Participants created and worked in four teams comprising:

• Spatially stratified differential expression analysis
• segmentation-analysis: Image and segmentation data manipulation and visualization
• pretrainedmodels: Facilitating use of spatial foundation models for the Bioconductor community
• interoperability: Enhanced infrastructure and interoperability for spatial data in Bioconductor

• 19-22 April, 2026
• San Servolo, Italy

• example datasets
• Hackathon GitHub project board
• Bioconductor contributor guidelines

• Sun 19
  • 15:00-17:30 Arrival, check-in
  • 17:30-18:00 Introductions
  • 18:00-20:00 Welcome reception with light dinner and drinks
• Mon 20
  • 09:00-10:30 Introduction to project goals, group formation
  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee break
  • 11:00-12:30 Session A
  • 12:30-14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00-15:30 Session B
  • 15:30-16:00 Afternoon break
  • 16:00-17:30 Group discussion
  • 17:30-19:30 Free time
  • 19:30-21:00 Dinner
• Tue 21
  • 09:00-09:30 Plenary meeting, set-up goals
  • 09:30-10:30 Session A
  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee break
  • 11:00-12:30 Session B
  • 12:30-14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00-15:30 Session C
  • 15:30-16:00 Afternoon break
  • 16:00-17:30 Group discussion
  • 17:30-19:30 Free time
  • 19:30-21:00 Dinner
• Wed 22
  • 09:00-09:30 Plenary meeting, set-up goals
  • 09:00-10:30 Session A
  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee break
  • 11:00-12:30 Session B
  • 12:30-14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00-15:30 Closing remarks
  • 15:30-16:00 Afternoon break
  • 16:00-17:30 (Optional) session