The 16th SIG-CISS meeting of the GÉANT Community Programme  will take place at the Tecnopolo di Bologna, Italy, hosted by ICSC Foundation and INFN, on December 3-4, 2025.

It will be implemented as a Joint workshop with ICSC and INFN. 

The main  focus topics will be Storage Federation and Global Storage Infrastructures.

More information will follow in the coming weeks.  Please register (in person or on-line participation) on   https://events.geant.org/event/1939/

Sessions will cover:

1. Storage solutions and federations in EOSC-related project proposals
2. AAI integration with storage services and resources; mapping of global federated users to local resources
3. Data access protocols and technologies to handle sensitive data
4. Workflow modelling and management, possibly covering AI-enabled solutions
5. Data access and data management at the Edge
6. Scalability metrics measured over distributed federated sites, large volumes of data, heterogeneous hardware, software and protocols
7. Impact of federated storage solutions and their integration with public or private wide area networks
8. Sync and Share storage services and their integration across different domains

For more information, specific questions please contact the organisers (INFN, ICSC and GÉANT) at sig-ciss-fed-storage-ws@lists.geant.org .

CALL FOR ABSTRACT IS OPEN (Until October 31, 2025 ):

You can submit your contributed presentation  (20 minutes presentations) via the following form: https://bit.ly/fed-storage-workshop