Uduak Thomas, Senior Editor at GEN, took a minute away from the talks, posters, and expo hall to join Julianna LeMieux, PhD, GEN’s Deputy Editor in Chief, to talk about the meeting, the sessions they attended, and the trends that they are noticing. Although they had only been at the meeting for a day, there was plenty to discuss: Roche’s new sequencing data hot off the SBX sequencer, Illumina’s continued focus on multiomics, Plasmidsaurus’ move into RNA-seq, and more.