Bio-IT World 2026 was a busy and energizing week for the BioTeam team.
Throughout the conference, BioTeam participated in workshops, technical presentations, podcast discussions, track leadership, networking events, and conversations with organizations navigating the realities of AI adoption, scientific workflows, cloud infrastructure, reproducibility, and modern research computing.
This year’s conference reinforced something we continue to hear across life science, organizations are moving quickly toward AI-enabled research environments, but many teams are still working through the operational challenges required to support scalable, reproducible, and sustainable scientific computing.
Workshop: Making Data AI-Ready
BioTeam also participated as presenters during the “Making Data AI-Ready” workshop. BioTeam’s Wisdom Akpan and Brian Osborne contributed presentations and discussions on AI-ready scientific data environments, workflow reproducibility, infrastructure modernization, and the operational challenges organizations face as they scale AI initiatives across life sciences research environments.
Topics included:
- AI-ready scientific data operations
- Workflow reproducibility
- Research infrastructure modernization
- Governance and data organization
- Cloud and hybrid compute environments
The workshop sparked valuable conversations around the growing gap between AI ambitions and the operational realities many organizations are currently facing.
Speaker Session: Reproducible AI Workflows
Jacob Czech and John Jacquay presented a technical session exploring reproducible AI workflows using Terraform, Docker, and AWS HealthOmics.
The session focused on practical approaches for operationalizing reproducible scientific workflows through:
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Containerized research environments
- Cloud-native AI workflows
- AWS HealthOmics
- Scalable scientific computing infrastructure
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As organizations continue scaling computational research and AI initiatives, reproducibility and operational consistency remain central themes across nearly every scientific environment.
Podcast Conversations and Industry Perspectives
Bio-IT week also included the release of a new BioTeam podcast episode featuring discussions around reducing data friction for AI and HPC in life sciences. Jessica StLouis served as guest host during the conference week podcast release.
Many of the discussions throughout the week reinforced similar themes:
- Data fragmentation continues slowing AI initiatives
- Infrastructure modernization remains a major priority
- Organizations are looking for sustainable operational models
- Scientific workflow reproducibility is becoming increasingly important
- AI readiness is as much an operational challenge as a technical one
Booth #419 Conversations Throughout the Week
BioTeam spent the week meeting with research organizations, biotech companies, scientific platform teams, and infrastructure leaders at Booth #419. Discussions ranged from AI-ready data environments and workflow reproducibility to cloud/HPC modernization, governance, scientific collaboration, and operational scalability.
The booth became a gathering place for conversations around:
- Scientific workflowmodernization
- FAIR data practices
- AI infrastructure readiness
- Data movement and orchestration
- Hybrid cloud environments
- Research computing operations
- Reproducible computational workflows
BioTeam + Hammerspace Happy Hour
One of the highlights of the week was connecting with colleagues, partners, clients, and new faces during the BioTeam + Hammerspace happy hour in Boston Seaport.
These informal conversations are often where some of the best discussions happen — practical conversations around what organizations are actually experiencing behind the scenes as AI initiatives move from experimentation toward operational reality.
Thank You Boston
Bio-IT World continues to be one of the most valuable events for connecting directly with the people building, scaling, and supporting modern scientific research environments.
Thank you to everyone who attended our sessions, stopped by the booth, joined conversations throughout the week, or connected with the BioTeam team during the conference.
We’re already looking forward to next year.
