Just a day after B-Cubed’s Final Meeting, the project will contribute to the first European Conference for Biodiversity Monitoring (BioMonWeek2026). The event will take place from 4–8 May 2026 in Montpellier, France, and will feature plenary keynotes and panels. Some of the key topics include terrestrial monitoring, marine monitoring, freshwater monitoring, data management for monitoring, mass monitoring, public policy and funding for monitoring, monitoring and the private sector, monitoring governance and capacity building in monitoring. 

The conference will bring together science, policy, and business communities to exchange monitoring knowledge, build networks, and drive tangible societal impact to help reverse the global biodiversity crisis.

During BioMonWeek, B-Cubed will be presented at a booth hosted by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) where project materials will be available. 

In addition, the project will contribute to several sessions, including: 

• DT02 Data Workflows and Pipelines for WorkFlowHub on Wednesday (05/05) between 09:00-11:00, where Andrew Rodrigues will explain how GBIF species occurrence cubes help bridge the gap between large-scale biodiversity data infrastructures and operational biodiversity monitoring and reporting. Download your own species occurrence cube here. 

• PP02 Policy implementation to bridge the gap from data to action on Thursday (07/05) between 9:00 - 10:00, where Louise Hendrickx will focus on how current implementations of the One Health framework remain “plant-blind” and how this affects food system resilience, ecosystem stability, and microbiome interactions. Learn more in a policy brief on the topic here. 

• TDTO1 Biodiversity Data Cubes on Thursday (07/05) between 10:00 - 11:00. In this session, several B-Cubed members will present key aspects of the project, such as implementing Biodiversity Data Cubes for Open Science and Informed Policy, using the b3gbi R Package and GBIF Occurrence Cubes for Ramsar Sites, creating reproducible workflows to integrate EU Habitats Directive reporting with GBIF data, and transforming heterogeneous biodiversity data, such as GBIF occurrence records, into standardised occurrence cubes and policy-relevant indicators using the b3verse. 

Learn more about BioMonWeek2026: https://2026.biomonweek.eu/page/home/