Upcoming events

The GBIF Asia Regional Support Team is organizing a virtual data use workshop to share knowledge of using the GBIF data infrastructure.
This course is designed for individuals who work as researchers or technicians in biodiversity research or policy institutions. The instruction provided is particularly useful for those who currently [...]

This five-day workshop will focus on practical data mobilization for Lithuania, guiding participants through the full process from identifying datasets to publishing them through GBIF.
The programme follows the workflow of data mobilization, including data discovery and assessment, data cleaning and standardization, metadata creation, application of Darwin Core standards, use [...]

A community call with network members who are currently running GBIF's hosted portal service <>.
The meeting provides updates on progress aligning GBIF.org and Hosted Portals, as well as addressing community feedback.
Anyone not currently involved in a hosted portal who wants to learn more can emailhostedportals@gbif.org to request [...]

This event is a 2-hour webinar that is part of the "Cutting vEdge Tools - Ecoinformatics Seminar Series" and is organised by the IAVS Ecoinformatics Group in collaboration with the IAVS European Vegetation Survey group.
Part 1: Introduction to key concepts in publishing through GBIF. Part 2: Using an R [...]

Join us on the 1st of April at 16:00 CEST for our next Technical Support Hour for Nodes where John Waller from the Data Products team will presentGBIF Rule-based Annotations .
The rule-based annotations tool is an experimental feature developed to facilitate data cleaning and capture user feedback. It is [...]

Expected audience: Node Managers and Node staff
The webinar will firstly provide updates from the Nodes Committee and GBIF Secretariat as background for regional discussions in the 2026 regional nodes meetings.
This webinar will be recorded for those who are not able to join at this time due to time [...]

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 [...]

The GBIF Secretariat is organizing a capacity enhancement workshop on biodiversity data mobilization as part of theBID programme for representatives of projects selected under the BID Pacific call for proposals and relevant Samoan and regional partners. The workshop is hosted bySPREP in Apia, Samoa, 20-22 April 2026.
The [...]

This event is for GBIF heads of delegation, additional delegates and national leads who maintain and expand GBIF participation in the Central Asia region.
Meeting participants will discuss national GBIF involvement in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD ) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD ), and [...]

Meeting goals
* Support regional coordination, led by the regional representatives * Facilitate regional collaboration by allowing nodes to share updates on their activities, receive peer feedback, and discuss joint project proposals throughCESP , BID , and other programmes * Provide feedback to the Secretariat and NSG on regional [...]

Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan) boasts a rich and unique biodiversity. The region features diverse ecosystems, from vast deserts and steppes to high mountain ranges, each hosting a variety of flora and fauna, many of which are endemic. Despite this ecological wealth, relatively little data has been [...]

In connection with the Annual Meeting of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a public symposium takes place at the Natural History Museum, on Wednesday 29 April.
The symposium is open to all attendees of the BHL Annual Meeting as well as others from the biodiversity community.
The symposium will be [...]

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 [...]

Join Biodiversa+, GBIF, MARCO-BOLO, BioAgora and Alliance for Nature from 4 to 8 May 2026 for the first BioMonWeek conference.
This event brings together Europe’s biodiversity monitoring community, including researchers, monitoring experts, policymakers, private sector professionals and students.
Conference themes will explore methods for strengthening transnational cooperation, harmonizing and standardizing [...]

The 18th meeting of the nodes of the GBIF Europe and Central Asia <> (ECA) region takes place in Montpellier, France on 4 May 2026 from 9-17. This full-day, in-person meeting is open to node managers from the region's participant nodes.
Main topics of the meeting include coordination of ECA [...]

The GBIF Africa Regional Support Team will organize a virtual data mobilisation training workshop in French to strengthen the capacity of francophone institutions in Africa to mobilize and publish biodiversity data through GBIF.
The workshop follows the GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum and will cover key steps of the data [...]

The Nature Action Dialogues provide a unique and powerful forum where business, finance and conservation leaders meet as peers to advance collaboration at the nexus of biodiversity, climate, water, and health. This is a working space to accelerate change, shape leadership, and unlock sustainable growth while halting and reversing nature [...]

The GBIF Asia Regional Support Team is conducting a data mobilization workshop to address capacity needs and to promote data publication across the West Asia region.
The virtual workshop will be conducted across May and June 2026, and will be based on theGBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum.
The aim [...]

The Swedish Climate Symposium is a national platform for advancing climate knowledge and action. It brings together researchers, policymakers, and societal stakeholders to explore the latest science, identify knowledge gaps, and solutions for climate adaptation and mitigation. Hosted by leading Swedish research organizations, the symposium fosters dialogue across disciplines and [...]

Under the theme of Leading Transformation Together, the fourth edition of the World Biodiversity Forum WBF takes place from Sunday, 14 June to Friday, 19 June 2026 in Davos, Switzerland.
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Meeting goals
* Strengthen the Asia GBIF community * Provide a forum for GBIF nodes in Asia and the GBIF Secretariat to share latest updates and best practices * Explore opportunities for synergies between existing and/or upcoming related regional initiatives and the GBIF network, e.g., through support of, or [...]

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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Uppsala University in collaboration with the Swedish Systematics Association are happy to announce the 4th BioSyst EU meeting: 17-19th of August 2026, in Uppsala Sweden.
The three day meeting will focus on talks and workshops on the topic of systematics and strengthening the collaboration and networks of systematists in Europe.

The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) 2026 conference takes place in Oslo, Norway in September. This year, the conference is hosted byGBIF Norway , the University of Oslo Natural History Museum and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre .
TDWG's annual conferences provide a forum for developing, refining and extending TDWG [...]

Hosted in partnership with the MTS eDNA Committee and the University of Washington’s eDNA Collaborative , the conference will convene a global community of eDNA enthusiasts from across economic sectors to build connections, learn from one another, and further advance eDNA science.
The global conference will feature three days [...]

The 10th International Barcode of Life Conference will take place in Bangkok, Thailand. This in-person conference provides a unique opportunity to exchange and disseminate cutting-edge scientific knowledge about the latest DNA barcoding and metabarcoding advancements for species identification.
Monday 2 November GBIF facilitates a hands-on workshop on how to [...]