ARCOS Symposium 2026: Orchestrating AI-Ready Research Infrastructure

About the Event

This symposium offers a collaborative forum for community building and sharing expertise on containers, Kubernetes, and AI-ready platforms.

The ARCOS Symposium aims to bring those involved in the Australian Research Container Orchestration Service (ARCOS) and other interested parties together to facilitate community building, discuss group use cases, and learn about the solutions and services being implemented.

The 2026 Symposium’s theme is orchestrating AI-ready research infrastructure using cloud-native solutions. Discussions will cover the critical roles of containers, Kubernetes, and high-throughput batch scheduling in creating scalable, AI-ready research platforms and infrastructure.

The ARDC invites you to participate in discussions and help us develop national research capabilities in building reproducible and scalable digital research outputs using containers and Kubernetes. Join us for this one-day hybrid event in person or online for presentations, discussions and professional networking, and help us shape the future of the ARCOS community.

Agenda

Featured talks

• “ARCOS Overview and Vision” by Dr Aleem Uddin, Research Infrastructure Specialist (Virtualisation), ARDC
• “Navigating the Challenges of LLM Inferencing Within Internet-Restricted or Disconnected Environments” by Jase Rieger, Principal Consultant – Cyber, DEWC Services
• “The Devil’s in the Details” by Mike Lynch, Data Science Group Lead, Sydney Informatics Hub, The University of Sydney

Lightning talks

• “Making Humanities Geospatial Workflows Reproducible with Containers” by Dr Daniel Russo-Batterham, Senior Research Data Specialist, Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP)
• “Schrödinger’s Cluster: It’s Broken and Not Broken Until Observed” by Dr Andreas Moll, Manager (Scientific Computing), ANSTO

We’re shaping the program for ARCOS Symposium 2026. More sessions will be announced soon.

What You’ll Gain

• Hear from research groups and organisations across Australia and internationally on how they are using containers and Kubernetes.
• Meet experts, make new connections, and join the community of people who are working in containers and Kubernetes for research.
• Bring your unique expertise to the table to help us co-design new services and lead the way in shaping our community’s training and knowledge-sharing.

Who Should Attend

• Current ARCOS members
• Anyone within the Australian research sector developing Kubernetes and container solutions
• Research sector professionals working on cloud computing, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics or informatics and research software

Recording and Format

This event will be recorded. The recording will be provided to all registrants and published online.

As this session is hybrid, the audience will have ample opportunity to participate in in-person discussions and professional networking.

About ARCOS

Australian Research Container Orchestration Service (ARCOS) is a community driven by various national institutions with the aim of establishing a national Kubernetes service and promoting use of containers in research.

The ARCOS Community Group and the ARCOS Technical Working Group meet quarterly via online conferencing. If you are based in Australia and are interested in or actively working on solutions in this space, we strongly encourage you to join the community.

Do you have questions about this evenet? Email [email protected].

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Please note that this event may be recorded and published by the ARDC. This may include your contributions during the session.

Attendees are expected to abide by the ARDC Code of Conduct during this event.

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