Name: EGI2024
Start: 2024-09-30T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-04T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Hilton Garden Inn, Lecce, Italy

EGI2024

from Monday, September 30, 2024 (9:00 AM) to Friday, October 4, 2024 (2:00 PM)

Monday, September 30, 2024

10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Sybar

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Barocco

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: San Martino
Contributions

11:00 AM GreenDIGIT: Project and Initiative to Lower Environmental Impact of Future Digital Research Infrastructures - Yuri Demchenko (University of Amsterdam)

11:20 AM Landscape analysis of research infrastructure practices and needs for green computing - GreenDIGIT survey findings - Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu)

11:35 AM How to Use AWS Cloud in the Green Economy Era for Research - Roberta Piscitelli (AWS)

11:55 AM Energy-optimisation techniques for complex workloads from the Swarmchestrate project (remote talk) - Jozsef Kovacs (MTA SZTAKI)

12:10 PM AI4EOSC AI/ML platform power consumption and environmental impact evaluation - problems encountered, lessons learnt - Alvaro Lopez Garcia (CSIC)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: San Martino

11:30 AM

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Carlo V

12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Carlo V
Contributions

1:30 PM Welcome by EGI Council Chair Volker Guelzow

1:40 PM Welcome by CMCC Operations Director Laura Panzera

1:50 PM Insights into Climate Computing (CMCC) - Fabrizio Antonio (CMCC Foundation)

2:10 PM Data-intensive computing towards 2030: challenges and opportunities - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)
2:30 PM

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Sybar
Contributions

3:15 PM Cloud Compute: introduction - Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu)

3:25 PM Beskar Cloud: status update - Adrian Rosinec (Masaryk University) Klara Moravcova

3:40 PM The Evolution of INFN's Cloud Platform: improvements in Orchestration and User Experience - Marica Antonacci (INFN)

3:55 PM Interoperable Workflow Efficiency: Exploring the Integration of OpenEO, CWL , and EOEPCA for Seamless Data Processing and Modeling - Alexander Jacob (Eurac Research - ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO) Juraj Zvolensky (Eurac)

4:10 PM Dynamic DNS for EGI Cloud federation - Viet Tran (IISAS)
3:15 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: San Martino
Contributions

3:15 PM The oldest traditional Trawler of Cyprus on its way to the Data Cloud and MemoryTwin - Marinos IOANNIDES (Cyprus University of Technology)

3:30 PM Management of Open Data Lifecycle with Onedata - Michal Orzechowski (CYFRONET)

3:45 PM CEDAR - Common European Data Spaces & Robust AI for transparent Public Governance - Francesco Mureddu Osimanti Osimanti (The Lisbon Council)

4:00 PM Trust as a foundational element for data sharing: the Gaia-X Trust Framework - Giuditta Del Buono (Gaia-X)

4:15 PM Copernicus Data Stores as part of the streamlined Cloud-based services strategy at ECMWF - Gionata Biavati (ECWMF)
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Carlo V
Contributions

3:15 PM The interTwin Digital Twin Engine: a platform for building and managing scientific Digital Twins - Andrea Manzi (EGI.eu)

3:30 PM Interoperability between Digital Twins in the Green Deal initiative - Thomas Geenen (ECMWF)

3:45 PM A digital twin for geophysical extremes: interim results from the DT-GEO project - ARNAU FOLCH (Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC))

4:00 PM Tagus river-to-ocean collaboratory for thematic digital twins and collaborative management - Anabela Oliveira (National Laboratory for Civil Engineers)

4:15 PM Leveraging leadership class computing toward addressing climate and environmental challenges - Valentine Anantharaj (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Barocco
Contributions

3:15 PM Exploring Climate Data Analysis with MATLAB in the ENES Data Space - Kostas Leptokaropoulos (MathWorks)

3:30 PM From HPC to EOSC to DestinE: Leveraging Pangeo in the Global Fish Tracking System for Impactful Marine Conservation - Anne Fouilloux (Simula Research Laboratory) Tina Odaka (LOPS)

