WLCG@20 - Anniversary

Monday, December 8, 2025 - 8:30 AM
CERN (81/R-003C)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 8, 2025
AM
8:30 AM --- Welcome coffee ---
9:30 AM Welcome - Simone Campana (CERN)  
9:45 AM Greetings from CERN Management - Joachim Josef Mnich (CERN)  
10:00 AM Inception of WLCG - Leslie Robertson  
10:25 AM First signed MoU and impact on Asia - Simon Lin  
10:45 AM --- Morning break ---
11:20 AM WLCG and the European E-Infrastructure ecosystem - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)  
11:45 AM The LHC experiments and WLCG: past, present and future - James Catmore (University of Oslo (NO))  
PM
12:10 PM Future of Computing: vision of the incoming CERN management - Mark Thomson (CERN)  
12:20 PM --- Group photo ---
12:30 PM --- Buffet lunch ---
2:00 PM WLCG and beyond - Fabrizio Gagliardi (CERN)  
2:25 PM US perspective and future collaborations - Amber Boehnlein  
2:50 PM Heterogeneous Computing - Dr Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)  
3:15 PM --- Afternoon coffee ---
3:45 PM Environmental Sustainability and WLCG - David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))  
4:10 PM European Strategy For Particle Physics: an update on the process - Karl Jakobs (University of Freiburg (DE))  
4:35 PM Closing remarks and wrap-up - Simone Campana (CERN)  
5:00 PM --- Wrap-up cocktail ---