2026 CF Workshop: Call for talks (presentations)

[sadielbartholomew]

Dear CF Community,

We are happy to invite ideas for talks i.e. presentations for this year's annual CF Workshop, which will be held as a hybrid event 21-24 September 2026 based (for in-person attendees) at the ECMWCF site in Bonn, Germany (see #472).

We'd like to hear from anyone who wishes to either:

• offer to give a talk on a specific topic themselves, or;
• see a topic covered by other(s) - please make a nomination if you have anyone in mind.

Talks may be on topics already registered via the Issue Trackers on the 'cf-convention' repositories (notably 'discuss' and 'cf-conventions') or the Discussions forum, or new ones as yet unrecorded.

Inspiration might be found at the CF meetings home page, where you can see what talks were held at previous meetings. The 2026 Workshop agenda will be published on the CF website when the content of the workshop has been finalised.

Note that we are also inviting proposals for breakout sessions (in #476), so consider whether you would like to propose a talk or a breakout session depending on what format is best: either a one-to-many presentation (talk) or a many-to-many discussion or practical session, perhaps hackathon-style, between a small group (breakout session).

Proposals can be short and informal. One or two paragraphs will suffice. Please make your proposal as a comment on the discussion thread for this announcement.

Contributions from those who are new to CF and/or to the CF Workshops are very welcome!

Sincerely,
Sadie, on behalf of the CF Workshop Organising Committee