EGI-ACE kickoff meeting

4 Feb 2021, 09:00 → 5 Feb 2021, 16:30 Europe/Amsterdam

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82918193701

This is the Kickoff meeting of the EGI-ACE project. 

The morning of the second day is open for everyone. See separate agenda: https://indico.egi.eu/event/5359/ 

The rest of the kickoff is restricted to project consortium members (direct beneficiaries and third parties). 

Registration is required. The connection link will be sent to registered participants. 

An EGI-ACE project overview video was recorded at the EGI Conference in November 2020. The recording is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Vk-KjkV74 (first 20 minutes). 

Connection details:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82918193701
Passcode: kickoff

EGI-ACE Kickoff Day 1 - Plenary (1).pptx

Thursday, 4 February

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome and introduction

Overview of the kickoff objectives and main roles

Speaker: Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)

09:15 → 09:45 Project Overview

Overview of EGI-ACE: objectives, methodologies, impacts, work packages and governance

Speakers: Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu), Hien Bui

09:45 → 10:15 How EGI-ACE fits into EGI Federation strategy and EOSC

EGI Federation strategy, EOSC projects and how EGI-ACE contributes to EOSC establishment

Speaker: Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)

10:15 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:00 Speed networking

Get to know members of the consortium.

EGI-ACE-SpeedNetworking.png

11:00 → 12:00 Exploitation and Impact of EGI-ACE services

• Exploitation of services and how we capture and document the exploitation successes.
• User support pipeline, support instruments and events

Speakers: Giuseppe La Rocca (EGI.eu), Matti Heikkurinen (EGI.eu)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 13:45 Project Management, Administration and Finance

• Risk Management and Quality Management
• Project tools
• Finance and reporting

Speakers: Malgorzata Krakowian (EGI.eu), Mandy Yuju Lin (EGI.eu)

13:45 → 14:00 Coffee break

14:00 → 14:30 Communication, outreach and events

• Communications Toolkit & branding
• Communication and outreach activities (Web, Social Media)
• Project events

Speaker: Dimple Sokartara

14:30 → 15:00 Virtual Access

Summary of the VA Workshop that took place on Jan 14 (for WP3, 4, 5, 6), updates, answering VA questions

Speakers: Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu), Hien Bui

15:00 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 16:15 Team building activities

16:15 → 16:45 Meet the Work Package Leaders

Optional session: Provides opportunity to meet the WP leaders. Join the meeting rooms and ask questions, provide suggestions to your WP leader. The passcode for all is "kickoff"
- WP1: Hien Bui. Meeting link: main session
- WP2: Sergio Andreozzi. Meeting link: main session
- WP3 and WP4 (together): Enol Fernandez. Meeting link (ZM2): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86891998041
- WP5: Giuseppe La Rocca. Meeting link (ZM3): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86051387580
- WP6: Diego Scardaci. Meeting link (ZM4): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89798467714
- WP7: Alessandro Paolini. Meeting link (ZM5): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84006735185

Meet the WP5 leader.pptx

Friday, 5 February

09:00 → 13:50 EGI-ACE public launch event

Public launch event of the EGI-ACE project. The public launch event is strongly recommended for consortium members because more details will be given there about the infrastructure, platform and data space services.

The public launch event is open for anyone who is interested in EGI-ACE and wants to become user of the EOSC Compute Platform.

Registration is free and should be done separately. Details can be found in https://indico.egi.eu/event/5359/

13:50 → 14:00 Coffee break

14:00 → 14:50 Breakout session 1

The following sessions will be organised in parallel in separate Zoom rooms. Both topics run 2x50 minutes:

1) Organising user support and training.
Participants: T2.3 and other support teams.
Lead: Giuseppe La Rocca.
Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86840325400
Meeting ID: 868 4032 5400
Passcode: kickoff

2) Integration of infrastructure and platform services with the operation tools (accounting, monitoring, security), working towards OLAs.
Participants: Service providers (WP3, 4, 6, 7, possibly 5 too)
Lead: Enol Fernandez.
Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86091726461
Meeting ID: 860 9172 6461
Passcode: kickoff

EGI-ACE Break-out session.pptx

14:50 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 15:50 Breakout session 2

The same two discussions continue in the same Zoom rooms as before.

15:50 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Reporting back from breakout sessions and closing

Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81531231642
Meeting ID: 815 3123 1642
Passcode: kickoff

Speaker: Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu)