Summary

At the annual EGI conference, international scientific communities, computing and service providers, European projects, security experts, community managers, and policymakers gather to advance research and innovation in data-intensive processing and analytics in a safe and open environment with room for in-depth discussion, new insights, networking, and a lot of fun!

Description

Call for Contributions

Be part of the EGI2025 Programme!

The Call for Contributions for EGI2025 will open on February 3 00:01 CET and will close on March 20 23:59 CET.

Confirmation of acceptance: On or before April 15.

You can access the Call via Indico:  https://go.egi.eu/EGI2025_Contributions 

Contribution types: 

• Short Talk (max. 10 mins): when accepted, your talk will be added to the agenda of the appropriate session
• Long talk (max 20 mins): when accepted, your talk will be added to the agenda of the appropriate session
• Poster: format A0, will be displayed throughout the conference + dedicated networking during opening reception + 1 minute pitch presentation in a plenary session
• Demonstration (max 30’): demonstrations showing a service, tool, or product + with dedicated networking during opening reception + 1 minute pitch presentation in a plenary session

Topics

Scientific excellence: 

• New discoveries: Scientific discoveries enabled by advanced computing and data management systems from the EGI community. Warning: for this topic, only short talks will be accepted as this will be a separate session. If you submit as another format, it will be converted automatically. 

New advancements in scientific computing:

• Compute continuum: Hybrid compute infrastructures and the convergent use of HTC, HPC, cloud, container, edge, serverless and quantum technologies. Experiences from National and Thematic infrastructures
• Digital twins: Digital twins for the modelling of complex objects and phenomena
• Artificial Intelligence: Federated learning; Distributed AI/ML analytics; AI-powered services for science; Advancements in the “AI on Demand” platform
• Platforms and gateways: Integrated and scalable online environments for scientific communities, including for the sharing and processing of sensitive data
• National and thematic perspectives: New developments, new operational and user support practices, challenges and opportunities for national or thematic e-infrastructures
• Infrastructure federation: Tools, services and approaches for the delivery of scientific compute services in federated environments 
• Green computing: Lowering the environmental impact of digital services, software and data analytics applications

Data innovations:

• Data spaces: Scalable solutions for data exchange and analysis in highly distributed ecosystems
• Data management and integration: Platforms, tools, services and data lakes for high performance data access and analytics
• Processing of sensitive data: Trusted services and environments for the exchange and analysis of sensitive data
• Business models: Novel business models and sustainability approaches for big data science across academia and industry

Trust and Security:

• Trusted computing: Solutions and standards for trust and security in distributed and federated environments 
• Sensitive data: Secure and FAIR sharing and processing of sensitive data in federated environments
• Interoperability and standards: Novel approaches for ensuring interoperable security across distributed service ecosystems
• Incident response and recovery: Strategies for detecting and mitigating IAM-related security breaches

EOSC and Open Science

• Reproducible open science: Practices and solutions for FAIR, open and reproducible science with big data
• EOSC: European Open Science Cloud developments and perspectives, in particular contributions of the EGI community to EOSC 
• Software quality: Ensuring software quality for Open Source and for Open Science projects