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CS3 2026 - Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing

from Tuesday, March 17, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, March 19, 2026 (8:05 PM)
University of Oslo (Gamle Festsal)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Mar 17, 2026
Mar 18, 2026
Mar 19, 2026
AM
8:00 AM --- Registration ---
9:00 AM
Introduction & Welcome (until 9:30 AM)
9:30 AM
Keynotes (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Digital Sovereignty or Digital Dependency: Europe’s Tech Moment of Truth - Frank Karlitschek  
10:30 AM
Digital Sovereignty (until 11:45 AM)
10:30 AM EFSS as Infrastructure: Foundational Layer of Europe’s Sovereign Data Stack - Mr Peter Szegedi (European Commission)  
10:50 AM Segregate Military and Civilian Digital Infrastructure: Building the Future of Connectivity and Storage - Mr 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 ---
8:30 AM --- Good morning coffee ---
9:00 AM
Keynotes (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM The HPC-Cloud Pipeline: Data Provisioning for Destination Earth and the AI Revolution in Weather Forecasting - Dr Tiago Quintino (ECMWF)  
10:00 AM
Data Science Environments & HPC integration (until 11:00 AM)
10:00 AM From Primary Data to Computational Analysis: Bridging HPC Workflows and Research Documentation - Mr Ramon D'Agosta (ResearchSpace) Mr Rory Macneil (ResearchSpace)  
10:15 AM Overview of software and infrastructure for research data at ETH Zurich - Dr Jarunan Panyasantisuk (ETH Zurich) Caterina Barillari  
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 ---
11:45 AM
Interoperability: protocols, APIs, OpenCloudMesh (OCM) (until 12:30 PM)
11:45 AM OpenCloudMesh towards IETF Standardization - Dr 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  
8:30 AM --- Good morning coffee ---
9:00 AM
Keynotes (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM Clinical research and data in the AI era: Lessons and future directions from the AI-Mind project - Dr Christoffer Hatlestad-Hall (Oslo University Hospital)  
10:00 AM
Applications handling sensitive data, data classification, data security and privacy (until 10:45 AM)
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 - Dr Alessandro Costantini (INFN-CNAF)  
10:30 AM Expect the (un...-)expected" - IT business continuity in an increasingly uncertain world - Dr Tilo Uwe Steiger (ETH Zürich)  
10:45 AM --- Coffee ---
11:30 AM
AI and Storage (until 12:40 PM)
11:30 AM What's Next in AI for Business? Pushing the analog|digital interface boundary. - Dr 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)  
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
CS3 Community Site Reports (until 3:12 PM)
1:30 PM CERNBox service evolution towards a federation-enabled EFSS - Jesse Geens Diogo Castro (CERN)  
1:42 PM DESY Sync & Share: A dCache-Based Federated Storage Service with Multi-Protocol Access, AI Assistance, and Full-Text Search - Mr 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 - Sander Apweiler (Forschungszentrum Jülich) Marvin Winkens (JSC)  
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 ---
4:10 PM
Federations for EOSC and eResearch infrastructures. (until 5:10 PM)
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 - Mr Łukasz Opioła (Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH)  
5:10 PM
Access to data (until 6:10 PM)
5:10 PM Data staging and caching challenges in the terabit/s era - Mr 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 - Mr Klaas Freitag (OpenCloud GmbH)  
6:10 PM --- Reception ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
File Sync & Share Solutions and Requirement from the Community (until 3:30 PM)
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 ---
4:30 PM
Collaborative Applications (until 5:15 PM)
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 - Mr Richard Ruf  
5:00 PM One Codebase, Two Worlds? Collaborating between Browser and Desktop - Michael Meeks  
5:15 PM
Lightning talks (until 6:00 PM)
5:15 PM A Decade of Keeper: 10 Years of Secure Sync, Share & Long-Term Archiving in the Max Planck Ecosystem (2016–2026) - Mr 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 - Claudio Cacciari Ahmad Hesam (SURF)  
12:40 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Scalable Storage Backends and Integration with Data Processing (until 3:00 PM)
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 ---
4:00 PM
Scalable Storage Backends and Integration with Data Processing (until 5:00 PM)
4:00 PM HDD Native Parallel Filesystem: Maximizing Throughput for Highest Capacity CMR and HM-SMR Drives - Mr 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 - Dr 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 (until 5:45 PM)