Plenary Sessions

Monday 14:00-15:30

4th EGEE User Forum/OGF25 & OGF-Europe's 2nd International Event - Opening Plenary

Chair: Martin Antony Walker, Joint Programme Chair

Mirco Mazzucato, INFN - "Welcome Address"
Bob Jones, CERN/EGEE - "EGEE: Enabling Grids for EsciencE"
Craig Lee, OGF - "Extraordinary Times"
Silvana Muscella, OGF.eeig/OGF-Europe - "OGF-Europe: Mobilising & Integrating Communities on Grids, Standards & Best Practices across Europe"
Kyriakos Baxevanidis, European Commission
Francesco Catara, University of Catania/Consortium COMETA - "Science in Sicily and the Sicilian Grid"

Monday 16:00-17:30

EGEE UF / OGF25 Plenary: Cloud and Grid I: Innovation and Operations

Chair: Martin Antony Walker, Joint Programme Chair

Peter Coffee, Salesforce.com - "Cloud Computing: More than a Virtual Stack"
Jamie Shiers, CERN - "Global Grid Operations - What it means for the LHC Grid and the HEP Community"

Tuesday 09:00-10:30

EGEE UF / OGF25 Plenary: Grid Application Experiences

Chair: Chris Smith, Platform

Stefano Nativi, IMMA-CNR - "Standards meet application for the Earth Sciences domain"
Piero Poccianti, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena - "Internal Grid experiences in Monte dei Paschi di Siena Group"

Wednesday 09:00-10:30

EGEE UF / OGF25 Plenary: Cloud and Grid II: eInfrastructures

Chair: Erwin Laure, KTH

Benny Rochwerger, IBM/RESERVOIR - "Cloud Computing: The Dawn of a New (Computing) Era?"
Steven Newhouse, CERN/EGEE - "OGF: An opportunity to define e-Infrastructure for the masses based on experiences with EGEE"

Friday 11:00-12:30

4th EGEE User Forum/OGF25 & OGF-Europe's 2nd International Event Closing Plenary

Chair: Bob Jones, CERN/EGEE

Vangelis Floros, GRNET - "Demo Prizes, EGEE’09, Thanks & good bye from EGEE"
Ludek Matyska, CESNET/EGI - "EGI - the next evolutionary step in Grid infrastructures"
Craig Lee, OGF - "Plenty of Work Ahead"