Spring 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting
Crystal City Marriott
Arlington, VA
April 21-23, 2008
The Internet2 Member Meeting Program Committee is now accepting proposals for track sessions at the Spring 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting in Arlington, VA. You are encouraged to circulate this Call to others d in your organization, and elsewhere within the Internet2 member community.
Below is information on:
The deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, January 25th 2008. Additional submission information is available here.
Areas of Focus for the Spring Meeting
The Spring 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting provides the community an opportunity to share the latest information on timely issues and rapidly evolving areas of interest, including:
- Meeting the broad cyberinfrastructure challenge
- Internet2 governance, including Board and Advisory Councils
- Dynamic circuit networking, including the Internet2 DC Network
- Advanced networking in healthcare, including FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program
Presentations that incorporate network-based demonstrations are encouraged.
Proposal Track Titles and Descriptions
Cyberinfrastructure in Action: What's working? What's not? What's needed? Sessions in this category will focus on case studies of how advanced networking—broadly defined—has succeeded (or failed) in enabling research and education, why, and what others can learn from this success (or failure).
Middleware Sessions in this category will focus on innovative deployments and on-going technical and policy work in the areas of identity management, authentication, authorization, and workflow.
Leading-Edge Networking: Planning and Engineering Sessions in this category will focus on the global development and deployment of advanced network services, infrastructure, and performance developments, including network research initiatives, sensor networks, as well as hybrid, dynamic, and experimental networking.
Security for Advanced Network: Sessions in this category will focus on the
technical, policy, and management issues in network security—addressing immediate term to longer range planning and research. Suggested topics include: critical infrastructure protection, balancing network security and performance, funding for basic security R&D, funding for security software tools, and cross-network cooperation (at the campus, national, and international levels).
Extending Advanced Networking Sessions will focus on initiatives and projects that explore ways in which advanced network applications, services, tools, and digital content empower and enhance the capability of communities such as K20 and healthcare to work and collaborate and teaching and learning. Suggested topics might include: K20 partnerships, healthcare initiatives that leverage advanced networking, international initiatives and the transformation of libraries, museum, science and cultural center projects through uses of advanced networking.
What's Next for the Net? A special series of panel discussions on “What’s Next for the Net?” will examine key technology trends and give corporate presenters (and others) opportunities to describe new technological breakthroughs in their field—and what they might mean for universities and the broader Internet2 community.
Please Note: sessions that address issues and impact in more than one category (e.g. how middleware, security, and collaboration will be affected by dynamic circuit networking) are encouraged.
Criteria for Evaluation of Proposals
Proposals will be considered on the basis of the following criteria:
- Demonstrates value to Internet2 members
- Demonstrates advanced network strategy and policy focus
- Degree of anticipated interaction and information sharing
- Demonstrates originality and innovation
- Highlights key partnerships and collaborations
- Degree to which session itself utilizes advanced and innovative technologies, including demos
- Degree to which session addresses impact in more than one category
The Program Committee will select approximately 50 proposals that represent a balance of topics to fill track session slots, and may also select some proposals for inclusion as poster sessions.
Track sessions are either 60 or 75 minutes in length, depending on the number of speakers and the session content. If you have a short talk (10-15 minutes), please submit it with a note indicating that if selected, it should be part of a larger session rather than standing on its own.
Track sessions will be scheduled starting on Tuesday morning, April 22nd and will continue through the afternoon of Wednesday, April 23rd. More information on the meeting schedule will be available in January 2008.
Each proposal must contain the following:
- Title
- Session abstract of no more than 200 words
- At least one speaker name
- Primary track
- Intended session format
- Target audience (including technical level)
- Permission (if willing) to netcast your session if it's selected for the program
- Permission (if willing) to allow members of the media to attend your presentation
- Contact name and email address
Deadlines & Contact Information
Submission deadline COB on Friday, January 25, 2008
Notification by COB on Wednesday, February 29, 2008
For additional information, please contact:
Marianne Smith, <melser@internet2.edu>
