Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

schedule

UB4.136


Day Start End Track(s)
Saturday 10:30 18:35 Software Defined Storage
Sunday 09:00 17:10 Declarative and Minimalistic Computing, Search
09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Saturday Storage aspects consumed by OpenCloud
Ceph: State of the Cephalopod
Garage Object Storage: 2.0 update and best practices
Multi-Petabyte Data Distribution in Industry & Science with CernVM File System
Demystifying the Mathematics of Erasure Coding
CephFS command auditing framework for quicker cluster rescue
Ceph mgmt-gateway: A Single, Secure Entry Point for Management and Monitoring
Shared Memory Communication in Ceph
Smoother CephFS Experience With Umbrella Release
Implementing S3-fronted cold storage at CERN
Challenges and solutions implementing an Open Source multiprotocol stack
A CSI-Based Tiered Storage Plan: Accelerating Cloud Block Storage with Local Disks
The Invisible Payload: A Generic Zero-Copy Architecture
Dedup for S3: Smarter Storage, Zero Duplicates
Sunday Crystal: A language for humans and computers
Building a minimal cross-platform terminal UI library
BLUE - A generic build-system crafted entirely in Guile
Modern Development Tools and Practices for GNU Guile
Guile development outside of Emacs
Wastrel: WebAssembly Without the Runtime
Lisp is clay: the power of composable DSLs
Functional reactive programming with propagators
Guix Container Images - and what you can do with them
Implementing Block-Max Pruning in Rust: Faster Learned Sparse Retrieval for Modern Search
Multi-Vector embeddings revolution? or evolution?
Deriving Maximum Insight: Open-Source Graph-Enhanced RAG for Complex Question Answering
Multi-Stage Retrieval in Elasticsearch - Present and Future
Language support in Meilisearch
OpenSearch v3: A New Era of Search Innovation - From Neural Sparse ANN to Agentic Workflows and everything in-between

Events

Title Speakers Track Start End

Saturday

  Storage aspects consumed by OpenCloud
Jörn Dreyer Software Defined Storage 10:30 11:00
  Ceph: State of the Cephalopod
Federico Lucifredi, Neha Ojha Software Defined Storage 11:05 11:35
  Garage Object Storage: 2.0 update and best practices
Maximilien Richer Software Defined Storage 11:40 12:10
  Multi-Petabyte Data Distribution in Industry & Science with CernVM File System
Andriy Utkin Software Defined Storage 12:15 12:45
  Demystifying the Mathematics of Erasure Coding
Gerlind Deschner Software Defined Storage 12:50 13:20
  CephFS command auditing framework for quicker cluster rescue
Venky Shankar, Dhairya Parmar Software Defined Storage 13:25 13:55
  Ceph mgmt-gateway: A Single, Secure Entry Point for Management and Monitoring
Redouane kachach Elhichou Software Defined Storage 14:00 14:30
  Shared Memory Communication in Ceph
Aliaksei Makarau Software Defined Storage 14:35 15:05
  Smoother CephFS Experience With Umbrella Release
Venky Shankar Software Defined Storage 15:10 15:40
  Implementing S3-fronted cold storage at CERN
Mario Vitale Software Defined Storage 15:45 16:15
  Challenges and solutions implementing an Open Source multiprotocol stack
Günther Deschner, Anoop C S Software Defined Storage 16:20 16:50
  A CSI-Based Tiered Storage Plan: Accelerating Cloud Block Storage with Local Disks
yingqi.ge, 胡玮文 Software Defined Storage 16:55 17:25
  The Invisible Payload: A Generic Zero-Copy Architecture
Igor Golikov, Alex Markuze Software Defined Storage 17:30 18:00
  Dedup for S3: Smarter Storage, Zero Duplicates
Vidushi Mishra Software Defined Storage 18:05 18:35

Sunday

  Crystal: A language for humans and computers
Johannes Müller Declarative and Minimalistic Computing 09:00 09:20
  Building a minimal cross-platform terminal UI library
Thijs Schreijer Declarative and Minimalistic Computing 09:20 09:40
  BLUE - A generic build-system crafted entirely in Guile
Sergio Pastor Pérez Declarative and Minimalistic Computing 09:40 10:00
  Modern Development Tools and Practices for GNU Guile
Andrew Tropin Declarative and Minimalistic Computing 10:00 10:30
  Guile development outside of Emacs
Jessica Tallon Declarative and Minimalistic Computing 10:30 11:00
  Wastrel: WebAssembly Without the Runtime
Andy Wingo Declarative and Minimalistic Computing 11:00 11:30
  Lisp is clay: the power of composable DSLs
Christine Lemmer-Webber Declarative and Minimalistic Computing 11:30 12:00
  Functional reactive programming with propagators
David Thompson Declarative and Minimalistic Computing 12:00 12:30
  Guix Container Images - and what you can do with them
Simon Josefsson Declarative and Minimalistic Computing 12:30 12:45
  Implementing Block-Max Pruning in Rust: Faster Learned Sparse Retrieval for Modern Search
Ferdinand Schlatt, Antonio Mallia Search 13:20 13:50
  Multi-Vector embeddings revolution? or evolution?
Marcin Antas, Roberto Esposito Search 14:00 14:30
  Deriving Maximum Insight: Open-Source Graph-Enhanced RAG for Complex Question Answering
Mykyta Kemarskyi Search 14:40 15:10
  Multi-Stage Retrieval in Elasticsearch - Present and Future
Carlos Delgado Search 15:20 15:50
  Language support in Meilisearch
many Search 16:00 16:30
  OpenSearch v3: A New Era of Search Innovation - From Neural Sparse ANN to Agentic Workflows and everything in-between
Dotan Horovits, Aswath Srinivasan Search 16:40 17:10