The 2024 CWL Conference will be held at VU Amsterdam from the Wednesday 15 May to Friday 17 May!
The conference talks will be shared in the CWL Matrix room. This means presenters and participants may choose to attend in-person event or engage remotely.
There will also be an in-person training event on Tuesday 14th of May
For those in different timezones, we had two four-hour online-only sessions the week before. You can watch the recordings of those presenations online.
Join us for the 4th annual CWL Conference & 10th Anniversary Celebration 🎉 🥳!
Registration
Please fill out the Registration Form, to register your attendance. You will get an automatic email confirming your form has been received.
You will need to register your attendance regardless of if you wish to attend in person or virtually!
Key Dates
- Mar 24th → Submissions close
- Apr 22nd → Video presentations due
- May 9th - 11th → Online talks in various timezones
- May 14th → In-person training held in Amsterdam, NL
- May 15th - 16th → Hybrid Conference in Amsterdam, NL
- May 17th → Hackathon
Training Workshop Sign Ups
IN-PERSON TRAINING WORKSHOP SIGNUP IS NOW AVAILABLE
Please fill out the following form if you would like to attend.
The in-person training workshop will take place on Tuesday 14 May at VU Amsterdam. Room number TBC
APAC ONLINE TRAINING WORKSHOP SIGNUP IS NOW AVAILABLE
Please fill out the following form if you would like to attend.
The training workshop will take place on Thursday 9 May from 13:30 AEST to 16:00 AEST
The call for submissions has closed.
Week 1
Session 1 (Online only)
Wednesday 8 May
Americas friendly time
A three-hour online conference session for those in Europe, Americas, Middle East, and Africa. The session time for your timezone can be found below.
| Date | Time Zone | Session Time |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 8 May | Pacific Daylight Time | 08:00 - 11:00 |
| Wednesday 8 May | Eastern Daylight Time | 11:00 - 14:00 |
| Wednesday 8 May | UTC Time | 15:00 - 18:00 |
| Wednesday 8 May | Central European Summer Time | 17:00 - 20:00 |
| Title | Presenter | Start Time (UTC) |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome / Code of Conduct | Michael Crusoe | 15:00 |
| What's new with CWL? | Michael Crusoe | 15:05 |
| CWL @ ICA | Bart Denotté, Pratik Soares | 15:15 |
| Facilitating Drug Discovery with CWL | Saul Acevedo | 15:35 |
| Break | 15:55 | |
| Concise Common Workflow Language (ccwl) | Arun Isaac | 16:10 |
| Towards Automating Federated Learning Operations at Scale Leveraging CWL | Yuandou Wang | 16:30 |
| Workflomics: A Web Platform for Generating and Benchmarking Bioinformatics Workflows | Magnus Palmblad | 16:50 |
| Break | 17:05 | |
| Renku: a platform for sustainable data science | Rok Roškar | 17:20 |
| Introducing SWEL: SWEL: A domain-specific language for modelling data-intensive workflows | José Raúl Romero | 17:40 |
APAC CWL Novice Tutorial (Online only)
Thursday 9 May
13:30 - 16:00 Australian Eastern Standard Time (Separate signup, unlimited room)
Session 2 (Online only)
Thursday 9 May / Friday 10 May
APAC-Americas Friendly time
A 2.5-hours online conference session for Asia-Pacific / Americas timezones.
The session time for your timezone can be found below.
| Date | Time Zone | Session Time |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 9 May | Pacific Daylight Time | 16:00 - 18:30 |
| Thursday 9 May | Eastern Daylight Time | 19:00 - 21:30 |
| Thursday 9 May | UTC Time | 23:00 - 01:30 (+1 Day) |
| Friday 10 May | Japanese Standard Time | 08:00 - 10:30 |
| Friday 10 May | Australian Eastern Standard Time | 09:00 - 11:30 |
| Title | Presenter | Start Time (UTC) |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome / Code of Conduct | Michael Crusoe | 23:00 |
| What's new with CWL? | Michael Crusoe | 23:05 |
| JSON-Schemas for validating for CWL and CWL Inputs | Alexis Lucattini | 23:15 |
| NGS360 - A NGS Data Management and Analysis Platform | Ryan Golhar | 23:35 |
| CWL @ ICA | Bart Denotté, Pratik Soares | 23:55 |
| Break | 00:15 | |
| CWL-Enabled Reusable and Reproducible Genomic Data Management and Analysis in R | Qian Liu | 00:30 |
| Performance Evaluation of GPU-intensive Genome Analysis Workflows in HPC and Cloud | Tomoya Tanjo | 00:50 |
| Extending CWL for High-Performance Computing: A Visual Workflow System with HPC Enhancements | Zhang Yexi | 01:05 |
Week 2
CWL Training event (Amsterdam only)
Tuesday 14 May
13:00 - 17:00 Central European Summer Time (Separate signup)
Session 3 (Amsterdam / Online hybrid)
Wednesday 15 May
APAC-EMEA Friendly time
This session will both be in-person in Amsterdam and online.
