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European Grid Technology Days 2006
Public Launch of the Second Wave of Grid Technology Projects under the IST Priority of Framework Programme 6
Date: Tuesday 19 September 2006
Location: Charlemagne Building - Room S3, Rue de la Loi 170, Brussels, Belgium
Organised by the Grid Technologies Unit - DG INFSO, European Commission in cooperation with the AKOGRIMO project
Individual presentations can be downloaded below as well as the press release relating to this event. (PDF, 89KB)
Europe's vision on Grid and Service-Oriented Architectures: Preparing a business driven long-term research agenda
Agenda
- 08:30
- Registration
- 09:30
- Opening (video message):
Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, European Commission - 09:45
- Keynotes:
- Chair: Ulf Dahlsten, European Commission, Director Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures
- Prof. Lutz Heuser, VP, SAP Research: "Will Europe lead the evolution of the service-oriented infrastructures?" (PDF, 4.647KB)
- Prof. David De Roure, Univ. of Southampton: "From Grids towards Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities" (PDF, 2.273KB)
- 11:00
- Break
Industry Forum: Take-up and adoption of Grids and Service Oriented Architectures for future ICT infrastructures - opportunities and challenges ahead - 11:30
- Moderator:
- Prof. Bob Malcolm
- Panellists:
- Prof. Lutz Heuser, Vice President SAP Research;
- Prof. David De Roure , Professor - University of Southampton;
- Dr. Diego Pavía, Managing Director Atos Origin Spain (PDF, 833KB);
- Dr. Douglas Gregory, Vice President Gov Programmes, IBM EMEA;
- Prof. Michel Cosnard, President INRIA (PDF, 68KB);
- Dr. Ulrich Widmann, AUDI Research (PDF, 6.407KB);
- Mr. Wolfgang Boch, European Commission
- Download here the outcome of the panel discussion (PDF, 116KB)
- 13:00
- Lunch
From vision to implementation - Launch of the 2nd wave of Grid projects
- 14:00
- The EU Grid Technologies Initiative
- Wolfgang Boch, European Commission, Head of Unit Grid Technologies (PDF, 1.601KB)
- Moderated discussions: Visions of the new FP6 Grid Research Projects
- 14:30
- Bringing Grids to Business, Industry and Society
- BEinGRID (PDF, 408KB), GridEcon (PDF, 137KB), SORMA (PDF, 83KB), Edutain@Grid (PDF, 744KB), Grid4All (PDF, 225KB) and QosCosGrid (PDF, 672KB)
- Moderators: Annalisa Bogliolo and Max Lemke, European Commission, Grid Technologies
- 15:20
- Powering the Grid
- A-WARE (PDF, 2.641KB), g-Eclipse (PDF, 457KB), GREDIA (PDF, 1.953KB), GridCOMP (PDF, 893KB), KnowARC (PDF, 844KB) and XtreemOS (PDF, 1.123KB)
- Moderator: Franco Accordino, European Commission, Grid Technologies
- 16:10
- Break
- 16:40
- Knowledge and Trust in the Grid
- ARGUGRID (PDF, 201KB), AssessGrid (PDF, 127KB), BREIN (PDF, 88KB), Chemomentum (PDF, 1.144KB) and GridTrust (PDF, 386KB)
- Moderator: Maria Tsakali, European Commission, Grid Technologies
- 17:20
- Developing a European Strategy on Grids and Grid Services
- CHALLENGERS (PDF, 164KB), NESSI-Grid (PDF, 210KB) and DEGREE (PDF, 1.413KB)
- Moderator: Vincent Obozinski, European Commission, Grid Technologies
- 17:40
- International Cooperation: EU-China
- ECHOGRID (PDF, 905KB), BRIDGE (PDF, 358KB) and EC-GIN (PDF, 242KB)
- Moderator: Jorge Gasós, European Commission, Grid Technologies
- 18:00
- Closing
- Wolfgang Boch, European Commission, Head of Unit Grid Technologies