Event venue:
Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel, Tbilisi city centre https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/hotels/radisson-blu-tbilisi
Accommodation:
Hotel room can be booked at special rate of 130 €/night by the meeting participants (link will be provided later)
Other recommended hotels:
MIRAVERE Hotel https://www.booking.com/hotel/ge/europe-tbilisi.en-gb.html
Rooms Hotel https://roomshotels.com/hotel/tbilisi/
ibis Styles Tbilisi Center https://www.booking.com/hotel/ge/ibis-styles-tbilisi-center.en-gb.html
Courtyard Tbilisi https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/tbscy-courtyard-tbilisi/overview
There are also plenty of hotels including boutique hotels close to the meeting venue.
How to get there:
The venue can be reached from the Tbilisi International Airport by taxi. Airport taxi service at Tbilisi International Airport is available outside the terminal in front of the Arrival Hall and provides 24 hour service to the passengers. The journey time to the city center takes approximately 30 minutes dependent on traffic. Price of the taxi service to the Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel is fixed and at this stage equals to 60 GEL equivalent to approx. 20 € (there is a probability of price change in Autumn). Passengers can book the taxi 1 month prior to the arrival in Tbilisi via the following link: http://www.flytaxi.ge/ or the contact person at GRENA can assist in booking a taxi. The taxi company advised to reserve a cab in advance before the arrival and to give the names of passengers in order to avoid any inconveniences.
Contact Tamara Gvenetadze tamara@grena.ge regarding transportation issues.
Virtual Participation:
There will be possibility of online participation via ZOOM.
Tuesday, 11 October 2022
DRAFT AGENDA
Monday, 10 October - city tour in the afternoon and dinner hosted by GRENA
EAP Connect meeting will follow on Wednesday 12 October 2022
**Tbilisi is 2 hours ahead of CEST**
| 9:30-10:00 | Warm Welcome by Ramaz Kvatadze and introduction to GRENA |
| Foresight (Part 1): Contextualising Foresight in R&E (what is it, why is it important, latest learnings etc.) | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Prof RenÉ Rohrbeck (Professor of Foresight, Innovation and Transformation, EDHEC Business School, Lille) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Questions and discussion |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| Foresight (Part 2): Foresight in GEANT/NREN community | |
| 11:00-12:00 | National case studies - SWITCH, JISC SURF (TBC) - why we did this/why is foresight important for NRENs (from their point of view) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Questions and discussion |
| 12:30-12:45 | Foresight for GEANT - Scoping the GEANT wider Foresight study - Raimundas Tuminauskas (TBC) - early thoughts |
| 12:45-13:15 | Group discussion - what’s important for you/what would you like to see in a foresight study |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| Sustainability of Services | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Sustainability - introduction. Learnings from CEO Track TNC and beyond |
| 14:15-15:00 | Part 1: Network services - use cases on service positioning of new network services. Learnings/best practice. Discussion. |
| 15:00-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Part 2: Above the net services - use cases on T&I services and or Cloud. How do you market to your users. What worked/what didn’t. (At least 1 failure or learning) |
| Discussion and goodbye |