Materials

Articles, talks & presentations

Articles and previous presentations on the IFS AI Assistant and on the cluster provisioning approach behind MAIA.

Articles

Blog / Newsletter

The IFS AI Assistant

ECMWF Newsletter 187, Spring 2026

Open Blog / Newsletter

Making sense of complexity: an AI assistant for the IFS

ECMWF Science Blog, 3 August 2026

Publications

Automating Distributed Cloud Infrastructures for AI-Driven Earth Observation Services

Proceedings of Science (PoS), volume 523

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AI-Assisted DevSecOps for Secure Software Delivery in Earth Observation Projects

Proceedings of Science (PoS), volume 523

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Exploiting the Model-Context Protocol for Earth Observation Data Access and Workflow Orchestration

Proceedings of Science (PoS), volume 523

Talks & presentations

Seminar

IFS AI Assistant: a self-hosted hybrid retrieval-augmented generation for scientific codebases

IFS Section Seminar, ECMWF, 13 May 2026

Recording Slides Recording and slides on ECMWF SharePoint (internal access)

Oral presentation

A Retrieval-Augmented AI Assistant for navigating the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System codebase

EGI Conference 2026, Ghent, September 2026

Enabling secure and scalable AI services for scientific codebases: a cloud-native infrastructure for the IFS RAG Assistant

EGI Conference 2026, Ghent, September 2026

Open Oral presentation

Automating Distributed Cloud Infrastructures for AI-Driven Earth Observation Services

ISGC 2026, Taipei, 19 March 2026 (Crossplane, Cluster API and Sveltos)

RAG-Powered IFS Assistant: Local Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Scientific Codebases

CD Departmental meeting, ECMWF, 19 January 2026

Open On ECMWF SharePoint (internal access) Slides

Provisioning AI as a Service: A Cloud-Native LLM and RAG Platform for Any Application

CD Symposium 2026, ECMWF, 13–14 October 2026

Open On ECMWF SharePoint (internal access)