Registration and Call for Abstracts Now Open: FaceBase Community Forum 2026

We’re pleased to announce that registration and the Call for Abstracts are now open for the FaceBase Community Forum 2026!

Monday–Tuesday, May 4–5, 2026
Arlington, VA (USC/ISI East Office)

Theme
Advancing Reuse, Integration, and AI-Ready Research Across Craniofacial and Related Health Domains to Enhance Whole Person Health

This year’s Forum will bring together researchers, clinicians, data scientists, trainees, and data contributors to explore how shared, well-curated data and modern data science approaches can accelerate discovery across dental, oral, craniofacial, inner ear, and related health domains.

What to expect

• Keynote talks and NIH program updates
• Sessions on data federation, collaboration, and AI-ready data resources
• Panels on clinical integration and the FaceBase EMR pilot project
• A poster session highlighting community-driven work and data reuse examples

Call for Abstracts We invite submissions describing completed studies, ongoing work, methods, tools, or emerging ideas related to data reuse, integration, and AI-ready research. Abstracts will be used to organize the poster session, and a subset may be selected for invited talks.

Register and submit here:

• Register
• Submit an abstract
• Learn more about the Forum

We hope you’ll join us in Arlington this May and help shape the conversation around data reuse and AI-ready biomedical research.