MONDAY 14th

Plenary Sessions at Finis Terrae Room

08:30 Registration

Session Chair: Salustiano Mato de la Iglesia, Director General for R&D, Government of Galicia.

09:30 Scaling eScience Impact.
Ian Foster, Senior Scientist Argonne National Laboratory.

10:30 Official Opening Ceremony
Ms. Mercedes Cabrera Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish Minister of Education and Science.
Mr. José Mariano Gago, Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
Mr. Fernando Blanco, Galicia’s Regional Minister for Innovation & Industry

11:00 European Grid Policies.
Mario Campolargo. Head of Unit. DG INFSO F3 Research Infrastructure. European Commission

11:30 Coffee Break

Session Chair: Gaspar Barreira, LIP.

12:00 Portuguese Grid and Cyber-Infrastructure Policies.
Luis Magalhães, Presidente da Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC). Representative of the Ministry of of Science, Technology and Higher Education

12:15 Spanish Grid and Cyber-Infrastructure Policies
Victor Castelo, Adviser to the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.

12:30 Ibergrid Implementation & Deployment Roadmap.
Ramón Gavela, CIEMAT (Acting on behalf of the members of the “Comisión Mixta” ).

13:00 Latin-American Grid Initiatives
Carlos Casasús, Vicepresidente de Red CLARA Director General de CUDI (Red académica Mexicana).

13:30 Lunch – Buffet (included)

Session Chair: Javier García Tobío, CESGA.

14:45 Hellasgrid, the Greek approach to a national grid infrastructure
Fotis Karayannis, Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the Greek National Grid Initiative – Hellasgrid Task Force

15:05 Nordugrid implementation, deployment and usage experience
Paula Eerola, Experimental High Energy Physics. Lund University (Sweden).

15:25 Coffee Break

Session Chair: Alberto Proença . Universidade do Minho - UMINHO.

15:55 Operational Grid Demo: EGEE- South West Federation (Operational procedures for becoming a user, getting certified, administration, monitoring, accounting, submitting jobs, etc..).
Carlos Fernández Sánchez, CESGA. EGEE Monitoring & Accounting Activity.

16:35 Operational Grid Demo: DEISA (Operational procedures for becoming a user, getting certified, administration, monitoring, accounting, submitting jobs, etc..).
Andrea Vanni, CINECA. DEISA Middleware Service Activity.

17:15 End of Monday Sessions

Social Program

18:00 City Tour (not included)

TUESDAY 15th

WEDNESDAY 16th