Friday, October 17

Adopter Summit (workshops and breakout sessions)

Lightning talk presenters: please email slides to max@developmentseed.org

9:00 AM: Registration & welcome coffee

9:15 AM: From first steps to production

• Workshop: Icechunk Deep Dive
• Breakout group: Choosing if Zarr is right for you

10:30 AM: Break (30 minutes)

11:00 AM: Virtual and native Zarr

• Workshop: Virtual Zarr for archival file formats
• Breakout group: Native zarr features
  • Sharding
  • New data types
  • Migrating to Zarr V3
  • Chunk grids

12:00 PM: Lunch (catered)

1:00 PM: Lightning Talks

2:00 PM: Fine-tuning for your interests

• Workshop: Optimizing Zarr Performance
• Birds of a feather:
  • Machine Learning
  • Visualization
  • Earth sciences
  • Microscopy

3:00 PM: Break (30 minutes)

3:30 PM: Birds of a feather: Zarr languages, or build your own!

• Zarr in Rust
• Zarr in Python
• Zarr in R
• Zarr in Julia
• Or, build your own!

4:00 PM: Zarr retrospective and vision driving

4:30 PM: Closing Remarks

4:45 PM: Summit conclusion

Thursday, October 16

Adopter Summit (Presentations, panels, and Q&As)

9:00 AM: Registration & welcome coffee

9:30 AM: Opening keynotes

• Davis Bennett - From A to Zarr
• Ryan Abernathey - What we need from Zarr 4

10:45 AM: Break

11:15 AM: Technical presentations: Zarr applications

• Joe Hamman - How to make Zarr go zoom zoom
• Max Jones - The GeoZarr challenge

11:45 AM: Audience Q&A

12:00 PM: Lunch (catered)

1:25 PM: Technical presentations: Tools leveraging the Zarr data format

• Lachlan Deakin - zarrs: Zarr in the Rust Ecosystem
• Sebastian Galkin - Icechunk, or how to put your Zarr data in production
• Tom Nicholas - VirtualiZarr: A bridge from archival file formats to Zarr

2:30 PM: Inverse Panel: Zarr in Production

2:45 PM: Break

3:15 PM: Technical presentations: Featured use-cases

• Norman Rzepka - Zarr for peta-scale neurobiology
• Alessandro Amici - The Earth Data Hub: Fast access to massive climate and Earth observation datasets using Xarray and Zarr
• Tobias Ferreira - Experiments at NOC with Browser-Based Zarr Visualization
• Tina Odaka - Grid4Earth: Unifying DGGS and Zarr for Scalable, Interoperable Earth Data for DestinE and Copernicus Sentinel Data
• Emmanuel Mathot - EOPF Explorer. Expand Zarr for dynamic vizualization of Copernicus Sentinel Data

4:45 PM: Wrap up & day 2 previews

5:00 PM: Day conclusion

6 - 8 PM: Aperitivo (snacks and beverages)