Connected for impact: Exploring federation for industry and public sector
The ‘Connected for impact: Exploring federation for industry and public sector’ event was a day of presentations and discussion trying to identify common ground where research and development in the private sector and service development in the public sector can better understand the opportunities available from federated compute services.
With opinions from experts on fusion energy, battery recycling and NHS digital transformation, we ranged across several different sectors.
Thanks for everyone’s input during the day; we are looking forward to the summary reports from the afternoon’s working groups to help us plan for the next iteration.

Autumn Conference 2025
Are you a Digital Research Infrastructure user or provider wondering where you’ll be on 22–23 September?
If you’re interested in helping us shape a national federation of compute services and the opportunities this will create, then join us at our second national event.
This will be a stimulating combination of expert plenaries and focussed experience sharing and problem-solving across a broad agenda including:
- Edge federation
- Data movement and managementInter/transnational collaboration
- The transition from laptop to cluster
- Identity and access management
- HPC for non-traditional users
The Conference will also provide an opportunity for partnership building for the programme’s second call for DRI Roadmap projects.
Find the registration and programme here.