ANVIL COMMUNITY CONFERENCE 2026 Meet This Year’s Keynote Speakers August 31–September 1, 2026 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Cambridge, MA Dear AnVIL Community, We are excited to highlight the keynote speakers for the AnVIL Community Conference 2026! Join us in Cambridge, MA, for two days of talks, posters, and collaborative workshops focused on genomic data science, cloud computing, and the AnVIL ecosystem. This year’s keynote speakers bring deep expertise in large-scale genomic resources, rare disease genomics, data coordination, and collaborative biomedical data science. [Kristin Ardlie, Ph.D.] KEYNOTE SPEAKER Kristin Ardlie, Ph.D. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | GTEx Dr. Ardlie is Director of the GTEx Laboratory Data Analysis and Coordination Center and an Institute Scientist at the Broad Institute. Her work has helped advance large-scale efforts to understand how genetic variation influences gene expression across human tissues. Her research experience spans RNA sequencing, data analysis and coordination, population genetics, and single-cell approaches to characterizing human tissue samples. [Ben Heavner, Ph.D.] KEYNOTE SPEAKER Ben Heavner, Ph.D. University of Washington | GREGoR Dr. Heavner is a Senior Research Scientist in the University of Washington Biostatistics Department’s Genetic Analysis Center, where his work focuses on systems that make collaborative genomic data analysis and scientific discovery possible. He helps lead data coordination for NHGRI’s GREGoR Consortium, which brings together rare disease genomics data generated across multiple research centers and technologies. His work centers on data models, standards, validation workflows, cloud-based analysis, and consortia-level data architecture that support data sharing and release through emerging NIH cloud infrastructure. Share Your Work at ACC2026 Abstract submission is open! We encourage community members to submit their work for oral presentation or poster consideration. Oral presentation abstracts close: July 15, 2026 Poster abstracts close: August 10, 2026 Submit an Abstract<https://bit.ly/anvil2026-abstract> Register Now<https://bit.ly/anvil2026-register> In addition to keynote presentations, ACC2026 will feature invited talks, poster sessions, hands-on workshops, and opportunities to connect with researchers, developers, data scientists, educators, and community members working across biomedical and genomic cloud computing. Learn More About ACC2026<https://bit.ly/anvil2026> We hope to see you in Cambridge this fall! Best, The AnVIL Program Submit an abstract: https://bit.ly/anvil2026-abstract Register: https://bit.ly/anvil2026-register Learn more: https://bit.ly/anvil2026