The next opportunity to get together to share ideas, experiences and best practices will be on 12-13 October 2016, when there will be a meeting of SIG-MSP in Rome, hosted by GARR.
Registration is open: register!
Information about hotels, the venue and how to get there are all available via the GARR website.
This is the preliminary agenda, which still leaves a lot of room for your contributions!
If you have any agenda topic ideas please contact Laura.Durnford@geant.org or add them into the agenda suggestions page.
| WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 | |||||
| TIME | WHAT | WHO | SLIDES | ||
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| 12:00-13:00 | ARRIVALS, LUNCH AND EMAILS | Kindly provided by GARR | |||
| 13:00-13:10 | Welcome, introductions | Martin Bech | |||
| 13:10-13:30 | Host welcome & presentation | Federico Ruggieri, GARR | |||
| 13:30-15:00 | GÉANT Clouds session |
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| Ready for adoption: IaaS and other services - update and discussion (1 hour) | Andres Steijaert (SURFnet) and Mandeep Saini (GÉANT) | ||||
| European R&E cloud broker service - proposal and feedback (30 mins) | Jan Meijer (UNINETT) | ||||
| 15:00-15:15 | COFFEE / TEA / EMAILS | Kindly provided by GARR | |||
| 15:15-15:40 | Cost savings follow up : HEAnet value for money report | Robert Hackett (HEAnet) | |||
| 15:40-16:05 | Towards a joint e-infrastructure services portfolio? | Annabel Grant (GÉANT) | |||
| 16:05-16:30 | Update on a possible user engagement task force TBC | TBC | |||
| 16:30-17:00 | AARNet Salesforce CRM as a single pre-sale and post-sale activity chain | James Sankar (AARNet) TBC | |||
| 17:15-17:30 | Day wrap up | Martin Bech | |||
| 19:00 | Social activity, followed by dinner | Kindly provided by GARR | |||
| THURSDAY 13 OCTOBER 2016 | |||||
| TIME | WHAT | WHO | SLIDES | ||
| 09:00-10:30 | Themed session - Sources of funding for projects and innovation | ||||
| GÉANT Community Programme options | Valter Nordh (SUNET) / Nicole Harris (GÉANT) TBC | ||||
OTHER VOLUNTEERS? | |||||
| Discussion: e.g. what is the lifecycle of innovation management? Mechanisms for moving activities through the GCP to NRENs, GÉANT or others. | |||||
| 10:30-10:45 | COFFEE / TEA / EMAILS | Kindly provided by GARR | |||
| 10:45-12:15 | Themed session - Sources of funding for projects and innovation part 2 : external aspects - how do we get funding from outside our community? | ||||
| VOLUNTEERS? | |||||
| Discussion: e.g. if NRENs get money from e.g. ICT programmes, how do we share the results and benefits? | |||||
| 12:15-12:55 | Session 4 - lightning talks! Open call for 10-minute slots - 4 available!! | ||||
| 12:55-13:00 | Wrap up, next meeting, AOB | Martin Bech | |||
| 13:00 | LUNCH | Kindly provided by GARR | |||