European Grid Technology Days 2004
IST-FP6 Grid projects launch 15 September

Charlemagne Building, Room S3
Rue de la Loi 170, Brussels
Wednesday 15 September 2004

Agenda

     

08:30

Registration opens

  European Grid vision: Preparing a long-term research agenda
 

Chair: L. Rodríguez-Roselló, Acting Director, DG-INFSO, European Commission

09:30

Opening: “Grids: a crucial technology for the knowledge-based economy”
P. Zangl, Deputy Director General Information Society, European Commission

09.45

Keynote: “The Grid research perspective: delivering new opportunities”
David Snelling, Chair Next Generation Grid Expert Group, Fujitsu Labs Europe

 

Keynote: “The Grid business perspective: the commercial imperative”
I. Padilla, CEO, Telefónica I+D

11:00

Break

Industry Forum: Exploiting European strength in Grid research – Preparing a roadmap for implementation (click for further details)

Moderator: J. Taylor, ex-Director General UK Research Councils

11:30

Panellists:
J. Schaper, VP Research Americas, SAP
M. Teyssedre, VP Strategic Business Development - ISG – EMEA, IBM
S. Sim, General Manager Research, BT
G. Garrison, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Menlo Park Europe
G. Kahn, President and CEO, INRIA
W. Boch, Head of Unit Grid Technologies, European Commission
I. Padilla, CEO, Telefónica I+D
D. Snelling, Chair Next Generation Grid Expert Group, Fujitsu Labs Europe

13:00

Lunch

  From vision to implementation – FP6 Grid projects launch - (click for further details)

Chair: W. Boch, Head of Unit Grid Technologies, European Commission

14:00

“The EU Grid Technologies initiative”
W. Boch, Head of Unit Grid Technologies, European Commission

14:30

Presentation of Grid visions by the new FP6 Grid research projects

16:15

Underpinning research and Grid architectures
- NextGrid – Next generation Grid - ( Fact Sheet )
- M Parsons, Univ. of Edinburgh
- Akogrimo – Access to knowledge through the Grid in a mobile world - ( Fact Sheet )
- A. Sánchez, Telefónica I+D and S. Wesner HLRS
- UniGrids – Uniform interface to Grid services - ( Fact Sheet )
- D. Snelling, Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe
- CoreGrid – European Grid research network - ( Fact Sheet )
- T. Priol, INRIA/ERCIM
- Questions
Applications driving business growth and scientific discovery
- Simdat – Data Grids for process and product development - ( Fact Sheet )
- C.-A. Thole, Fraunhofer – SCAI

- DataminingGrid-Data mining tools and services for Grid computing environments - ( Fact Sheet )
- W. Dubitzky, Univ. of Ulster

- IntelliGrid – Interoperability of virtual organisations on complex semantic Grid - ( Fact Sheet )
- Z. Turk, Univ. of Ljubljana
- Questions

Break

16:45

Technologies for problem solving
- OntoGrid – Paving the way for knowledgeable Grid services and systems - ( Fact Sheet )
- C. Goble, Univ. of Manchester
- K-WF Grid – Knowledge-based workflow system for Grid applications - ( Fact Sheet )
- M. Bubak, Cyfronet

- Provenance – Enabling and supporting provenance in Grids for complex problems - ( Fact Sheet )
- J. Ibbotson, IBM UK

- HPC4U – Highly predictable cluster for Internet Grids - ( Fact Sheet )
- G. Schneider, Meiosys
Building the European Research Area
- GridCoord – ERA pilot on a co-ordinated Europe-wide initiative in Grid research - ( Fact Sheet )
- M. Vanneschi, Univ. Of Pisa
- Questions

17:30

Close

     
 
Organised by the Grid Technologies Unit –
DG INFSO, European Commission in cooperation
withthe GRIDSTART and NextGRID projects