Second International Open Research Cloud Congress, The Science Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 27-29-2017
Day 1 (September 27th)
13:00-13:30: Arrival and Refreshments
13:30-14:30: Welcome and Introduction, Khalil Yazdi, Yazdi & Associates
13:30-15:15: Recap of Boston Congress, Overview of Agenda
15:15-15:30: Break
15:30-16:30: Summary Updates from Working Groups
- Data Working Group – Sofiane Sarni (Swiss Data Science Center)
- Identity Federation – Nicolas Liampotis (GRNET)
16:30-17:00: Open Discussion
Day 2 (September 28th)
08:30-09:00: Arrival and Coffee
09:00-09:15: Welcome and Overview of Purposes
09:15-10:30: Current and Ongoing Federation Initiatives (Focus on European Initiatives)
Coverage: Panel with representatives of current community federation initiatives from Europe
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-12:00: Why the Federation of Research Clouds is Important: Use Case Presentations
- SeaDataNet (Dick Schaap, Mariene Informatie Service)
- PanCancer/Elixir (Steven Newhouse, European Molecular Biology Laboratory)
- Copernicus Data and Information Access Service (Martina Sindelar, Copernicus)
- EGI (Enol Fernandez, EGI)
12:00-12:30: Lunch
12:30-13:30: Perspectives from the Trenches – The Technical/Developer Viewpoint
- Research in Production (Mike May, Data Machines)
- OpenStack SCI-WG (Stig Telfer & John Garbutt, OpenStack)
- NIST/IEEE WG, OGC WG (Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation)
13:30-14:15: Why the Federation of Research Clouds is Important: Use Case Presentations
- OGC Initiatives
- InSilicoTrials for Open Research Cloud, Vincenzo Carbone
14:15-14:30: Break
14:30-16:00: Solution Approaches to Enabling Federation
Panelists: (Cisco), (Box), Enol Fernandez (EGI), Doina Cristina Duma (INFN)
Coverage: Perspectives on current efforts and practical obstacles to bursting and to hybrid open compute enablement
16:00-17:30: Open Discussion
17:30-17:45: Recap and Next Steps
Day 3 (September 29th)
08:00-08:15: Coffee
08:15-08:45: Recap from Day 2
08:45-09:15: Drafting of the Declarations: Breakouts, Working Groups
09:15-12:00: Drafting of the Declarations: Driving to Consensus
12:00-13:00: Next Steps and Planning for Sydney Congress
