Living Data 2025 took place between 21 and 24 October 2025 in Bogota, Colombia and brought together biodiversity networks, researchers, and practitioners worldwide to advance standards, promote interoperability, and measure progress towards conserving and restoring biodiversity. 

During the event, B-Cubed was featured at Pensoft Publishers’ booth, where visitors learned more about the project and its activities. The booth welcomed numerous visitors and displayed promotional materials. In addition, B-Cubed contributed to several sessions focused on biodiversity data management and using data cubes. 

The project was featured in the symposium ‘Long Live Biodiversity Data: Knowledge Transfer and Continuity Across Research Projects’, along with other research projects. The session explored how research data can remain impactful beyond project lifespans through open data, effective science communication and international collaboration. A recording of the session can be watched here

Another session, B-Cubed took part in was entitled ‘Beyond 2030: Building the Data Foundations for Biodiversity Action to support the KMGBF’. In that session, Lina Espinan Suarez (iDiv) presented how data cubes could be used for scalable analysis and FAIR reporting. Her presentation featured B-Cubed’s policy brief on FAIR indicators of effective monitoring, as well as B-Cubed’s paper on Creating the vision of rapid, repeatable, reactive data workflows for policy on biodiversity. Lina explained how EBV cubes work, tapped into the GBIF SQL service for downloading species occurrence cubes and outlined how using the FAIR workflows developed by B-Cubed will facilitate the reporting against the KMGBF (the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework). A recording of the session can be watched here. 

Moreover, two workshops were led by B-Cubed partners. On 21 October, Henrique M. Pereira and Lina Estupinan (iDiv) focused on the EBV cube as a standard for spatiotemporal biodiversity data. The session discussed advances towards a new standard for EBVs, known as the EBV-Cube standard, and aimed to promote the formation of a working group dedicated to the continued development of this standard. 

On 22 October, B-Cubed organised the hands-on workshop ‘Hip to be cubed: using the new GBIF SQL Download API’ led by Pieter Huybrechts and Andrew Rodriguez (GBIF). The workshop showed how the GBIF SQL Download API works. After that, Andrew Rodrigez explained the functioning of the KMGBF and how global datasets can feed into national reporting. Consequently, he outlined the national and regional initiatives which have already started using tools developed by B-Cubed. 

In addition, during the session ‘Connecting the Dots: Integrating Animal Movement Data into Global Conservation Frameworks’ Peter Desmet (INBO) demonstrated how the GBIF SQL download could support the contribution of 1,000 bio-logging datasets and how to publish these datasets to GBIF and OBIS. You can see the slides he presented here and watch the recording here. 

During the conference, Peter Desmet also presented the Data Package standard and how it can be used to document data or create community standards such as DwC-DP. You can see his presentation on that topic here.