Name: EGI Conference 2016. Opening Science in Europe and in the World
Start: 2016-04-05T07:55:00+02:00
End: 2016-04-08T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Science Park

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

from Tuesday, 5 April 2016 (07:55) to Friday, 8 April 2016 (18:00)
Science Park

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

5 Apr 2016

6 Apr 2016

7 Apr 2016

8 Apr 2016

09:30	EGI-Engage Collaboration Board CLOSED (until 11:00) ()
11:00	Coffee Break (until 11:30) ()
11:30	EGI Plenary Session -Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu) (until 13:00) ()

01:00	EGI AAI Services - Peter Solagna (EGI.eu) (until 02:30) ()
09:00	Opening Plenary: Open Science, Open Innovation and Open to the world in the EGI strategy - Arjen van Rijn (NIKHEF) (until 11:00) (Turingzaal)
09:00	Enabling collaborative data and compute-intensive science: EGI Open Science Cloud vision - Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu) (Turingzaal) Slides
09:40	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) (Turingzaal) Slides
10:15	KEYNOTE: Frontiers of research at CERN and the computing and data management needs - Eckhard Elsen (CERN) (Turingzaal) Slides
11:00	Coffee break (until 11:30) (WCW Congress Centre)
11:30	Competence centres, user communities -Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu) (until 13:00) (Ground floor)
11:30	R tools for ecological observatories - Experiences from the LifeWatch Competence Centre - Jesus Marco de Lucas (CSIC) (Ground floor) Slides
11:45	etc (Ground floor)
12:00	Web portals and use cases for tsunami and weather simulation - Updates from the Disaster Mitigation Competence Centre - Eric Yen (AS) (Ground floor) Slides
12:30	EPOS CC - empowering use cases from the Solid Earth Science domain - Mariusz Sterzel (CYFRONET) (Ground floor) Slides
11:30	EGI Council meeting (closed) - Yannick Legre (EGI.eu) (until 13:00) (H331)
11:30	EGI Federated Cloud roadmap -Dr Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu) (until 13:00) (Turingzaal)
11:30	General status and architecture of the EGI Federated Cloud - Dr Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu) (Turingzaal) Slides
11:40	User support activities and requirements for FedCloud - Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN) (Turingzaal) Slides
11:55	Status and plans for the development activities of the Federated Cloud - Mr Alvaro Lopez Garcia (CSIC) (Turingzaal) Slides
12:10	Status of the operations activities around FedCloud - Vincenzo Spinoso (INFN) (Turingzaal) Slides
12:25	Roadmap of the Federated Cloud and discussion - Dr Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu) Mario David (LIP) Dr Giacinto Donvito (INFN) Mr Marco Capuccini (University of Uppsala) (Turingzaal) Slides
11:30	Managing Service Portfolios for Research in Europe - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.eu) (until 13:10) (Eulerzaal)
11:30	Introduction - Dr Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.eu) (Eulerzaal) Slides
11:40	Experience in managing service portfolio: EGI - Dr Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.eu) (Eulerzaal) Slides
11:50	Experience in managing service portfolio: EUDAT - Alexis Jean-Laurent (C.I.N.E.S. (Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur)) (Eulerzaal) Slides
12:20	Experience in managing service portfolio: GEANT - Andres Steijaert (SurfNet & GEANT) (Eulerzaal) Slides
12:30	Experience in managing service portfolio: OpenAIRE/BlueBridge - Pasquale Pagano (CNR) (Eulerzaal) Slides
12:35	Towards a Joint Service Catalogue for e-Infrastructure services - Dr Angela Dappert (The British Library & Thor Project) (Eulerzaal) CoS Document Slides
12:40	Experience in managing service portfolio: THOR Project & long-term access to services - Dr Angela Dappert (The British Library & Thor Project) (Eulerzaal) Slides
12:50	Presenetation ABS - Sara Coelho (EGI.eu) (Eulerzaal)

