Upcoming events

The 32nd meeting of the GBIF Governing Board and associated events takes place in Bogotá, Colombia.
| Date | Event(s) | |-----------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 16 October 2025 |Global Nodes Training – Day 1 | | 17 October 2025 |Global Nodes Training – Day 2 Nodes Steering Group meeting [...]

GBIF Sweden will participate in the upcoming webinar “Open Data – a Resource for Academia,” organized by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and DIGG, the Agency for Digital Government. The event will take place on 17 October 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and will be held [...]

This joint conference in Bogotá brings together members of our biodiversity networks, alongside hundreds of scientists, researchers, practitioners and other experts from around the world.
Come share your knowledge and experience, help us transform our understanding of the state and trends of biodiversity, and learn how together our work contributes [...]

The meeting comprises the thirtieth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30), the twentieth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 20), and the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting [...]

Participation by invitation only.
GBIF hosts a three-day technical review meeting of the GBIF DNA data roadmap , funded by the Minderoo Foundation . The event gathers invited experts and stakeholders to explore the technical needs and opportunities for integrating eDNA-derived data into GBIF.
The workshop provides guidance for a [...]

The National Biodiversity Network (NBN) is holding its 25th annual conference at the SS Great Britain in Bristol, UK.
To celebrate the 25th year of the conference, the theme is "25 years of making data work for nature." The conference will have opportunities for network participants to showcase their work [...]

The conference facilitates Ibero-American dialogue between stakeholders in academia, government, and the private sector to promote inclusive, open, participatory and responsible perspectives in science.
Seven thematic areas are covered across the conference:
* AI and Open science * Predatory journals, APCs and bad practices * Citizen and participatory science [...]

The GBIF Asia Support Team are hosting a data mobilization workshop to address capacity needs and to promote data publication in the region. The workshop will be held in December 2025 to allow participation from those who had a busy summer schedule. This course is based on theGBIF Biodiversity Data [...]

This meeting will bring together ecologists from across the UK and elsewhere, all producing or working with biological survey and monitoring data.
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The IPBES 12 Plenary is open for participation of IPBES members and observers. Stakeholder participation inIPBES 12 is open only to delegates who are officially nominated by their organizations that have been accredited as observers to previous sessions of the Plenary (https://ipbes.net/accredited-organisations) Each nominated delegate must complete the online [...]

SBDI Days 2026 explores how artificial intelligence influences the field of ecology and biodiversity research. The conference is hosted by the [Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure](SBDI - https://biodiversitydata.se), which includesthe Swedish GBIF node . The program features current developments in areas such as machine learning, digital twins, genetic monitoring using [...]

Expanding on the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative 's previous events (GSBI), the 4th Global Soil Biodiversity Conference in Victoria, Canada will convene the world’s leading experts in this interdisciplinary field of soil biodiversity science to present and discuss recent advances addressing the urgency of meeting global challenges which link to [...]

This conference brings together scholars, activists, and policymakers to consider this challenging landscape and discuss the future of open research. The goal is to facilitate the development of open research practices explicitly geared to serve the public interest, which involves interrogating what may constitute that ‘public interest’ to different audiences [...]

The conference aims to strengthen the Asia-Pacific regional mosquito and vector control capacity and network and review new technologies, AI for mosquito control, and approaches to address the rapidly changing landscape for mosquito control in the region.
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