About this Event
Be part of CLOUD-NES: Facilitating Cloud-Native Data Access and Processing for Natural and Engineering Sciences, an initiative dedicated to advancing efficient, scalable, and reproducible research through cloud-native approaches.
CLOUD-NES stimulates the adoption of cloud-native methods for publishing, accessing, and processing research data. Using geospatial data as a case study, the project demonstrates the benefits of cloud-native workflows through reproducible benchmarks. In addition, it provides practical training and guidance to researchers, research support staff, and data publishers to help embed cloud-native best practices across the Natural and Engineering Sciences (NES) domain.
Why attend?
This symposium brings together stakeholders from research, data infrastructures, and policy to:
- Identify gaps, barriers, and priorities for cloud-native data access and processing in NES
- Align national needs with international best practices and infrastructures
- Build a national stakeholder network connecting data providers, researchers, infrastructures, and policy actors
What to expect
- Inspiring keynote presentations on the importance and impact of cloud-native data
- Stakeholder perspectives highlighting real-world challenges and opportunities
- Interactive breakout sessions to define key gaps, needs, and potential solutions
- A forward-looking panel discussion to help shape the path ahead
Whether you are a researcher, data steward, infrastructure provider, or policymaker, your perspective is essential. Join us to help shape a more efficient, interoperable, and future-proof data ecosystem for Natural and Engineering Sciences.
Let's build the cloud-native future together!
The project "CLOUD-NES: Facilitating Cloud-Native Data Access and Processing for Natural and Engineering Sciences" with file number ICT.001.TDCC.016 of the research programme NWO TDCC Fund 2023-2 is financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Agenda
π: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Registration
π: 09:30 AM - 09:45 AM
Welcome and opening
Host: Serkan Girgin (UT)
π: 09:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Keynote talks: why cloud-native data?
Host: Francesco Nattino (NLeSC)
Info: Inspiring keynotes on cloud-native data at scale and community perspectives, with a focus on what does cloud-native mean in practice (Moderator: Francesco Nattino, NLeSC).
π: 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee break
π: 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Stakeholder perspectives: challenges in practice
Host: Maarten Plieger (KNMI)
Info: Short presentations to provide insights on where are we already cloud-native and where are we still locked to downlod-and-analyse paradigms (Moderator: Maarten Plieger, KNMI).
π: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch
π: 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Interactive session
Host: Serkan Girgin (UT)
Info: An interactive session to map the current landscape, where participants share experiences and insights to capture the status quo of cloud-native data access (Moderator: Serkan Girgin, UT)
π: 01:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Breakout sessions
Info: Parallel breakout sessions to identify needs, gaps, and potential solutions on cloud-native data access, interoperability, publishing, compute, and skill training.
π: 03:15 PM - 03:30 PM
Coffee break
π: 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM
Panel discussion: framing the road ahead
Host: Martin Brandt (SURF)
Info: Moderated panel with short interventions from participants on what should happen in the next two years and what could be the role of the community? (Moderator: Martin Brandt, SURF)
π: 04:15 PM - 04:30 PM
Next steps
Info: Wrap-up and next steps, including a position paper.
π: 04:30 PM
Closing
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Course and Conference Center Domstad, 9 Koningsbergerstraat, Utrecht, Netherlands
EUR 0.00







