Name: HMC Conference 2026
Start: 2026-04-28T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-30T13:30:00+02:00
Location: DKFZ, Heidelberg

HMC Conference 2026

from Tuesday, April 28, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Thursday, April 30, 2026 (1:30 PM)

Monday, April 27, 2026
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
9:00 AM WORKSHOPS: Extended Workshops
Extended Workshops
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM From Ontology to ELN - Create your Made-to-Measure Semantic Metadata Platform - Fabian Kirchner (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon)

9:00 AM Semantic x-Lab: Bridging Laboratory Metadata and Semantic Knowledge Discovery - David Pape (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (HZDR)) Felix Mühlbauer (GFZ) Manja Luzi-Helbing (GFZ) Martin Voigt (HZDR) Oliver Knodel
WORKSHOPS: Short Workshops
Short Workshops
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Building Connected Data Ecosystems - How to Facilitate FAIR Data Workflows across Tools and Services - Emanuel Söding (ORTC) Rory Macneil Tilo Mathes (ResearchSpace)

9:00 AM Creating RDF-compliant Metadata Templates with the AIMS Metadata Profile Service - Jürgen Windeck (Technical University Darmstadt) Kseniia Dukkart (RWTH Aachen University) Marc Fuhrmans (Technical University Darmstadt) Moritz Kern (RWTH Aachen University)

9:00 AM Creating and Inspecting Research Object Crates – The Interactive Way - Christopher Raquet (KIT)

9:00 AM Making Helmholtz Data Assets Visible via the Helmholtz Knowledge Graph - Volker Hofmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
10:30 AM COFFEE
COFFEE
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Communication Center, Foyer
11:00 AM WORKSHOPS: Short Workshops
Short Workshops
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Make your own FAIR Digital Objects – The Graphical Way - Andreas Pfeil (HMC FAIR Data Commons)

11:00 AM From Chaos to Clarity: Smart Sample Management with LinkAhead & O2A SAMPLES - Maren Rebke (AWI) Florian Spreckelsen (IndiScale)

11:00 AM Semantics Hidden in the Dark – Make Datasets Shine (Practical Integration of Terminology Services for FAIR Data) - Claudia Martens (DKRZ) Anette Ganske (TIB)

11:00 AM From Shared Challenges to Shared Action: Metadata Harmonization in Practice - Oonagh Brendike-Mannix (HMC/HZB)
12:30 PM LUNCH
LUNCH
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Communication Center, Foyer

1:30 PM WELCOME: Official Opening of the HMC Conference 2026
Official Opening of the HMC Conference 2026
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Communication Center

2:00 PM KEYNOTE - Making FAIR Happen: Culture Change Across the Research Ecosystem: Dr. Marta Teperek with Dr. Dani Metilli
Dr. Marta Teperek with Dr. Dani Metilli
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Communication Center

3:00 PM COFFEE
COFFEE
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Communication Center, Foyer
3:30 PM TALK SESSION: Metadata in Action: Embedding Quality and Context into Research Infrastructures - Chair: Christine Lemster
Metadata in Action: Embedding Quality and Context into Research Infrastructures - Chair: Christine Lemster
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Communication Center
Contributions

3:30 PM Data Quality Assessment Results as Decision-Relevant Enriched Metadata for Decision Support Systems - Carsten Oliver Schmidt (Universitätsmedizin Greifswald)

3:45 PM Self-Assessment for FAIR Data Publication: Empowering Researchers to Improve Dataset Quality before Submission - Marleen Marynissen (KU Leuven)

4:00 PM Ontology-Driven FAIR Sensor Maintenance Metadata for Environmental Observations - Smruthishree Srinivasa

4:15 PM FAIR AIMS – Bringing Rich Metadata for Physical Samples into the Digital World - Kirsten Elger (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences)

4:30 PM From Siloed Experiments to Collective Intelligence: Operationalizing the Post-FAIR Laboratory - Nick Garabedian (datin GmbH)

4:45 PM Open Data, Open Access, Open Source: Liberating Metadata for OA Books and Chapters - Tobias Steiner (Thoth Open Metadata)
5:00 PM POSTERS & DEMOS - with Drinks

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Communication Center, Foyer & 1st Floor

6:00 PM WELCOME RECEPTION - with Fingerfood

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Communication Center
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

7:00 AM Optional - MORNING RUN

7:00 AM - 7:45 AM
Room: Communication Center
9:00 AM TALK SESSION: Software Interoperability for (Meta)data Acquisition - Chair: Martin Held (Hereon)
Software Interoperability for (Meta)data Acquisition - Chair: Martin Held (Hereon)
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Communication Center
Contributions

