BWIB x BCBB Lightning Talks, sponsored by Seqera

Registrations closed at 6pm ET Thursday June 25.

Submission decisions have been made, and all speakers notified.

Lightning Talks are back! Sponsored by Seqera, the company behind Nextflow, Boston Women in Bioinformatics and Boston Computational Biology & Bioinformatics are teaming up again for an evening of fast, fun, community-driven talks. This is a low-stakes, high-energy format built for sharing ideas with people who get it.

What's a Lightning Talk?

Five minutes. That's it. Talk about your current work, a tool you love, something you learned the hard way, or a concept you think more people should know about. It's a great excuse to practice public speaking in a room full of friendly faces.

How to Submit

Talk submission has now closed. The deadline was Monday June 1st.

A few ground rules:

All are welcome to submit: academia, industry, government, nonprofit, student. If you're part of this community, this event is for you.

We're here for the science and the ideas, not product pitches. If your work involves a specific platform, that's fine as long as the focus stays on what you discovered, not what you're selling.

Talks are strictly 5 minutes, enforced by audience participation and whatever noisemakers the organizers feel like bringing.

About Seqera:

Seqera, built by the creators of Nextflow, is the enterprise-first bioinformatics platform trusted by 150+ pharma and diagnostics organizations worldwide. By integrating data, code, computing and environments, Seqera empowers researchers to build, deploy, and scale bioinformatics faster. Delivering infrastructure sovereignty, built-in compliance, and seamless integration with Nextflow-optimized tools, Seqera enables teams to scale bioinformatics workflows securely without vendor lock-in or operational friction.