eventrSIG-Marcomms will meet on 17-18 September 2019, including a joint meeting with SIG-MSP, hosted by RENATER in Montpellier, France.

Registration is open: register here!

The venue is in the old town:

Faculty of Medicine,
2 Rue de l'École de Médecine,
34090 Montpellier

Where to stay

Ibis Montpellier Centre (16 min walk)
Hotel Mercure Montpellier Centre Comédie (17 min walk)
Pullman Montpellier Centre (18 min walk)
Royal Hotel (12 min walk)
Hotel Oceania (13 min walk)

and just 2 min walk:
Best Western Hotel Le Guilhem


Other hotel suggestions

Access to Montpellier


ALMOST FINAL AGENDA:

TIME

WHATWHOSLIDESNOTES
TUESDAY
17 Sept




09:00-09:15Arrivals & emails


09:15-09:30Welcome, introductions and agendaLonneke Walk (SURFnet - Chair)
& Laura Durnford (GÉANT -
Coordinator)


09:30-11:00

Practical session - introduction to making simple videos - part 1 - mobile phones

Laura Durnford & Dimple Sokartara (GÉANT)

11:00-11:15COFFEE / TEA / EMAILS


11:15-12:45

Practical session - introduction to making simple videos - part 2 - on your laptop

Laura Durnford & Dimple Sokartara (GÉANT)

12:45-13:25LUNCH


13:25-14:00

WAKE UP!

Hands-on communications game

Maria Ristkok (EENet of HITSA)

14:00-15:20

A BUFFET OF UPDATES

RENATER's focus on end-users

GRENA communications

Metric and measurement follow up: Using PIWIK for webstat

New PRACE website and tendering process


Alice Thorel (RENATER)

Tamara Gvenetadze (GRENA)

Goran Medenjak (ARNES)

Marjolein Oorsprong (PRACE)



15:20-15:35COFFEE / TEA / EMAILS


15:35-16:55

GÉANT UPDATES

Introducing the new GÉANT CONNECT site

Security awareness - promotional plans in GN4-3

GÉANT Trust & Identity Mentorship Programme

Clouds update


Paul Maurice (GÉANT)

Charlie van Genuchten (SURFnet / GÉANT Project)

Rosanna Norman (GÉANT)

Maria Ristkok (EENet of HITSA)



16:55-17:00Day summary & endLonneke

EVENINGNo set plans


WEDNESDAY
18 Sept




09:00-09:15ARRIVAL, EMAILS


09:15-09:55

THE BREAKFAST BUFFET

Jisc's digital 'self-serve" plans

How Enlighten Your Research gives us sustainability


Robert Haymon-Collins (Jisc)

Marina Sahakyan (ASNET-AM)



09:55-10:45

BRANDING & STRATEGY session - part 1

DeiC branding update

Data visualisation & showing value

Your presentation here?


Gitte Kudsk (DeiC)

Andrea Meloni (GÉANT)



10:45-11:00COFFEE / TEA / EMAILS
11:00-12:15

BRANDING & STRATEGY session - part 2

Recruitment communications

  • Life at GÉANT campaign
  • CSC-Funet recruitment activities
  • Belnet recruitment communication



Rosanna Norman (GÉANT)
Minna Lappalainen (CSC-Funet)
Laetitia Lagneau (Belnet)

12:15-13:00LUNCH & EMAILS


START OF JOINT MEETING BETWEEN SIG-MARCOMMS & SIG-MSP


13:00-13:15Welcome & introductionsLonneke Walk & Martin Bech 

13:15-13:35

Host welcome & presentation

Sabine Jaume (RENATER - TBC)

13:35-15:15

"Services marketing within a wider strategic plan"

Session objective: better working together of services managers and marcomms teams to ensure a good fit between needs and outputs, to align team strategic planning and to support company strategy.

Topics to include: Aspects of relationship management, how to get users involved in service development, how do we liaise with customers / users? How can marketing and service teams work together on this?

Format: 20-minute presentations plus 30 minutes shared discussion

  • SURFnet cloud services delivery
  • CSC-Funet experiences
  • RENATER's new agile method to develop services

Chaired by Martin Bech






Lonneke Walk & Michel Wets (SURFnet)
Minna Lappalainen & Harri Kuusisto (CSC-Funet)
Alice Thorel & Jean-François Guezou (RENATER)



15:15-15:30COFFEE / TEA / EMAILS


15:30-17:15

"Brand management"

Session objective: discuss (and agree?) on brand management challenges and best practices for NRENs and GEANT community

Topics to include: when to use an NREN-name/logo, how to address a request for wider GEANT (and EU) recognition among users, practical approaches

Format: panel discussion / interviews including open discussion with the whole group

Chaired by Lonneke Walk

Panel to include: ....




17:15-17:30Wrap up, end joint meetingLonneke Walk, Martin Bech

EVENING

departure time TBC

BUS TO JOINT SOCIAL EVENT - 7pm dinner at the beach at restaurant "la baie du roi" in the city of Grau du Roi, about 20mn of Montpellier. Returning to Montpellier around 22:00 CEST.
https://www.labaieduroi.fr/index.html
Kindly organised by RENATER

THURSDAY
19 Sept
SIG-MSP meeting - you are welcome to stay to attend this (morning) meeting too - see the agenda and please register.


If you have any topic ideas for future meetings, please contact Laura.Durnford@geant.org or add them into the agenda suggestions page.