Fourth Annual MusicGens Consortium meeting

18 until 20 September 2025

Barcelona /  Sitges, Spain

Co-organised by Marc Via,  Ernest Mas-Herrero and Josep Marco.

Summary

This is a retreat-style/workshop-style meeting. Attendees are expected to attend the full three-day meeting. More information is shared in the Consortium's Slack channel #announcements.

Meeting schedule

In short, we suggest arrival in the morning of the 17th, in order to attend a pre-conference public engagement event in association with MusicGens in the afternoon of Sept 17 in the city of Barcelona. Our internal MusicGens program commences in Sitges in the early morning of Thursday, Sept 18 and concludes in the evening of Saturday, Sept 20.

Program

THURSDAY, September 18

Location: Hotel Estela Barcelona, Sitges

08:00 Reception & Registration

09:00 Opening Session: Icebreaker, Welcome, Lightning speed updates on all active projects

10:30 Tea/Coffee + Poster Session

11:15-12:30 Active Project Working session (Phenotype)

13:00 Group Lunch

14:30 Active Project Working session (Meta-GWAS)

15:45 Afternoon Tea/Coffee Break

16:30-18:30 A Brief Guide to Heritability (lead: Giaco/Simon)

19:30 Group Dinner

FRIDAY, September 19

Location: Off-site day - Albet i Noya Wine cellar

08:15 Bus to remote location

09:15 Active Project Working session (Ethics)

09:45 Tea/Coffee Break

10:15 Plenary Lecture: Nori Jacoby - Cross-Cultural Phenotyping

12:30 Group Lunch

14:00 New Project Incubation /  Global Task Force Discussion

16:00 Team building activities (hike, tour of space); Wine Tasting

19:00 Return to Hotel Estela Barcelona

20:00 Group Dinner and Roundtable discussion

SATURDAY, September 20

Location: Hotel Estela Barcelona, Sitges

9:00 Parallel sessions for Active projects

13:00 Group Lunch

14:30 Joint Session: Funding Opportunities

16:30 Break

16:45 Meeting Evaluation

17:30 Closing Remarks and Official Closure

19:30 Group Dinner.