HEPiX Preparation Meeting Spring 2026 #1

Wednesday 17 Dec 2025, 16:00 → 17:35 Europe/Paris

Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Tomoaki Nakamura (KEK), Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

minutes (password protected)

1 Welcome, note-taking

Excused for today's attendance: Jiri Chudoba, Ofer Rind

2 Preparations for the Spring 2026 workshop - local organization

• Deadlines
• Confirmed sponsors
• Early-bird and normal Fee proposals

Speakers: Jorge Humberto Lucio Oliveira Gomes, Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

Deadlines_Lisbon.pdf

3 Lisbon: Topical Session(s)

Proposals:

• Facilities session (OTF)
• Kubernetes session

4 Lisbon: Tracks and Conveners

• Inclusion of a new "AI for infrastructure" track
• Revision of current track conveners

5 WG reports

• Benchmarking
• IPv6
• Techwatch

Speakers: Mr Andrea Chierici (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)), Dr Andrea Sciabà (CERN), David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)), Domenico Giordano (CERN), Dr Michele Michelotto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)), Shigeki Misawa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

6 Future Workshops

• Future hosts proposals?
  • NEW! Bern willing to host HEPIX in EU as well at some point.
  • Autumn 2026: Host search ongoing
    • Canada's eastern part
    • Morgridge in Madison
    • Glasgow: committed to organizing an ATLAS week
  • Spring 2027: KIT (the first option)
  • Autumn 2027: depends on Autumn 2026
  • Spring 2028: Elba 2nd week in May

7 Any other business