At TNC26, Ville Tenhunen, Data Solutions Architect at the EGI Foundation, will give the lightning talk “From Open Data to Usable Data: RI-SCALE Data Exploitation Platforms for Scalable Open Science” at 16:00–17:30 on Wednesday, 10 June.
TNC26
From Open Data to Usable Data: RI-SCALE Data Exploitation Platforms for Scalable Open Science
10 June | Helsinki, Finland
Organised by GÉANT, TNC26 is the annual flagship conference for the global research and education networking community. Held from June 8–12, 2026, in Helsinki, Finland, and hosted by CSC, the event gathers decision-makers, technical experts, and researchers from around the world.
The 2026 program centres around the theme “Digital Sisu” and features sessions on cybersecurity, automated network management, identity access, cloud sovereignty, and the role of AI in higher education.
EGI takes part in the exhibition with a stand in collaboration with the e-Infrastructure Assembly and will be present at the e-infra booth.
Organiser
GÉANT
Date
10 June 2026
time
16:00-17.30
duration
1 hour 30 minutes
venue
Helsinki, Finland
About The Session
European Research Infrastructures (RIs) generate petabyte-scale datasets in domains such as climate science, atmospheric research, biomedicine, and imaging. While Open Science policies have improved data availability and FAIR compliance, practical reuse remains limited. Researchers often face barriers related to compute capacity, software environments, AI tooling, and secure access. Moving large datasets across networks to local environments is increasingly inefficient, costly, and sometimes infeasible. The EU-funded RI-SCALE project introduces a scalable alternative: Data Exploitation Platforms (DEPs) that bring computation to the data rather than moving data to users.