Indico Workshop 2025

Europe/Zurich
513/1-024 (CERN)

513/1-024

CERN

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Description

Following the success of our 2023 workshop, we look forward to bringing the Indico community together once again for the Indico Workshop 2025 to discuss the latest developments, share experiences, and explore future directions.

Just like the last time, the Indico Workshop is co-organized by CERN and the United Nations.

Check the Timetable, most talks are already scheduled (we're working on finalizing the session taking place at the UN).

The registration period has finished, we'll provide an option to join on Zoom shortly before the event in case you cannot attend in person. In exceptional circumstances we may also allow late registration to attend in person - please send us an email in this case as soon as possible.

Indico Team
Participants
Zoom Meeting ID
68533602188
Host
Adrian Mönnich
Useful links
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    • Wednesday Morning Session 513/1-024

      513/1-024

      CERN

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      • 17
        Indico @ UKAEA

        As of July 2024, UKAEA are now using Indico as their primary event management tool and it is gaining more interest within the organisation. The UKAEA Indico instance is running on dedicated hardware and is deployed using Ansible, many issues and obstacles have come up along the way. UKAEA are hoping to use Indico for the foreseeable future, our list of requested features is growing, and we would like to work more with the community.

        Speaker: Adam Parker (UKAEA)
      • 18
      • 19
        Rewriting the Indico check-in app

        In late 2023, the Indico check-in mobile app was rewritten to a modern Progressive Web Application (PWA); this talk will dive into the technical details about how the PWA was built, the decision to use a PWA, and some of the challenges we faced when building the new, sleek, and modern check-in app that you know today.

        Speaker: Dominic Hollis
      • 20
        indico.global
        Speaker: Adrian Mönnich (CERN)
    • 10:00 AM
      Coffee Break 513/1-024

      513/1-024

      CERN

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    • Wednesday Morning Session 513/1-024

      513/1-024

      CERN

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    • 12:00 PM
      Lunch Break Restaurant 2

      Restaurant 2

      CERN

    • Visit at CERN - Synchrocyclotron + CMS
      • 1:10 PM
        Bus from R2 bus stop to SC R2 bus stop (CERN)

        R2 bus stop

        CERN

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        Synchrocyclotron visit Synchrocyclotron

        Synchrocyclotron

        CERN

        The Synchrocyclotron (SC) was CERN's first accelerator.

        It is no longer in operation but a very nice visit point, with no access restrictions (medical implants, pregnancy, etc.) whatsoever.

        In case you are not with us for lunch, and want to go there directly, it's close to CERN's main entrance (Gate B).

        Speaker: Tomas Roun (CERN)
      • 2:00 PM
        Bus to CMS
      • 28
        CMS Surface + Underground visit CMS

        CMS

        CERN

        The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and one of the "big" CERN experiments.

        We'll have two groups of up to 12 people each. One group will start on the surface, and the other will start underground.

        Please note that for underground access, certain access restrictions may apply, in particular to pregnant women (6+ months) and those with magnetic-field-sensitive medical implants (e.g. heart pacemakers). You're nonetheless welcome to join, but may need to stay on the surface. It is also necessary to wear closed shoes, i.e. no heels or open sandals.

        Speakers: Adrian Mönnich (CERN), Anton Lu (Technische Universität Wien (AT))
      • 3:30 PM
        Bus back to CERN
    • 4:00 PM
      Coffee Break 513/1-024

      513/1-024

      CERN

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    • Wednesday Afternoon Session 513/1-024

      513/1-024

      CERN

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      • 29
        Indico @ CERN
        Speaker: Adrian Mönnich (CERN)
      • 30
        Making Indico a first-class citizen in Kubernetes

        Indico has been architected for being deployed to a production environment in the traditional way: a host machine (a a cluster of machines) running Linux and executing Indico and its dependencies as a constellation of systemd units. This is the approach currently officially documented and supported. Many organisations, including MaxIV Labs at Lund University, have moved or are in the process of moving towards cloud-native platforms and application ecosystems and are running Indico as a cloud-native application decomposed into several workloads, which are usually executing in Kubernetes environments. There is no officially supported, battle-tested and properly documented path of operating Indico and its dependencies in a Kubernetes environment yet, but we can work together to define one. I would like to talk about the journey to migrate Indico from a VM environment to K8S (OpenShift) at MaxIV Labs and about the challenges of orchestrating a cloud-native Indico production environment, such as automating the lifecycle management of Indico workloads.

        Speaker: Gabriel Dragomir (MAX IV Lab, Lund University)
      • 31
        The year is 2042 and this is Indico
        Speaker: Alejandro Avilés
      • 32
        Closing remarks
        Speakers: Pedro Ferreira (CERN), Adrian Mönnich (CERN)