GRDI2020 Workshop |
“Global Research Data Infrastructures: The Big Data Challenges” |
18th & 19th October 2011 |
Room 0/S1, Avenue de Beaulieu 25, Brussels |
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Download the Final Agenda
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AGENDA |
| Day 1 – 18th October 2011 |
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14:00 – 14:05
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Welcome ->Watch Video! |
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Hilary Hanahoe GRDI2020 Coordinator, Trust-IT Services Ltd., UK |
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| 14:05 – 14:20 |
Global Data, Global Cooperation - the European Commission's perspective ->Watch Video! |
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Mario Campolargo, Director DG INFSO Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures, European Commission, Belgium |
| 14:20 – 14:40 |
The GRDI2020 Vision for Global Research Data Infrastructures ->Watch Video!
Costantino Thanos, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTI-CNR), Italy |
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| International Policy Session moderated by Carlos Morais-Pires, Head of Sector for Scientific Data Infrastructures, DG INFSO - European Commission, Belgium |
| 14:40 – 15:00 |
US Department of Energy, Office of Science Perspective on large data for science ->Watch Video! |
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Daniel Hitchcock, Director, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Office of Science, US Department of Energy, US
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15:00 – 15:20
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Australian Policy for Research Data Infrastructures ->Watch Video!
Ross Wilkinson, Executive Director, Australian National Data Service, Australia
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| 15:20 – 15:40 |
Latin American Policy for Research Data Infrastructure -> Watch Video! |
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Vanderlei Canhos Perez, President Director of the Reference Center on Environmental Information (CRIA), Brazil & GRDI2020 Advisory Board Member |
| 15:40 – 16:00 |
Asian Policy for Research Data Infrastructure ->Watch Video! |
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Simon Lin, Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center, Taiwan & GRDI2020 Advisory Board Member |
| 16:40 – 16:20 |
African Policy for Research Data Infrastructure ->Watch Video! |
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Colin Wright, Manager Cyberinfrastructure Group of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
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| 16:20 – 16:50 |
Coffee Break |
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| Organizational and Policy Issues Session moderated by Fotis Karayannis, ATHENA RC, Greece |
| 16:50 – 17:10 |
Research and Learning in the Digital Age: the Infrastructural Challenges ->Watch Video! |
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Dan Atkins, University of Michigan, US & GRDI2020 Advisory Board Member |
| 17:10 – 17:30 |
Scientific Data Management and the International Council for Science ->Presentation Podcast |
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Ray Harris, Emeritus Professor of Geography, University College London, UK & GRDI2020 Advisory Board Member
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| 17:30 – 17:50 |
Towards common solutions - supporting and promoting the use and development of e-infrastructures within ESFRI projects
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Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph, ESFRI Chair, Germany |
| 17:50 – 18:10 |
Governance and User Involvement in e-Infrastructures |
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Gudmund Høst, e-IRG Chair, Norway |
| 18:10 – 18:30 |
EGI - a common foundation for compute and data intensive research |
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Per Oster, EGI Chair, Finland |
| 18:30 – 19:00 |
Moderated panel discussion |
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| 19:00 |
Networking Cocktail |
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| Day 2 – 19th October 2011 |
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| Innovation Session moderated by Donatella Castelli, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTI-CNR), Italy |
| 09:00 – 09:20 |
Environmental Monitoring: Seismological Grand Challenges in Understanding the Earth’s Dynamic systems |
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Massimo Cocco, Research Director, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy |
| 09:20 – 09:40 |
Data and Knowledge for global food security |
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Johannes Keizer, Information Systems Officer, FAO – United Nations, Italy |
| 09:40 – 10:00 |
Data Use |
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Dave De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre and National Strategic Director for Digital Social Research, UK
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| 10:00 – 10:20 |
In a digital ecosystem of scientific research, are there predators? |
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Jean-Claude Guédon, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Montréal, Canada
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| 10:20 – 11:00 |
Moderated Panel Discussion |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| Technological Issues Session moderated by Erwin Laure, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
| 11:30 – 11:50 |
Dimensions of interoperable science ecosystems |
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Charles Humphrey, Academic Director Research Data Centre - University of Alberta Canada |
| 11:50 – 12:10 |
Cloud Computing for data-driven Research |
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Fabrizio Gagliardi, EMEA Director, Microsoft Research Connections (External Research), Microsoft Research, UK & GRDI2020 Advisory Board Member
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| 12:10 - 12:30 |
Taming Data Sharing and Re-using in the e-Infrastructures realm |
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Pasquale Pagano, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTI-CNR), Italy
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| 12:30 – 13:00 |
Moderated panel discussion |
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| 13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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The Future of Global Research Data Infrastructures Panel Debate moderated by Kostas Glinos, Head of Unit GEANT & eInfrastructures, DG Information Society & Media, European Commission, Belgium
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| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Cyberinfrastruture Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21)
Alan Blatecky, Director Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI), National Science Foundation (NSF), US
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PANEL
MEMBERS |
The Status of Research Data Infrastructure in Canada
Charles Humphrey, Academic Director Research Data Centre - University of Alberta Canada |
The Future of Global Research Data Infrastructures
Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens and ATHENA Research Center, Greece |
| John Wood CBE FREng, Secretary General, The Association of Commonwealth Universities, High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data Information Chair & European Research Area Board Chair, United Kingdom |
| 15:30 – 16:00 |
Conclusions and Recommendations |
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Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens and ATHENA Research Center, Greece
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