GALAXY COMMUNITY CONFERENCE 2026 Thank you, GCC2026! As GCC2026 comes to a close, we want to thank everyone who took part and helped make the conference a success. A FINAL THANK YOU Thank you for being part of GCC2026 Thank you to our attendees, speakers, trainers, organizers, volunteers, sponsors, hosts, and everyone who joined us in person or online. Your participation helped make GCC2026 a productive and engaging conference. We are also grateful to everyone who completed the GCC2026 feedback survey. Your thoughtful input will help us continue improving the conference, and we hope to make the next GCC even better. COLLABORATION IN ACTION CoFest highlights and outcomes Following the main conference, participants came together for two days of hands-on collaboration during CoFest. Teams worked across the Galaxy ecosystem, turning conversations into plans, documentation, training resources, code contributions, and new connections. • Progress on AI and agent-powered Galaxy interfaces, including testing, architecture, security, and real Galaxy integrations • New and improved training resources for tool review, Galaxy administration, single-cell analysis, and the Galaxy Training Network • Collaborative development across pangenomics, public health, ecology, structural bioinformatics, file sources, Kubernetes, Pulsar, and more • Pull requests, prototypes, workflow planning, issue review, documentation, and practical knowledge shared across teams Explore the CoFest Outcomes<https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-07-20-gcc2026-cofest-outcomes/> RELIVE THE WEEK GCC2026 conference photos Photos from GCC2026 are now available to view and share. Thank you to Bérénice Batut for capturing and sharing these moments from the conference. Photos are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Please credit Bérénice Batut when reusing them and share adaptations under the same license. View the GCC2026 Photos<https://www.flickr.com/gp/bebatut/7m3M97v5xn> SEE YOU NEXT YEAR GCC2027 is coming to Montréal! We cannot wait to bring the Galaxy community together again in Montréal, Canada, for GCC2027. Until then, thank you for everything you brought to GCC2026. We will see you in Montréal! With gratitude, The GCC2026 Organizing Committee GCC2026 · June 22–26, 2026 · Clermont-Ferrand, France Thank you for being part of the Galaxy community. CoFest outcomes: https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-07-20-gcc2026-cofest-outcomes/ Conference photos: https://www.flickr.com/gp/bebatut/7m3M97v5xn