2026 CERN Fall Campus

from Monday, 2 November 2026 (08:30) to Friday, 6 November 2026 (23:59)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 Nov 2026
3 Nov 2026
4 Nov 2026
5 Nov 2026
6 Nov 2026
AM
08:30 --- Registration and Coffee ---
09:30 Fall Campus Opening Ceremony  
10:00 Placeholder for Jan: Talk 1 - Jan Janke (CERN)  
11:00 Introduction to Alarming in Industrial Controls sector - Mr Matthias Braeger (CERN)  
09:00 Power BI from A to Z: What It Takes to Make It Work - Christina Tsiplaki Spiliopoulou (CERN)  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Intelligent Data Systems and AI for Autonomous Space Technology (Part 1) - Sudeshna Sengupta  
11:30 Data in Motion: Inside Time-Series Databases - Mr Matthias Braeger (CERN)  
09:00 Making a Kubernetes Cluster, as the Heart of our Homelab - Dennis Tsekouras (CERN)  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Technology Changes, Human Nature Doesn't (Part 2) - Eveline Sintnicolaas (CERN)  
11:30 How RAG Enables AI Thinking in Real Time? - Aryan Gupta  
09:00 From Laptop to Data Center: Operating Databases at scale - Andrzej Nowicki (CERN)  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Why Is My Query Slow? Database Indexes and the Query Planner Explained - Batuhan Lel  
11:30 Agentic AI Development Workflows - Cristian Schuszter (CERN)  
09:00 You Can't Debug Production: Logs, Metrics, and Traces Explained - Batuhan Lel  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Designing Robots for the Human Brain: UX in Autonomous Systems - Sara Esperto  
11:30 Expecting the Unexpected: How do Backups & Recovery Work in Databases - Andrzej Nowicki (CERN)  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00 QuantumConnect: Particle Collision Challenge - Cristian Schuszter (CERN)  
13:30 Placeholder: Lecture Given by Tartu University - Mr Karl Kruusamäe  
14:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:00 Modernizing Legacy Code: A Case Study of React Implementation at CERN. - Dmitry Kekelidze (CERN)  
18:00 --- Welcome Party ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Large Language Model fundamentals - Cristian Schuszter (CERN)  
14:30 Technology Changes, Human Nature Doesn't (Part 1) - Eveline Sintnicolaas (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Vector Databases: The Long-Term Memory for AI - Aryan Gupta  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 How we rebuild a legacy monolithic platform at CERN and still sleep at night - Dmitry Kekelidze (CERN)  
14:30 Placeholder for Jan: Talk 2 - Jan Janke (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Your Brain is Lying to You: Fixing Bad Decisions with Analytical Thinking - Sara Esperto (CERN)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Beyond Prompting: Agentic AI for Power BI Development. - Christina Tsiplaki Spiliopoulou (CERN)  
14:30 Breaking (into) a Kubernetes Cluster - Dennis Tsekouras (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Intelligent Data Systems and AI for Autonomous Space Technology (Part 2) - Sudeshna Sengupta  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Placeholder: Lecture Given by Tartu University - Prof. Veronika Zadin (University of Tartu (EE))  
14:30 --- Break ---
14:45 Examination  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Prizegiving Ceremony and Closing Remarks - Jan Janke (CERN) Mr Matthias Braeger (CERN)  
19:00 --- Closing Party ---