A trio of community-developed plenaries, as well as five different Collaborator Showcase sessions, will highlight the main conference at the 2026 OHDSI Global Symposium, which will take place October 20-22 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., USA.
The selected plenaries and leads are:
- Federated Learning Meets Negative Control Calibration: Toward Reliable Multi-Site Evidence Generation (Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania)
- Beyond the Defaults: How the OHDSI Community is Adapting, Extending, and Reimagining Its Tools (Scott Duvall, PurpleLab)
- Plenary #3: The role of national initiatives in supporting sustainability, collaboration, and growth of OHDSI (Ed Burn, Oxford University)
A major highlight of this year’s symposium is the expanded educational program on Tuesday, Oct. 20, featuring 12 distinct tutorial offerings designed to meet the needs of our diverse community (see graphics below). These half-day sessions, split between morning and afternoon blocks, cover a wide range of essential topics, including the OMOP Common Data Model and Standardized Vocabularies, ETL development, and advanced analytics like Patient-Level Prediction and Population-Level Estimation. Whether you are looking to master the basics or dive deep into the latest HADES tools, these hands-on workshops provide the technical competencies required to transform data into reliable evidence.