Events

SPECTRUM events

The sessions, meetings and webinars SPECTRUM organised, from the Community of Practice's first steps to the final event in Brussels.

Consortium meetings

The partners' all-hands meetings, from the kick-off in Amsterdam to Barcelona, and the External Advisory Board's first meeting.

17–18 February 2026Hotel Sercotel Rosellón, Barcelona, Spain

All-hands meeting in Barcelona

The last all-hands meeting went through the full analysis of the consultation and prepared the Experts Meeting that followed it.

8–10 October 2025Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Mont Gros, Nice, France

All-hands meeting in Nice

Hosted by the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, partners aligned the SRIDA and the Technical Blueprint before their public consultation, and began planning the final event.

15–17 January 2025CERN IT Amphitheatre, Geneva, Switzerland

All-hands meeting at CERN

Three days at CERN, hosted by CERN openlab, to review the first-period deliverables and plan the second half of the project.

17 October 2024Online

External Advisory Board kick-off

The first meeting of SPECTRUM's External Advisory Board, which elected its chair and set out how it would guide the project.

30 September 2024 – 1 October 2024CMCC headquarters, Lecce, Italy

All-hands meeting in Lecce

All partners met in person alongside the EGI Conference 2024, to take stock of the community survey, the use cases and the landscape analysis.

30 January 2024 – 1 February 2024EGI Foundation, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands

SPECTRUM kick-off meeting

The ten partners met in Amsterdam to start the project: the plan of work, the six Key Exploitable Results, communication and events, and the first General Assembly.

Where we presented

Conferences and meetings where SPECTRUM gave talks, ran sessions or had a booth, and a few it attended.

22–26 June 2026Hamburg, GermanyTalk in the PRACE BoF: notable outcomes of the SPECTRUM project

ISC 2026

Hans-Christian Hoppe (FZJ/JSC) presented SPECTRUM's outcomes in the PRACE session on aligning European HPC strategies.

25–29 May 2026Bangkok, ThailandTalk

CHEP 2026

Sergio Andreozzi (EGI Foundation) presented SPECTRUM's strategic framework and Technical Blueprint in the track on computing infrastructure and sustainability, on 27 May; a paper is to appear in the conference proceedings.

20–24 April 2026Lisbon, PortugalTalk

23–27 February 2026Köln, GermanyTalk

2–5 February 2026Rennes, FranceInvited SKA keynote, closing on SPECTRUM

Trans Numériques 2026

Chiara Ferrari (OCA) gave a keynote on the SKA Observatory's digital challenges, closing with SPECTRUM and the consultation on the SRIDA and the Technical Blueprint.

26–28 January 2026Kraków, PolandTalk in the industry session, and a booth

4 December 2025Utrecht, NetherlandsTalk, and a keynote by Maria Girone (CERN)

22–23 October 2025Copenhagen, DenmarkBooth

24–25 June 2025Poznan, PolandRemote presentation as part of the session

e-IRG Workshop 2025

Session 1: Artificial Intelligence in Research and Science https://events.geant.org/event/1856/

23–27 June 2025Venice, ItalyInvited plenary on computing, and a round table

Open Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics

Tommaso Boccali (INFN) gave the symposium's computing plenary, presenting SPECTRUM's work on a computing strategy for particle physics, and joined the round table.

12 June 2025Hamburg, GermanyBoF session: Towards a Strategy for Future Research Infrastructures

ISC 2025

BoF session: Towards a Strategy for Future Research Infrastructures

27 March 2025European Southern Observatory, GarchingAttended

18–20 March 2025Krakow, PolandFeatured in a plenary by Enrica Porcari (CERN)

18 February 2025University of Manchester, United KingdomTalk, and recruitment for the Community of Practice

European SRCNet workshop

Presentation of SPECTRUM project to European SRCNet node leaders and recruitment for SPECTRUMCoP.

11–12 February 2025Sassenheim, NetherlandsAttended

10–13 February 2025Nice, FranceTalk

French SRCNet Meeting & NUMPEX Workshop

Presentation of SPECTRUM project and engagement into meeting discussions

30–31 January 2025CERN, Geneva, SwitzerlandTalk: SPECTRUM and JENA

HEP/HPC Strategy Meeting: All Regions

Concezio Bozzi (INFN) presented SPECTRUM and the JENA computing initiative at the worldwide follow-up meeting, hosted at CERN.

20–22 January 2025Barcelona, SpainBooth

12 December 2024Utrecht, NetherlandsTalk

17–22 November 2024Atlanta, United StatesSlides in the FZJ booth

28–30 October 2024Porto, PortugalTalk

22–23 October 2024Amsterdam, NetherlandsAttended

19–24 October 2024Krakow, PolandTalk, Booth

6–7 September 2024Ljubljana, SloveniaOrganised by SPECTRUM partners, with talks

HEP/HPC Strategy Meeting: Europe

An invitation-only meeting on a European strategy for high energy physics on HPC, organised by Maria Girone (CERN) and Tommaso Boccali (INFN).

8–10 July 2024Naples, ItalyTalk

20 June 2024OnlineTalk

9th PUNCH4NFDI General Meeting

Luis Cifuentes (FZJ) presented SPECTRUM in a ten-minute talk at the online general meeting of PUNCH4NFDI, the German research data consortium for particle, astro-, astroparticle, hadron and nuclear physics.

10–14 June 2024Rennes, FranceBooth

4–5 June 2024Brussels, BelgiumAttended

28–30 May 2024Paris, FranceBooth, shared with interTwin

18–21 March 2024Antwerp, BelgiumAttended

13–14 February 2024Sassenheim, NetherlandsAttended