The NCPI Fall Workshop took place on September 25-26, 2025, in Rockville, Maryland, convening Interoperability Project teams, NCPI Steering Committee members, and colleagues from across NIH. The workshop focused on reviewing NCPI’s progress, sharing lessons learned, identifying opportunities for collaboration across NIH data ecosystems, and fostering new connections among participants.
The meeting agenda is available here, and a full report out is forthcoming.
Planning for the next NCPI workshop is underway. The event is scheduled for Spring 2026. Plans for this workshop are still preliminary, please check back periodically.
On June 5, 2024, the NCPI program held its second Virtual Touchpoint, focusing on Interoperability Projects and attended by award institutions, companies, NIH ODSS representatives, and NCPI Working Group members. The event aimed to continue engagement from the first Touchpoint, allow Interoperability Projects to introduce their work and goals, discuss common challenges and integration opportunities, and identify topics for the upcoming NCPI Workshop in September 2024. The NCPI Program has produced a summary report of this event available below.
June 2024 – NCPI Virtual Touchpoint on Interoperability Summary (Public Version)Members of NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability (NCPI) took part in the 2024 GA4GH Connect meeting in Switzerland. A goal of this meeting was the introduction of new Driver Projects including NCPI, the NHLBI BioData Catalyst (BDC), the Biomedical Research Hub (BRH), and others. NCPI representatives presented on program needs, focusing on data discovery and data governance challenges.
Key points of NCPI participation included strategic engagement plans for NCPI with GA4GH, as well as collaborative discussions with representatives from NHGRI, NLM-NCBI, and NCI. The NCPI Administrative Coordinating Center (ACC) also held constructive discussions regarding RAS implementations to enable secure researcher access to NIH data sets, in collaboration with NHLBI BDC-RECOVER and NHGRI AnVIL representatives. A full summary of the meeting, provided by GA4GH, is linked below.
April 2024 – GA4GH Connect Meeting ReportOn January 19, 2024, the NCPI program hosted a Virtual Touchpoint event with over 70 attendees from various NIH Institutes, the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy, and non-NIH institutions involved in NCPI Participating Partner Systems. The event aimed to discuss interoperability topics, share ideas and concerns, and build community momentum for the next NCPI Workshop. The NCPI Program has produced a summary report of this event available below.
January 2024 – NCPI Virtual Touchpoint on Interoperability Summary (Public Version)