The GBC’s Executive Director and Programme Manager regularly present the GBC at scientific meetings, conferences and workshops around the world. In addition, the GBC hosts its own internal meetings with its Board of Funders, its Scientific Advisory Committee and its GCBR Forum.
Public events are highlighted blue. The other events are invitation-only.
2025 Events
25 March
GBC Virtual Board Meeting
3 February
GCBR Virtual Forum Meeting (private)
6 February (Public)
Panel Session on Equitable Genomics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Genomics Futures Series (Hinxton,UK)
24 February
GBC Virtual SAC Meeting
5 April (Public)
ISB Biocuration Conference (Kansas City, MO)
28 April
GCBR Virtual Forum Meeting
13-14 May
GBC SAC In-person Meeting, Leiden, Netherlands
27-31 May (Public)
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) (Lawrence, KS)
4 June (Public)
ELIXIR All-Hands 2025 Mini symposium on Impact Assessment in Open Science Research (Thessaloniki, Greece)
25 June (Public)
The Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) workshop on Exploring Data Curation and Management in the Physical Sciences (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, UK)
30 June
GCBR Virtual Forum Meeting
21-22 July (Public)
ISMB/ECCB Conference (Liverpool, UK)
29-31 July (Public)
GSC Conference (Cambridge, UK)
29 September-3 October (Public)
ISBER/GGBN Joint Conference (Cape Town, South Africa)
8 October
Joint in-person Board and GCBR Forum Meeting (Hinxton)
9 October
GBC in-person Board Meeting (Hinxton)
13-16 October (Public)
International Data Week Conference (Brisbane, Australia)
21-24 October (Public)
Living Data 2025 Conference (Bogota, Colombia)
2024 Events
15 January
GBC Virtual SAC Meeting
12 February
GCBR Forum Meeting
5-8 March (Public)
Keynote at AIBC, Faridabad, India
8 April
GBCR Forum Meeting
16 April
GBC Board Meeting
15-16 May
GBC SAC Meeting
17 June
GBCR Forum Meeting
21 August (Public)
Talk at Heidelberg Club International (webinar)
2 September (Public)
Talk at SPNHC-TDWG (Naha, Okinawa)
5 September (Public)
Talk at Make Data Count Summit Panel (London)
16 September
GCBR Forum meeting
23 September
GBC in-person SAC meeting (London)
24-25 September
GBC in-person Board meeting (London)
11 November
GCBR Forum meeting
2023 Events
27 February
GCBR Forum meeting
8 March (Public)
Panel session at Australia Biocommons (Webinar)
13 March
GBC Virtual SAC meeting
27 March
In-person Board Meeting (Strasbourg)
26 April (Public)
Keynote at ISB (Padua)
2 May
GCBR Forum Meeting
17 July
GCBR Forum meeting
25 July
In-person SAC meeting (Lyon)
26 July (Public)
ISMB/ECCB Joining ODSS/ELIXIR sessions (Lyon)
11 August (Public)
Presentation/discussion at GSC23 (Bangkok)
18 September
GCBR Forum meeting
9 October (Public)
TDWG (Tasmania)
17-20 October (Public)
GGBN Conference (Mexico)
18-20 October (Public)
8th Big data Forum for Health and Life Science (China)
25-26 October (Public)
Diamond Open Access Conference (Virtual, Mexico)
26 October (Public)
SciDataCon (Salzburg)