Symposium on Bioinformatics Empowering Industry
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
