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.

Is there anything to win?

Yes, submit your poster abstract by September, 4.

How?

Send an email (best with your abstract) to info@agdev.de or use the web registration form below.

Program

Program as of Sept, 18

Wednesday, September 23

11:00–12:00 Screening of Posters in the Auditorium

12:00–13:00 Lunch Break and Opening of the Industrial Exhibition

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

13:15–13:45 Orion Buske, PhenoTips, Toronto

Streamlining genomic mainstreaming with multimodal clinical input and PhenoTips

13:45–14:00 Alexander Vogel, Oxford Nanopore Sponsored Talk

The Variants We Couldn't See: Unlocking Hidden Genetic Variation

14:00–14:10 Biobreak

14:10–14:35 Timon Heide & Anna Weyrich, Illumina Sponsored Talk

Advancing Genomics Through AI-Enabled Insights and Ready-to-Use Bioinformatics Solutions

14:35–15:15 Keynote: Cas Simons, Centre for Population Genomics, Australia

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

15:15–15:45 Julien Gagneur, TUM München

AI-Guided Variant Interpretation with Molecular and Clinical Data (tentative title)

15:45–16:15 David Garfield, Anthropic, San Francisco Sponsored Talk

Agentic analyses of functional variants

16:15–16:25 Biobreak

16:25–19:00 Hackathon

16:25–16:35 Kick-Off

16:35–17:05 Exercise for Onboarding (individual)

17:05–17:20 Q&A Session and Exercise

17:20–17:30 Group Formation (2 clinician-scientists + 2 bioinformaticians)

17:30–19:00 Group Work

19:00–20:00 Group Pitch & Demo

20:00–22:00 Buffet, Networking Mixer & Poster Viewing

from 20:00 Panel Discussion: Working with AI in Medicine and Life Sciences

Thursday, September 24

08:00–08:15 Welcome Coffee

08:15–11:05 Session 2 (Focus Session): NGS-CN — Collaboration & Science Communication

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

08:15–08:30 Hossein Moeinzadeh, Lucid Genomics Sponsored Talk

Lucid Genome Suite: Unleashing Germline Signals from Complex Variants into Actionable Insights

08:40–09:00 Iuliia Novoselova, NGS-CN Representative

Introduction into the focus session: greetings, importance of collaboration & science communication

09:00–09:20 Maximilian Krause, DcGC Dresden

Novel Routes in Spatial Sequencing

09:20–09:40 Axel Schmidt, WGGC Bonn

NGS in Post-Acute and Persistent Infections

09:40–10:05 Bernd Timmermann, Roche Sponsored Talk

Expanding possibilities in NGS with Sequencing by Expansion & the AXELIOS 1 Platform

10:05–10:25 Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

10:25–10:50 Jakob Admard, NCCT Tübingen

One genome, two epigenomes: Haplotype-Resolved Methylation in Twins

10:50–11:15 Joana Bernardes, CCGA Kiel

Connecting the Layers – A Hypothesis-Driven Approach to Multi-Omics Integration

11:05–11:30 Iuliia Novoselova, NGS-CN Representative

Closing Remarks

11:30–12:00 Poster Prize & Hackathon Winner Awards — presented by Jean-Tori Pantel, RWTH Aachen

from 12:00 Lunch bags / Shuttle Transfer to DACH-SE Rare Disease Meeting (separate registration required; shuttle service on request)

19:00–19:30 General Assembly at "Zum Treppchen"