Trends from the Trenches
Trends from the Trenches
Bio-IT World
Episode: 40 - Allissa Dillman and LaFrancis Gibson on the Power of Hackathons
29 minutes Posted Mar 31, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
Welcome And What We Cover
Meet The CFDE Hackathon Leaders
Why Hackathons Work
Tracking Results After The Event
Omics Projects And Key Datasets
How Teams Mix Skills
Cloud Options For Fast Compute
Access Outside The Hackathon
FAIR Data In The AI Age
Subscribe And Share Topic Ideas
Researching How Teams Use GenAI
Training Center Mission And Approach
Who Should Join And Deadlines
Reuse Data Instead Of Reinventing
Prizes Judging And Free Entry
Wrap Up And What’s Next
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Joining Trends from the Trenches is Allissa Dillman, founder and CEO of BioData Sage, and LaFrancis Gibson, manager for health promotion at ORAU, who discuss this year’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Hackathon sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) Training Center. With host Allison Proffitt, they discuss which tools and datasets from CFDE will be part of the Hackathon, who should participate, learning and collaborating beyond datasets and ...