Save the Date – Biobanking’s Biggest Conference! 

The biggest biobanking event in Africa is now open for business – and the GGBN / ISBER Joint Biobanking Conference 2025 is looking for you!

With this year’s conference theme, “Where worlds align: biodiversity and human biobanks. Same, but different”, we’re bringing together experts in human and biodiversity biobanking to talk shop, share solutions and discuss future efforts.

The conference, a joint effort by the Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN), International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) and Medical Biorepositories of South Africa, will be held at the spectacular Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa, from 29 September – 3 October, and will bring together biobanking experts, academics, researchers and students from the global biodiversity and medical biobanking community to discuss (among other things)….

• Human, animal, botanical and microbial biobanking
• Data and database challenges
• Accreditation and credentialing
• Big data, innovation and AI in biobanking
• Best practices, standards and sustainability

So if you have anything you’d like to share about any of those topics (and more) we’d love to hear from you!

Want to join the fun? Keen to contribute? Submit your abstracts now.

And if you’d like to know more, just visit the Joint Biobanking Conference website:

We’re thrilled to be a part of the GGBN 2025 Conference in Cape Town, South Africa —a joint event with ISBER and the MBirSA!

Join us from 29 September to 3 October 2025 at the Old Mutual Conference and Exhibition Centre, located in the heart of the iconic Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town.

Mark your calendars for the biggest event in biobanking – and stay tuned for more details.

Interested in playing a part? Want to know more? Just drop us an email at info@bbsa.org.za and we’ll see what we can do.