The 8th International Barcode of Life Conference (#iBOL2019) will be held in Trondheim, Central Norway between June 17-20, 2019. There will be two pre-conference workshops on June 16; one on the curation of the barcode library of marine invertebrates and the other on the use of mBRAVE to analyze invertebrate metabarcode data from eDNA in urban aquatic environments.