Name: IRIS Collaboration Meeting- IRIS Forward: Responding to a Changing Landscape
Start: 2026-10-20T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-21T13:10:00+01:00
Location: University of Glasgow

IRIS Collaboration Meeting- IRIS Forward: Responding to a Changing Landscape

from Tuesday, 20 October 2026 (08:30) to Wednesday, 21 October 2026 (13:10)

Monday, 19 October 2026
Tuesday, 20 October 2026

08:30 Registration & Refreshments
Registration & Refreshments
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Welcome from Glasgow University - Samuel Skipsey (GridPP / University of Glasgow)
Welcome from Glasgow University
- Samuel Skipsey (GridPP / University of Glasgow)
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 Session 1: Pressure Points - What has changed and what it means
Pressure Points - What has changed and what it means
09:10 - 10:50
Contributions

09:10 Welcome from IRIS - Jonathan Hays (Queen Mary)

09:15 Funding and strategic landscape: Transformation, DRI funding of compute and resource allocation - Jonathan Hays (Queen Mary)

09:30 Capacity Forecast and Hardware Costs - Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department)

09:45 Security Challenges - Matt Doidge (Lancaster University) Saul Beck (STFC)

10:00 RSAP overview and changes - Sophie King (IRIS IAM)

10:15 Facilitated discussion
10:50 Refreshment Break
Refreshment Break
10:50 - 11:15
11:15 Session 2: Impact - What the Evidence Actually Shows
Impact - What the Evidence Actually Shows
11:15 - 12:00
Contributions

11:15 Building the Impact Report - Deniza Chekrygina (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC))
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Session 3: Voices from the Communites
Voices from the Communites
13:00 - 15:00
Contributions

13:00 Key Note Speaker Talk - Ashley Lyons

13:30 CASU - Alireza Molaeinezhad

13:50 ALC - Willow Sparks (STFC)

14:10 UKSRC - Ian Collier (STFC)

14:30 ADA - Jeremy Spencer
15:00 Refreshments
Refreshments
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Session 4: Change and response options
Change and response options
15:30 - 16:50
Contributions

15:30 Other access models overview - Mark Wilkinson (University of Leicester)

15:50 IRIS at crossroads - Jonathan Hays (Queen Mary)

16:20 Open Floor Discussion
16:50 Close & Reflection

16:50 - 17:00
Wednesday, 21 October 2026

09:00 Session 7: Recap & Framing
Recap & Framing
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 Session 8: Working Together - IRIS 2.0 in practice
Working Together - IRIS 2.0 in practice
09:10 - 10:35
Contributions

09:10 Discussion Group 1 - IRIS Governance

09:10 Discussion Group 1 - Hybrid allocation model: challenges and opportunities

09:55 Discussion Group 2 - Continuing to federate IRIS: what are we missing and the EOSC federation model

09:55 Discussion Group 2 - IRIS model -people driven: resilience and opportunities
10:35 Refreshments
Refreshments
10:35 - 11:10

11:10 Session 9: Discussion Readout & Synthesis
Discussion Readout & Synthesis
11:10 - 11:45
11:45 Session 10: Close & Next Steps
Close & Next Steps
11:45 - 12:00
Contributions

11:45 From Conversation to Action - Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department) Jonathan Hays (Queen Mary)
12:00 Packed Lunch & Departures

12:00 - 12:30