On the 22nd and 23rd of September 2025 the Autumn conference for the National Federated Compute Services NetworkPlus was held in Edinburgh, at the South Hall complex.
This two day event was intended to allow the recently started, NFCS-funded projects the opportunity to share their plans, any upcoming opportunities, and foster network between projects and potential applicants for the 2nd funding call. It also included guest talks by national and internal speaker from projects with similar objectives.
The event allowed remote participation, slides and video recordings for available sessions are linked below, a link to the complete playlist is available here.
Day 1: Monday, 22nd September 2025
- Welcome, Introductions, Conference aims & NFCS progress to date + FF Second Call Briefing; Jon Hays (Queen Mary University of London) and Sadaf Alam (University of Bristol) – Slides(pdf) – Video recording
- Keynote: Föderation, Liitto & Cónaidhm; York Sure-Vetter (National Research Data Infrastructure) – Slides(pdf) – Video recording
- UNITED: A framework for federated computing roadmaps; Monica Hanley (National Oceanography Centre) – Slides (pdf) – Video recording
- Enhancing HPC adoption through user-centred design; Tariq Umar (University of the West of England) – Slides (pdf) – Video recording
- Inclusive Futures: User cultural narratives and mapping pathways for NFCS; Alison Littlejohn (University College London) – Slides (pdf) – Video recording
- Federation of compute and infrastructures in the arts and humanities; Karina Rodriguez Echevarria (University of Brighton) – Slides (pdf) – Video recording
- Federated edge: HPC architectures for AI workflows in privacy-sensitive and real-time domains; Theodoros Spyridopoulos (Cardiff University) – Slides (pdf) – Video recording
- Federated AI application container platform/registry feasibility study; Frederic Brochu-Williams (University of Cambridge) – Slides (pdf) – Video recording
- Exploring the governance requirements for enabling UK DRIs to adopt MyAccessID; Ashish Tom (University of Bristol), Ayman Izzeldin (STFC), Deepak Aggarwal (University of Cambridge) – Slides (pdf) – Video recording
Day 2: Tuesday, 23rd September 2025
- Federated data movement; Alastair Basden (Durham University) – Slides(pdf) – Video recording
- Exploring the requirements and technologies for a data centre API for federated data movement; Matt Williams (University of Bristol) – Slides (pdf) – Video recording
- UKRI Research Data Landscape Survey; Mario Antonioletti (EPCC, The University of Edinburgh) – Slides (pdf) – Video recording
- ACCoRD: A community for contract regulation for data; Claire Ellul (University College London) – Slides (pdf) – Video recording
- Bridging the gap: Aligning project administration with access to digital research infrastructure; Laura Crawford (The Rosalind Franklin Institute) – Slides(pdf) – Video recording
- Federated IAM for existing infrastructures; Stephen Booth (EPCC, The University of Edinburgh) – Slides (pdf) – Video recording
- User stories: From laptop to cluster with DISKAH Fellows; Karina Rodriguez Echevarria (University of Brighton), Brian Ball (Guildhall School of Music and Drama), and Jasper van der Klis (Northeastern University) – Slides (pdf) – Video recording
