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Agenda | Nextflow Summit 2026

Agenda

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Thursday, April 30
Time: EST (UTC-5)
8:30AM – 9:30AM
Registration, Coffee & Breakfast
9:30AM – 10:20AM
Welcome & Product Keynote

Evan Floden, CEO and Co-Founder, Seqera

10:20AM – 10:40AM
A Lab-Scale Pipeline Factory: Using AI Agents and Skills to Accelerate Nextflow Development

Lorena Pantano, Lead Bioinformatics Manager, DFCI

10:40AM – 11AM
Bioinformatics in the agentic age: Practical tips learnt from RustQC and rewrites.bio

Phil Ewels, Senior Product Manager for Open Source, Seqera

11AM – 11:30AM
Coffee Break
11:30AM – 12PM
What's New in Nextflow

Paolo Di Tommaso, Chief Architect & Co-Founder, Seqera

12PM – 12:20PM
Leveraging Nextflow for Real-Time Prediction of Viral Variants in Proactive Vaccinology.

Sureyya H. Kose, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Imperial College London

12:20PM – 12:40PM
MGtree: Leveraging alignments and phylogenetics to classify closely-related microbial samples

Scott Norton, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Merck & Co., Inc.

12:40PM – 1PM
nf_xpatial: A Reproducible Framework for Standardized Preprocessing and Clustering of Xenium Data

Lara Ianov, Co-Director of the UAB Biological Data Science Core, University of Alabama at Birmingham

1PM – 2PM
Lunch
2PM – 2:30PM
From Copilot to Co-scientist: Agents Lend a Hand

Florian Wuennemann, Senior Bioinformatics Engineer, Seqera

2:30PM – 2:50PM
Production MLOps for Multi-Omics Drug Discovery with Nextflow

Anthony Ramirez, Director of Consulting, Nebulaworks

2:50PM – 3:10PM
Optimizing GPU Workflows with Nextflow and Parabricks

Jason Warner, Principal Scientific Consultant, Diamond Age Data Science

3:10PM – 3:20PM
Poster Lightning Round
3:20PM – 3:50PM
Coffee Break
3:50PM – 4:10PM
How We Avoided AI Slop in Bactopia

Robert Petit, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Wyoming Public Health Laboratory

4:10PM – 4:30PM
Building a Pipeline Catalog for the Next Generation of Automated Scientific Computing

Jenea Adams, Principal Scientist, Discovery Integration Sciences, GSK

4:30PM – 5:15PM
Keynote: Good enough practices of reproducible bioinformatics in the age of AI

Ming Tommy Tan, Director of Bioinformatics, AstraZeneca & Author of From Cell Line to Command Line

5:30PM – 7:30PM
Summit Reception
Friday, May 1
Time: EST (UTC-5)
7AM – 8AM
Annual Fun Run/Walk Around the Seaport
8:30AM – 9:30AM
Registration, Coffee & Breakfast
9:30AM – 9:50AM
Latest news from the Nextflow Community

Geraldine Van der Auwera, Lead Developer Advocate, Seqera

Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas, Senior Developer Advocate, Seqera

9:50AM – 10:10AM
Nextflow Beyond Bioinformatics: Pipelines for Physics, Social Science, and AI

Vaibhava Lakshmi Ravideshik, AI and Growth Lead, GRAIL

10:10AM – 10:30AM
A Custom nf-core Downstream rnaseq Pipeline That Starts Where nf-core/rnaseq Stops

Rima Zinjuwadia, Computational Biologist, Northeastern University

10:30AM – 10:50AM
Hackathon Recap

Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas, Senior Developer Advocate, Seqera

10:50AM – 11AM
Poster Lightning Round
11AM – 11:30AM
Coffee Break
11:30AM – 11:50AM
Building Multi-agentic Bioworkflows with Microsoft Foundry and Nextflow

Colby Ford, Owner and Principal Consultant, Tuple, The Cloud Genomics Company

11:50AM – 12:10PM
IFOX – a cloud-native data, compute and analysis ecosystem for omics data

Joe Saelens, Senior Principal Scientist, Computational Biology, Pfizer

12:10PM – 12:30PM
Designing Cost‑Efficient Storage Architectures for Nextflow Pipelines on Azure

Wolfgang De Salvador, Principal Product Manager - Azure Storage, Microsoft

12:30PM – 1PM
Panel Discussion on Agentic Bioinformatics

Evan Floden, CEO and Co-Founder, Seqera

María Teresita Laguinge, Decision Analytics Consultant & Lead Bioinformatician, ZS

Steve Marshall, Senior Director, Data Science, Flagship Pioneering

Esha Joshi, Scientific Engagement Lead

1PM – 1:10PM
Summit Wrap Up

Evan Floden, CEO and Co-Founder, Seqera