12 October 2010 | Cambridge, UK
Featuring ground-breaking user projects, a workshop focused on minimising the environmental impact of data networks, and a fun exhibition trail that helped visitors to understand how GÉANT and its partners work together, the GÉANT stand enjoyed three very busy days at ICT2010.
This biennial event has become a unique gathering point for researchers, business people, investors, and high level policy makers in the field of digital innovation, and ICT2010 focused on policy priorities such as Europe's Digital Agenda and the next financial programme of the European Union for funding research and innovation in ICT. With GÉANT playing such an important role at ICT, it was gratifying to see such interest in the event and the GÉANT project itself.
Representatives from the user projects showcased on the GÉANT stand reported great satisfaction with their attendance. Speaking on behalf of the Sim-e-Child and neuGRID projects, David Manset, CEO of MAAT France and Director of Biomedical Applications for the maatG Group remarked, “ICT2010 allowed us to demonstrate how we make use of the high-speed GÉANT network, in particular how it enables our participating clinical centers in sharing massive amounts of sensitive data across Europe as well as transatlantic. Thus the network enables the development of innovative new decision support applications from anatomical and physiological organ representations for simulating children's cardiological functions, to neurodegenerative disease models characterising associated conditions of elderlies.”
Also on hand were representatives of the GÉANT project to explain and demonstrate advanced services such as Bandwidth-on-Demand and the perfSONAR network monitoring tool, discuss networking solutions with potential user projects, and give an insight into the wide variety of research projects that the network is helping to enable.
It was this variety of user projects that appeared to make the GÉANT stand such an attraction for co-exhibitors and visitors alike. David Manset explains, “Running this booth together with GÉANT was a great experience. It made it possible for several leading edge projects such as ours to team up, thus giving visitors a taste on a wide spectrum of research activities taking their roots from the underlying network and hatching in breakthrough applications for scientists worldwide".
The team behind GÉANT’s participation would like to thank all those who contributed to the success of the event.
For those who were unable to attend, all presentations and case studies are available to view and/or download. Please see the links below.
Presentations and case studies are available to view and/or download on the ICT Event page
Read more about the event at the ICT website - http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2010/index_en.htm
