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CS3 2026 - Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing

from Tuesday, 17 March 2026 (08:00) to Thursday, 19 March 2026 (20:05)
University of Oslo (Gamle Festsal)

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        : Breaks
17 Mar 2026
18 Mar 2026
19 Mar 2026
AM
08:00 --- Registration ---
09:00
Introduction & Welcome (until 09:30)
09:30
Keynotes (until 10:30)
09:30 Digital Sovereignty or Digital Dependency: Europe’s Tech Moment of Truth - Frank Karlitschek  
10:30
Digital Sovereignty (until 12:00)
10:30 EFSS as Infrastructure: Foundational Layer of Europe’s Sovereign Data Stack - Mr Peter Szegedi (European Commission)  
10:50 Segregate Military and Civilian Digital Infrastructure: Building the Future of Connectivity and Storage - Mr Mauro Vignati (ICRC)  
11:10 Building the Brazilian Sovereign Data Ecosystem for Research: The RAS Case Study on Federated Architecture and High-Performance Integration - Mateus Rodrigues Oliveira  
11:25 First Steps Towards Building a Pan-European Object Storage - Bo Nygaard Bai Kalle Happonen (CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.)  
08:30 --- Good morning coffee ---
09:00
Keynotes (until 10:00)
09:00 The HPC-Cloud Pipeline: Data Provisioning for Destination Earth and the AI Revolution in Weather Forecasting - Dr Tiago Quintino (ECMWF)  
10:00
Data Science Environments & HPC integration (until 11:00)
10:00 From Primary Data to Computational Analysis: Bridging HPC Workflows and Research Documentation - Mr Ramon D'Agosta (ResearchSpace) Mr Rory Macneil (ResearchSpace)  
10:15 Overview of software and infrastructure for research data at ETH Zurich - Dr Jarunan Panyasantisuk (ETH Zurich) Caterina Barillari  
10:30 EXA4MIND: A Modular Extreme Data Analytics Platform - Mohamad Hayek (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre)  
10:45 Data Commons and Jupyter integration in CERNBox - Rasmus Oscar Welander  
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:45
Interoperability: protocols, APIs, OpenCloudMesh (OCM) (until 12:45)
11:45 OpenCloudMesh towards IETF Standardization - Dr Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN)  
12:00 Ongoing OCM work funded by SovereignTech and the status of the OCM test suite - Mahdi Baghbani  
12:15 Panel  
08:30 --- Good morning coffee ---
09:00
Keynotes (until 10:00)
09:00 Clinical research and data in the AI era: Lessons and future directions from the AI-Mind project - Dr Hatlestad-Hall (Oslo University Hospital)  
10:00
Applications handling sensitive data, data classification, data security and privacy (until 10:45)
10:00 TSD - a part of Norwegian Trusted Invironment Consortium - Dagfinn Bergsager  
10:15 Data protection on a Cloud-Native Infrastructure: experiences over the implementation of AI-driven workflows - Dr Alessandro Costantini (INFN-CNAF)  
10:30 Expect the (un...-)expected" - IT business continuity in an increasingly uncertain world - Dr Tilo Uwe Steiger (ETH Zürich)  
10:45 --- Coffee ---
11:30
AI and Storage (until 12:40)
11:30 What's Next in AI for Business? Pushing the analog|digital interface boundary. - Dr Axel Koester (IBM Technologist)  
11:55 Fueling the AI Factory: The Central Role of the Metadata Catalog - Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (DDN Storage)  
12:10 How to Run Your Own AI: Real-Life Experiences Operating a Self-Hosted Large Language Model for SeaTable Automations - Christoph Dyllick-Brenzinger  
12:25 CBorg Studio: An AI-Ready Data Science Environment for Scientific Programming - Andrew Schmeder (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Timothy Fong (Berkeley Lab)  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
CS3 Community Site Reports (until 15:12)
13:30 CERNBox service evolution towards a federation-enabled EFSS - Jesse Geens Diogo Castro (CERN)  
13:42 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)  
13:54 Distributed data sharing infrastructure for scientific institute based on Onedata - Adrián Rošinec  
