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A stylized DNA double helix arcs upward as lightning bolts crack through it, glowing above the Boston skyline at night. The Seqera logo sits in the top-left corner to mark their sponsorship of the lightning talks event.

BWIB x BCBB Lightning Talks, sponsored by Seqera

CIC Cambridge @ 1 Broadway, 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
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Summary

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.

Call for Speakers

Submit your talk title and a short abstract (280 characters max) using this Google Form.

The deadline is Monday, June 1st.

A few ground rules:

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

  2. 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.

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

Submission decisions will be Monday, June 15th.

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.

Code of Conduct:

This event is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment in any form. Anyone violating these rules may be sanctioned or banned from attending at the discretion of the conference organizers. Please contact the organizers through lu.ma messaging/Slack, if you feel someone has broken the code of conduct.

Original source and credit: http://2012.jsconf.us/#/about & The Ada Initiative

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