PSNC Days 2023

International conference on projects, activities and initiatives of the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center with scientific, social and business partners

Taking the opportunity of this special occasion, we are organising the first edition of the international conference in a new formula. Every second year we are going to answer questions about the future that we ask ourselves in current initiatives and R&D projects. Short presentations given in tandem by PSNC specialists and those more important: partners, recipients, users and beneficiaries of the created solutions will become a kind of overview of what we do, and the presented prototypes, models and experiments will also reflect the needs of the modern world. The three subsequent sessions of the conference will be devoted to the fields of activity of PSNC projects, the technologies that we are currently developing and partnerships that provide scope for creative collaboration. These are also the technological trends that the PSNC has been working on for three decades, seeking effective scenarios for the development of creative and innovative ICT tools. European partnerships in areas such as HPC and quantum computing, open science, fusion and aviation will appear in the arena of the event. We will also touch on the disciplines of bioinformatics, precision agriculture, earth sciences or projects focusing on the digital twins. As far as technology is concerned, we will look at engineering work implementing artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum computing and communications as well as the Internet of Things. PSNC Days will be an occasion for a discussion among employees, partners of joint projects, friends and supporters of PSNC’s activities on the national and international arena.

Agenda

PSNC Days 2023

 Congress – Didactic Centre of the Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences
Przybyszewskiego 37a, 60-356 Poznań

} 8:00-9:00	Registration & Morning coffee
} 9:00-10:00	Opening session Introduction to PSNC Days – Krzysztof Kurowski (PSNC) Anders Jensen (The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking) Paul Rouse (GÉANT Association)
} 10:00-11:30	ACTIVITIES Moderator: Tomasz Poprawka, Polish Science Contact Agency Empowering the vulnerable: technologies for active and assisted living – Ed Fennell (International Foundation for CDKL5 Research), Michał Kosiedowski (PSNC) Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities – Sally Chambers (DARIAH-EU), Tomasz Parkoła (PSNC) Following commercialization pathways – Jarosław Nabrzyski (Notre Dame University), Maciej Hapke (PSNC) Digital Agriculture – Adam Fojud (WODR), Marcin Płóciennik (PSNC) AI & Education – Michał Dżoga (Intel), Bogdan Ludwiczak (PSNC) Smart City – Michał Łakomski (Poznan City Hall), Bartek Lewandowski (PSNC)
} 11:30-11:45	Coffee break
} 11:45-13:30	TECHNOLOGIES Moderator: Magdalena Szwochertowska, European Commission Quantum Technologies – Prof. Eleni Diamanti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS), Piotr Rydlichowski (PSNC) Neurotechnologies – Weronika Potok-Szybińska (ETH Zurich), Mikołaj Buchwald (PSNC) Dataspaces – Carlos Gonzalez (International Data Spaces Association), Michał Błaszczak (PSNC) Immersive Media: Technology, Trends and Insights – Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa (Spin Digital), Maciej Głowiak (PSNC) Cybersecurity – Joanna Śliwa (NATO NCIA), Gerard Frankowski (PSNC) Fusion and the way to new energy – Frederic Imbeaux (CEA), Agata Filipczak (PSNC) Energy Efficiency & Smart Grids – Filip Schraube (ENEA Operator), Ariel Oleksiak (PSNC)
} 13:30-14:30	Lunch
} 14:30-16:00	PARTNERSHIPS Moderator: Rafał Duczmal, National Centre for Research and Development Collaborative Models – Digital Innovation Hubs & Living Labs – Adam Schmidt (TNO), Adam Olszewski (PSNC) Addresing Global Challenges by advanced HPC simulations in the HiDALGO2 project – Dennis Hoppe (HLRS), Marcin Lawenda (PSNC) Future Internet, 5G and beyond – SLICES RI – Serge Fdida (Sorbonne Université), Bartosz Belter (PSNC) Open Science & EOSC – Oscar Corcho (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Raul Palma (PSNC) Global Collaboration for Network Advancement – Ivana Golub (PSNC & GÉANT), Roman Łapacz (PSNC) Digital European Sky – Cengiz Ari (SESAR JU), Piotr Szymaniak (PSNC)
} 16:00-16:15	Closing session

} 16:30	Transfer to Kąkolewo (near Grodzisk Wlkp.) EPPG airfield named after Hieronim Franio Kowalski, 62-065 Kąkolewo
} 18:00-23:00	Banquet in the PSNC Aerospace Labs hall of the airfield in Kąkolewo