09:00	Third Community Workshop on Open Science Cloud - Wouter Los (University of Amsterdam) (until 10:30) (Turingzaal) HLEG recommendations The European Open Science Cloud web site
09:00	KEYNOTE: EOSC policy context, priorities and implementation roadmap - Wainer Lusoli (European Commission, DG Research & Innovation A.6 Science policy) (Turingzaal) Slides
09:30	EOSC market demand for art, humanties and cultural heritage - Franco Niccolucci (VAST-LAB, University of Florence) (Turingzaal) Slides
09:50	Priority gaps for EOSC (CORBEL RI CLUSTER) - Steven Newhouse (EMBL) (Turingzaal) Slides
10:10	ENVRIplus and the OSDC - Paolo Laj (CNRS and Uni Helsinki) (Turingzaal) Slides
10:30	Coffee break (until 11:00) (WCW Congress Centre)
11:00	Earth Observation Data Exploitation services - Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN) (until 12:30) (Eulerzaal)
11:00	European E-infrastructure needs in the context of ESA's proposed EO Application Platform initiative - Dr Günther Landgraf (ESA-ESRIN - Head of Ground Segment Infrastructure Engineering Section, Directorate of EO Programmes) (Eulerzaal) Slides
11:30	Dutch Green Monitor and its applications. A multi-sensor EO data platform - Dr Gerard Hazeu (ALTERRA) Dr Gerbert Roerink (ALTERRA) (Eulerzaal) Slides
11:50	Integration of the EGI Federated Cloud as a Cloud resource provider in ESA Geohazard and Hydrology Thematic Exploitation Platforms - Dr Cesare Rossi (Terradue) (Eulerzaal) Slides
12:05	EGI and Thales ESA INFOaaS Stimulus Project - Sy Holsinger (EGI.eu) (Eulerzaal) Slides
12:20	How EGI is supporting EO Services - Dr Emmanuel Mondon (AdviceGEO) (Eulerzaal) Slides
11:00	Protecting the EGI castle from thieves and marauders (Part 1) - David Kelsey (STFC) (until 12:30) (Ground floor)
11:00	Introduction (Ground floor)
11:10	Training - session 1 - Daniel Kouril (CESNET) Dr Sven Gabriel (NIKHEF) (Ground floor) Slides
11:00	Third Community Workshop on Open Science Cloud - David Foster (CERN) (until 12:30) (Turingzaal, WCW Congress Centre) HLEG recommendations The European Open Science Cloud web site
11:00	New services for repeatability and linking of research objects (OpenAIRE) - Paolo Manghi (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione - CNR) (Turingzaal, WCW Congress Centre) Slides
11:20	EOSC innovation for citizen science (SOCIENTIZE and Iber civis) - Fermin Serrano Sanz (UNIZAR) (Turingzaal, WCW Congress Centre) Paper Slides
11:45	Services for the establishment of data science - Yuri Demchenko (University of Amsterdam) (Turingzaal, WCW Congress Centre) Slides
12:05	Virtual Research Environments as-a-Service - Donatella Castelli (Consiglio Nazionele delle Ricerche (CNR) - ISTI) (Turingzaal, WCW Congress Centre) Slides

09:00	Neuroinformatics data exploitation service -Dr Yin Chen (EGI.eu) (until 10:30) (Ground floor)
09:00	Large-scale neuroimaging analysis: growth curves for the ageing brain - Dr Stefan Klein (Erasmus MC) (Ground floor)
09:20	Rosemary: Making Complex Collaborative Big Data Analysis Easy -- the Neuroscience use-case - Dr Shayan Shahand (Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam) Prof. Silvia Olabarriaga (Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam) (Ground floor)
09:40	HBP Medical Informatics - Dr Kherif Ferah (CHUV) (Matrix I)
