On the 26^th and 27^th of February, the NFCS-NetworkPlus ran its third conference on the Bristol harbourside at the MShed, a museum all about Bristol’s history.

This event brought together all 26 projects funded by NFCS-NP alongside other community stakeholders like researchers, developers, and service providers. Phase 1 projects presented their interim findings, while phase 2 projects, launched before Christmas, showed what they have planed for the next few months. The plenary sessions were focused on “Innovations in Federation and interoperability” in day 1, and “International perspectives on Federation” on day 2.

The event allowed remote participation, slides and video recordings for available sessions are linked below, a link to the complete playlist is available here.

NOTE: videos are still being edited, they will be added to the playlist above and to the lists below as they become available.

Day 1: Thursday, 26th February 2026

• Welcome & Conference Aims; Jon Hays (Queen Mary University of London) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• UK Digital Research Infrastructure update; Felix Ruechardt (DSIT) & Kay Yeung (UKRI) – No slides or recording available DSIT & UKRI request.
• Net-Zero and Circular Economy Federation: Evidence-based policy roadmap for carbon-aware compute in the built environment; Alireza Moghayedi (University of the West of England) – Slides (pdf) – Recording not available due to technical issue.
• Towards a common data infrastructure for laboratory science; Laura Shemilt (The Rosalind Franklin Institute) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Surveying accessibility of federated compute for junior researchers; Arun Nambiyath Govindan (King’s College London) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Identifying barriers for biology researchers using federated HPC services; Wahab Kawafi (University of Bristol) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Federated data access across the DRI; Alastair Basden (Durham University) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Evaluation of Secure Federated Kubernetes Storage for Trusted Research Environments; Wojciech Turek (University of Cambridge) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• DRI Federation Cybersecurity Roadmap development; David Crooks (STFC) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Supercomputers and superpositions: making quantum accelerators accessible within HPC frameworks; Omer Rathore (Durham University) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Job orchestration using Constellation on heterogenous HPC resources; Christopher Mountford (University of Leicester) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• FAIR-Compute: A roadmap for fair and efficient allocation of federated digital research infrastructure; Konstantinos Zachariadis (Queen Mary University of London) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Tokenised authentication for research computing services; Philip Cass (EPCC, The University of Edinburgh) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Federating everything, everywhere, all at once: Exploring the potential for inclusion of Tier 3 services in the UKRI federated DRI; Greg Warren (University of Leicester) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• A federated bespoke AI-assisted helpdesk for DRI facilities; Fawada Qaiser (Durham University) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• AIRRPORTAL; Sadaf Alam (University of Bristol) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• ELIXIR Science and Data Platforms; Peter MacCallum (ELIXIR & EOSC-ENTRUST) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• FRIDGE: Federated research infrastructure by data governance extension — TREs on UK AI research resources; Martin O’Reilly (ATI) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Innovations in Federation and Interoperability Panel Q&A; Sadaf Alam (University of Bristol), Peter MacCallum (ELIXIR & EOSC-ENTRUST), and Martin O’Reilly (ATI) – Video

Day 2: Friday, 27th February 2026

• The Roadmap Structure and Interim Report; Jeremy Yates & Kieran Leach – Slides (pdf) – Video
• EuroHPC Federation Platform; Alberto Lanzanova (CSC Finland) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• The EGI Foundation; Matthew Viljoen (EGI) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• ACCoRD: A Community for Contract Regulation for Data; Claire Ellul & Katie Buntic (University College London) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Federated Edge: HPC architectures for AI workflows in privacy-sensitive and real-time domains; Theo Spyridopoulos (Cardiff University) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Federated Data Movement; Alistair Basden (Durham University) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Federated IAM for existing infrastructures; Stephen Booth (EPCC, The University of Edinburgh) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Federated but UNITED: exploring user needs and community building in the environmental domain; Poppy Townsend (STFC RAL) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Inclusive Futures: User stories and mapping pathways for NFCS; Allison Littlejohn (University College London) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Bridging the Gap: Aligning project administration with access to digital research infrastructure; Laura Crawford (The Rosalind Franklin Institute) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Federation of compute and infrastructures in the Arts and Humanities; Karina Rodriguez (University of Brighton) – Slides (pdf) – Video
• Enhancing HPC adoption through user-centred design; Tariq Umar (University of the West of England) – Slides (pdf) – Video