Name: 40th Tango Community meeting at ALBA
Start: 2026-06-08T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-12T18:00:00+02:00
Location: ALBA Synchrotron

Monday, 8 June 2026

08:30 Tango Meeting: Registration
Tango Meeting: Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
09:00 Tango Meeting: Welcome - Zbigniew Reszela (ALBA Synchrotron)
Tango Meeting: Welcome
- Zbigniew Reszela (ALBA Synchrotron)
09:00 - 09:15
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
09:15 The ALBA II Project - Caterina Biscari (ALBA Synchrotron)
The ALBA II Project (Facility Status Reports)
- Caterina Biscari (ALBA Synchrotron)
09:15 - 09:45
Room: Maxwell Auditorium The ALBA II Project.
09:45
09:45 - 10:45
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
Contributions

09:45 SKA Status Update - Samuel Twum (SKAO)

10:05 Towards SOLEIL II, status of the project - yves-marie abiven (synchrotron SOLEIL)

10:25 Progress at HI-Jena - Alexander Kessler (HI-Jena)
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Tents
11:15
11:15 - 12:20
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
Contributions

11:15 SOLARIS status report - Michal Piekarski (SOLARIS) Urszula Jachymczyk (NSRC SOLARIS, Jagiellonian University)

11:35 Upgradation and Modernization of the Tango based GMRT Control (TGC) System. - Jitendra Kodilkar (National Centre For Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

11:55 ALBA Controls Status Update - Zbigniew Reszela (ALBA Synchrotron)
12:20

12:20 - 12:50
Room: Maxwell Auditorium

12:50 Group photo
Group photo
12:50 - 13:00
Room: Maxwell Auditorium

13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Tents

14:00

14:00 - 15:45
Room: Maxwell Auditorium

15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Tents

16:15

16:15 - 18:00
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 cppTango: Status update - Thomas Juerges (SKAO)

09:20 Configurable Deadbands for Warning and Alarm Levels in cppTango - Alessio Igor Bogani (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

09:30 Device level dynamic attributes: Current state of development - Thomas Braun (byte physics e.K.)

09:40 PyTango Status Report - Yury Matveev (DESY)

10:00 Runtime configuration for OpenTelemetry - Anton Joubert (MAX IV Laboratory)

10:20 Taurus Status - Oriol Vallcorba (ALBA Synchrotron)
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Tents
11:15
11:15 - 13:00
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
Contributions

11:15 Tango server code generation (Pogo?) - Damien Lacoste

11:35 TangoDatabase: Latest Development - Thomas Braun (byte physics e.K.)

11:45 Modernizing Starter: parallel startup, configurable server arguments, and more - Alessio Igor Bogani (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

12:00 HDB++ status report - Damien Lacoste

12:20 Status of the TANGO Archiving System at SOLEIL - Alexandre Tison (Synchrotron SOLEIL) Gwenaëlle Abeillé (Synchrotron SOLEIL) Raphaël GIRARDOT (SOLEIL)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Tents
14:00
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Sardana Status - Oriol Vallcorba (ALBA Synchrotron)

14:20 TANGO administration tooling and database monitoring - Alexandre Tison (Synchrotron SOLEIL) Gwenaëlle Abeillé (Synchrotron SOLEIL)

14:40 MAX IV Tools: tango-takeoff and dsconfig - Benjamin Bertrand (MAX IV Laboratory)

15:00 Tango Keystore: Bringing Structure and Types to Free Properties - Dmitry Egorov

15:20 HIJ-pyVision: GenICam Camera DS with expandable Analysis Lib and GUI for Laser Labs - Alexander Kessler (HI-Jena)
15:45 Cofee break
Cofee break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Tents
16:15
16:15 - 18:00
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
Contributions

16:15 Reactive Programming for Tango Controls - Igor Khokhriakov (San Diego Supercomputer Center)

16:35 Scheduling Tango callbacks: Lessons learnt from debugging event-driven Tango at scale - Thomas Ives (Observatory Sciences Ltd)

