HIFIS & friends All-Hands Meeting 2025

23 Sept 2025, 12:00 → 24 Sept 2025, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Plenary (Haus der Wissenschaft)

We look forward to welcome you to our HIFIS & friends All-Hands meeting in September 2025, in Bremen! All detailed information will be collected on this page.

Hotel

Please do your hotel reservation in time!

Contact us if you have problems in finding an appropriate hotel. However, there are plenty of them in Bremen, so we are not providing a selection list.

Timing

• Timetable
• Sept 23-24 (tuesday-wednesday) lunch-to-lunch
• Closed session (hybrid) for members of HIFIS SAB and Fedboard (Sept 24, until max 14:00)
• Excursion (about 13:30-16:00)
• Possible additional formats with IT4Science Days (at MPI / University Bremen): 
  
  • Wednesday (Sept 24) afternoon and evening
  • Thursday  (Sept 25) morning
  • Their full timetable

Registration

Register here now! 

More details may be requested in the week before the meeting.

Note:

• If you just want to stay in the loop, register without ticking "presence" on any day
• Please update registration whenever anything changes

Tuesday 23 September

Breaks

12:00 Reception / lunch buffet

14:15 Break

15:35 Break

17:30 Last coffee, chat & leave

Tuesday Interactive

1 Discussion

2 Open Discussion & Feedback

Tuesday Plenary Programme: Day 1

Convener: Uwe Jandt (DESY, HIFIS Coordinator)

3 Welcome to AWI

4 Introduction, Guests

Speaker: Uwe Jandt (DESY, HIFIS Coordinator)

5 Achievements since last year's All-hands

During the meeting last year, we collected numerous ideas. I'll give a brief overview of what we've achieved meanwhile and how it maps to those ideas as well as earlier proposals

Speaker: Uwe Jandt (DESY, HIFIS Coordinator)

6 Q&A

7 Feedback of Users and Providers

Speaker: Annette Spicker (HZB)

8 Influence on PoF

Speaker: Dr Uwe Konrad (HZDR)

9 Upcoming Datahubs: Timeline and processes

Speaker: Nina Weisweiler (Helmholtz Association)

10 Upcoming Datahubs: HIFIS interfaces to Scientific Use Cases

Speaker: Uwe Jandt (DESY, HIFIS Coordinator)

11 LLM + RAG: Blablador - What's there and what's coming?

12 E-Learning (incl Q&A)

Speaker: Norbert Spyra

13 Wrap-up for today + Group Photo

Speaker: Uwe Jandt (DESY, HIFIS Coordinator)

Dinner

14 Sightseeing Tour from HdW to Restaurant

15 Dinner: https://www.schuettinger.de/

Wednesday 24 September

Breaks

08:30 Coffee + Snack

10:55 Break

12:00 Lunch buffet / takeaway

13:00 Departure (proceed to IT4Science, where wanted)

16 IT4Science (until evening + Thursday until 13:00)

see also:

https://plan.events.mpg.de/event/474/timetable/#all.detailed

Wednesday Plenary Programme: Day 2

Convener: Uwe Jandt (DESY, HIFIS Coordinator)

17 Intro to day 2

Speaker: Uwe Jandt (DESY, HIFIS Coordinator)

18 Consulting: Updates and Feedback from Workshop

19 Operational Cybersecurity from HIFIS PoV

20 Intro to Interactive Session 2 (WIP: Op Cybersecurity, Resilience)

Speaker: Uwe Jandt (DESY, HIFIS Coordinator)

21 Summary, Q&A

22 Wrap up & farewell

Speaker: Uwe Jandt (DESY, HIFIS Coordinator)

Wednesday Interactive

23 Discussion

Closed Session: (with business lunch)

Tour AWI