3:45 PM EO4EU: An Integrated and Scalable Platform for Accessing and Processing Earth Observation and Earth Modeling data - Claudio Pisa (ECMWF) Vasileios Baousis (ECMWF)

4:00 PM A data statistics service for data publication and usage metrics in the climate domain - Alessandra Nuzzo (CMCC Foundation)

4:15 PM From Jupyter notebooks to a digital twin-oriented Virtual Research Environment: a LifeWatch solution - Zhiming Zhao (EGI.eu)
4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Barocco
Contributions

4:45 PM HPC: introduction - Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu)

5:05 PM The HPC+AI Cloud: flexible and performant infrastructure for HPC and AI workloads - Matt Pryor (StackHPC)

5:25 PM Integrating data repositories with HPC resources for execution of VHT models - Taras Zhyhulin (Sano Centre for Computational Medicine)

5:40 PM Toward a compute continuum with interLink - Daniele Spiga
4:45 PM - 6:05 PM
Room: San Martino
Contributions

4:45 PM Pioneering Integrated Data Access and Analysis Across Research Fields: A Dutch Initiative - Ahmad Hesam (SURF)

5:05 PM A complete workflow for finding, sharing and analysing sensitive data: the SSH use case - Lucas Van der Meer (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

5:20 PM INFN Approach in Handling Sensitive Data - Alessandro Costantini (INFN)

5:35 PM GÉANT Initiatives on Sensitive Data Management - Mario Reale (GÉANT)

5:50 PM EGI Landscaping Report on Trusted Research Environments - an overview - Ville Tenhunen (EGI.eu)
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Carlo V
Contributions

4:45 PM Enlivening the Heritage Digital Twin - Franco Niccolucci (ARIADNE RI)

4:55 PM Towards a digital twin for flood risk management - Bjorn Backeberg (Deltares)

5:10 PM Detecting pulsar signals in vast real-time data streams with a machine learning / digital twin-based pipeline - Yurii Pidopryhora (MPG - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

5:25 PM A Digital Twin Application: Climate Extremes Detection and Characterization using Deep Learning - Christian Page (CERFACS (CECI))

5:45 PM A path to future-compatibility to navigate the complexity of integrating AI-powered virtual sensing in Digital Twin - Paolo Pileggi (TNO)
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Carlo V

7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 8:35 PM
Room: CUBE
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Carlo V
Contributions

9:05 AM Advancing Research Frontiers: NBIS's Impact on Sweden's Computational Infrastructure and European Bioinformatics Collaborations - Nanjiang Shu (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

9:25 AM Unleashing Potential: High-Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing for Innovation - Davide Salomoni (INFN)

9:45 AM GlobalCoast Cloud: enabling equitable coastal resilience for the Future - Nadia Pinardi (UNIBO)
10:30 AM

10:30 AM - 10:40 AM

11:00 AM

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Badisco
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Carlo V
Contributions

11:00 AM A Comprehensive Overview of EOSC EU Node - Peter Szegedi (EC DG CNECT)

11:15 AM EGI's Technical Expertise to Fuel EOSC EU Node Development - Levente Farkas

11:30 AM EOSC Beyond: enhancing EOSC Core capabilities and piloting EOSC Nodes - Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu)

11:45 AM Simpl and the EOSC Feasibility Study Results - Daniel Gonzalez (CapGemini)

12:00 PM Reviving Virtual Access to fund data usage in the EOSC Federation? - Dale Robertson
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Barocco
Contributions

11:15 AM Building Research Data Commons along research themes, the Australian perspective - Keith Russell (Australian Research Data Commons)

11:30 AM An EGI Research Commons? - Rory Macneil (Research Space)

11:45 AM Connecting Open Science Infrastructures: CSTCloud and Future Envisions. Global Open Science Cloud: Vision and Progresses - Haiming Zhang (CNIC) Xueting LI (CNIC, CAS)

