GÉANT2 a Global Leader - Conference Agenda

3-4 March 2008
Golf Hotel, Bled, Slovenia
(Attendance by invitation only)

Monday 3 March 2008
Master of Ceremonies : Tomaz Kalin

GÉANT2 Achievements and Successor Network

14:00 Welcome and Introduction from Government Minister - Mojca Kucler Dolinar- Slovenian  Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology
14:10  Opening Ceremony - Viviane Reding - Commissioner for Information Society and Media, European Commission
14:20  Welcome from ARNES - Marko Bonač- Director ARNES, Slovenian Academic Network
14:30 e-lnfrastructures Landscape  - Mario Campolargo- Acting Director, Directorate F, Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures  Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission
15:00 GÉANT2 Achievements  - Hans Döbbeling- General Manager Dante
15:30 Lessons learnt in GÉANT2 - Ivan Maric - Director on DANTE’s Board and Deputy Director of University Computing Centre – SRCE, University of Zagreb
15:50 Coffee Break
16:20 EARNEST study findings - Dorte Olesen - Director General UNI-C
16:50 What should come after GÉANT2? - Vasilis Maglaris – Chairman NREN Policy Committee
17:30 Close
19:30 Cocktail reception and Gala Dinner

Tuesday 4 March 2008

Global/Regional Networking Perspective
Master of Ceremonies: Juan Quemada

09:00  Opening Remarks 
09:10 Research Networks in Slovenia  - Marko Bonač- Director ARNES, Slovenian Academic Network, Borut Paul Kersevan - Professor University of Ljubljana
09:35 TEIN2 Achievements and Plans - Asia   David West - TEIN2 Project Manager, Dante,
Denis Villorente Director, ASTI Advanced Science and  Technology Institute - Location: Philippines
10:00 SEEREN achievements and plans - South East Europe - Yannis Mitsos - GRNET Research and education Network
10:20  Coffee Break 
10:45 EUMEDCONNECT Project Achievements - Mediterranean  - Yousef Torman – Executive Director JUNet, Jordanian Universities Network
11:05 ALICE Achievements and Plans – Latin America - Florencio Utreras - Executive Director of CLARA, the Latin American Cooperation of Research Networks
11:25

New Programmes - Central Asia - Boris Japarov- Director General KazRENA Kazakh  Research and Educational Networking Association Black Sea Initiative : Serkan Orcan -Turkish Academic Network and Information Center

11:45 Lightning presentations - Invited from the Globe
12:05  Future Global Networking Requirements/Perspectives Panel Discussion (videoconferencing): all of the Above
12:30  Lunch

Current and Future Uses of pan-European Networking

13:30  Welcome address  - Dany Vandromme - Director of RENATER
13:40 Research Infrastructures’ Future Networking Requirements - Herve Pero -  Head of  Research infrastructure Unit, Directorate-General for Research, European Commission
14:00 CERN/LHC Networking Achievements & Future Requirements  - David G. Foster- Head of Communications and Networking
14:20 Coffee Break
14:50 EBI Perspective - Large Scale Informatics for biology  Graham Cameron -  Associate Director EMBL-EBI
15:10 Radio-astronomy. A telescope larger than Europe
  
Huib Jan van Langevelde -  Director JIVE
15:30 DEISA - Ralph Niederberger- DEISA Network Team Leader
16:00 Earth Science: Virtual Private Networks -  Luigi Fusco- Senior Advisor for Earth Observation Applications- European Space Agency
16:30

The importance of Research Networking to research and education European Commission and closing remarks - Antti Peltomäki - Deputy Director General, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission

17:00 Close