WLCG Open Technical Forum (OTF) #12

Aug 25, 2026, 2:00 PM → Aug 26, 2026, 5:30 PM Europe/Zurich

Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN), James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

Welcome to the WLCG Open Technical Forum (OTF).

The WLCG Technical Coordination Board (TCB) is responsible for the technical evolution of WLCG services in line with the needs of the experiments and the capabilities of the infrastructure providers. The TCB defines a multi-year roadmap for such evolution and is responsible for its implementation. The TCB achieves these goals with a bottom-up approach through an Open Technical Forum (OTF) which welcomes the participation of all contributors to the technical evolution in the WLCG community.

Live Notes

Tue, August 25

1 Introduction

Speakers: Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN), James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

2 tentative - AI and WLCG - some ideas from US experts

Speakers: Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin (US)), Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts (US))

3 tentative - Facilities and AI

Speaker: Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))

3:50 PM coffee and tea

please remember to register if you plan to attend physically so that we can size the coffee breaks

4 CyberSecurity and AI

Speaker: Jose Carlos Luna Duran (CERN)

5 WLCG and CERN AI Implementation plan

Speaker: Ricardo Rocha (CERN)

Wed, August 26

6 Introduction

Speakers: Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN), James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

7 GGUS Helpdesk - AI and overall plans

Speakers: Aliaksei Hrynevich (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)), Aliaksei Hrynevich (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie), Pavel Weber

8 WLCG Security - updates

Speaker: Jose Carlos Luna Duran (CERN)

9 WLCG Technical Roadmap - Heterogeneous architectures and new infrastructure - Chapter 8

Speakers: Doug Benjamin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Ianna Osborne (Princeton University), Oxana Smirnova (Lund University), Stefano Piano (INFN (IT))