For the past several years, BOSC has included a panel discussion that offers attendees the chance to engage in conversation with the panelists and each other. Past panel topics have included:
- 2018: Training and documentation in bioinformatics
- 2017: Open Data: Standards, Opportunities and Challenges
- 2016: Growing and sustaining Open Source communities
- 2015: Open Source, Open Door: increasing diversity in the bioinformatics open source community
- 2014: Reproducibility: Rewards and Challenges
- 2013: Strategies for funding and maintaining open source software
- 2012: Should we have standard bioinformatics review criteria?
- 2011: Meeting the challenges of inter-institutional collaboration
