Spring 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting
Crystal Gateway Marriott
Once again, the Internet2 community will come together from April 26-28, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia for its annual Spring Member Meeting to explore our accomplishments, discuss the challenges we yet face, and share the tools and solutions we are using to move our aggressive cyberinfrastructure development agenda forward.
The 2010 Member Meeting Program Committee is hard at work developing a comprehensive program and needs your support to make this year’s meeting another fulfilling and engaging forum.
The committee is now accepting proposals for concurrent track sessions at the Spring Member Meeting. Members are encouraged to propose track sessions that share their insights, strategies, hopes and plans for meeting their challenges, as well as their applicability throughout our community. Case studies across disciplines and topic areas are encouraged.
Below is information on:
Deadline: January 29, 2010
The Call for Proposals is now closed.
Areas of Focus for the Spring 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting
Based on emerging trends in research and education as well as new opportunities available via federal stimulus funding, the Program Committee has identified the following focus areas to be highlighted across the various meeting tracks:
- Identity Management Federations
- Collaboration Tools
- Cloud Computing
- Green Technologies
- Economic Sustainability
- Health Care Networks
Federal Policy
In addition, building on the traditional federal policy theme of the Spring Member Meeting, this year’s meeting will have an enhanced focus on how the Internet2 community plans to take advantage of stimulus funding as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). In particular, how members who are receiving funding through National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce and the Department of Agriculture ARRA programs are utilizing these dollars to support advances in technology to enable research breakthroughs.
The program committee is also interested in submissions that focus on ongoing federal policy issues relating to advanced networking including issues like network neutrality and broadband deployment.
Topics to be emphasized in the Spring 2010 Member Meeting program are highlighted in the following tracks:
Cyberinfrastructure and Advanced Applications 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 supporting specific research and education programs, why, and what others can learn from this success (or failure). Representatives from higher education, health care, government and industry are invited to submit their examples and perspectives on these issues related to how researchers, staff and students are using advanced networking in actual laboratory, research or classroom environments.
NEW: Federal Agency Perspectives: With 27 federal laboratories and agencies now actively involved as members of the Internet2 community, the program committee is encouraging sessions that focus on advanced R & E Network projects, initiatives and activities that involve these agencies and their partnerships with research and education. Also of interest are proposals with a particular emphasis on federal agency health care research initiatives.
Middleware: Sessions in this category will focus on the on-going development, deployment, and policy work in the areas of identification, authentication, authorization and federated identity management. Examples of session topics might include: Identity and Access Management, federations and inter-federation, Shibboleth (in general and in use within federal agencies and research communities), group (i.e., Grouper) and privilege management systems, middleware-enabled collaboration management platforms, middleware for wireless networking, middleware diagnostics, and partnerships with open source community projects
Network Planning and Engineering: Sessions in this category will provide an opportunity for discussion of advanced network services, network infrastructure developments, end-to-end performance and performance measurement, disaster recovery, cyberinfrastructure, wireless networks and solutions and next generation networks. Examples of topics that might be considered include: sensor networks, experimental network testbeds, mesh network coverage, regional optical networks (RONs) and optical regional education networks (ORENs), national or international research and educational networks (NRENs), and the drivers of the next-generation Internet.
Security for Advanced Networks: 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, SALSA initiatives, DNSSec deployment, disaster recovery, homeland security, VoIP security, secure ad hoc collaboration, balancing security and performance, and the national strategy to secure cyberspace. Policy and management issues might include end user education, funding for basic security R&D, funding for security software tools, and cross-network cooperation (at the campus, national, and international levels)
Teaching and Learning/K20: Sessions will focus on initiatives and projects that explore ways in which advanced network applications, services, tools and digital content enhance teaching and learning. Suggested topics might include: K20 partnerships, K20 and the national agenda, the role of advanced networking to further international initiatives, student and teacher experiences in using Internet2, assessment and accountability of pedagogical outcomes, interactive educational gaming environments, and the transformation of libraries, museum, science and cultural center projects through uses of advanced networking. Particular focus will be given to introducing promising practices and highlighting case studies in Teaching and Learning/K20.
The Future: What's Next for the Net? This track invites sessions focused on significant near-term challenges and the “disruptive” technologies that will help us meet these challenges. Presenters are encouraged to describe new technological breakthroughs and what they might mean for universities and the Internet2 community. Proposed topics for this area could include new collaboration and social network tools, emerging demanding bandwidth services, video and multi-media services, etc. Of special interest this year are sessions on the environmental impact of the telecommunications industry and how the Internet2 community can promote greener technology.
Criteria for Evaluation of Proposals
Proposals will be considered on the basis of the following criteria:
- Demonstration of the value of Internet2 (the community and network) to members;
- Extent to which session supports the track topic and theme;
- Extent to which a project or initiative will provoke discussion and interaction;
- Presentation of significant achievement (i.e. promising practices) rather than status updates;
- Engagement of the Internet2 community;
- Degree of interaction and information sharing among participants at different levels of engagement;
- Focus on new technological breakthroughs, developing and evolving applications;
- Degree to which session itself utilizes and/or demonstrates advanced and innovative technologies;
- Overall proposal quality and balance of topics;
- Vendor agnostic presentations (for Industry Members).
The Program Committee will select approximately 50 proposals 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 amount of 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.
Please note - specific technology or application sessions that address issues and impact in more than one track are encouraged.
Track sessions will be scheduled for the mornings and afternoons of Tuesday, April 27 and Wednesday, April 28. More information on the meeting schedule will be available on the Member Meeting website.
Proposals are submitted throught an online submission form. Required information on the submission form includes:
- A title;
- A session abstract of no more than 200 words;
- At least one speaker name;
- Primary track assignment;
- Session format (e.g. presentation and discussion; panel presentation)
- Audience information (who you’re targeting and what level of understanding they should have coming into the session);
- Permission to netcast your session if it’s selected for the program and for netcasting;
- A contact name and email address.
Deadlines & Contact Information
Submission deadline January 29, 2010 (The Call for Proposals is now closed.)
Notification by February 19, 2010
For additional information, please contact:
Terry Doub – Program Committee Chair
Director, Network Operations Center, Louisiana State University
terry@lsu.edu
Marianne Smith – Program Committee Staff Support
Associate Director, Member and Partner Relations
melser@internet2.edu
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