e-IRG Workshop under Swedish EU Presidency

Session

20 years of e-IRG Anniversary event

21 Jun 2023, 09:00

Malmö, Hotel Clarion

Description

e-IRG will celebrate its 20 years anniversary since the first e-IRG workshop in June 2003 in Athens with a dedicated session. The session will have a short overview on the historical evolution of e-IRG, its contribution and impact to the current e-infrastructure landscape in Europe and beyond, and then focus on the key issues that need to be dealt with in the years ahead. This will include all e-Infrastructure areas and their tight cooperation for the benefit of the end users, such as leading-edge hyperconnectivity via GEANT and the NRENs, EOSC with its underlying federated European and national e-Infrastructures including NGIs, and the needed steps for EOSC to become an indispensable tool for both the end users and providers, the cutting-edge EuroHPC supercomputing and quantum communications/computing infrastructure and services ecosystem, and finally the Common European Data Spaces and their federation via the SIMPL middleware. The vision of e-IRG on "facilitating integration in the area of European e-Infrastructures and connected services, within and between member states, at the European level and globally", not only continues to apply, but in fact is timelier than ever, requiring strong interplay among all e-Infrastructures stakeholders.

1. Welcome and Introduction

Malin Sandström (SE e-IRG Delegate), Stefan Hanslik (e-IRG Chair), Sverker Holmgren (SE e-IRG Delegate), Vasilis Maglaris (NTUA)

21/06/2023, 09:00

20 years of e-IRG Anniversary event

Sverker Holmgren/Malin Sandström, SE e-IRG delegation
Stefan Hanslik, e-IRG Chair
Vasilis Maglaris, NTUA and ex-GRNET Chairman

2. Recapitulation of 20 years of e-IRG

Fotis Karayannis (e-IRG Secretariat/e-IRGSP7 project director)

21/06/2023, 09:10

20 years of e-IRG Anniversary event

Recapitulation of 20 years of e-IRG - The e-Infrastructure Commons - Impact at institutional, national and European levels

4. Impact at national level - The SURF Impact NL

Arjen van Rijn, Ron Augustus

21/06/2023, 09:25

20 years of e-IRG Anniversary event

3. Impact at institutional level - The Chalmers University eCommons

Sverker Holmgren (SE e-IRG Delegate)

21/06/2023, 09:40

20 years of e-IRG Anniversary event

5. Keynote presentation on e-Infrastructures and AI, big data,

Daniel Gillblad (Director Chalmers AI Center – Chair and Co-Director AI Sweden)

21/06/2023, 09:55

20 years of e-IRG Anniversary event

6. e-IRG vision

Gudmund Høst (NeIC director, NordForsk), Stefan Hanslik (e-IRG Chair)

21/06/2023, 10:30

20 years of e-IRG Anniversary event

Short video message from Gudmund Høst, Director of NeIC, NordForsk and ex-e-IRG Chair
Presentation about e-Infrastructures vision from e-IRG Chair

7. Short keynotes from EC and key e-Infrastructure-related initiatives: EOSC, EU Data Spaces

Tobias Wiesenthal (EC DG Connect), Volker BECKMANN (MESR), Ute Gunsenheimer (EOSC-A), Pierre Gronlier (CTO Gaia-X)

21/06/2023, 10:40

20 years of e-IRG Anniversary event

8. Lightning talks - Position statements on the future of e-Infrastructures and key related policy topics - The role of e-IRG - Provider perspective

Cathrin Stover, Tiziana Ferrari, Per Öster, Natalia Manola, Philippe Segers (PRACE)

21/06/2023, 11:10

20 years of e-IRG Anniversary event

9. Lightning talks - Position statement with key policy topics for the future and the role of e-IRG - User perspective

Andreas Petzold (Forschungszentrum Juelich / ENVRI-FAIR, Representative of ESFRI Clusters), Bregt Saenen (Science Europe), Denis O'Hora (University of Galway and EOSC Future User Group)

21/06/2023, 11:40

20 years of e-IRG Anniversary event

Representative of ESFRI Clusters, LERU, Science Europe, EOSC Future User Group

15. Panel

Arjen van Rijn

21/06/2023, 12:00

20 years of e-IRG Anniversary event