10:00	EGI TestBed for HBP - Matthew Viljoen (EGI.eu) (Ground floor) Slides
09:00	Open to the World: collaborating e-Infrastructures for borderless research - Peter Solagna (EGI.eu) (until 10:30) (Turingzaal)
09:00	nectar cloud. The Australian gateway to global reserach - Glenn Moloney (UNIMELB) (Turingzaal) Slides
09:30	Open Science Grid: status and roadmap - Prof. miron livny (University of Wisconsin-Madison) (Turingzaal)
10:00	Advanced Research Computing Services in Canada - Compute Canada - Dugan O'Neil (Compute Canada) (Turingzaal) Slides
09:00	Tools, services and practices to support the long-tail of science -Dr Giuseppe La Rocca (EGI.eu) (until 10:30) (Eulerzaal)
09:00	Status report of the LToS platform - Dr Giuseppe La Rocca (EGI.eu) (Eulerzaal) Slides
09:15	WS-PGRADE job wizard in the EGI LToS platform - Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI) (Eulerzaal) Slides
09:35	Easy instantiation of VMs in the federated cloud through AppDB - Marios Chatziangelou (IASA) (Eulerzaal) Slides
09:55	Using the EGI Long Tail of Science VO for bioinformatics data-analysis with Chipster - Dr Kimmo Mattila (CSC) (Eulerzaal) Slides
10:15	Roadmap of the LToS platform and discussion (Eulerzaal)
10:30	Coffee break (until 11:00) (WCW Congress Centre)
11:00	Environmental and health data services -Dr Giuseppe La Rocca (EGI.eu) Dr Yin Chen (EGI.eu) (until 12:30) (Ground floor)
11:00	A cloud-based architecture for supporting medical imaging analysis through INDIGO-DataCloud - Prof. Ignacio Blanquer (UPVLC) (Ground floor) Slides
11:20	CryoEM: From Biomedical impact to Cloud deployment - Laura del Cano (CSIC) Jesus Cuenca (CSIC) (Ground floor) Slides
11:40	Interoperable solutions for common challenges in environmental research infrastructures - Dr Zhiming Zhao (EGI.EU) (Ground floor)
12:00	A Big Data approach for ocean observations: the EMSODEV data management platform experience on top of the EGI FedCloud - Pasquale Andriani (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa) Leandro Lombardo (Engineering) (Ground floor) Slides
11:00	NGIs in the spotlight - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.eu) (until 12:30) (Turingzaal) slides Synergies between H2020 and ESIF funding
11:00	European fund synergies for e-Infrastructures - Luis Carlos Busquets Perez (European Commission) (Turingzaal) Slides
11:30	ESIF for the coordinated development of IBERGRID, LifeWatch and IBERLIFE-LifeWatch - Juan Miguel Gonzalez Aranda (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) (Turingzaal) Slides
12:00	Developing synergies between EGI and ESFRIs using ESIF: the case of France - Vincent Breton (CNRS) (Turingzaal) Slides
11:00	Tools and services for federated distributed services - Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN) (until 12:30) (Eulerzaal)
11:00	The EGI Accounting Repository in the big data era - Mr Adrian Coveney (STFC) (Eulerzaal) Slides
11:20	The EGI Accounting Portal - new look & feel and enhanced features - Ivan Alvarez (CESGA) (Eulerzaal) Background slides
11:40	The EGI Operations Portal - last enhancements - Cyril Lorphelin (CNRS) (Eulerzaal) Slides
12:00	Towards a Monitoring as a Service - ARGO - Christos Kanellopoulos (GRNET) (Eulerzaal)

