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GÉANT Launch outline agenda
Tuesday 1 December - Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) and Vasa Museum
| 11:30 onwards | Registration |
| 12:30 onwards | Standing plated lunch |
| 13:30 | Chairman’s welcome Hans Doebbeling, General Manager, DANTE |
| 13:35 |
Commissioner Viviane Reding - European Commissioner Responsible for Information Society & Media - Video Address |
| 13:50 | Swedish Presidency goals towards Pioneering the Future Internet Dr Katarina Bjelke - Director-General, Swedish Ministry of Research and Education |
| 14:05 |
Pioneering the Future Internet - initiatives Address plus ceremonial link with Kuala Lumpur to show global reach of network and tie up with Launch of Tein3 Dr Zoran Stancic - Deputy Director General, European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General |
| 14:20 | GÉANT and TEIN3: Bringing cultures together across continents - Introduction by Cathrin Stover - view presentation |
| 14:30 | A brief overview of GÉANT Hans Doebbeling - General Manager Dante - view presentation |
| 14:50 | Coffee Break |
| 15:20 | Enabling research and education – impact on the next generation and their expectations Dr Giovanni Colombo - EIT Executive Committee and Adjunct Professor, Politecnico di Torino - view presentation |
| 15:50 | Panel Discussion: Keeping Europe at the cutting edge of Science Discovery Chairman; Kostas Glinos - Head of Unit “GÉANT & e-Infrastructure” in DG INFSO (The Directorate General for Information Society and Media) Panel Members; Dr Alexandre M.J.J Bonvin – Professor of Computational Structural Biology and Education Director Chemistry, NMR, Utrecht University - view presentation Dr. Edward Seidel - Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, U.S. National Science Foundation - view presentation Gard Titlestad - Head of Department of Education, Research and Labour Affairs, Nordic Council of Ministers - view presentation Dany Vandromme – Director, RENATER - view presentation |
| 16:40 | The Future of network usage Ulf Wahlberg- Vice President, Head of Industry and Research Relations- Vice President, Head of Industry and Research Relations - view presentation |
| 17:10 | Chairman’s wrap-up |
| Vasa Museum | |
| 19:00 | Cocktail reception |
| 19:30 | Guided tour of the Vasa ship |
| 20:00 | Dinner is served |
Wednesday 2 December - Museum of Modern Art
| 09:00 | Welcome back |
| 09:05 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:10 | Pioneering the Future Internet through addressing geographic issues Robert Klapisch - President, Sharing Knowledge Foundation - view presentation |
| 09:40 | Panel Discussion: Pioneering the Future Internet through technological innovation Chairman; Vasilis Maglaris - Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) - view presentation Panel members; Harald Alvestrand - Engineer, Google - view presentation Mauro Campanella - Senior Network Engineer, GARR - view presentation Prof. Scott Kirkpatrick - Professor, School of Engineering and Computer Science, HUJI - view presentation Sam Samuel - Vice president and CTO, North Europe Bell Labs - view presentation Prof. Dimitra Simeonidou - Member of the Photonic Networks Laboratory - view presentation |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Exploration of global environmental issues Robert Koopman - Expert, GEO, the Group on Earth Observations - view presentation |
| 11:30 | Panel Discussion - Perspectives on networks’ contribution to societal and environmental issues Chairman; Dai Davies - General Manager, DANTE Panel members; Prof. Geerd-R. Hoffmann – Director-General, Business Area Technical Infrastructure and Operations, Deutscher Wetterdienst - view presentation Robert Koopman - Expert, GEO, the Group on Earth Observations - view presentation Dr Giovanni B. Frisoni - Vice Scientific Director, IRCCS Centro San Giovanni di Dio FBF - The National Centre for Alzheimer's and Mental Diseases - view presentation Dr Pär Strand - Researcher, Chalmers University of Technology - view presentation |
| 12:30 | Chairman’s Closing remarks |
| 13:00 | Standing plated lunch |
