The IVOA (Northern Spring) 2026 Interoperability Meeting will be hosted at the Old Tobacco Factory in Strasbourg (France) from Monday 8 June to Friday 12 June 2026.
The meeting will be organised in person, by preference, but with the possibility to follow the main sessions remotely (in a hybrid solution). This means that remote participation will allow following, streamed, the plenary and 1 main parallel session, possibly contributing through the videoconference chat system. The streamed sessions will (to our best effort) be recorded and made available to give everyone all chances to follow the workshop.
Please consider the time zone of the meeting will be the one of the venue, that is Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2), with sessions starting at 9:00 CEST and wrapping up usually at 17:30 CEST (Friday apart, when we will aim at closing the meeting around 12:30 CEST).
The Interop Program will be made up of sessions managed by the IVOA Working Groups (WG) and Interest Groups (IG). Closed session TCG and Exec meetings are scheduled on Sunday 7 June 2026 from 10:00 to 18:00 CEST at the Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg.
Registration (see relevant link on the left hand side menu) will be closed 15 days prior to the meeting's start (Friday 22 May 2026) to allow local organisation activities. Switching to/from remote participation will also be allowed only up to the same date for similar reasons.
For logistics and accommodation details and hints, please have a look at the two relevant pages in this website (left menu) but it's highly suggested both to register and book your accommodation as early as possible because Strasbourg in June is highly touristic.
IVOA has a code of conduct of the IVOA, that is available. Please, be sure you are aware of its contents before actually registering for the event.
A glossary of terms and acronyms used in the VO is available.
