EGI Conference 2016. Opening Science in Europe and in the World

Session

Opening Plenary: Open Science, Open Innovation and Open to the world in the EGI strategy

6 Apr 2016, 09:00

Science Park

Conveners

Opening Plenary: Open Science, Open Innovation and Open to the world in the EGI strategy

• Arjen van Rijn (NIKHEF)

Description

In this session for the first time the EGI strategy 2015-2020 will be presented to the public. The role EGI in the international landscape and in the context of new initiatives of the European Commission like the Open Science Cloud will be presented.

The sessions will also offer the opportunity to publicly launch the Business Development programme.

5. Enabling collaborative data and compute-intensive science: EGI Open Science Cloud vision

Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)

06/04/2016, 09:00

20. Important Project of Common European Interest on High performance computing and big data enabled application: a pilot for the European Data Infrastructure

Antonio Zoccoli (INFN), Donatella Lucchesi (INFN)

06/04/2016, 09:40

The analysis of the European digital e-infrastructures has demonstrated that they are fragmented by the scientific and the economic domains and there are very few synergies among different countries. The lack of interoperability of infrastructure and tools prevents the share of data to industry, governments and scientists even of the same area of interest being one of the major obstacle to the...

7. KEYNOTE: Frontiers of research at CERN and the computing and data management needs

Eckhard Elsen (CERN)

06/04/2016, 10:15

Eckhard Elsen is CERN Director for Research and Computing BIO: http://press.web.cern.ch/biographies/eckhard-elsen-born-1955-german