12:00 PM Aligning the Korean Research Data Commons with EGI and the European Open Science Cloud - Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu) Sa-kwang Song (KISTI)

12:15 PM Cross-disciplinary data infrastructures for research in South Africa: A case of DIRISA - Nobubele Shozi (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR))
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: San Martino
Contributions

11:00 AM Why does document structuring still matter and struggle in the era of GenAI and Large Language Models? - Mohamed Khemakhem (MandaNetwork)

11:15 AM BEACON - High performance data access supporting marine data lakes - Tjerk Krijger (MARIS)

11:30 AM Blue-Cloud 2026 – a Federated Data Discovery and Access Service - Tjerk Krijger (MARIS)

11:45 AM STAC at CEDA - a scalable, standards-based search system - Rhys Evans

12:00 PM Leveraging Federated Data Infrastructure for a European Open Web Index - Mohamad Hayek (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre)

12:15 PM Sunet Drive - An Academic Toolbox for FAIR Data Storage, Analysis and Publication - Richard Freitag (SUNET)
12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

12:30 PM Parallel Inference in the Edge-to-Cloud for Health Monitoring - Daniele Lezzi (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)

12:30 PM OiPub: Research Communities Made Simple - Robert Bianchi (Omni Iota Science Ltd.)

12:30 PM FAIR EVA (Evaluator, Validator & Advisor) and its Plugin System - Fernando Aguilar (CSIC)

12:30 PM Come to Play: Federated, Interoperable AI-Cubes at Your Fingertips - Peter Baumann (rasdaman GmbH)
1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM AI Inference Pipeline Composition with AI4Compose and OSCAR - Amanda Calatrava (Universitat Politècnica de València)

2:00 PM A Hybrid Reference Architecture for Cloud-based Quantum Computing Microservices with an Aerial-Ground Cooperative Robot Mapping Use Case - Attila Farkas (HUN-REN SZTAKI)

2:00 PM EOSC CC for PA , URBREATH, BeOpen - Antonio Filograna Francesco Mureddu (The Lisbon Council) Xavier Salazar (EGI)

2:30 PM Secure personalized federated learning within the AI4EOSC platform - Judith Sainz-Pardo Diaz (CSIC)

2:30 PM Demonstrator of the European virtual human twin simulation platform - Marek Kasztelnik (ACC Cyfronet AGH, ul. Nawojki 11, 30-950 Kraków, Poland)

2:30 PM Rancher: the EGI container execution platform - Adrian Rosinec (Masaryk University) Klara Moravcova

2:30 PM Improving Biodiversity Data and Services discoverability: the LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue - Lucia Vaira (LifeWatch ERIC)

2:30 PM Running Multi-Cloud Workloads on Distributed Datasets with Onedata - Lukasz Opiola (CYFRONET)
3:00 PM

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Consilium
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Carlo V
Contributions

3:00 PM Introducing the German EOSC pilot node - Tim Wetzel York Sure-Vetter (NFDI)

3:15 PM ENES Data Space: an EOSC Beyond thematic node for the climate community - Fabrizio Antonio (CMCC Foundation)

3:30 PM Enhancing FAIR Data Management with LifeBlock: A Semantic and AI-Driven - Julio López Paneque (LifeWatch ERIC)

3:45 PM The CESSDA Pilot Node - John Shepherdson (CESSDA)
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Barocco
Contributions

3:00 PM INFN-DataCloud a distributed infrastructure supporting multi purpose Scientific data analytics services - Giacinto Donvito (INFN)

3:20 PM PLG Portal - platform for managing distributed computing resources in a federated infrastructure - Andrzej Zemla (CYFRONET)

3:40 PM SimpleVM - a framework for federated research environments in the de.NBI Cloud - Nils Hoffmann (Institute of Bio-and Geosciences, IBG-5, Computational Metagenomics, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Bielefeld, Germany)

