Fwd: HEPiX Spring 2026 Workshop in Lisbon: 20 April 2026 to 24 April 2026

[Josep Flix]

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From: Josep Flix <jf...@pic.es>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 at 13:05
Subject: HEPiX Spring 2026 Workshop in Lisbon: 20 April 2026 to 24 April 2026
To: <hepix...@hepix.org>

Dear HEPiX Community,

We are pleased to announce that the HEPiX spring 2026 workshop will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 20th to 24th April 2026. The workshop will be hosted by LIP and CNCA and will be held at ISCTE in Lisbon. Mark your calendars, register, and submit abstracts!

We are looking forward to a productive and informative meeting, and we encourage previous and new participants to submit abstracts and contribute to the programme. 

Next to the usual tracks, we will have two dedicated topical sessions, focused on:

• Facilities Evolution (joint with OTF): aiming to explore and converge on likely directions for WLCG facility evolution, informed by ongoing developments in storage, workflow management, and resource provisioning.
• TechWatch: with contributions examining recent hardware technology developments and their cost implications for HEP computing.

Also a new track has been introduced: Applied AI in Computing Center Infrastructures. This track discusses applied AI use cases in computing centers, including intelligent automation, adaptive resource management, and decision support systems.

There will also be an interactive session "Show us your toolbox", where participants can give short demos of their favoured tools (please help us organise this session by submitting an abstract).

Registration, abstract submission and information about the logistics are available under https://indico.cern.ch/e/hepix-spring-2026-lisbon. Participants registering before 1st April 2026 will profit from the early-bird rate of 310€.

HEPiX workshops have been held regularly since 1991 to bring together worldwide Information Technology staff, physicists and managers from High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics and other science laboratories, institutes and universities such as BNL, CERN, DESY, FNAL, IN2P3, INFN, JLAB, KEK, NIKHEF, PIC, RAL, SLAC, TRIUMF, CSCS, and many other labs and universities. The main purpose of the HEPiX semi-annual workshops is to foster a learning and sharing experience for physicists and IT specialists in scientific high-performance and data-intensive computing disciplines.

If you have any questions, please contact the organisers (hepix-2026sp...@hepix.org).

We are looking forward to seeing you in Lisbon!

Josep Flix                 Jorge Gomes
Workshop chair        Chair of the Local Organising Committee

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Dr. Josep Flix Molina

Senior Researcher at CIEMAT / PIC

LHC Tier1 Project Manager

UAB Physics Professor

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Port d'Informació Científica (PIC), Facultat Ciencies Nord UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
Email: jf...@pic.es; Tel: +34 93 164 16 58; Fax: +34 93 581 41 10

PH/UCM Division, Office: 32 3-C16, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
Email: jose.fli...@cern.ch; Tel: +41 22 767 2415
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Skype: josep.flix - AIM:joseflix - http://about.me/josepflix

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Dr. Josep Flix Molina

Senior Researcher at CIEMAT / PIC

LHC Tier1 Project Manager

UAB Physics Professor

.............................................................................................................
Port d'Informació Científica (PIC), Facultat Ciencies Nord UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
Email: jf...@pic.es; Tel: +34 93 164 16 58; Fax: +34 93 581 41 10

PH/UCM Division, Office: 32 3-C16, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
Email: jose.fli...@cern.ch; Tel: +41 22 767 2415
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Skype: josep.flix - AIM:joseflix - http://about.me/josepflix