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Key Deadlines
- Call for contributions: Wednesday 9th September 2026
- Registration for in-person attendance: Tuesday 6th October 2026
- Registration for online participation: Friday 17th October 2026
Call for Contributions
Please submit your contributions by 9th September: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/dpwQt13PE5
Venue Information and Accessibility
Location: Riddel Hall Conference Room, Riddel Hall Block 2, Queen’s University Belfast, 185 Stranmillis Road, Belfast, BT9 5EE
Accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/queen-s-university-belfast/access-guides/riddel-hall-conference-room-1
Programme
Day 1: Wednesday 21st October Afternoon
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12:00 |
Day 1 Start: Arrival, Networking and Lunch |
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13:00 |
Welcome and Chair’s Business |
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13:20 |
Welcome from Queens Belfast University |
| 13:50 | Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) talk Jean Christophe (JC) Desplat |
| 14:30 | Privileged Access Plumbing: GitOps-Driven JIT Privileged Access with Microsoft Entra, Boundary, and Vault Brian Maher, University College London |
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15:00 |
Coffee Break |
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15:30 |
Federating Everything, Everywhere All at Once |
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16:00 |
Jisc update |
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16:30 |
Deployment, testing and early access to Zenith cluster in Cambridge |
| 17:00 |
Day 1 Close: Notices, Socialise |
Optional social evening
We will be organising an optional social gathering in the evening, further details to follow.
Address: White’s Tavern/ Deer’s Head – Cathedral Quarter in Belfast
Easy walking from nearby City Centre hotels
Website: TBC
Day 2: Thursday 22nd October Morning
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09:00 |
Day 2 Start: Arrival, Networking and Coffee |
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09:15 |
WHPC talk (Ireland Chapter) |
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09:45 |
Protecting specialist engineering time while improving the researcher experience Chris Holland, University of Leeds |
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10:15 |
Update on UKRI DRI Roadmap Richard Gunn/Luke Davis |
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10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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11:15 |
Have we lost control of GPU computing? |
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11:30 |
SCALE-UP – Scaling support for HPC careers: Placements, Champions, and |
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12:00 |
Panel discussion |
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12:30 |
Notices and closing Remarks |
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12:35 |
Lunch and Close |
Hotels
- Tara Lodge
• 5–7 minutes’ walk to Queen’s University.
• Spacious, modern rooms with excellent breakfast.
• Quiet residential street just off Botanic Avenue, but close to restaurants, cafés and
the Botanic Gardens.
• Great if you want comfort and a peaceful stay. - Holiday Inn Express Belfast City – Queen’s Quarter
• 2–5 minutes’ walk to QUB
• Breakfast included, small gym - The Malone Hotel
• 10-minute walk from Queen’s.
• Stylish Victorian hotel on Malone Road.
• Larger rooms, good restaurant and bar.
• A good choice if you prefer a more traditional hotel with extra facilities. - House Hotel
• 2–3 minutes’ walk from Queen’s University.
• Excellent location for cafés, restaurants, Botanic Gardens and the Ulster Museum.
• Popular restaurant and cocktail bar downstairs with the famous cherry blossom
décor
City Centre
- Holiday Inn Belfast City Centre by IHG
• 12 min walk from QUB
• Around 10–15 minutes’ walk to City Hall.
• Modern business hotel with restaurant and bar , fitness room
• Well suited to conference delegates arriving by train (5 minutes from Grand Central
Station). - Premier Inn Belfast City Cathedral Quarter
• 14 min walk from QUB
• Close to great restaurant and bars
• Around 8 minutes’ walk to City Hall.
• Restaurant and bar
Things to see around the conference:
• Botanic Avenue restaurants and bars: 5 min walk
• Botanic Gardens: 10 mins walk
• Belfast city centre: 5 mins by taxi, 15–20 mins walk
• Duke of York/Cathedral Quarter: 10 mins by taxi or 25–30 mins walk
• Belfast Castle: 15 mins by taxi
• Friars Graveyard Tour: 2 mins walk
• Black Taxi ride: from city, 10 mins by taxi, 15 min walk
• Titanic Museum: 10 mins by taxi, 15-20 min walk
• Crown Bar: 5 mins by taxi, 15 min walk
Parking
Further details to follow
Transport
Flights
Belfast International Airport
Cab – 30 mins to city centre – £30-£50
Airport Express – 35/40 mins £11 return
George Best Airport, city
Cab – 15 mins to QUB and city centre – approx. £15
Airport Express – 10 mins £4 return