Day 1 Wednesday 14 January 2009 17:30 – 20:00 – Extended Evening, Networking Cocktail (Opportunity to network with the speakers & participants and register for the event)
Informal gathering and ice-breaker networking beginning with an introduction by the IEG Chair, Fabrizio Gagliardi of Microsoft Research. A continuous slide presentation will be prepared and projected in the room as background from the IEG members experiences of providing or running clouds or usage.

Day 2 Thursday 15 January 2009 09:00 - 17:00

Registration 08:15 - 09:00

09:00 Welcome by the Chair & Moderator of the day – Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research

09:05 - 09:20 Introduction – Enric Mitjana, Unit Géant & eInfrastructures, European Commission

Session Theme I: Cloud & Distributed Computing Players, Market Perception & Analysis

09:20 - 09:45 The Current landscape on Grids & Clouds with a European focus with Q&A - William Fellows, 451 Group

09:45 - 10:30 Cloud Computing, Distributed Computing, Utility Computing  - Similarities & Differences leading to Experiences & Opportunities of cloud computing and grids and what you can do with them - Avner Algom, IGT; Stefan Van Overtveldt, BT; Martin Walker, Independent Consultant

10:30 - 10:50 Q&A & Networking Coffee

Session Theme II: Key Challenges: Interoperability, Policy, Standards, SOIs, SLAs, Security

10:50 - 11:15 EC legislator on legal issues surrounding Cloud computing – Annika Thies European Commission of Research Infrastructures in DG Research

11:15 - 11:35 Challenges in terms of security, privacy , management and legal & policy issues – Steven Newhouse, CERN & EGEE III

11:35 - 11:50 Identifying the area of open standards common to Grids and Clouds and the opportunity they present for Europe  –  Francesco Giacomini, Italian National Institute of Physics (INFN) & EGEE III

11:50 - 13:00 Round Table on above - Moderator Bernhard Schott, Platform Computing

13:00 - 14:00 Networking Lunch

Session Theme III: Enterprise Usage of Clouds

14:00 - 14:30 Clouds Commercial End-user Perspective – Interoperability, Internal vs External Clouds,
Manageability - Paul Strong, eBay

14:30 - 17:00 Roundtable Panel Discussion, Chair Fabrizio Gagliardi & Moderator Ian Osborne, Intellect. Panel Members: Andrea Manieri, Engineering; Craig Lee, OGF President; Chris Smith, Platform Computing & VP of OGF Standards; David Snelling, Fujitsu Labs Europe; Raffaele Sgherri, Avanade; Siada El Ramly, European Software Association (ESA); and distinguished representatives from the following projects: EGEE III - Steven Newhouse, CERN; RESERVOIR - Ignacio Llorente, Universidad Compultense Madrid; BEinGRID - Theo Dimitrakos, BT; e-IRG - Fotis Karagiannis, Athens University of Economy and Business; BREIN - Lutz Schubert, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS).

The day will conclude in moving forward on the needs for open standards and what they present in Europe following the pioneering work by industry and by the research community. Specifically, the roundtable is to serve as providing an appropriate definition of Cloud computing as an expected outcome as well as results on producing a report on the current landscape with a view to driving or modifying current strategies from policy makers to industry and researchers. As better understanding of what both users (current & potential) think is still missing and the providers can get a view of what else they need to do.

17:00 Close of workshop & Farewell coffee

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