9:00 AM FDO-Ops Prototype for Machine-Actionable FDOs - Nicolas Blumenröhr

9:15 AM O2A SAMPLES: From Expedition to Digital Database – A Unified Framework for Sample Digitization and Interoperability - Maren Rebke (AWI)

9:30 AM LabID-Prov : Unifying Experimental and Computational Data Provenance with LabID - Laurent Thomas (EMBL Heidelberg)

9:45 AM Deploying Kadi4Mat Workflows in Laboratory Environments for Reproducible and Guided Experimental Research - Johannes Steinhülb (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

10:00 AM Using Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) as a Vehicle for Achieving Interoperability - Rory Macneil (Research Space)

10:15 AM TeSSHub - A Federated Training Catalogue Infrastructure - Martin Voigt (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
10:30 AM COFFEE
COFFEE
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Communication Center, Foyer
11:00 AM TALK SESSION: Ontology-Driven Metadata Harmonization: Closing Semantic Gaps - Chairs: Gerrit Günther (HZB), Said Fathalla (FZJ)
Ontology-Driven Metadata Harmonization: Closing Semantic Gaps - Chairs: Gerrit Günther (HZB), Said Fathalla (FZJ)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Communication Center
Contributions

11:00 AM Local Semantics with Global Meaning - K. Gerald van den Boogaart (HZDR)

11:15 AM Interoperable Metadata For Describing Health Studies – The NFDI4Health Metadata Schema - Martin Golebiewski (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg)

11:30 AM Integrating Domain Ontologies and Workflow Metadata for Interoperable Computational Experiments - Pavan L. Veluvali (Max Planck Institute for Dyanmics of Complex Technical Systems)

11:45 AM MOLSIM: An Interoperable Ontology for Representing Biomolecular Simulation - Fathoni Musyaffa (FZ-Jülich)

12:00 PM Toward FAIR and Reproducible Data Quality Control: A Use Case–Driven Data-Quality Processing Metadata Schema for Time Series Data - Ulrich Loup (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)
12:30 PM LUNCH
LUNCH
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Communication Center, Foyer

1:30 PM KEYNOTE - Constructing Enterprise RDF Knowledge Graphs: Foundations for Neuro-Symbolic AI: Dr. Jan Portisch
Dr. Jan Portisch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Communication Center

2:30 PM GROUP PICTURE
GROUP PICTURE
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Communication Center

2:40 PM POSTERS & DEMOS - with Coffee

2:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Communication Center, Foyer & 1st Floor

6:00 PM SOCIAL EVENT – Neckar Cruise

6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, April 30, 2026

9:00 AM KEYNOTE - Beyond the Bases: How Metadata Powers a National Genome Archive: Prof. Dr. Oliver Stegle
Prof. Dr. Oliver Stegle
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Communication Center

10:00 AM COFFEE
COFFEE
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Communication Center, Foyer
10:30 AM TALK SESSION: Human-Machine Collaboration in (Meta)data Acquisition - Chair: Marta Dembska (DLR)
Human-Machine Collaboration in (Meta)data Acquisition - Chair: Marta Dembska (DLR)
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Communication Center
Contributions

10:30 AM A Semantically Integrated Framework for Robotic Data Acquisition in Mechanical Testing - Eric Breitbarth (Deutschland)

10:55 AM Automated Metadata Acquisition in Energy Research using BPMN-driven Workflows at the Energy Lab at KIT - Jan Martin Reckel (KIT)

11:10 AM A Semantic Laboratory Assistant for Metadata Acquisition in Electronic Lab Notebooks - Tina Boroukhian (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Institute of Membrane Research, Germany)

11:25 AM A Collaborative Approach to Metadata Interoperability: PID4NFDI, TS4NFDI, and RSpace - Tilo Mathes (ResearchSpace)

11:40 AM The Agentic Automation Canvas: A Metadata Framework for Human-AI Task Delegation - Sebastian Lobentanzer (Helmholtz Munich)

11:55 AM AIMWORKS: Template‑Driven, Agentic Framework for FAIR Knowledge Graph Construction in Hydrogen Technologies - Mohammad J. Eslamibidgoli (Theory and Computation of Energy Materials (IET-3), Institute of Energy Technologies, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany)
12:15 PM WRAP UP: Official Closing of the HMC Conference 2026 & Awards
Official Closing of the HMC Conference 2026 & Awards
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Communication Center

12:30 PM LIGHT LUNCH
LIGHT LUNCH
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Communication Center, Foyer

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