| Date | Time Zone | Session Time |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 15 May | UTC Time | 06:30 - 10:00 |
| Wednesday 15 May | Central European Summer Time | 08:30 - 12:00 |
| Wednesday 15 May | Japanese Standard Time | 15:30 - 19:00 |
| Wednesday 15 May | Australian Eastern Standard Time | 16:30 - 20:00 |
| Title | Presenter | Start Time |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome / Code of Conduct | Michael Crusoe | 06:30 UTC / 08:30 CEST |
| What's new with CWL? | Michael Crusoe | 06:35 UTC / 08:35 CEST |
| Extending CWL for High-Performance Computing: A Visual Workflow System with HPC Enhancements | Zhang Yexi | 06:45 UTC / 08:35 CEST |
| Concise Common Workflow Language (ccwl) | Arun Isaac | 06:55 UTC / 08:55 CEST |
| Towards Enhancing WaaS and Data Provenance over Reana: Enhancing Reproducibility on the European AI-on-Demand Platform | Antonis Ganios | 07:15 UTC / 09:15 CEST |
| Break | 07:35 UTC / 09:35 CEST | |
| Various tips for over thousand of jobs at HPC environment | Manabu Ishii | 08:10 UTC / 10:10 CEST |
| Salad Goes Rusty: Expanding the Horizons of CW | Giuseppe Eletto | 08:25 UTC / 10:25 CEST |
| JSON-Schemas for validating for CWL and CWL Inputs | Alexis Lucattini | 08:40 UTC / 10:40 CEST |
| Break | 09:00 UTC / 11:00 CEST | |
| Keynote: The Pegasus Workflow Management System: Current Applications and Future Directions | Ewa Deelman | 09:15 UTC / 11:15 CEST |
Session 4 (Amsterdam / Online hybrid)
Wednesday 15 May
EMEA-Americas Friendly time
This session will both be in-person in Amsterdam and online.
| Date | Time Zone | Session Time |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 15 May | US Eastern Daylight Time | 07:30 - 11:30 |
| Wednesday 15 May | UTC Time | 11:30 - 15:30 |
| Wednesday 15 May | Central European Summer Time | 13:30 - 17:30 |
| Wednesday 15 May | Japanese Standard Time | 20:30 - 00:30 |
Session 5 (Amsterdam / Online hybrid)
Thursday 16 May
APAC-EMEA Friendly time
This session will both be in-person in Amsterdam and online.
| Date | Time Zone | Session Time |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 16 May | UTC Time | 06:00 - 10:00 |
| Thursday 16 May | Central European Summer Time | 08:00 - 12:00 |
| Thursday 16 May | Japanese Standard Time | 15:00 - 19:00 |
| Thursday 16 May | Australian Eastern Standard Time | 16:00 - 20:00 |
| Title | Presenter | Start Time (UTC) |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome / Code of Conduct | Michael Crusoe | 06:00 UTC / 08:00 CEST |
| LivePublication: From Instruments, to Computation, to Publication. | Gus Ellerm | 06:05 UTC / 08:05 CEST |
| Performance Evaluation of GPU-intensive Genome Analysis Workflows in HPC and Cloud | Tomoya Tanjo | 06:25 UTC / 08:25 CEST |
| CWL Working Groups | Iacopo Colonnelli | 06:40 UTC / 08:40 CEST |
| Break | 06:55 UTC / 08:55 CEST | |
| Integrating Scientific Workflows into Services and Applications using CWL | Branden Kappes | 07:10 UTC / 09:10 CEST |
| Panel discussion on the importance and use cases of provenance for workflow practitioners | Renske de Wit, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Jasper Jan Koehorst, et al. | 07:30 UTC / 09:30 CEST |
In-person small groups
(Amsterdam only)
Thursday 16 May
13:30 - 17:30 Central European Summer Time
Co-working / Hackathon
(Amsterdam only)
Friday 17 May
09:00 - 17:30 Central European Summer Time
Directions
Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDe Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Location of VU Amsterdam on Google Maps
Health and Safety
The event has a Health and Safety policy (inspired by publichealthpledge.com).
The policy comprises the following components:
- In-person participants will be required to wear a FFP3 face mask.
- Any scheduled meals and coffee breaks will be outside.
- Attendees will be expected to perform a rapid COVID-19 test prior to participating each day.
- The CO2 level in the rooms will be monitored to ensure good ventilation (PPM under 1000).
If the policy changes it is only strengthened - never weakened - between the event's announcement and the event itself.
Code of Conduct
This event will be held in accordance with the CWL Code of conduct.
The CWL Project is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
This code of conduct applies to all CWL Project spaces, including the Google Group, the Matrix chat room, the Google Hangouts chats, both online and off.
Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the leadership team.
For more details, see our Code of Conduct.
