NFCS NetworkPlus Spring Conference

Contribution List

1. Registration and Refreshments

26/02/2026, 10:30

2. Welcome and Conference Aims

Jonathan Hays (Queen Mary), Sadaf Alam

26/02/2026, 11:00

3. Guest Speaker: DSIT/UKRI DRI update

26/02/2026, 11:10

29. Net-Zero and Circular Economy Federation: Evidence-based policy roadmap for carbon-aware compute in the built environment

Alireza Moghayedi (University of the West of England)

26/02/2026, 11:30

30. Towards a common data infrastructure for laboratory science

Laura Shemilt (Rosalind Franklin Institute)

26/02/2026, 11:40

31. Surveying accessibility of federated compute for junior researchers

Gordon Yip (Kings College London)

26/02/2026, 11:50

32. Identifying barriers for biology researchers using federated HPC services

Wahab Kawafi (University of Bristol)

26/02/2026, 12:00

33. Federated data access across the DRI

Alastair Basden (Durham university)

26/02/2026, 12:10

34. Evaluation of Secure Federated Kubernetes Storage for Trusted Research Environments

Wojciech Turek (University of Cambridge)

26/02/2026, 12:20

35. DRI Federation Cybersecurity Roadmap development

David Crooks (STFC)

26/02/2026, 12:30

5. Lunch

26/02/2026, 12:40

36. Supercomputers and superpositions: making quantum accelerators accessible within HPC frameworks

Omar Rathore

26/02/2026, 13:30

37. Job orchestration using Constellation on heterogenous HPC resources

Mark Wilkinson

26/02/2026, 13:40

38. FAIR-Compute: A roadmap for fair and efficient allocation of federated digital research infrastructure

Konstantinos Zachariadis

26/02/2026, 13:50

39. Tokenised authentication for research computing services

Kieran Leach

26/02/2026, 14:00

40. A federated bespoke AI-assisted helpdesk for DRI facilities

Alastair Basden

26/02/2026, 14:10

41. Federating everything, everywhere, all at once: Exploring the potential for inclusion of Tier3 services in the UKRI federated DRI

Mark Wilkinson

26/02/2026, 14:20

42. Table discussions to generate questions for the Second Phase Project PIs

26/02/2026, 14:30

8. Refreshment break

26/02/2026, 15:00

9. 2nd Call Project Panel Discussion

26/02/2026, 15:20

10. AIRRPORTAL

Sadaf Alam

26/02/2026, 15:40

43. ELixIR Science and Data Platforms

Peter MacCallum

26/02/2026, 16:05

11. FRIDGE project: Federated research infrastructure by data governance extension ~ trusted research environments on UK AI research resources

Martin O'Reilly

26/02/2026, 16:30

12. Questions for the panel

26/02/2026, 16:55

13. Museum and Exhibits Tour

26/02/2026, 17:15

14. Dinner at Harbour House

26/02/2026, 19:00

15. Registration and Refreshments

27/02/2026, 09:00

17. The Roadmap structure and Interim Report

Jeremy Yates, Kieran Leach

27/02/2026, 09:30

45. International perspectives: EuroHPC

27/02/2026, 10:00

44. International perspectives: The EGI Foundation

Matthew Viljoen (EGI)

27/02/2026, 10:25

20. Refreshments and Posters

27/02/2026, 10:50

16. Guest speaker - Phil Waywell on Secure Data Environment

27/02/2026, 11:20

18. ACCoRD; A Community for Contract Regulation for Data

27/02/2026, 11:50

19. Federated Edge: HPC architectures for AI workflows in privacy-sensitive and real-time domains

27/02/2026, 12:02

21. Federated Data Movement

27/02/2026, 12:14

22. Federated IAM for existing infrastructures

27/02/2026, 12:26

27. Panel Q&A

27/02/2026, 12:38

23. Lunch & Project Posters

27/02/2026, 12:50

24. Inclusive Futures: User stories and mapping pathways for NFCS

27/02/2026, 13:50

46. Bridging the Gap

27/02/2026, 14:02

47. Federation of compute and infrastructures in the Arts and Humanities

27/02/2026, 14:14

48. Enhancing HPC adoption through user-centred design

27/02/2026, 14:26

49. Panel Q&A

27/02/2026, 14:38

28. Conference Evaluation, Summary and Close

27/02/2026, 14:50

25. 1st Call Presentation 6

4. 2nd Call Projects

6. 2nd Call Projects

26. International perspectives: The EGI Foundation

Matthew Viljoen

7. Table discussion and panel question prep