The Gen3 platform consists of open-source software services that support the emergence of healthy data ecosystems by enabling the interoperation and creation of cloud-based data resources, including data commons and analysis workspaces. Gen3 aims to accelerate and democratize the process of scientific discovery by making it easy to manage, analyze, harmonize, and share large and complex datasets in the cloud. With Gen3 use spreading globally, there is a demand to coalesce shared knowledge and activities into a community. A new Gen3 Community will meet for the first time at a virtual forum co-hosted by the Center for Translational Data Science at the University of Chicago and the Australian BioCommons from 4 pm to 7 pm, October 10 to 12 (CST time zone), and 8 am to 11 am October 11 - 13 (AEDT time zone). The forum will meet for three days, three hours each day, and will include presentations from various Gen3 operators, developers, and breakout sessions to craft ideas for new features. The inaugural Gen3 Community Forum will:

Share knowledge about Gen3, its architecture, and the Gen3 roadmaps and priorities.
Strengthen the connection between the core team and those developing, operating and using Gen3 platforms.
Design a set of ongoing community engagement activities.
Discuss and agree on key shared development priorities between the Gen3 core team and the community.

Further details of the program and free registration are now available.