Program Changes for Thursday, 8 October

Research and Education Networks’ Role in Economic Development
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Maverick A
Speaker Added: Cris Langdorf, University of New Mexico

Industry Update on 100 Gbps Optical Networking
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Regency Ballroom
Speakers Added: Michel Belanger, Nortel Networks; John D'Ambrosia, Force10 Networks, Inc.; Walid Wakim, Cisco Systems

Session Cancelled: Fourth International Forum on Orthopaedic Research
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Navarro

General Session

Second General Session, 10:30-11:45 AM, Regency Ballroom: Internet2 welcomes speaker Gwen Jacobs, Professor and Assistant CIO at Montana State University and chair of the iPlant Collaborative Board of Directors. The ability to work collaboratively across space and time has created it's own set of new challenges for scientists who now need an infrastructure that supports access to distributed data, resources and colleagues. These new challenges include developing new methods for access to and integration of massive distributed data sources, robust suites of analysis tools and sophisticated collaboration environments. Large scale science also requires new methods to enable the requisite social interactions between collaborators that will insure their success working as a distributed team. The iPlant Collaborative is an effort to develop a seamless cybeinfrastructure for the plant biology community. This talk will provide an overview of some of this effort and highlight the challenges we face in this new era of cyberinfrastructure-enabled science.

Telehealth Demonstration: As part of the second general session, attendees will witness firsthand how leading-edge high-definition videoconferencing and electronic medical records can be harnessed to advance healthcare. The demonstration, developed by Internet2, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Federal Health Architecture, will use the LEARN, Internet2, Iowa Health System, and HealthBridge networks to connect a physician specialist in San Antonio with a nurse practitioner in a rural clinic to assist in patient care. The demo will showcase how high-definition videoconferencing combined with the exchange of electronic medical records using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) can significantly improve the delivery of healthcare to patients in rural settings. A brief Q & A period will follow the demonstration.

Internet2 Corporate Members Sponsor Events and Activities

Internet2 gratefully acknowledges the sponsors of the Fall 2009 Internet2 Member Meeting. Internet2 would like to thank ADVA Optical Network, Brocade Communications Systems, Ciena, Fujitsu Network Communications, Level3 Communications, LifeSize and Qwest for their generous sponsorship of this meeting, and Cisco Systems and Ekinops for providing supporting equipment. The generous support of these sponsors has helped to make this Member Meeting possible!

Upcoming Events

Winter 2010 Joint Techs
31 January-4 February, Salt Lake City, Utah
Register and submit your proposals for the annual winter Joint Techs.

Spring 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting
26-28 April, Arlington, Virginia
Planning is underway for the Spring 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting. The Call for Participation will be announced in early December!