A talk titled “The Ophidia project: towards a High Performance Data Analytics and Machine Learning framework for climate change” and a training session on Ophidia/ECAS will be held in the context of the SOSC 2018 Second International PhD School Open Science Cloud (Perugia, Italy) on September 19, 2018. The training relates to the execution of analytics operators and python notebooks that exploit the PyOphidia package for scientific analyses on climate data in the ECASLab environment.