Conveners
Opening plenary
- Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)
- Arjen van Rijn (NIKHEF)
- Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.eu)
- Liina Munari (European Commission)
Description
Officially kicking-off the three day virtual conference! We are grateful for the opportunity to still be able to meet albeit through Zoom. In the opening plenary, EGI Foundation director Tiziana Ferrari will give an update about current activities as well as some future plans - make sure you don’t miss it! Speaking about the future, Arjen van Rijn (EGI Federation Council chair) and Sergio Andreozzi (Head of Strategy Innovation and Communications, EGI Foundation) will tell us all about the strategy for the coming years.
To conclude the session, Grazyna Piesiewicz, Head of Unit C1: eInfrastructure and Science Cloud, will present the future role of e-Infrastructures in 2021-2027.
In this presentation we will showcase the status and future directions of the EGI Federation addressing the role and future of scientific computing in the coming decade. We will inform the audience about the status of the EGI Federation, our success stories, the status of the EGI strategy implementation, and our collaborations.