EuroHPC AI Factories are creating a new ecosystem for accelerating the development and adoption of artificial intelligence across Europe, providing researchers, start-ups, SMEs, and industry with access to AI-optimised computing resources, expertise, data, and tailored support services.
Join us for a User Forum webinar exploring the growing network of EuroHPC AI Factories, future AI Gigafactories, and associated AIF Antennas across Europe. Experts from the EuroHPC JU will provide an overview of the available access tracks for SMEs and academia.
Members of the EuroHPC-funded projects, MINERVA and FF+, will present the different types of technical and expert support available to users.
The session will showcase real-world experiences from awarded projects, highlighting how EuroHPC JU resources are enabling advances across a diverse range of scientific and technological domains.
Two user success stories will demonstrate applications in life sciences and atmospheric physics, offering practical insights into how European AI and HPC infrastructure can support ambitious AI projects from development to large-scale execution.
- high performance computing
- Wednesday 4 November 2026, 10:00 - 12:30 (CET)
- Online only
Programme
- 4 Nov 2026, 10:00 - 12:30 (CET)Agenda & Speakers
10.00 AM Introduction from the User Forum Coordination Group
Speakers: Sinéad Ryan and Maria Girone
10.05 AM Overview of AI Factories, AIF Antennas and Gigafactories
Speaker: Evangelos Floros, Head of Unit Infrastructure, EuroHPC JU
10.30 AM Type of calls for industry, SMEs and academia
Speaker: Annika Kossack, Peer Review Team, EuroHPC JU
10.50 AM EuroHPC support services in AI - MINERVA
Speaker: Michael Tiemann, DenkBox
11.10 AM FFplus support for SMEs through open calls
Speaker: Guy Lonsdale, Scapos
Success stories from awarded projects
11.30 AM Life Sciences
Speaker: Anna Maria Diaz Rovira, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
11.50 AM Atmospheric Physics
Speaker: Peter Ukkonen, Oxford University
12.10 AM Q&A, Final closing remarks
Moderators: Alessio Roccon, Eleni Briola
Practical information
- When
- Wednesday 4 November 2026, 10:00 - 12:30 (CET)
- Where
- Online only
- Languages
- English
Description
Format, PPTs and Recordings
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Q&A: 5 minutes after each talk + continuous online Q&A form available throughout the event
Recording: The webinar will be recorded
Materials: Slides will be collected and made available on this page after the event
Registration: The registration link will be available shortly on this webpage.
Organisers
The event is organised by the Coordination Group of the EuroHPC User Forum (Eleni Briola and Alessio Roccon) and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (Josephine Wood, Eleanor O’Leary).
Contact points:
elb
dmi [dot] dk (Eleni Briola)
alessio [dot] rocconuniud [dot] it (Alessio Roccon)
For more information about the organizing institutions, please visit the webpage on governance.
