openBIS UGM 2025
We are pleased to announce the openBIS User Group Meeting 2025.
Date: 22-24 September 2025.
Location: BAM, Unter den Eichen 87, 12205 Berlin, Germany
Registration
You can register for the event here: https://express.converia.de/frontend/index.php?folder_id=10753&page_id=
Registration deadline: 31.08.2025
Registration fees
Day 1 – 22.09.2025 – € 54.00
Day 2 – 23.09.2025 – € 54.00
Day 3 – 24.09.2025 – € 55.00
Contact
For any questions related to the event, please get in touch with the openBIS support: openbis-support@id.ethz.ch
Program
Day 1: 22.09.2025
09:30-10:00 Registration & coffee
10:00-10:10 Welcome & introduction, BAM, ETHZ Scientific IT Services
10:10-10:30 ChatBIS – an AI-powered conversational assistant for openBIS, Carlos Madariga, BAM
10:30-10:50 openBIS Schemas and Parsers in GitHub: Building an Open-Source Software Ecosystem for openBIS, Jose Pizarro Blanco, BAM
10:50-11:00 Short break
11:00-11:20 From custom openBIS solutions to a digital logbook prototype: Supporting digitalisation at Empa, Anusch Bachofner, Stefanie Hauser, Empa
11:20-11:40 Welding Process Data Management – openBIS workflows and lab integrations, Çağtay Fabry, BAM
11:40-12:00 Customizing openBIS for Optimized Materials Science and Engineering Workflows, Rejiba, Khalil; Lee, Sang-Hyeok; Korte-Kerzel, Sandra; Kerzel, Ulrich, Aachen University
12:00 -13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:20 Enabling FAIR large-scale data analysis in HPC using openBIS – An Open Source-first strategy from a proteomics research infrastructure, Filip Årman, Swedish National Infrastructure for Biological Mass Spectrometry (BioMS)
13:20-13:40 openBIS for Evolutionary Biology, Kristian Ullrich, Carsten Fortmann-Grote, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology
13:40-14:10 openBIS roadmap, Caterina Barillari, ETHZ Scientific IT Services
14:10-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-17:00 Round table discussion, everyone
Day 2: 23.09.2025
09:30-12:00 WORKSHOP 1. How to migrate data: Introduction to AFS & migration of dropbox scripts – Part 1. ETHZ Scientific IT Services
09:30-12:00 TRAINING 1. openBIS admin training, ETHZ Scientific IT Services
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-17:00 WORKSHOP 1. How to migrate data: Introduction to AFS & migration of dropbox scripts – Part 2. ETHZ Scientific IT Services
13:00-15:30 TRAINING 2. pyBIS. ETHZ Scientific IT Services
15:30-16:30 DEMO: DataStore Advanced Label App, Ingo Breßler, BAM
18:00 Group dinner
Day 3: 24.09.2025
09:30-10:00: Overview of Hackathon topics and organization. ETHZ Scientific IT Services, BAM
10:00-10:15 Coffee and room distribution
10:15-15:30 Locally deployed openBIS for all Developers. https://github.com/openbis/openBIS-UGM2025/blob/main/local-openbis-for-developers.md, Artur Pedziwilk, ETHZ Scientific IT Services.
10:15-15:30 Parsers to automatically instantiate objects, upload data, and fill property fields. https://github.com/openbis/openBIS-UGM2025/blob/main/parsers_for_data_upload.md Tara-Lakshmipathy, BAM
10:15-15:30 Data modelling consulting. ETHZ Scientific IT Services, BAM
15:30-15:45 Coffee
15:40-17:30 Wrap up, ETHZ Scientific IT Services, BAM