NFCS NetworkPlus Spring Conference

Contribution List

1. Registration and Refreshments

2/26/26, 10:30 AM

2. Welcome and Conference Aims

Jonathan Hays (Queen Mary), Sadaf Alam

2/26/26, 11:00 AM

3. Guest Speaker: DSIT/UKRI DRI update

2/26/26, 11:10 AM

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)

2/26/26, 11:30 AM

30. Towards a common data infrastructure for laboratory science

Laura Shemilt (Rosalind Franklin Institute)

2/26/26, 11:40 AM

31. Surveying accessibility of federated compute for junior researchers

Gordon Yip (Kings College London)

2/26/26, 11:50 AM

32. Identifying barriers for biology researchers using federated HPC services

Wahab Kawafi (University of Bristol)

2/26/26, 12:00 PM

33. Federated data access across the DRI

Alastair Basden (Durham university)

2/26/26, 12:10 PM

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

Wojciech Turek (University of Cambridge)

2/26/26, 12:20 PM

35. DRI Federation Cybersecurity Roadmap development

David Crooks (STFC)

2/26/26, 12:30 PM

5. Lunch

2/26/26, 12:40 PM

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

Omar Rathore

2/26/26, 1:30 PM

37. Job orchestration using Constellation on heterogenous HPC resources

Mark Wilkinson

2/26/26, 1:40 PM

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

Konstantinos Zachariadis

2/26/26, 1:50 PM

39. Tokenised authentication for research computing services

Kieran Leach

2/26/26, 2:00 PM

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

Alastair Basden

2/26/26, 2:10 PM

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

Mark Wilkinson

2/26/26, 2:20 PM

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

2/26/26, 2:30 PM

8. Refreshment break

2/26/26, 3:00 PM

9. 2nd Call Project Panel Discussion

2/26/26, 3:20 PM

10. AIRRPORTAL

Sadaf Alam

2/26/26, 3:40 PM

43. ELixIR Science and Data Platforms

Peter MacCallum

2/26/26, 4:05 PM

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

Martin O'Reilly

2/26/26, 4:30 PM

12. Questions for the panel

2/26/26, 4:55 PM

13. Museum and Exhibits Tour

2/26/26, 5:15 PM

14. Dinner at Harbour House

2/26/26, 7:00 PM

15. Registration and Refreshments

2/27/26, 9:00 AM

17. The Roadmap structure and Interim Report

Jeremy Yates, Kieran Leach

2/27/26, 9:30 AM

45. International perspectives: EuroHPC

2/27/26, 10:00 AM

44. International perspectives: The EGI Foundation

Matthew Viljoen (EGI)

2/27/26, 10:25 AM

20. Refreshments and Posters

2/27/26, 10:50 AM

16. Guest speaker - Phil Waywell on Secure Data Environment

2/27/26, 11:20 AM

18. ACCoRD; A Community for Contract Regulation for Data

2/27/26, 11:50 AM

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

2/27/26, 12:02 PM

21. Federated Data Movement

2/27/26, 12:14 PM

22. Federated IAM for existing infrastructures

2/27/26, 12:26 PM

27. Panel Q&A

2/27/26, 12:38 PM

23. Lunch & Project Posters

2/27/26, 12:50 PM

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

2/27/26, 1:50 PM

46. Bridging the Gap

2/27/26, 2:02 PM

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

2/27/26, 2:14 PM

48. Enhancing HPC adoption through user-centred design

2/27/26, 2:26 PM

49. Panel Q&A

2/27/26, 2:38 PM

28. Conference Evaluation, Summary and Close

2/27/26, 2:50 PM

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