ELIXIR community gathers in Lyon for All Hands 2026
The twelfth annual gathering of the ELIXIR community was hosted by ELIXIR France at the Lyon Convention Centre on the banks of the Rhone. Between 8–10 June, ELIXIR All Hands 2026 brought together more than 380 in-person attendees and over 60 online participants, including several international guests.
Across three days, participants came together to share progress, discuss challenges and look ahead to the second half of the current Programme. Sessions reflected the breadth of ELIXIR’s work across life science data, from sensitive and high-value datasets to biodiversity, human data, training, tools and infrastructure services.
Highlights of major contributions from the eScience Lab
- The second day opened with a plenary, chaired by ELIXIR-UK Joint Head of Node, Carole Goble, about infrastructure enabling science. This first session invited perspectives from across European research spanning a number of key initiatives including BioFAIR, with a presentation titled “Establishing a national Bioscience Commons - applying old lessons and learning new ones”.
- Several workshops and mini syposia were delivered and coordinated in part by Munazah Andrabi, Nick Juty, Phil Reed and Shoaib Sufi, spanning important community topics including FAIR assessment, data stewardship, interoperability, and training.
- Seven posters were presented, including: