Stephen Friend: Beyond Guilds of Experts: Imagine What We Can Do
Channel: Open Humans Foundation
Date: 14/02/2014

The GET Conference is an annual event for people working at the frontiers of human biology. We invite leading thinkers to discuss the important ways in which new genomic technologies will affect all of our lives in the coming years and to debate their technical, commercial, and societal impacts. We bring together scientists, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, practitioners, investors, researchers, and others to discuss advances in our ability to measure and understand human biology. See our website: www.getconference.org

Annual GET Conference events are organized by PersonalGenomes.org, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose mission is to make a wide spectrum of data about humans accessible to increase biological literacy and improve human health. PersonalGenomes.org is working to generate, aggregate and interpret human biological and trait data on an unprecedented scale using open-source, open-access and open-consent frameworks. Our efforts are informed by values encouraging greater transparency and collaboration between researchers and participants.  We support the Personal Genome Project, Open Humans, the GET Conference and other groundbreaking initiatives.  To learn more, please visit: www.personalgenomes.org.

Topics and themes explored at the GET Conference:
Omics: personal genomes, microbiomes, immunomes, metabolomes, more
Sensors: health and enviromental sensor technologies, self-tracking
Policy: access, sharing, governance, privacy, IP 
Data & IT: visualization, modeling, applications, tools 
Traits: measurement, interpretation, new products and practices 
Medicine: preventive + predictive + personalized + participatory