3:50 PM Towards an EOSC compliant research data repository in Hungary with ARP - Balázs Pataki (HUN-REN SZTAKI)

4:00 PM SRCE ecosystem for Croatian science community - Emir Imamagic (SRCE)
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: San Martino
Contributions

3:00 PM SPECTRUM Project Overview - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.eu)

3:10 PM SPECTRUM Project: Community of Practice, Survey and Use case analysis - Tommaso Boccali (INFN)

3:30 PM Data Processing Needs and Trends in High Energy Physics - David Southwick Maria Girone (CERN)

3:50 PM Current and future needs in Radio Astronomy Computing - Jeff Wagg Marco Iacobelli
4:15 PM Coffee break offered by OiPub
Coffee break offered by OiPub
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Barocco
Contributions

4:45 PM EGI Services for Federation - An overview

4:50 PM EGI Helpdesk - Enhancing Support for European Open Science - Pavel Weber (KIT-G)

5:00 PM EGI Software Provisioning Infrastructure - Joao Pina (LIP)

5:10 PM EGI Software Vulnerability Group - evolving for the future - Linda Cornwall (STFC)

5:20 PM EGI Accounting - Adrian Coveney (UKRI STFC) Greg Corbett (STFC)

5:30 PM Experience from the BELLE II Experiment - Silvio Pardi (INFN)

5:40 PM Experience from the Juno Experiment - Giuseppe Andronico (INFN)

5:50 PM Experience from BlueCloud and SeaDataNet - Dick Schaap (Mariene Informatie Service MARIS BV)
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: San Martino
Contributions

4:50 PM Clouds, competence centres and research infrastructures in the cultural heritage domain - Luca Pezzati (CNR)

5:00 PM Digital Requirements for METROFOOD-RI - Karl Presser (Premotec)

5:10 PM ENVRI-Hub-NEXT: an Ambitious Leap in Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Data Access - Ulrich Bundke (JUELICH)

5:20 PM Cybersecurity, AI, Open Access, and Human Data - Nadina Foggetti (CNR Ibiom)

5:30 PM Q&A
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Carlo V
Contributions

4:45 PM The PITHIA e-Science Centre - Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster, London, UK)

5:05 PM Virtual Data Center: a platform for enabling data scientists to access integrated and scalable online environments - Stefano Cacciaguerra (INGV) Stefano Chiappini (INGV)

5:15 PM Collaborative research in the cloud with Notebook-as-a-VRE (NaaVRE) - Gabriel Pelouze (LifeWatch ERIC, Virtual Lab & Innovation Center (VLIC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

5:25 PM VRE as an open scientific gateway to connect EOSC user and resource environments - Kaori Otsu (CREAF)

5:35 PM EuroScienceGateway - Sebastian Luna Valero

5:55 PM Q&A
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 6:25 PM

7:30 PM

7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Thursday, October 3, 2024
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Carlo V
Contributions

9:00 AM AI Landscape and Roadmap in EGI

9:10 AM iMagine: an AI platform supporting aquatic science use cases - Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu)

9:30 AM iMagine: Best practices for suppliers of image collections and analysis tools in aquatic sciences - Elnaz Azmi (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

9:50 AM A Bayesian Optimization workflow for improving oil spill numerical simulations - Marco Mariano De Carlo (CMCC Foundation)

10:00 AM Bridging Cloud and HPC for Scalable Event-driven Processing of AI Workloads - Estibaliz Parcero (Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular, Universitat Politècnica de València)

10:20 AM ML4Fires: A Digital Twin Component for Wildfire Danger Analysis via Global Burned Areas Prediction on Climate Projection Data - Emanuele Donno (CMCC Foundation)

11:00 AM AI4EOSC as a toolbox to develop and serve AI models in the EOSC - Alvaro Lopez Garcia (CSIC)

11:15 AM Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): from global landscape to practice in AI4EOSC - Valentin Kozlov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

11:30 AM Leveraging MLflow for Efficient Evaluation and Deployment of Large Language Models - Lisana Berberi (KIT-G)

