This page records the main information for the 2026 CF Conventions Community Workshop for the CF Conventions meeting archive. The official event and registration pages are hosted by ECMWF and the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
The 2026 CF Conventions Community Workshop is a scientific and technical workshop for the international community working with Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions, environmental data standards, and interoperable data systems.
The workshop is designed to bring together researchers, developers, data engineers, infrastructure specialists, CF contributors, and users of CF-compliant datasets. The meeting will combine plenary sessions, invited and contributed talks, thematic discussions, breakout sessions, and hands-on hackathons.
The workshop is co-hosted by:
The workshop aims to support collaboration across the CF community, contribute to the evolution and adoption of CF metadata standards, and make practical progress on CF-compliant data and tools.
Themes highlighted for the 2026 workshop include:
Additional topics and community suggestions are welcome through the programme discussion channels listed below.
The programme will combine presentations and collaborative sessions. Planned formats include plenary sessions, keynote and contributed presentations, lightning talks, thematic discussions, parallel breakout sessions, hackathons, and reporting-back sessions. A poster session may also be organised depending on interest and available space.
Community input is being collected through GitHub Discussions:
Participants wishing to propose a presentation, poster, breakout, or hackathon topic should use the relevant GitHub discussion. The published deadline for contributions is 17 August 2026.
A detailed agenda will be published closer to the event.
The workshop will take place in hybrid format, with participation possible both on site in Bonn and online.
Participants are encouraged to register early. The published registration deadline is 14 September 2026.
Registration is handled through the ECMWF Events page:
Online participation links will be provided by the organisers in due course.
The in-person component of the workshop will be hosted at ECMWF in Bonn, Germany (ECMWF, Robert-Schuman-Platz 3, 53175 Bonn).
ECMWF’s Bonn premises provide conference and collaboration facilities suitable for hybrid participation. The venue is accessible by public transport; the Copernicus event page notes that participants can travel from Bonn Central Station using underground line 66 towards Ramersdorf, alighting at Robert-Schuman-Platz.
Further local travel information is available from ECMWF:
The Copernicus event page lists several accommodation options in Bonn, including hotels in the city centre with public transport links and options within walking distance of ECMWF.
Participants should consult the official event pages for the most up-to-date accommodation and travel advice.
The event is subject to the code of conduct published by the organisers on the official event pages. Participants are expected to behave professionally and respectfully and to help maintain a safe and inclusive environment.
For event-related questions, the published contact address is:
This page is intended as a CF-maintained archival and curation record for the 2026 workshop. The operational event information, registration form, programme updates, participation links, travel information, and code of conduct are maintained on the official ECMWF and Copernicus event pages.
Sources checked on 30 June 2026:
| Local Time (Bonn) | Room | Session | Presenter/Chair |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00 | Main | Arrivals and coffee | |
| 14:00 | Main | Welcome and Overview of meeting structure | TBD |
| 14:10 | Main | Introduction to CF | Jonathan Gregory |
| CF Governance Processes | Ethan Davis | ||
| What will be in CF 1.14 | Sadie Bartholomew | ||
| 15:00 | Main | Coffee break / screen break | |
| 15:30 | Main | Standard names / Vocabularies | Alison Pamment |
| 16:00 | Main | Introduction to today’s breakout sessions | |
| 16:10 | Breakouts / Hackathons | ||
| Room? | CF Profiles, work through with Satellite Swath data | Ethan Davis | |
| Room? | Data standards for oil spill models | Chris Barker (confirmed) | |
| 17:30 | Adjourn | ||
| 19:00? | TBD | Workshop dinner |
| Local Time (Bonn) | Room | Session | Presenter/Chair |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Main | Coffee and welcome | |
| 09:30 | Main | Uncertainty metadata in CF | David Hassell, Sam Hunt |
| 10:00 | Main | Units of measure in CF and elsewhere | Lars Bärring |
| 10:30 | Main | Coffee break / screen break | |
| 11:00 | Main | Introduction to today’s breakout sessions | |
| 11:10 | Breakouts / Hackathons | ||
| Room? | Uncertainty | David Hassell | |
| Room? | BCP 14 | Sadie Bartholomew | |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:00 | Main | CF, GRIB and BUFR | Sébastien Villaume and Pawel Wolff |
| 14:30 | Main | Implementing CF semantics in BUFR | Marijana Crepulja (confirmed) |
| 15:00 | Main | Coffee break / screen break | |
| 15:30 | Main | World Meteorological Organization CF-NetCDF profiles and governance | David I. Berry, Kevin O’Brien, Bibraj Raj, ??more authors? |
| 16:00 | Main | GeoZarr and CF | Max Jones (TBC) |
| 16:30 | Main | Implementing CF semantics in Zarr | Patrick van Laake |
| 17:00 | Main | Discussion of mappings | |
| 17:30 | Adjourn |
| Local Time (Bonn) | Room | Session | Presenter/Chair |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Main | Coffee and welcome | |
| 09:30 | Main | Introduction to today’s breakout sessions | |
| 09:40 | Breakouts / Hackathons | ||
| Room? | Housekeeping | ?? | |
| Room? | Standard names for chemical species | Lorea Garcia San Martin | |
| 10:30 | Main | Coffee break / screen break | |
| 11:00 | Main | Copernicus | Chris Goddard (Has this been confirmed???) |
| 11:30 | Main | Plenary - open time slot!!!! | |
| 12:00 | Main | CMIP and CORDEX interactions and use of CF Conventions | Paul Smith (CMIP IPO) |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:00 | Main | WMO Cloud-optimized future data infrastructure | Jeremy Tandy |
| 14:30 | Main | Plenary - open time slot!!!! | |
| 15:00 | Main | Coffee break / screen break | |
| 15:30 | Main | CF Checkers | Filipe P. A. Fernandes + Sadie Bartholomew |
| 16:00 | Main | Introduction to today’s breakout sessions | |
| 16:10 | Breakouts / Hackathons | ||
| Room? | Separating CF semantics from netCDF encoding | Patrick van Laake | |
| Room? | Support localization of attribute/variable values | Erin Turnbull & ??? | |
| 17:30 | Adjourn |
| Local Time (Bonn) | Room | Session | Presenter/Chair |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Main | Coffee and welcome | |
| 09:30 | Main | Breakout reports | |
| 10:30 | Main | Coffee break / screen break | |
| 11:00 | Main | Wrap-up and Meeting Conclusions | |
| 12:30 | Adjourn and Lunch |
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