NSF BRIDGE Conference 2026
A one-day gathering of the NSF BRIDGE community — researchers, domain scientists, and partners — to share progress, shape the roadmap, and connect the communities BRIDGE serves.
Overview
Bringing the BRIDGE community together
The NSF BRIDGE Conference gathers the project’s investigators, collaborating research labs, and domain communities for a full day of talks, demonstrations, and hands-on sessions. Attendees will see how BRIDGE and Apache Texera (Incubating) lower the barriers to modern data science and AI, and help shape where BRIDGE goes next.
The conference will focus on BRIDGE’s five initial research communities: Vision, Brain Mapping, Metabolic Traits, Social Sciences, and High Performance Computing (HPC). Through talks, demonstrations, and hands-on sessions with Apache Texera (Incubating), participants will share research needs, explore workflows, and help identify priorities for platform development, training, and support.
Event details
Date
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Location
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
Format
One-day conference
Host
NSF BRIDGE — UC Irvine, UCLA, University of Michigan
Organizer
Chen Li (PI, UC Irvine)
Register
Opening soon — email to register interest
What this conference is for
Share progress
Present the latest from BRIDGE and the Texera platform, from new workflow tooling to domain-specific AI assistants.
Connect communities
Bring together labs and domain scientists across BRIDGE’s five initial communities, so data and knowledge flow across boundaries.
Shape the roadmap
Gather feedback from users and partners to guide BRIDGE’s priorities for usability, scalability, and reproducibility.
Expected speakers
The program will feature the BRIDGE principal investigators and senior personnel, invited domain scientists, and community partners.
Who should attend
Research labs
Groups looking for a shared, reproducible workspace for data, workflows, and models.
Domain scientists
Researchers who want modern data science and AI with little or no code.
Partners & educators
Collaborators, infrastructure providers, and instructors interested in adopting or teaching the platform.
Program
The planned order of the day. Session times will be published once the schedule is set.
- Registration & welcome coffee
- Opening & BRIDGE overview
- Keynote
- Domain community talks
- Lunch & networking
- Hands-on Texera workshop
- Panel: the road ahead for BRIDGE
- Lightning talks & demos
- Closing remarks & reception
Get involved
Interested in attending?
Registration and travel details are coming soon — email the organizers to register your interest, or to propose a talk or demo. The conference is organized by the NSF BRIDGE team, led by PI Chen Li (UC Irvine), with UCLA and the University of Michigan.