11:45 AM Comparative Study of Federated Learning Frameworks NVFlare and Flower for Detecting Thermal Anomalies in Urban Environments - Khadijeh Alibabaei (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT, SCC, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

12:00 PM Distributed computing platform on EGI Federated Cloud - Saul Fernandez (IFCA) Viet Tran (IISAS)

12:10 PM Exploring the Potential of Graph Neural Networks to Predict the State of Seagrass Ecosystems in Italian Seas - Angelica Bianconi (University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, Pavia, Italy - Ca' Foscary University of Venice, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Via Torino 155, 30172, Venice, Italy - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategies Division, via Marco Biagi 5, 73100 Lecce, Italy)

12:20 PM AI assisted user support - Jiri Chudoba (CESNET)
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: San Martino
Contributions

9:00 AM Lessons learnt with ReproVIP - Sorina POP (Univ Lyon, INSA‐Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UJM-Saint Etienne, CNRS, Inserm, CREATIS UMR 5220, U1294)

9:20 AM Empowering Reproducible Open Science through the Cloud Computing Platform (CCP) by D4Science - Massimiliano Assante (CNR) Marco Lettere (Nubisware S.r.l.)

9:40 AM yProv: a Cloud-enabled Service for Multi-level Provenance Management And Exploration in Climate Workflows - Fabrizio Antonio (CMCC Foundation)

10:00 AM Q&A

11:00 AM Open Data for DESY and HIFIS - Tim Wetzel

11:10 AM Reproducibility with EGI Services - Andrea Manzi (EGI.eu) Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu) Sebastian Luna Valero

11:25 AM Beyond Connectivity: Simplyging Open Infrastructure Discovery and Adoption with InfraFinder - Nicky Wako (IOI)
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Barocco
Contributions

9:00 AM Session Introduction - Valeria Ardizzone (EGI.eu)

9:05 AM Notify me: Updates about mytoken - Gabriel Zachmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Marcus Hardt (KIT-G)

9:30 AM Perun Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure - Peter Balcirak (CESNET)

9:55 AM Establishing and Verifying Trust for Data Products and Processing - Andreas Matheus (Secure Dimensions GmbH)

10:20 AM Recent developments in Account Linking - ALISE - Marcus Hardt (KIT-G)

11:00 AM Real-World Authorisation: Case Studies from LETHE and EUreka3D - Ignacio Lamata Martinez

11:25 AM Exploring token authorization enforcements on Grid middleware with Open Policy Agent - Federica Agostini (INFN)

11:35 AM Updates on SSH with OpenId Connect - Diana Gudu (KIT)

11:45 AM EGI Check-In: Evolving the Infrastructure for European Research - Nicolas Liampotis (GRNET)

12:10 PM Q&A
12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

12:30 PM Autopoietic Cognitive Edge-cloud Services - Francesco Mureddu (The Lisbon Council) Luca Remotti (DataPower Consulting)

12:30 PM Templates for reproducible science - Borja Esteban Sanchis (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

12:30 PM climdex-kit: an open software for climate index calculation, sharing and analysis towards tailored climate services - Piero Campalani (Eurac Research) Alice Crespi (Eurac Research)

12:30 PM Pangeo@EOSC: A EOSC service to enable big data geoscience scientific discoveries and collaborations - Anne Fouilloux (Simula Research Laboratory) Tina Odaka (IFREMER)
1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Carlo V
Contributions

2:00 PM E-infrastructure Assembly - Introduction and discussion - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu) Yann Le Franc Erik Huizer (GEANT) Natalia Manola (OpenAIRE AMKE) Serge Bogaerts (PRACE)

2:45 PM Conference awards and closing
3:15 PM

3:15 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: San Martino

3:15 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Consilium

3:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Carlo V

3:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Barocco

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Sybar

3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 6:30 PM

4:45 PM

4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Sybar
Friday, October 4, 2024

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM