EGI2026

The EGI2026 Call for Contributions is open!

Every year, the EGI conference brings together scientists, service providers, technical experts, policy makers, and early-career researchers to present their work, join workshops and trainings, participate in project meetings, and overall to experience the pleasure of meeting each other in person (again). By submitting your proposal for a talk, poster, or demonstration, you get the chance to be part of the programme!

This year, the conference brings us to lovely Ghent, where it will take over the historic 13th-century ‘Bijloke’ venue for an engaging and full conference programme.

Deadlines

Call Open: February 24 2026
Deadline: April 13 2026, 23:59 CET

Confirmation of acceptance: On or before April 30.

Useful Links:

• Topics: https://indico.egi.eu/event/6931/program
• Submit your Contribution: https://go.egi.eu/EGI2026_CFC
• Conference Website: https://go.egi.eu/EGI2026

Topics

Find below the full list of topics. For mailings and news items, please select the relevant ones and list to the full topics list https://indico.egi.eu/event/6931/program

         New advancements in scientific computing

         Compute continuum

• Hybrid compute infrastructures and the convergent use of HTC, HPC, cloud, container, edge, serverless and quantum technologies. Attention for Exascale-Era Computing, and synergies with EuroHPC.

         Digital twins

• Digital twins for the modeling of complex objects and phenomena; Integration with federated computing resources and AI systems

         Artificial Intelligence

• Distributed AI/ML analytics; AI-powered services for science; Agentic AI; AI-Ready Infrastructures; AI-ready data and DataLabs; Integrations with AI-factories; AI for scientific software engineering

         National and thematic perspectives

• New developments, new operational and user support practices, challenges and opportunities for national or thematic e-infrastructures

         Green computing

• Lowering the environmental impact of digital services, software and data analytics applications. Lifecycle modelling, Data centre digital twins, Optimised software environments

         Data innovations

         Data spaces

• Solutions and experiences with data transactions, governance and business models in highly distributed data ecosystems, Interoperability and data exchange frameworks in academia and industry

         Data management and integration

• Platforms, tools, services, standards, metadata solutions, AI-approaches, real-time streaming for high performance data access, transfer, analytics and visualisation

         Processing of sensitive data

• Trusted services and environments, frameworks, policies, legislation alignment, and standards for the secure exchange, processing, and analysis of sensitive data

         Exploitation environments
Integrated and scalable online portal environments, Virtual Research Environments, Gateways and DataLabs for the sharing and collaborative processing of scientific data

         Trust and Security

         Trust and security in federated environments

• Solutions and standards for trust and security in distributed and federated environments

         Sensitive data

• Secure and FAIR sharing and transfer of sensitive data in federated environments

         Interoperability and standards

• Novel approaches for ensuring interoperable security across distributed service ecosystems

         Incident response and recovery

• Strategies, tools, and best practices for detecting, responding to, mitigating, and recovering from security incidents in federated and distributed infrastructures

         EOSC and Open Science

         Reproducible open science

• FAIR, open and reproducible science practices for big data that broaden community involvement

         Nodes and Federation

• National and thematic perspectives, in particular contributions of the EGI community to EOSC Nodes and to the federation of Nodes
• Operational Requirements and Sustainability
• Legal requirements and sustainability approaches around Nodes, Business models and incentives

Excellence, innovation, impact

• Scientific discoveries
• Scientific discoveries and breakthroughs enabled by federated computing, data management, and analytics systems
  Business models and sustainability
• Novel business models, funding mechanisms, and sustainability approaches for long-term big data science infrastructures and services
• Innovation and Impact Management in Science
• Good practices for managing innovations, fostering technology transfer, and assessing scientific, economic, and societal impact of compute- and data-intensive projects and initiatives
• Sovereign infrastructures
• Strategies, architectures, and policies to secure European digital sovereignty, technological autonomy, strategic resilience, and independence in research computing and data infrastructures

 

Become an EGI2026 Partner!

Download our Partner Brochure to discover our offers:  https://go.egi.eu/EGI2026_Partner