I am delighted to announce that Early Bird registrations are now open through to July 17th to the key Grid event of 2006 and I welcome you to register and view the draft programme now available at www.eu-egee.org/egee06
The EGEE’06 conference regularly attracts over 450 experts from an international Grid community. This September Geneva sets the scene for a 5 day invigorating platform for Grid user communities, decision makers, resource providers and developers to discuss how to capitalise on past investments and plan a sustainable future for the Grid. EGEE’06 provides an excellent networking environment to discuss problems, share new ideas and obtain feedback from potential users, partners, developers and affiliates.
This year’s EGEE’06 conference introduces an innnovative business track allowing the audience an opportunity to understand how Grid may be adopted in their organisation, through practical guidance, past & present case studies and industrial featured projects. A series of topics have been identified where Grid features prominently, namely in: High performance computing, Bio-informatics, Finance, Data Management & Security and the Public Administration.
The programme combines strategic presentations within the stimulating mix of plenary and parallel sessions where key representatives will focus on discussions between major research, academic & major industry players exchanging views on issues such as: problem solving environments, considerations on investment & employment opportunities, as well as discussions on improving the time to market & cost of developing new products.
The goals of EGEE’06 are to demonstrate to organisations how they may take advantage from this cutting edge technology, to promote knowledge sharing between industry, government and the research community, to exchange experiences on the current state of the art of Grid computing and support stronger International Co-operation developments.
Dynamically run technological demos will be featured and a sponsored prize will be offered to the demo displaying the greatest impact and Return of Investment (RoI).
The conference takes place at the newly-renovated International Congress Centre of Geneva, the CICG close to the United Nations offices in Geneva.
Register on the portal (at http://egee-technical.web.cern.ch/egee-technical/conferences/EGEE06/registration.html) and forward this message to all of your colleagues wishing to learn more about EGEE developments and help develop further the ever increasing EGEE Grid Community.
I look forward to welcoming you all at the conference.
Bob Jones
EGEE Project Director
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