Name: NFCS NetworkPlus Autumn Conference
Start: 2025-09-22T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-23T23:40:00+01:00
Location: University of Edinburgh

NFCS NetworkPlus Autumn Conference

from Monday, 22 September 2025 (10:00) to Tuesday, 23 September 2025 (23:40)

Monday, 22 September 2025

11:00 Registration & Refreshments

11:00 - 11:40
Room: South Hall meeting room

11:40 Welcome

11:40 - 12:00
Room: South Hall meeting room
12:00 Keynote Speech - Professor York Sure-Vetter
12:00 - 12:45
Room: South Hall meeting room
Contributions

12:00 Keynote speech
12:45 Lunch

12:45 - 13:45
Room: South Hall meeting room
13:45 NetworkPlus projects
13:45 - 14:35
Room: South Hall meeting room
Contributions

13:50 UNITED: A framework for federated computing roadmaps (NOC)

14:00 Enhancing HPC adoption through user-centred design (UWE)

14:10 Inclusive Futures: User stories and mapping pathways for NFCS (UCL)

14:20 Federation of compute and infrastructures in the Arts & Humanities (Brighton)
14:35 Break

14:35 - 14:55
Room: South Hall meeting room
14:55 NetworkPlus Projects
14:55 - 15:35
Room: South Hall meeting room
Contributions

15:00 Federated edge: HPC architectures for AI workflows in privacy-sensitive and real-time domains (Cardiff)

15:10 Federated AI application container platform/registry feasibility study (Cambridge)

15:20 Exploring the governance requirements for enabling UK DRIs to adopt MyAccessID (Bristol)
15:35 Table discussion to generate questions for the panel

15:35 - 16:00
Room: South Hall meeting room

16:00 NetworkPlus Project PI Panel Q&A

16:00 - 16:40
Room: South Hall meeting room

16:40 Day one: Your Thoughts

16:40 - 16:50
Room: South Hall meeting room

16:50 Day one: Our Thoughts

16:50 - 17:00
Room: South Hall meeting room
Tuesday, 23 September 2025

09:00 Registration & Refreshments

09:00 - 09:30
Room: South Hall meeting room

09:30 NFCS Roadmap: The Outline

09:30 - 09:50
Room: South Hall meeting room
09:50 NetworkPlus Projects
09:50 - 10:25
Room: South Hall meeting room
Contributions

09:50 Federated data movement (Durham)

10:00 Exploring the requirements and technologies for a data centre API for federated data movement (Bristol)

10:10 UKRI Research Data Landscape Survey (Edinburgh)
10:25 Break

10:25 - 10:40
Room: South Hall meeting room
10:40 NetworkPlus projects
10:40 - 11:15
Room: South Hall meeting room
Contributions

10:40 ACCoRD: A community for contract regulation for data (UCL)

10:50 Bridging the gap: Aligning project administration with access to digital research infrastructure (RFI)

11:00 Federated IAM for existing infrastructures (Edinburgh)
11:15 Table discussion to generate questions for the panel

11:15 - 11:40
Room: South Hall meeting room

11:40 NetworkPlus Project PI Panel Q&A

11:40 - 12:15
Room: South Hall meeting room

12:15 Lunch

12:15 - 13:00
Room: South Hall meeting room
13:00 User stories: From laptop to cluster with DISKAH Fellows
13:00 - 13:40
Room: South Hall meeting room
Contributions

13:00 User stories: From laptop to cluster with DISKAH Fellows
13:40 Keynote: UK DRI policy and 10-year roadmap

13:40 - 14:10
Room: South Hall meeting room

14:10 Break

14:10 - 14:30
Room: South Hall meeting room

14:30 NFCS QT: NFCS Lead Team & Speaker Panel

14:30 - 15:15
Room: South Hall meeting room

15:15 Conference Evaluation and looking forward

15:15 - 15:30
Room: South Hall meeting room

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