| Monday October 22, 2018 | 
| 13.30 | Registration and poster hang-up | 
| 14.00 | Opening Session Welcome and IntroductionAristide Massardo, Polytechnic School, University of Genoa, Italy
 Enrico Puppo, DIBRIS, Polytechnic School, University of Genoa, Italy
 
  Paolo Romano, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy Carole A. Goble, University of Manchester, United Kingdom & ELIXIR-UK
  Are we FAIR yet? And will it be worth it? – Keynote Lecture Michel Dumontier, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
  Paradigm shifts in health informatics needed for leveraging FAIR data environments – Guest Lecture Amnon Shabo, The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics
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| 15.40 | Coffee break | 
| 16.10 | Scientific Session 1 Flash Poster presentations 
  Interoperable genome annotation with GBOL, an extendable infrastructure for functional data mining SAPP: functional genome annotation and analysis through a semantic framework using FAIR principles
 Jasper Koehorst, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
  ARTENOLIS, the automated reproducibility and testing environment for licensed software Laurent Heirendt, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  Building a FAIR Environment for a Bioinformatics Project using Machine Learning Gregory Butler, Concordia University, Canada
  Implementing FAIR Identifiers in InterMine with identifiers.org Daniela Butano, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  FAIRness assessment for UniProt datasets Leyla Jael García Castro, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
 A FAIRer ChEMBL website David Mendez, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
  FAIRsharing: Working with the community to map the landscape of standards, databases and data policies Massimiliano Izzo, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  BioExcel & ELIXIR: towards interoperable and reproducible biomolecular research workflows – Guest Lecture Adam Hospital, IRB Barcelona, Spain
  ICSM bioinformatics infrastructures towards a new frontier: large-scale observational research Danila Vella, Clinical Scientific Institute Maugeri, Italy
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| 18.00 | Day closure | 
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| Tuesday October 23, 2018 | 
| 08.00 | Registration and poster hang-up | 
| 09.00 | Scientific Session 2  FAIR data, tools and workflows: a user perspective – Keynote Lecture Frederik Coppens, VIB, University of Gent, Belgium & ELIXIR Belgium
  A FAIR approach to Research Data Stewardship and Data Stewardship Planning – Guest Lecture Rob Hooft, Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (DTL) & ELIXIR NL, The Netherlands
  Cost-based measurement of data FAIRness of public data sources in life sciences Filip Pattyn, ONTOFORCE NV, Gent, Belgium
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| 10.35 | Poster and demo session with coffee break service | 
| 11.35 | Panel discussion | 
| 12.35 | Scientific Session 3  Bioschemas, enabling a FAIR ecosystem for Life Science websites Leyla Jael Garcia Castro, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
  Local and national Swiss initiatives towards FAIR data Caterina Barillari, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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| 13.15 | Lunch Break | 
| 14.45 | Scientific Session 4  ELIXIR Core Data Resources: FAIR, community and impact – Keynote Lecture Christine Durinx, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
  Standards and SOP implementation in the life-sciences research: a snapshot from the CA CHARME – Guest Lecture Domenica D’Elia, CNR – Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Bari, Italy
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| 16.00 | Day closure | 
| 17.00 | Social activity – Guided visit to Genoa | 
| 20.30 | Social Dinner | 
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| Wednesday October 24, 2018 | 
| 08.30 | Registration | 
| 09.00 | Scientific Session 5  FAIR data and EOSC: Strategy for finding and accessing datasets at EOSC – Guest Lecture Rafael Jimenez, ELIXIR Europe, United Kingdom
  Challenges in adopting FAIR principles in Training – Keynote Lecture Patricia Palagi, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
  Adopting Open Source Software FAIR Practices Mateusz Kuzak, Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (DTL) & ELIXIR NL, The Netherlands
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| 10.35 | Poster session with coffee break service | 
| 11.35 | Scientific Session 6  Message from the Italian Biomedical Informatics Society Silvana Quaglini, Italian Society of Biomedical Informatics – SIBIM, Italy
 
  Message from the Italian Bioinformatics Society L. Milanesi, Italian Bioinformatics Society – BITS, Italy
  From rare to FAIR data in the rare disease community – Guest Lecture Marco Roos, Leiden University Medical Centre – LUMC, The Netherlands
  FAIR Bioinformatics computation and data management: FAIRDOM and the Norwegian Digital Life initiative Carole Goble, University of Manchester and ELIXIR UK, UNited Kingdom
  Reproducible Bioinformatics Project: A community for reproducible bioinformatics analysis pipelines Marco Beccuti, University of Torino, Italy
  First announcement of NETTAB/BBCC 2019 Angelo Facchiano, CNR / ISA, Avellino, Italy
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| 13.00 | Workshop Closure |