhaus
Confirmed Speakers
Director Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health at QUT
Chief Data Scientist at Black Ochre Data Labs
Adam Heterick
Wiradjuri bioinformatics researcher
Director Australian
Biocommons
Head of Clinical Bioinformatics at Victorian Clinical Genetics Service (VCGS).
Laboratory Director at LifeStrands Genomics
Dr Eva Chen
Senior Clinical Bioinformatician at Hartwig Medical Foundation Australia
Claire Lillee
Principal Accreditation Specialist at NATA
Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Sciences, La Trobe University
Dr Anna Quaglieri
Senior Bioinformatics Data Scientist at Mass Dynamics
Dr Clare Sloggett
Lead Developer of the AusTrakka National Pathogen Surveillance Platform
…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, Children’s Cancer Institute, New South Wales)
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.
