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)

Projects at the 5th BioHackathon Germany (Göttingen, Dec 2026) porting existing spatial benchmarks onto OpenProblems, 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