Name: CS3 2026 - Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing
Start: 2026-03-17T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-19T20:05:00+01:00
Location: University of Oslo

CS3 2026 - Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing

from Tuesday, March 17, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, March 19, 2026 (8:05 PM)

Monday, March 16, 2026
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Aulakjelleren

9:00 AM Introduction & Welcome

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Gamle Festsal
9:30 AM Keynotes
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

9:30 AM Digital Sovereignty or Digital Dependency: Europe’s Tech Moment of Truth - Frank Karlitschek
10:30 AM Digital Sovereignty
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

10:30 AM EFSS as Infrastructure: Foundational Layer of Europe’s Sovereign Data Stack - Peter Szegedi (European Commission)

10:50 AM Segregate Military and Civilian Digital Infrastructure: Building the Future of Connectivity and Storage - Mauro Vignati (ICRC)

11:10 AM Building the Brazilian Sovereign Data Ecosystem for Research: The RAS Case Study on Federated Architecture and High-Performance Integration - Mateus Rodrigues Oliveira

11:25 AM First Steps Towards Building a Pan-European Object Storage - Bo Nygaard Bai Kalle Happonen (CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.)
11:45 AM Group Photo
Group Photo
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Gamle Festsal

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Aulakjelleren
1:30 PM CS3 Community Site Reports
1:30 PM - 3:12 PM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

1:30 PM CERNBox service evolution towards a federation-enabled EFSS - Diogo Castro (CERN) Jesse Geens

1:42 PM DESY Sync & Share: A dCache-Based Federated Storage Service with Multi-Protocol Access, AI Assistance, and Full-Text Search - Peter van der Reest (DESY)

1:54 PM Distributed data sharing infrastructure for scientific institute based on Onedata - Adrián Rošinec

2:06 PM B2DROP: A Cross-Domain and Cross-Border EFSS for Research Collaboration in the EOSC Federation - Marvin Winkens (JSC) Sander Apweiler (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

2:18 PM Our 11 year fight for data sovereignty - Lilian Emming

2:30 PM First experience with OpenCloud in PSNC - Jan Bróździak (PSNC)

2:42 PM Sync&Share Storage since 2013 - Mihajlo Gajic

2:54 PM Opencloud instance for PSDI - Vasily Bunakov (STFC UKRI)

3:06 PM Sunet Drive Community Report 2026 (Lightning talk) - Lars Delhage
3:12 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:12 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Aulakjelleren
4:10 PM Federations for EOSC and eResearch infrastructures.
4:10 PM - 5:10 PM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

4:10 PM EFSS and federating storages of the EOSC nodes infrastructure - Ron Trompert

4:25 PM Interoperable Infrastructure for Universities, Enterprises and the Public Sector - Hagen Echzell

4:40 PM The Czech Path to a Community-Driven Research Data Infrastructure - Matej Antol (Masaryk University)

4:55 PM Onedata as Unified Data Namespace for the Polish EOSC Node - Łukasz Opioła (Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH)
5:10 PM Access to data
5:10 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

5:10 PM Data staging and caching challenges in the terabit/s era - Maiken Pedersen

5:25 PM SCIERA: The SCION Education, Research and Academic Infrastructure - Francois Wirz (ETHZ)

5:40 PM Your Infrastructure, Your Rules - Deploy and operate collaboration services the way you want - Björn Schießle (Nextcloud GmbH)

5:55 PM Desktop Client Innovations - Klaas Freitag (OpenCloud GmbH)
6:10 PM Reception
Reception
6:10 PM - 8:10 PM
Room: Aulakjelleren
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

8:30 AM Good morning coffee
Good morning coffee
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Aulakjelleren
9:00 AM Keynotes
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

9:00 AM The HPC-Cloud Pipeline: Data Provisioning for Destination Earth and the AI Revolution in Weather Forecasting - Tiago Quintino (ECMWF)
10:00 AM Data Science Environments & HPC integration
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

10:00 AM From Primary Data to Computational Analysis: Bridging HPC Workflows and Research Documentation - Ramon D'Agosta (ResearchSpace) Rory Macneil (ResearchSpace)

10:15 AM Overview of software and infrastructure for research data at ETH Zurich - Caterina Barillari Jarunan Panyasantisuk (ETH Zurich)

10:30 AM EXA4MIND: A Modular Extreme Data Analytics Platform - Mohamad Hayek (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre)

10:45 AM Data Commons and Jupyter integration in CERNBox - Rasmus Oscar Welander
11:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Aulakjelleren
11:45 AM Interoperability: protocols, APIs, OpenCloudMesh (OCM)
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

