Events

Workshops, hackathons, competitions and community meetups. Everyone is welcome, first-time contributors especially.

Dec 2026

OpenProblems.Bio x SpaceHack 5.0: Multi-Modal Spatial Benchmarking and FAIR Data Standards

upcoming hackathon
Göttingen, Germany (Hybrid)

A joint Open Problems and SpaceHack project at the 5th BioHackathon Germany (Göttingen, 7 to 11 December 2026): porting spatial benchmarks onto Open Problems, defining new spatial tasks, and building FAIR data infrastructure.

May 2026

Open Problems @ HCA Spatial Cell Segmentation Hackathon

hackathon
Leiden, Netherlands (Hybrid)

Benchmarking infrastructure for the 2026 HCA Spatial Cell Segmentation Hackathon.

Jul 2025

Weekly Co-working Meeting

hackathon
Discord

Recurring weekly co-working meeting on Discord

Mar 2025

Open Problems @ Ascona Benchmarking 2025

conference
Ascona, Switzerland

Join the Open Problems Core Team presenting our platform at Ascona 2025

Dec 2024

Open Problems @ NeurIPS 2024

conference
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Presenting results from our latest competition, featured as a Spotlight Paper at NeurIPS 2024.

Sep 2024

Open Problems @ scverse conference 2024

conference
Munich, Germany

Introduction to Open Problems

Aug 2023

NeurIPS 2023: Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction

competition
Remote

Generalizing experimental interventions to unseen contexts, a NeurIPS 2023 competition.

Aug 2022

NeurIPS 2022: Multimodal Single-Cell Integration Across Time, Individuals, and Batches

competition
Remote

A competition on predicting multimodal expression across batches and timepoints.

Sep 2021

NeurIPS 2021: Multimodal Single-Cell Data Integration

competition
Remote

Solving various multimodal integration tasks using ML

Mar 2021

Spring 2021 Jamboree

hackathon
Remote

A virtual hackathon and kickoff event