ASREN Founders Meeting

09:00 am

• ASREN Members registration

09.30 am – 10:30 am

• ASREN Board meeting (closed to members and invited)
  • Ratifications of board positions, committee chairs and CEO hiring
  • Strategic plan and network transition plan approval
  *Note: HE SG may join the board meeting in the last 15 minutes for briefing

10:00 am

• Registration all participants

10.30 am – 11:45 am

• Opening ceremony
  • Welcome message: ASREN Chairman Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
  • Secretary General of the Arab Universities Dr. Saleh Hashem (TBC)
  • HE Marc FRANCO - Ambassador / Head of the Delegation, Delegation to the Arab Republic to Egypt Dr Kostas Glinos – European Commission DG Information Society and Media
  • HE Dr Tarek KAMEL - Minister of Communications and Information Technology (TBC)
  • Secretary General of the Arab league, HE Amro Mosa

11.45 am– 12.15 pm

• Press Conference/ Coffee Break

12.15 pm 12.45 pm

• Session 1: Keynote address
  o TATA name/theme to be advised

12.45pm - 1.30 pm

• Session 2: ASREN Strategic Plans
  o ASREN Chief Executive Officer 
   ASREN Strategic plan 2012-2015
  o ASREN Head of technical committee
   Assuming and Building ASREN infrastructure

• Session 3: User Perspectives
  o NREN or Research rep: Collaborative projects / Grid computing applications: Federico Ruggieri INFN
  o Pannels: applications and achievement enabled by research networks
  Session 4: NREN Perspectives
  o EU NREN/ Networks and collaboration David West DANTE
  o NREN panel discussion (EUN, Ankabut, ARN, GRNET and RED.ES)

• Closing remarks by ASREN Chairman

• Reception at the residence of the HE Marc FRANCO - Ambassador / Head of the Delegation, Delegation to the Arab Republic to Egypt

09.30 am – 11:00 am

• ASREN Board meeting (continued, closed for ASREN members only or special invitation)
  • Strategic plan implementation details review
  • Funding and finances
  • Secretariat hosting/HQ Content/agreements
  • CEO and staff hiring

• Coffee Break

• ASREN Technical Committee (closed for ASREN members only or special invitation)
  • Network and e-infrastructure Management Transition from DANTE to ASREN.
  • Tendering Connectivity, Expanding and reorganizing topology
  • Network Operation Centre
  • Capacity Building activities

02.00 pm – 03.30 pm

• Lunch

• ASREN Science and Research Committee (open session for ASREN members and all interested)
  • Review and approval of S&R committee terms of reference
  • S&R committee organization and membership
  • Planning S&R committee activities

• Cross-fertilization and networking meeting with AROQA
  • AROQA presentation for ASREN members
  • ASREN presentation for AROQA members
  • Debate and exchange: how to cross fertilize research networking and academic excellence efforts

06.00 pm – 6.30 pm

• Closing
  • ASREN Board Chair