The 2018 GEC (Portland, Oregon, USA, Nov 5-9) has kindly agreed to again host a discussion session on the Plasma Data Exchange project and the LXCat Platform at 7 pm on Wednesday Nov 7. Emile Carbone (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching) and Jan van Dijk (Technical University, Eindhoven) are organizing this event. Details and updates will be posted on the GEC website: http://www.apsgec.org/gec2018/.