13:00	Lunch (until 14:30) ()
14:30	EGI & INDIGO workshop: Towards co-design: understanding requirements (until 16:00) ()
14:30	EGI AAI Services - Peter Solagna (EGI.eu) (until 16:00) ()
14:30	EGI Competence Centres -Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu) (until 16:00) ()
14:30	EOSC roadmap (until 16:00) ()
16:00	Coffee Break (until 16:30) ()
16:30	EGI & INDIGO workshop: Presenting INDIGO & EGI open science services (until 18:00) ()
16:30	EGI AAI Services (until 18:00) ()
16:30	EGI Competence Centres (until 18:00) ()
16:30	Int e-Infrastructure collaboration workshop (until 18:00) ()

13:00	Lunch break (until 14:00) ()
14:00	Competence centres, user communities -Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu) (until 15:30) (Ground floor)
14:00	Towards the EISCAT_3D Portal - Experiences with DIRAC - Victor Mendez (UAB) (Ground floor) Slides
14:30	E-infrastructure demonstrators by the DARIAH Competence Centre for digital arts humanities - Davor Davidovic (RBI) (Ground floor) Slides
15:00	Data sharing policies, legal frameworks and market analysis of the fisheries and marine data sector - Nadia Nardi (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa) Eise van Maanen (Ground floor) Slides
14:00	Council Workshop on "Strategies, Barriers, Funding and Expectations of the NGI and other EGI Participants" (closed) - Yannick Legre (EGI.eu) (until 15:30) (H331)
14:00	Federated cloud PaaS and SaaS - Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN) (until 15:30) (Turingzaal)
14:00	Guidelines to integrate PaaS and SaaS with the EGI FedCloud IaaS interface - Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN) (Turingzaal) Slides
14:15	Enabling the use of the Karamel PaaS orchestration engine on EGI Federated Cloud - Boris Parak (CESNET) (Turingzaal) Slides
14:30	How the INDIGO-DataCloud computing platform aims at helping scientific communities - Dr Giacinto Donvito (INFN) Dr Ignacio Blanquer (UPVLC) Mr Alvaro Lopez Garcia (CSIC) Davide Salomoni (INFN) Dr Isabel Campos (CSIC) Dr Germán MOLTÓ MARTÍNEZ (UPV) Dr Lukasz Dutka (CYFRONET) Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY) (Turingzaal) Slides
14:50	IM - Infrastructure Manager: Deploying Customized Virtual Infrastructures on EGI FedCloud - Miguel Caballer (UPVLC) Dr Ignacio Blanquer (UPVLC) (Turingzaal) Slides
15:10	Research Infrastructures for astrophysics research: the EXTraS experience with the EGI FedCloud - Luca Roverelli (CNR/IMATI) (Turingzaal) Slides
14:00	Managing Service Portfolios for Research in Europe - Sy Holsinger (EGI.eu) (until 15:30) (Eulerzaal)
14:00	How FitSM can support managing service portfolios - Owen Appleton (ITEMO / University of Zurich) (Eulerzaal) Slides
14:30	Roundtable discussion (Eulerzaal) Slides
15:20	Summary of the workshop and next steps (Eulerzaal)
15:30	Coffee break (until 16:00) (WCW Congress Centre)
16:00	Competence centres, user communities -Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu) (until 17:30) (Ground floor)
16:00	The MoBrain Competence Center for Translational Research from Molecule to Brain - Antonio Rosato (CIRMMP) (Ground floor) Slides
16:30	Integrating BioBankCloud and EGI Federated Cloud technologies to enable private clouds within biobanks - Petr Holub (BBMRI-ERIC) (Ground floor) Slides
17:00	Life science use cases, e-infrastructure requirements and platform development activities in the ELIXIR Competence Centre - Kimmo Mattila (CSC) (Ground floor) Slides
16:00	Council Workshop on "Strategies, Barriers, Funding and Expectations of the NGI and other EGI Participants" (closed) (until 19:00) (H331)
16:00	EGI Service Portfolio, SLAs and Marketplace - Sy Holsinger (EGI.eu) (until 17:30) (Eulerzaal)
16:00	EGI Service Portfolio - Roberta Piscitelli (EGI.eu) (Eulerzaal) Slides
16:15	EGI marketplace prototype: requirements and implementation roadmap - Mr Dean Flanders (SwiNG) (Eulerzaal) Slides
16:35	Supporting the Long Tails of Science with Open IRIS at Institut Curie - Dr Olivier Renaud (Insitut Curie) (Eulerzaal) Slides
17:05	EGI SLA, OLA and UA framework and relationship with the marketplace - Malgorzata Krakowian (EGI.eu) (Eulerzaal) Slides
16:00	Federated cloud PaaS and SaaS - Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN) (until 17:30) (Turingzaal)
16:00	Integration of gCube and the D4Science infrastructure with the EGI FedCloud - Pasquale Pagano (CNR) (Turingzaal) Slides
16:20	OCCI-compliant Occopus orchestrator and experiences with using it with the EGI Federated Cloud - Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI) (Turingzaal) Slides
16:40	Enhancement of the FutureGateway and workflows frameworks in order to support within INDIGO Platform the use cases provided by the INDIGO Communities - Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN) Marco Fargetta (INFN) Riccardo Bruno (INFN) Emidio Giorgio (INFN) Sandro Fiore (SPACI) Michal Owsiak Marcin Plociennik (ICBP) Tomasz Zok (ICBP) Antonio Rosato (CIRMMP) Andrea Giachetti (CIRMMP) (Turingzaal) Slides
17:00	Dynamic Deployment and Execution of Hadoop Applications on EGI FedCloud Resources - Carlos Blanco (University of Cantabria) Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster, London, UK) Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI) (Turingzaal) Slides

