BCBB Lightning Talks sponsored by Seqera Labs

We are thrilled to bring back our most popular event type: Lightning Talks! This event is generously sponsored by Seqera Labs.

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 6pm-8pm

Seqera Labs is the leading provider of open source workflow orchestration software needed for data pipeline processing, cloud infrastructure, and secure collaboration.

We created Nextflow frustrated with the challenge of developing and sharing analysis pipelines across infrastructure. By prioritizing a seamless user experience, the project quickly grew from inception to thousands of active users. Along the way, we've defined a new approach to data pipelines with containerized workloads that make the cloud accessible to the next generation of scientists.

Now, we take these core principles and help our customers with their own journey into data collaboration and compliance—at scale.

The Markley Data Center is New England's largest data center and the nerve center for networking in the Northeast. The Markley Group has graciously extended an invitation for us to use their event space at One Summer St in Boston, and to take groups of BCBB'ers on guided tours of their massive data center. We promise you will be astounded by the scale of a facility you’ve probably walked by unknowingly many times. On top of all that, Seqera Labs has graciously offered to sponsor on-site food and a cash bar.

Lightning Talk Submissions

BCBB LightningTalks are a great opportunity to talk about your current work, your previous work, a useful tool or concept, or just to practice public speaking among friends.

If you'd like to submit a talk, please send your talk title and a 280 character (max) talk description/abstract to abstracts@bostoncbb.org

Ground rules for abstracts:

1. All of our members are welcome to submit abstracts. Academia, industry, government, non-profit: all are welcome to present.
2. We're looking for general interest presentations, not product pitches. If your work revolves around a particular platform and you used it for an interesting application that revealed novel scientific endpoints, that's okay. But in that case let's focus on the science, not the platform.
3. Talks are strictly 5 minutes each, enforced by group consensus and a liberal distribution of humorous noise-making devices throughout the audience. (The organizers reserve the right to alter the 5 minute criteria up or down by a few minutes depending on how many abstracts we receive).
4. Abstract deadline is Friday October 20th, but c'mon, it's only 280 characters, just send it now!
5. If we receive more submissions than we can accommodate, the organizers will rank talks by expected audience interest and accept the top-ranked talks that fit in the allotted time.
6. Submission decisions will be announced on Monday October 30.

See you there!

- Your BCBB organizers