Experiments undertaken at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, generate vertiginous amounts of data. At the HiPEAC conference in January 2018, CERN openlab Chief Technology Officer Maria Girone will give a keynote talk on the computing challenges behind this incredible tool for scientific research. In this interview, Maria sets out some of these challenges and gives us a glimpse into the future of high-energy physics research at CERN.