Cloud Services for Synchronization and Sharing 2026

CS3 Community is a Community for Cloud Storage Sync and Share Services in research and higher education. The CS3 conference is an annual conference for the larger community, hosted at a different European university each year. 

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About The Conference

CS3 2026 is an in-person event and part of the CS3 conference series

The 2026 CS3 Conference will take place on 17-19 March 2026 at University of Oslo

We look forward to meeting old and new colleagues within the CS3 community. Reconnect, inspire and get inspired, learn from each other and have some fun together, too.

The main session will start on Tuesday, 17 March and will be preceded on Monday 16 March afternoon by a co-located SIG-CISS session of the GEANT Association.

Practical Information

We have gathered some practical information with tips about how to get to the venue, places to stay, things to see and do in Oslo etc.

Visit to the Aula

We have organized a guided visit to the University Aula, where you can see some of the most impressive paintings by Edvard Munch. The visit will be  during lunch break on wednesday. 

If you want to go, please sign up for the visit: https://nettskjema.no/a/aula. The tour is limited to 40 people, first come, first served.

As a bonus - or for people who didn’t get a ticket for the Aula visit: The Munch museum has free entrance on Wednesdays from 18-21. https://www.munch.no/en/buy-tickets/. Munch museum is a 25-minute walk or a 15-minute tram ride from the conference venue.

The venue

Please note that no food or drinks are allowed inside the venue. There is also limited power outlets available, so please arrive fully charged!

Programme

See the programme page for more details

Streaming

You can watch the conference live:

 

SIG-CISS meeting of GEANT Association

Co-located event: 15th SIG-CISS meeting

The SIG brings together those who are building/operating R&E clouds and are willing to share strategy, design, deployment, performance optimization, application integration, interoperability, security and other related information, knowledge and best practices as well as participate in joint efforts aimed at addressing needs of academic environment related to building, operating, brokering cloud services and infrastructure and ensuring their interoperability.

More information:

https://wiki.geant.org/spaces/CISS/pages/1191772456/17th+SIG-CISS+meeting

https://wiki.geant.org/display/CISS/SIG-CISS+Home

Published Sep. 24, 2025 3:04 PM - Last modified Mar. 16, 2026 5:33 PM