Cloud-Native Data in Natural and Engineering Sciences

Schedule

Wed Apr 01 2026 at 09:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Course and Conference Center Domstad | Utrecht, UT

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Join the first CLOUD‑NES symposium to identify gaps, barriers, and priorities for cloud-native data access and processing in the NES domain!
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

πŸ•‘: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Registration
πŸ•‘: 09:30 AM - 09:45 AM
Welcome and opening
Host: Serkan Girgin (UT)
πŸ•‘: 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).


πŸ•‘: 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee break
πŸ•‘: 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).


πŸ•‘: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch
πŸ•‘: 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)


πŸ•‘: 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.


πŸ•‘: 03:15 PM - 03:30 PM
Coffee break
πŸ•‘: 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)


πŸ•‘: 04:15 PM - 04:30 PM
Next steps

Info: Wrap-up and next steps, including a position paper.


πŸ•‘: 04:30 PM
Closing
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Course and Conference Center Domstad, 9 Koningsbergerstraat, Utrecht, Netherlands

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