8th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting

from Thursday 4 November 2010 (09:00) to Friday 5 November 2010 (18:00)
CERN (Globe 1st Floor)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Nov 2010
5 Nov 2010
AM
10:30 Visit to CERN (optional)  
08:30
Presentation of the new (Call 7) projects - Chair : Carmela ASERO (Project Officer European Commission) (until 10:15)
08:30 Overview of the Call 7 results - Mr Enric Mitjana (European Commission, INFSO/F.3)  
08:45 e-ScienceTalk and coordination and support actions in e-Infrastructures Call 7 - Mrs Catherine Gater (Chief Administration Officer / Dissemination Manager EGI)  
Slides
09:15 Virtual Research Communities - presented by Project Coordinators  
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45
Presentation of the new (Call 7) projects (until 11:40)
10:45 Distributed computing infrastructure (DCI) - Mr Steven Newhouse (Director EGI)  
Slides
11:05 Simulation software and services - presented by Project Coordinators  
11:30 PRACE  
Slides
11:40
e-Infrastructure of Simulation Software - Chair: Ioannis Sagias (European Commission INFSO/F.3) (until 13:00)
11:40 Panel Session "Simulation e-Infrastructure as a Service" - Mr Ioannis Sagias (European Commission INFSO/F.3)  
12:40 Wrap-up and Conclusion - Mr Kostas Glinos (DG INFSO) Tim Smith (CERN)  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Opening Session (until 13:50)
13:00 Welcome - Mrs Catherine Gater (coordinator of e-ScienceTalk project)  
Slides
13:10 Introduction to CERN - Mr Sergio Bertolucci (Director for Research and Scientific Computing - CERN)  
Slides
13:30 Digital Agenda for Europe and e-Infrastructures update - Mr Kostas Glinos (European Commission HoU, INFSO/F.3)  
Slides
13:50
Socio-Economic Evaluation of e-Infrastructures - Chair : Kyriakos Baxevanidis (European Commission INFSO/F.3) (until 15:15)
13:50 Economic Evaluation - EC perspective - Mrs Krystyna Marek (European Commission, INFSO/F.3)  
Slides
14:10 Economics of innovation and technology - Prof. Erik Bohlin (Head of Division of Technology and Society Chalmers University of Technology)  
14:40 Experience of funding agencies - Mrs Jane Nicholson (Head of Infrastructure & International - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK)  
Slides
15:10 Q/A  
15:15 --- Coffee break ---
15:45
Socio-Economic Evaluation of e-Infrastructures - Chair : Krystyna Marek (European Commission INFSO/F.3) (until 19:00)
15:45 User perspective - Robert Cossu  
Slides
16:00 Presentation by the ERINA+ project - Mr Andrea Manieri (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A)  
Slides
16:15 Presentation by the eNventory project - Mr Jorge-Andres Sanchez-Papaspiliou (JNP) Dr Nikos Vogiatzis (SEE-GRID Project Coordinator)  
Fact Sheet
Slides
16:30 Experiences of e-Infrastructure flagship projects - Dr Bob Jones (CERN)  
17:15 Open discussion on Socio-Economic evaluation - Animated by ERINA+ and eNventory  
18:30 Q/A  
18:45 Wrap up by chair  
19:00 --- Networking cocktail ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Training on European Helpdesk for Open Access OpenAIRE project - Chair: Jarkko Siren (European Commission INFSO/F.3) (until 15:45)
14:00 Welcome and Introduction - Kostas Glinos (DG INFSO) Jens Vigen (CERN)  
Slides
14:10 "OA Pilot Initiative: need to engage" - Mr Francesco Fusaro (DG RTD)  
Slides
14:30 Presentation of the OpenAIRE pilot  
15:30 Wrap-up and Conclusion by chair