Speaker
Kostas Glinos
Description
Towards the 2020 European e-infrastructures
Kostas Glinos will present how the European Commission will address the increasing needs of research communities for processing massive amounts of data and experimenting in silico. The talk will present policies and actions expected for e-Infrastructures under Horizon 2020, how Cloud Computing becomes part of the solution, and information on the recent Call for proposals.
Kostas Glinos has been with the European Commission since 1992. He has led the GÉANT & e-Infrastructures Unit of the Directorate General for Information Society and Media since 1 January 2009. From 2003 to 2008 he was Head of the Embedded Systems and Control unit and interim Executive Director of the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking. Before joining the Commission, Kostas worked with multinational companies and research institutes in the US, Greece and Belgium. He holds a diploma in Chemical Engineering from the University of Thessaloniki, a PhD from the University of Massachusetts and a MBA in investment management from Drexel University.
