TERENA Networking Conference Bruges 19 22 May 2008

TERENA Networking Conference Bruges, 19 - 22 May 2008 Miroslav MIlinović TERENA VP Conferences miro@srce. hr Closing Notes

TNC 2008, 19 -22 May, Bruges, Belgium › Organised by TERENA › Hosted by BELNET › support provided by Event Mosaic 2

Beyond Connectivity › › 490 participants 104 speakers in 4 plenaries and 32 sessions number of side meetings, workshops, Bo. Fs, demonstrations. . . Topics (seeking answers to few questions) › › › › WHO IS THERE? Digital Identity in Action. . . IS THIS FOR REAL? Virtual Worlds. . . WHAT IS BOTHERING YOU? Security. . . WHAT IS BEHIND? Service Clouds. . . WHAT IS HAPPENING? Monitoring and Measurement. . . WHAT NEXT? Future Development. . . WHO CARES? The Users Do. . . 3

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Beyond Connectivity › we preffer functionality to quality (? ) › are we building tomorrow's network for yesterday's world? › do we need a new bussiness model? › look beyond layer 7 7

Programme Committee 2008 Chair Diego Lopez Red. IRIS Spain SWITCH Pacific Northwest Gigapop JANET(UK) TERENA Sigma. Net NIIF/HUNGARNET CSC/FUNET IBM EUNIS DANTE Switzerland USA Red. IRIS BELNET Spain Belgium Members Hansruedi Born Jacqueline Brown Andrew Cormack Licia Florio Baiba Kaškina András Kovács Mikael Linden Mike Nelson Ligia Ribiero Dale Robertson / Melanie Pankhurst Esther Robles Koen Schelkens 8 United Kingdom Latvia Hungary Finland USA

Thanks to. . . › Speakers and session chairs › Plenary speakers › › › Paul Van Binst Josh Howlett Stephen Hanna Tim Robinson Richard Katz Huib-Jan van Langevelde › and to you, the conference participants 9

Thanks to. . › › › Veerle Custers Jan Maes Julien Lamoral Ludovic Gruttaduria David De Keersmaaker › Steve Roose › Carl Polleyn BELNET Federal Science Policy (streaming) Event Mosaic (local support) Cardinal (catering) › Gyöngyi Horváth TERENA › Bert van Pinxtereen TERENA. . . and other members of TERENA staff 10

Many thanks to our sponsors 11

TERENA Networking Conference 2009 8 - 11 June 2009, Malaga, Spain 12

Programme Committee 2009 Chair Andrew Cormack JANET(UK) United Kingdom Switzerland USA Serge Droz Victoriano Giralt Baiba Kaškina András Kovács Melanie Pankhurst Jürgen Rauschenbach Ligia Ribiero Esther Robles SWITCH Pacific Northwest Gigapop SWITCH UMA Sigma. Net NIIF/HUNGARNET DANTE DFN EUNIS Red. IRIS Péter Szegedi TERENA Members Hansruedi Born Jacqueline Brown 13 Switzerland Spain Latvia Hungary Germany Portugal Spain

TERENA Networking Conference 2009 8 - 11 June 2009, Malaga, Spain 14