14:06 B2DROP: A Cross-Domain and Cross-Border EFSS for Research Collaboration in the EOSC Federation - Sander Apweiler (Forschungszentrum Jülich) Marvin Winkens (JSC)  
14:18 Our 11 year fight for data sovereignty - Lilian Emming  
14:30 First experience with OpenCloud in PSNC - Jan Bróździak (PSNC)  
14:42 Sync&Share Storage since 2013 - Mihajlo Gajic  
14:54 Opencloud instance for PSDI - Vasily Bunakov (STFC UKRI)  
15:06 Sunet Drive Community Report 2026 (Lightning talk) - Lars Delhage  
15:12 --- Coffee ---
16:10
Federations for EOSC and eResearch infrastructures. (until 17:10)
16:10 EFSS and federating storages of the EOSC nodes infrastructure - Ron Trompert  
16:25 Interoperable Infrastructure for Universities, Enterprises and the Public Sector - Hagen Echzell  
16:40 The Czech Path to a Community-Driven Research Data Infrastructure - Matej Antol (Masaryk University)  
16:55 Onedata as Unified Data Namespace for the Polish EOSC Node - Michał Orzechowski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH, Krakow, Poland)  
17:10
Access to data (until 18:10)
17:10 Data staging and caching challenges in the terabit/s era - Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))  
17:25 SCIERA: The SCION Education, Research and Academic Infrastructure - Francois Wirz (ETHZ)  
17:40 Your Infrastructure, Your Rules - Deploy and operate collaboration services the way you want - Björn Schießle (Nextcloud GmbH)  
17:55 Desktop Client Innovations - Mr Klaas Freitag (OpenCloud GmbH)  
18:10 --- Reception ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
13:45
Student CNECT (until 14:30)
14:30
File Sync & Share Solutions and Requirement from the Community (until 16:00)
14:30 Building Kiteworks’ Open Source Program Office with ownCloud - David Walter  
14:52 Seafile 13, a new way to organize your files - Jonathan Xu  
15:14 Nextcloud. State of the nation - Frank Karlitschek  
15:36 OpenCloud Rising: Wins and Fails of the last 12 Month - Tobias Baader (OpenCloud)  
16:00 --- Coffee ---
17:00
Collaborative Applications (until 18:00)
17:00 Status Update of the no-code platform SeaTable - Christoph Dyllick-Brenzinger  
17:15 Empowering scientific collaboration: Latest advancements in document editing with ONLYOFFICE - Galina Goduhina  
17:30 One Codebase, Two Worlds? Collaborating between Browser and Desktop - Michael Meeks  
12:40 --- Lunch ---
13:55
Scalable Storage Backends and Integration with Data Processing (until 15:55)
13:55 Performance Benchmarks of S3 Storage Middleware - Huseyn Gurbanov (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the BAdW)  
14:10 Feasibility study trans-national replicated object storage using Ceph - Adam Prycki  
14:25 Bringing legacy (filesystem) storage systems to the S3 cloudy world - Krzysztof Wadówka (PSNC)  
14:40 Implementing S3-fronted cold storage at CERN - Mario Vitale (CERN)  
14:55 HDD Native Parallel Filesystem: Maximizing Throughput for Highest Capacity CMR and HM-SMR Drives - Mr Piotr Modrzyk (Leil Storage)  
15:10 Migration from AFS to Cephfs - Ingo Ebel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
15:25 Object Storage at Scale: Real-world Operational Insights from RGW Deployments - kritik sachdeva (IBM)  
15:40 Storage aspects consumed by OpenCloud - Dr Jörn Dreyer (OpenCloud GmbH)  
15:55 --- Coffee ---
16:55
Lightning talks (until 17:31)
16:55 Nextcloud Enterprise deployment for Kubernetes, OpenShift and Podman - Sebastian Möbus  
17:01 Migrating DESY’s Collaboration Platform from Mattermost to Nextcloud Talk - Ingo Ebel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
17:13 Local AI-models at University of Oslo - Dagfinn Bergsager Maiken Pedersen  
17:19 Nextcloud deployment at the University of Oslo - Hagen Echzell  
17:25 Data Access Broker: machine-actionable workflows to access sensitive data - Claudio Cacciari Ahmad Hesam (SURF)  
17:31
Summary & Conclusions (until 18:01)
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