Lightning Talk Plenaries - First Strike
Lightning Talks are 5 minute presentations focusing on one key point. This can be an idea, successful project, a cautionary story, collaboration invitation, quick tip or demonstration. This session is an opportunity for ideas to get the attention they deserve.
The rules for this session are easy: five minutes and only five minutes.
All data big & small
Data is a messy thing and it comes in all shapes and sizes. It can be generated by space-facing telescopes, deep earth probes, tiny computers, humans at a keyboard or in countless other ways; but that is only the beginning! While its sources can vary hugely, there are certainly crucial commonalities about what needs to be done to organise it, curate it and present it to the world, making it available now and preserving it for future generations. This session looks at three different projects with those common aims, no matter where the data comes from!
Global packet delivery that works!
International, global, multi-team collaboration helps everyday work not just by realising that we are not alone in our efforts. The synergy of cooperation and alliance improves, enhances and speeds up overall advancement of our infrastructure, processes, services and systems. This session brings three such examples. We will hear about the Global Network Advancement Group or GNA-G, its goals, working groups and possibilities to join, participate and contribute, and about Managed Network Services for Exascale Data Movement Across Large Global Scientific Collaborations. This world-wide journey returns us back to Europe with a presentation about network development activities in the GÉANT project.
Lightning Talk Plenaries - Second Strike
Lightning Talks are 5 minute presentations focusing on one key point. This can be an idea, successful project, a cautionary story, collaboration invitation, quick tip or demonstration. This session is an opportunity for ideas to get the attention they deserve.
The rules for this session are easy: five minutes and only five minutes.
The doctor will see you now
But please turn your camera ON. Telemedicine, telerehabilitation, virtual reality for surgeons are examples how digital technologies are bringing medical expertise to the people in need. Together with technology comes the data about about your health, your healing processes, even clinical cases. But what happens with this data? Where is it used? Is it used in a transparent way? Please join us for an eHealth consultation, but be advised - participation might have an enlightening side effect on you.
If it was easy, we would have done it by now
Steve Jobs once said “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”, and he was right. Innovation is as much of an art as a science, and it often happens in increments. Our community has many, many examples of those that are visionary enough, persistent enough, and willing to take the chances to do just that - change how we work, how we do research, and how we collaborate. This session will explore the exciting innovations ranging from viewing the stars to effectively moving data in new ways.
Dreaming of electric sheep
When Phillip K. Dick wrote When Androids Dream of Electric Sheep in the 60s he was exploring questions of the difference between humanity and machines. Automation has made us faster, more accurate and able to go further. Now, AI and machine learning techniques are being used where previously only humans were seen capable of complex nuanced judgement. This session looks at how NRENs are bringing the machine into operations, understanding our users, and enabling teaching and assessment.
Ebbs & Flows
Research and Education Networks are probably one of the only places where a network graph can look like it is showing a DDoS attack while it’s not. When you are managing a R&E network, you should not only not stop some gigantic flows, but make your best to let them flow smoothly and without restrictions, in order to make Science progress. Different solutions (like the science DMZ), techniques (like marking packets), and tools (like Scistream) are used to make the network and the analysis of scientific data in nearly real-time more efficient. In this session, we will explore these solutions.
Quantum: beyond the crypto techbros
In the last few years, we have heard about quantum technology, computers, networks, security, communications, or projects. No one would argue that quantum is going to be a game changer and security is never going to be the same with quantum computers and networks. But, what can we find about them in the real world? How can the fibre networks be used for the development of quantum technologies? In this session, we will explore how different projects and initiatives around quantum concepts have been developed in research and education networks and ways to get involved in quantum.