16:55 Tango Multiclasses: Taming Complex Devices Using Composition over Inheritance - Alessio Igor Bogani (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

17:10 Voltumna Linux: a custom, layered, immutable distribution for Tango‑based accelerator control systems - Alessio Igor Bogani (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

17:25 Recent Developments in the Libera Tango Device Server at Instrumentation Technologies - Robert Černe (Instrumentation Technologies)

17:35 From TANGO Devices to LLM Tools: A Model Context Protocol Server for Elettra 2.0 - Alessio Igor Bogani (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)
18:00 Tango Steering Committee Meeting (reserved)
Tango Steering Committee Meeting (reserved)
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Rosalind Franklin Meeting Room

20:00

20:00 - 22:30
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Tango Control infrastructure and automated laser alignment at CALA - Sebastian Luke Henzelmann

09:20 Operation of a liquid leaf target system for laser-driven ion acceleration using Tango Controls - Mykhailo Salan (CALA)

09:40 Towards Asynchronous Programming on Tango: An Asyncua Device Server for OPC UA - Emilio Morales (ALBA Synchrotron.)

10:00 A Web-Based Alarm Management Layer for Tango Facilities — From PyAlarm and AlarmHandler to Operator-Centric Alarm Workflows - Lukasz Zytniak (S2INNOVATION)

10:20 Web-based alarm management: How hard can it be? - Thomas Juerges (SKAO)
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Tents
11:15
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
Contributions

11:15 Tango executive commitee report - Yury Matveev (DESY)

11:35 Tango Special Interest Group Meetings: What is going on? - Thomas Juerges (SKAO)

11:55 Tango Controls Road Map: Current status, Outlook and your suggestions - Thomas Juerges (SKAO)
12:45 Tango Meeting: Closure
Tango Meeting: Closure
12:45 - 13:00
Room: Maxwell Auditorium

13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Tents

14:30

14:30 - 16:30
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
Thursday, 11 June 2026

09:00 Welcome
Welcome
09:00 - 09:15
Room: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Briefing Room

Welcome
Welcome
09:00 - 09:10
Room: Nikola Tesla Training Room

09:10 Introduction & facility reports (speedrun style)
Introduction & facility reports (speedrun style)
09:10 - 09:45
Room: Nikola Tesla Training Room

09:15 HDB++ open workshop
HDB++ open workshop
09:15 - 11:00
Room: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Briefing Room

09:45 Continuous multi-technique scans
Continuous multi-technique scans
09:45 - 11:00
Room: Nikola Tesla Training Room

11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20
Room: Hall

11:20 HDB++ ecosystem and tools
HDB++ ecosystem and tools
11:20 - 13:00
Room: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Briefing Room

Continuous multi-technique scans
Continuous multi-technique scans
11:20 - 13:00
Room: Nikola Tesla Training Room

13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Hall

14:00 HDB++ Developers meeting
HDB++ Developers meeting
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Briefing Room

Trajectories Integration
Trajectories Integration
14:00 - 15:20
Room: Nikola Tesla Training Room

15:20 Documentation
Documentation
15:20 - 16:00
Room: Nikola Tesla Training Room

16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20
Room: Hall

16:20 HDB++ Roadmap
HDB++ Roadmap
16:20 - 18:00
Room: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Briefing Room

Sequencer Improvements
Sequencer Improvements
16:20 - 17:20
Room: Nikola Tesla Training Room

17:20 Discussion and Roadmap
Discussion and Roadmap
17:20 - 18:00
Room: Nikola Tesla Training Room
Friday, 12 June 2026

09:00 Developer Session / Bug Squashing Party
Developer Session / Bug Squashing Party
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Nikola Tesla Training Room

10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:00
Room: Maxwell Auditorium

11:00 Developer Session / Bug Squashing Party
Developer Session / Bug Squashing Party
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Nikola Tesla Training Room

13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Maxwell Auditorium

14:00 Developer Session / Bug Squashing Party
Developer Session / Bug Squashing Party
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Nikola Tesla Training Room

15:00 Workshop feedback & closure
Workshop feedback & closure
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Nikola Tesla Training Room