2026 CERN Fall Campus

from Monday, November 2, 2026 (8:30 AM) to Friday, November 6, 2026 (11:59 PM)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Nov 2, 2026
Nov 3, 2026
Nov 4, 2026
Nov 5, 2026
Nov 6, 2026
AM
8:30 AM --- Registration and Coffee ---
9:30 AM Fall Campus Opening Ceremony  
10:00 AM Placeholder for Jan: Talk 1 - Jan Janke (CERN)  
11:00 AM Introduction to Alarming in Industrial Controls sector - Mr Matthias Braeger (CERN)  
9:00 AM Power BI from A to Z: What It Takes to Make It Work - Christina Tsiplaki Spiliopoulou (CERN)  
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM Intelligent Data Systems and AI for Autonomous Space Technology (Part 1) - Sudeshna Sengupta  
11:30 AM Data in Motion: Inside Time-Series Databases - Mr Matthias Braeger (CERN)  
9:00 AM Making a Kubernetes Cluster, as the Heart of our Homelab - Dennis Tsekouras (CERN)  
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM Technology Changes, Human Nature Doesn't (Part 2) - Eveline Sintnicolaas (CERN)  
11:30 AM How RAG Enables AI Thinking in Real Time? - Aryan Gupta  
9:00 AM From Laptop to Data Center: Operating Databases at scale - Andrzej Nowicki (CERN)  
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM Why Is My Query Slow? Database Indexes and the Query Planner Explained - Batuhan Lel  
11:30 AM Agentic AI Development Workflows - Cristian Schuszter (CERN)  
9:00 AM You Can't Debug Production: Logs, Metrics, and Traces Explained - Batuhan Lel  
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM Designing Robots for the Human Brain: UX in Autonomous Systems - Sara Esperto  
11:30 AM Expecting the Unexpected: How do Backups & Recovery Work in Databases - Andrzej Nowicki (CERN)  
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM QuantumConnect: Particle Collision Challenge - Cristian Schuszter (CERN)  
1:30 PM Placeholder: Lecture Given by Tartu University - Mr Karl Kruusamäe  
2:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:00 PM Modernizing Legacy Code: A Case Study of React Implementation at CERN. - Dmitry Kekelidze (CERN)  
6:00 PM --- Welcome Party ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM Large Language Model fundamentals - Cristian Schuszter (CERN)  
2:30 PM Technology Changes, Human Nature Doesn't (Part 1) - Eveline Sintnicolaas (CERN)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM Vector Databases: The Long-Term Memory for AI - Aryan Gupta  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM How we rebuild a legacy monolithic platform at CERN and still sleep at night - Dmitry Kekelidze (CERN)  
2:30 PM Placeholder for Jan: Talk 2 - Jan Janke (CERN)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM Your Brain is Lying to You: Fixing Bad Decisions with Analytical Thinking - Sara Esperto (CERN)  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM Beyond Prompting: Agentic AI for Power BI Development. - Christina Tsiplaki Spiliopoulou (CERN)  
2:30 PM Breaking (into) a Kubernetes Cluster - Dennis Tsekouras (CERN)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM Intelligent Data Systems and AI for Autonomous Space Technology (Part 2) - Sudeshna Sengupta  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM Placeholder: Lecture Given by Tartu University - Prof. Veronika Zadin (University of Tartu (EE))  
2:30 PM --- Break ---
2:45 PM Examination  
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM Prizegiving Ceremony and Closing Remarks - Jan Janke (CERN) Mr Matthias Braeger (CERN)  
7:00 PM --- Closing Party ---