11:45 AM OpenCloudMesh towards IETF Standardization - Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN)

12:00 PM Ongoing OCM work funded by SovereignTech and the status of the OCM test suite - Mahdi Baghbani

12:05 PM Panel
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aulakjelleren
2:00 PM File Sync & Share Solutions and Requirement from the Community
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

2:00 PM Building Kiteworks’ Open Source Program Office with ownCloud - David Walter

2:22 PM Seafile 13, a new way to organize your files - Jonathan Xu

2:44 PM Nextcloud. State of the nation - Frank Karlitschek

3:06 PM OpenCloud Rising: Wins and Fails of the last 12 Month - Tobias Baader (OpenCloud)
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aulakjelleren
4:30 PM Collaborative Applications
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

4:30 PM Status Update of the no-code platform SeaTable - Christoph Dyllick-Brenzinger

4:45 PM Empowering scientific collaboration: Latest advancements in document editing with ONLYOFFICE - Richard Ruf

5:00 PM One Codebase, Two Worlds? Collaborating between Browser and Desktop - Michael Meeks
5:15 PM Lightning talks
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

5:15 PM A Decade of Keeper: 10 Years of Secure Sync, Share & Long-Term Archiving in the Max Planck Ecosystem (2016–2026) - Vladislav Makarenko (Max Planck Information and Technology (MaxIT))

5:21 PM Nextcloud deployment at the University of Oslo - Hagen Echzell

5:27 PM Migrating DESY’s Collaboration Platform from Mattermost to Nextcloud Talk - Ingo Ebel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

5:33 PM Local AI-models at University of Oslo - Dagfinn Bergsager Maiken Pedersen

5:39 PM Nextcloud Enterprise deployment for Kubernetes, OpenShift and Podman - Sebastian Möbus

5:45 PM Data Access Broker: machine-actionable workflows to access sensitive data - Ahmad Hesam (SURF) Claudio Cacciari
Thursday, March 19, 2026

8:30 AM Good morning coffee
Good morning coffee
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Aulakjelleren
9:00 AM Keynotes
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

9:00 AM Clinical research and data in the AI era: Lessons and future directions from the AI-Mind project - Christoffer Hatlestad-Hall (Oslo University Hospital)
10:00 AM Applications handling sensitive data, data classification, data security and privacy
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

10:00 AM TSD - a part of Norwegian Trusted Invironment Consortium - Dagfinn Bergsager

10:15 AM Data protection on a Cloud-Native Infrastructure: experiences over the implementation of AI-driven workflows - Alessandro Costantini (INFN-CNAF)

10:30 AM Expect the (un...-)expected" - IT business continuity in an increasingly uncertain world - Tilo Uwe Steiger (ETH Zürich)
10:45 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aulakjelleren
11:30 AM AI and Storage
11:30 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

11:30 AM What's Next in AI for Business? Pushing the analog|digital interface boundary. - Axel Koester (IBM Technologist)

11:55 AM Fueling the AI Factory: The Central Role of the Metadata Catalog - Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (DDN Storage)

12:10 PM How to Run Your Own AI: Real-Life Experiences Operating a Self-Hosted Large Language Model for SeaTable Automations - Christoph Dyllick-Brenzinger

12:25 PM CBorg Studio: An AI-Ready Data Science Environment for Scientific Programming - Timothy Fong (Berkeley Lab)
12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aulakjelleren
2:00 PM Scalable Storage Backends and Integration with Data Processing
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

2:00 PM Performance Benchmarks of S3 Storage Middleware - Huseyn Gurbanov (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the BAdW)

2:15 PM Feasibility study trans-national replicated object storage using Ceph - Adam Prycki

2:30 PM Bringing legacy (filesystem) storage systems to the S3 cloudy world - Krzysztof Wadówka (PSNC)

2:45 PM Implementing S3-fronted cold storage at CERN - Mario Vitale (CERN)
3:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aulakjelleren
4:00 PM Scalable Storage Backends and Integration with Data Processing
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Gamle Festsal
Contributions

4:00 PM HDD Native Parallel Filesystem: Maximizing Throughput for Highest Capacity CMR and HM-SMR Drives - Piotr Modrzyk (Leil Storage)

4:15 PM Migration from AFS to Cephfs - Ingo Ebel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

4:30 PM Storage aspects consumed by OpenCloud - Jörn Dreyer (OpenCloud GmbH)

4:45 PM Object Storage at Scale: Real-world Operational Insights from RGW Deployments - kritik sachdeva (IBM)
5:00 PM Summary & Conclusions

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Gamle Festsal

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