40th Tango Community meeting at ALBA

Jun 8, 2026, 8:00 AM → Jun 12, 2026, 6:00 PM Europe/Madrid

Maxwell Auditorium (ALBA Synchrotron)

Zbigniew Reszela (ALBA Synchrotron)

40th Tango Community meeting at ALBA

Tango Controls is a free open source device-oriented controls toolkit for controlling any kind of hardware or software and building SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems.

The meeting is hosted in a hybrid mode by ALBA Synchrontron.

The ALBA Synchrotron is a large research infrastructure, located in Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona). It is a fundamental pillar of the Spanish and European research arena, offering to academic and industrial users a wide variety of state-of-the-art instrumentation.

Dates: June 8 - 12, 2026

• Tango Meeting:
  • June 8 and 9 - whole day sessions
  • June 10 - morning only sessions and visit to the ALBA Synchrotron in the afternoon
• Satellite Workshops - whole day sessions
  • Archiving and Databases: June 11
  • Sardana: June 11 and 12

Location: Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona, Spain

Welcome to the 40th Tango Community Meeting at ALBA. We are excited to bring together our international community for a full week of inspiring sessions and networking opportunities in the beautiful town of Cerdanyola del Vallès located near to Barcelona.

Monday, June 8

1 Tango Meeting: Registration

2 Tango Meeting: Welcome

Facility status reports

1:00 PM Lunch break

Tuesday, June 9

1:00 PM Lunch break

Wednesday, June 10

1:00 PM Lunch break

Thursday, June 11

Archiving and Databases Workshop: Welcome

Sardana Workshop: Welcome

Sardana Workshop: Introduction & facility reports (speedrun style)

Archiving and Databases Workshop: HDB++ open workshop

Sardana Workshop: Continuous multi-technique scans

11:00 AM Coffee break

Archiving and Databases Workshop: HDB++ ecosystem and tools

Sardana Workshop: Continuous multi-technique scans

1:00 PM Lunch break

Archiving and Databases Workshop: HDB++ Developers meeting

Sardana Workshop: Trajectories Integration

Sardana Workshop: Documentation

4:00 PM Coffee Break

Archiving and Databases Workshop: HDB++ Roadmap

Sardana Workshop: Sequencer Improvements

Sardana Workshop: Discussion and Roadmap

Friday, June 12

Sardana Workshop: Developer Session / Bug Squashing Party

10:45 AM Coffee break

Sardana Workshop: Developer Session / Bug Squashing Party

1:00 PM Lunch break

Sardana Workshop: Developer Session / Bug Squashing Party

Sardana Workshop: Workshop feedback & closure