8th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting

from Thursday, November 4, 2010 (9:00 AM) to Friday, November 5, 2010 (6:00 PM)
CERN (Globe 1st Floor)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Nov 4, 2010
Nov 5, 2010
AM
10:30 AM Visit to CERN (optional)  
8:30 AM
Presentation of the new (Call 7) projects - Chair : Carmela ASERO (Project Officer European Commission) (until 10:15 AM)
8:30 AM Overview of the Call 7 results - Mr Enric Mitjana (European Commission, INFSO/F.3)  
8:45 AM e-ScienceTalk and coordination and support actions in e-Infrastructures Call 7 - Mrs Catherine Gater (Chief Administration Officer / Dissemination Manager EGI)  
Slides
9:15 AM Virtual Research Communities - presented by Project Coordinators  
10:15 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:45 AM
Presentation of the new (Call 7) projects (until 11:40 AM)
10:45 AM Distributed computing infrastructure (DCI) - Mr Steven Newhouse (Director EGI)  
Slides
11:05 AM Simulation software and services - presented by Project Coordinators  
11:30 AM PRACE  
Slides
11:40 AM
e-Infrastructure of Simulation Software - Chair: Ioannis Sagias (European Commission INFSO/F.3) (until 1:00 PM)
11:40 AM Panel Session "Simulation e-Infrastructure as a Service" - Mr Ioannis Sagias (European Commission INFSO/F.3)  
12:40 PM Wrap-up and Conclusion - Mr Kostas Glinos (DG INFSO) Tim Smith (CERN)  
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM
Opening Session (until 1:50 PM)
1:00 PM Welcome - Mrs Catherine Gater (coordinator of e-ScienceTalk project)  
Slides
1:10 PM Introduction to CERN - Mr Sergio Bertolucci (Director for Research and Scientific Computing - CERN)  
Slides
1:30 PM Digital Agenda for Europe and e-Infrastructures update - Mr Kostas Glinos (European Commission HoU, INFSO/F.3)  
Slides
1:50 PM
Socio-Economic Evaluation of e-Infrastructures - Chair : Kyriakos Baxevanidis (European Commission INFSO/F.3) (until 3:15 PM)
1:50 PM Economic Evaluation - EC perspective - Mrs Krystyna Marek (European Commission, INFSO/F.3)  
Slides
2:10 PM Economics of innovation and technology - Prof. Erik Bohlin (Head of Division of Technology and Society Chalmers University of Technology)  
2:40 PM Experience of funding agencies - Mrs Jane Nicholson (Head of Infrastructure & International - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK)  
Slides
3:10 PM Q/A  
3:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:45 PM
Socio-Economic Evaluation of e-Infrastructures - Chair : Krystyna Marek (European Commission INFSO/F.3) (until 7:00 PM)
3:45 PM User perspective - Robert Cossu  
Slides
4:00 PM Presentation by the ERINA+ project - Mr Andrea Manieri (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A)  
Slides
4:15 PM Presentation by the eNventory project - Mr Jorge-Andres Sanchez-Papaspiliou (JNP) Dr Nikos Vogiatzis (SEE-GRID Project Coordinator)  
Fact Sheet
Slides
4:30 PM Experiences of e-Infrastructure flagship projects - Dr Bob Jones (CERN)  
5:15 PM Open discussion on Socio-Economic evaluation - Animated by ERINA+ and eNventory  
6:30 PM Q/A  
6:45 PM Wrap up by chair  
7:00 PM --- Networking cocktail ---
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Training on European Helpdesk for Open Access OpenAIRE project - Chair: Jarkko Siren (European Commission INFSO/F.3) (until 3:45 PM)
2:00 PM Welcome and Introduction - Kostas Glinos (DG INFSO) Jens Vigen (CERN)  
Slides
2:10 PM "OA Pilot Initiative: need to engage" - Mr Francesco Fusaro (DG RTD)  
Slides
2:30 PM Presentation of the OpenAIRE pilot  
3:30 PM Wrap-up and Conclusion by chair