Annual Meeting of the AGD 2026

23./24. September

From Omics to Impact: Building, Testing, and Certifying Genomic AI

Where?

📍Universitätsclub Bonn, Konviktstraße 9, 53113 Bonn (in-person event only)

When?

📅 September 23. and 24., 2026.

What?

The AGD Annual Meeting 2026 is designed for those who don't just discuss problems, but build solutions. Bringing together experts in genomic diagnostics, AI-driven phenotyping, and clinical bioinformatics, the meeting focuses on real challenges from clinical practice.

Through keynote talks, hands-on coding, and an open hackathon, participants will prototype, test, and refine ideas — and explore how to turn them into certified medical software.

Program

Program as of 30 June — subject to change

Wednesday, September 23

12:00–13:00 Registration & sandwiches

13:00–13:15 Welcome and Opening of the Scientific Symposium — Peter Krawitz, IGSB Bonn

13:15–19:00 Session 1: Coding & Prototyping in the Age of AI

Session Chair: Peter Krawitz, IGSB Bonn
Hands-on development of new tools and concepts, followed by an open hackathon session.

13:15–13:45 Orion Buske, PhenoTips, Toronto: Streamlining genomic mainstreaming with multimodal clinical input and PhenoTips
13:45–14:00 Sponsored Talk (to be confirmed)
14:00–14:30 Speed Dating — Round 1: "What is your biggest pain point in your daily routine where you want AI to help?"
14:30–14:45 Team formation — teams of four (2 clinician scientists + 2 bioinformaticians)
14:45–16:00 Hackathon — group work
16:00–16:30 Julien Gagneur, TUM München: AI-guided variant interpretation with molecular and clinical data (tentative title)
16:30–16:45 Sponsored Talk (to be confirmed)
16:45–17:15 Speed Dating — Round 2: "What app would you love to build?"
17:15–19:00 Hackathon — group work

19:00–20:00 Keynote: Cas Simons, Centre for Population Genomics, Australia

Talos: an open-source tool for scalable, iterative reanalysis of genomic data in rare disease

20:00–20:30 Speed Dating — Round 3: "What is your favorite gene and why?"

20:30–22:00 Buffet, Networking Mixer & open hackathon (venue closes; all participants leave by 22:00)

Thursday, September 24

08:30–08:40 Welcome Coffee

08:40–08:55 Sponsored Talk (to be confirmed)

09:00–11:15 Focus Session (NGS-CN): Collaboration & Science Communication

Session Chairs: Iuliia Novoselova (NGS-CN Representative) & Maximilian Krause (DcGC)

09:00–09:15 Iuliia Novoselova, NGS-CN Representative: Introduction into the focus session: greetings, importance of collaboration & science communication
09:15–09:35 Maximilian Krause, DcGC: Novel Routes in Spatial Sequencing
09:35–09:55 Kerstin Ludwig, WGGC (Bonn): NGS in Post-Acute and Persistent Infections
09:55–10:10 Sponsored Talk (to be confirmed)
10:10–10:20 Biobreak
10:20–10:45 Jakob Admard, NCCT (Tübingen): One genome, two epigenomes: haplotype-resolved methylation in twins
10:45–11:10 Joana Bernardes, CCGA (Kiel): Connecting the Layers — A Hypothesis-Driven Approach to Multi-Omics Integration
11:10–11:15 Iuliia Novoselova, NGS-CN Representative: Closing remarks

11:15–11:30 Poster Prize & Hackathon Winner Awards — presented by Jean-Tori Pantel, RWTH Aachen

from 11:30 Shuttle transfer to the DACH-SE Rare Disease Meeting on the Venusberg (separate registration required; shuttle service on request)

11:30–14:00 Open hackathon continues (optional)

12:00–14:00 AGD General Assembly (Mitgliederversammlung)

14:00 End of the on-site AGD program

from 19:30 Joint Evening Event with DACH-SE
Shared social evening of the AGD and the DACH-SE Rare Disease Meeting
Restaurant Zum Treppchen, Weberstraße 42, 53113 Bonn