12:30	Lunch (until 14:00) (WCW Congress Centre)
14:00	EGI-EUDAT interoperability -Mr Matthew Viljoen (EGI.eu) (until 15:30) (Eulerzaal)
14:00	Introduction - why interoperate? - Mr Matthew Viljoen (EGI.eu) (Eulerzaal) Slides
14:10	EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure - Giuseppe Fiameni (CINECA - Consorzio Interuniversitario) (Eulerzaal) Slides
14:25	ICOS usecase - Ute Karstens (Lund University (SE)) (Eulerzaal) Slides
14:50	EPOS usecase - Alessandro Spinuso (KNMI) (Eulerzaal) Slides
15:15	Discussion (Eulerzaal)
14:00	Protecting the EGI castle from thieves and marauders (Part 2) - David Kelsey (STFC) (until 15:30) (Ground floor)
14:00	Training - Session 2 - Daniel Kouril (CESNET) Dr Sven Gabriel (NIKHEF) (Ground floor)
15:15	Wrap-up (Ground floor)
14:00	Third Community Workshop on Open Science Cloud - Natalia Manola (University of Athens, Greece) (until 15:30) (Turingzaal, WCW Congress Centre) HLEG recommendations The European Open Science Cloud web site
14:00	Business and service management processes for the EOSC Commons - Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu) (Turingzaal, WCW Congress Centre) Slides
14:20	Innovating integrated research at all levels of biological organisation: structuring the research process in virtual labs over the entire life cycle of the activity - Christos Arvanitidis (Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, ICMR) (Turingzaal, WCW Congress Centre) Slides
14:40	Establishing the infrastructure layer of the European Open Science Cloud - Afrodite Sevasti (GEANT) Dr Michael Enrico (GEANT) (Turingzaal, WCW Congress Centre) Slides
15:00	Discussion (Turingzaal, WCW Congress Centre)
15:30	Coffee break (until 16:00) (WCW Congress Centre)
16:00	AAI services for Research Infrastructures - Peter Solagna (EGI.eu) (until 17:55) (Ground floor)
16:00	Introduction - Peter Solagna (EGI.eu) (Ground floor)
16:05	The EGI AAI platform Architecture and roadmap - Christos Kanellopoulos (GRNET) Christos Kanellopoulos (GRNET) (Ground floor) Slides
16:35	Demos - Marios Chatziangelou (GRNET) Marios Chatziangelou (IASA) david meredith (STFC) Nicolas Liampotis (GRNET) (Ground floor) AppDB Demo Slides GOCDB Demo Slides
16:55	Credential translation capabilities: CI Logon - Mischa Salle (NIKHEF) (Ground floor) Slides
17:10	AARC architecture blueprint - Christos Kanellopoulos (GRNET) (Ground floor) Slides
17:30	INDIGO AAI - Andrea Ceccanti (INFN) (Ground floor) Slides
17:45	General Discussion (Ground floor)
16:00	Big data as a Service: challenges and business models -Mr Matthew Viljoen (EGI.eu) (until 17:30) (Turingzaal)
16:00	Introducing the EGI DataHub - Dr Lukasz Dutka (CYFRONET) (Turingzaal) Slides
16:15	Usecase 1 - iMarine - Pasquale Pagano (CNR) (Turingzaal) Slides
16:35	Usecase 2 - EMBL/ELIXIR - Tony Wildish (EMBL) (Turingzaal) Slides
16:55	Usecase 3 - Sentinels: EO Data Discovery & Access - Emmanuel Mondon (AdviceGeo) (Turingzaal) Slides
17:15	Panel Discussion - Mr Matthew Viljoen (EGI.eu) (Turingzaal)
16:00	Procurement workshop - Bob Jones (CERN) (until 17:30) (Eulerzaal) slides
16:00	Introduction - Bob Jones (CERN) (Eulerzaal) Slides
16:10	• Status of EGI marketplace - Mr Dean Flanders (SwiNG) (Eulerzaal) Slides
16:30	panel discussion - Bob Jones (CERN) (Eulerzaal) Slides
17:15	Summary and next steps - Bob Jones (CERN) (Eulerzaal)
17:30	Conference drinks and hapjes (until 19:30) (Maslow Cafe)

12:30	Lunch (until 14:00) (WCW Congress Centre)
14:00	Accelerated Computing: latest developments and use cases -Dr Marco Verlato (INFN) (until 15:30) (Eulerzaal)
14:00	Leveraging GPGPU Computing in Grid and Cloud Environments: First Results from the Mobrain Competence Center - Alexandre Bonvin (eNMR/WeNMR (via Dutch NGI)) (Eulerzaal) Slides
14:25	Progress in the interest and use of GPUs in LifeWatch - Fernando Aguilar (CSIC) (Eulerzaal) Slides
14:50	Progress update on AC activity - Dr Marco Verlato (INFN) Dr Viet Tran (UI SAV) (Eulerzaal) Slides
15:10	GPU Accounting report - Adrian Coveney (STFC) (Eulerzaal) Slides
15:20	Discussion - All (Eulerzaal)
14:00	EGI-Engage Collaboration Board (closed) (until 15:30) (Ground floor) EGI-Engage CB agenda
14:00	NGIs in the spotlight - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.eu) (until 15:30) (Turingzaal) slides Synergies between H2020 and ESIF funding
14:00	Synergies between FP7-RegPOT and Structural Funds in Romania - Dr Teodor-Florin Fortis (Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara) (Turingzaal) Slides
14:20	The PLGrid experience - Dr Lukasz Dutka (CYFRONET) (Turingzaal) Slides
14:40	Bulgarian NGI - Perspectives, Target Communities and funding schemes - Emanouil Atanassov (IICT-BAS) (Turingzaal) Slides
15:00	ESIF for e-infrastructure building in Czech Republic - Ludek Matyska (CESNET) (Turingzaal) Slides
15:20	Conclusions (Turingzaal)
15:30	Coffee break (until 16:00) (WCW Congress Centre)
16:00	Collaborating e-Infrastructures: representatives meeting (closed) -Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu) (until 17:30) (Ground floor)