Blue-Cloud 2026 Third General Assembly Meeting

Blue-Cloud Event

6 May 2024 09:00 – 7 May 2024 17:00

Online

The Blue-Cloud 2026 team is gathering together for its Third General Assembly (GA) Meeting, which takes place online on the 6 and 7 of May 2024. The meeting provides an opportunity for the consortium to discuss the work performed in the first year of the project and the upcoming activities to be done towards a successful implementation of the project.

Please notice that the invitation to the meeting is restricted only to the internal members of Blue-Cloud 2026.

Agenda

Day 1 - 6 May 2024, Monday, 09:00 - 17:00 CET

Time (CEST)	Session focus	Chairs / Speakers
09:00 - 10:30	Blue-Cloud 2026 at M17 Summary of relevant events & opportunities from Nov 2023 (incl. ocean decade actions, EOSc Symposium, OBPS) Where we are: status of DD&AS, VLabs, Workbenches (incl. deliverables) Exploitation towards EDITO, EOSC Synergies aimed at exploitation The road ahead	Chair: Sara Pittonet (Trust-IT), Pasquale Pagano (CNR)
10:00 - 11:00	WP4 Part 1 - VLab demos, next steps	Chair: Patricia Cabrera (VLIZ) Speakers: VLab leaders
11:00 - 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00	WP4 Part 2 - VLab demos, next steps	Chair: Patricia Cabrera (VLIZ) Speakers: VLab leaders
12:00 - 13:00	WP5 Status of Blue-Cloud VRE, planned advancements Cloud Computing Platform Galaxy Adoption Technical synergies	Chair: Massimiliano Assante (CNR) Speakers: Massimilinao Assante (CNR) Enol Fernández (EGI)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:30 - 16:00	WP3 -status and next steps of the workbenches developments Introduction Last update of webODV Tool to deal with duplicates: CLONE WAR Status and next steps -including challenges and technical issues	Chair: Dominique Obaton (Ifremer) Speakers: Simona Simoncelli (INGV) Alessandra Giorgetti (OGS) Meike Vogt (ETHZ) Matthias Muennich (ETHZ)
16:00 - 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:00	Administrative & financial updates Travels issue: 3 cases Steering board: Ifremer, IRD, IH SIOS, PokaPok IEEE	Chairs: Pasquale Pagano (CNR) / Elisa Molinaro (CNR)

Day 2 - 7 May 2024, 9:00 - 17:00 CEST

Time (CEST)	Session Focus	Chairs / Speakers
09:00 - 11:00	WP2 Progress DD&AS - BDIs Overall approach DAB metadata brokering Semantic brokering SIOS upgrading EurOBIS upgrading Progress data lakes Overall approach Beacon Demo PLuto notebook Progress DTO taskforce	Chair: Dick Schaap (MARIS) Speakers: Dick Schaap (MARIS) Enrico Boldrini (CNR) Alexandra Kokkinaki (BODC) Oystein Godoy (SIOS) Katrina Exter (VIZ) Charles Troupin (ULiege) Marina Tonani (MOI)
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30	Blue-Cloud exploitation: VLabs and potential interest from EMODnet Physics on resulting (new) data products VRE for computational resources, incl. DD&AS & Data Federation incubator for DTO applications (Wildlife Tracker) Blue-Cloud synergies: Cases of: FAIR-EASE, iMAGINE, AI4EOSC, CLIMAREST, SeaDataNet, EDITO	Chairs: Rita Giuffrida (Trust-IT) / Julia Vera (SSBE)
12:30 - 13:00	WP6: Upcoming events, comms results & results visibility	Chair: Rita Meneses (Trust-IT)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:30	WP6 Blue-Cloud community overview: users and usage How to improve comms to Blue-Cloud users: internal bulletin	Chairs: Sara Pittonet (Trust-IT) / Sara Bozzi (Trust-IT) / Massimiliano Assante (CNR)
14:30 - 15:00	T6.2 Training Academy Showcase of training materials & discussion on dissemination	Chair: Sara Pittonet (Trust-IT) / Deniz Karaca (EuroGoos)
15:00 - 16:00	Open discussions
16:00 - 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:15	Wrap-up and next steps: next GA	Chairs: Sara Pittonet (Trust-IT) / Pasquale Pagano (CNR) / Rita Giuffrida (Trust-IT)