LYRATH ESTATE HOTEL, KILKENNY, 15th-16th November 2007
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
19:30 21:30 Welcome Dinner and Background Entertainment Sponsored by E|Net (X-Bar)
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
08:30 09:15 Registration
09:15 09:30 Welcome Remarks (Video)
Tom Boland, Chief Executive, Higher Education Authority and Chairman of HEAnet Board.
09:30 10:15 HEAnet Developments: Highlights 2007 (Video)(Slides)
John Boland - CEO HEAnet
10:15 10:30 Service Development (Video)(Slides)
Ronan Byrne - HEAnet
10:30 11:00 Wireless extends the reach of the Internet (Video)(Slides)
Dr. Markku Ellilä - Nokia Siemens Networks
11:00 11:30 Coffee / Tea break
 
Main Auditorium
McCurdy Suite 1 & 2
Room A
MaGinnes Suite 1 & 2
Workshop
MaGinnes Suite 3
11:30 12:00 A New National Network (Video)(Slides)
Dave Wilson - HEAnet
PRTLI, Cycle 4, HEA (Slides)
Ms. Sheena Duffy - Higher Education Authority
eduroam Workshop / Discussion
Louis Twomey and Donal O'Cearbhaill (HEAnet)

20 people max. Bring your own laptop.
12:00 12:15 Deploying IPTV services in the Campus Network (Video)
Chris Gordon - INUK (Slides)
Orla McGann - HEAnet (Slides)
Irish e-Infrastructure - e-INIS (Slides)
Luke Drury - DIAS
12:15 12:30 Network needs of 4000 EU researchers (Slides)
Thibaut Lery ESF Given by M Norris HEAnet
12:30 13:00 ENUM Electronic Numbering Developments (Video)(Slides)
Conor Daly - IEDR
IReL - Irish Research e-Library (Slides)
Marie Reddan - NUIG
13:00 14:00 Buffet Lunch Sponsored by UPC
14:00 14:15 Security Workshop
Hack The Network

Aidan Carty & Rob Gallagher (HEAnet)

20 people max. Bring your own laptop.
14:15 14:45 Web2.0 / Student2.0 Key challenges for IT in Higher Education over the next 5 years (Video)
Conor Galvin - UCD
NIBEST: Autobahn of the Northwest - The Link, the Projects, and the Potential (Video)(Slides)
Tim Kelley - NIBEST
14:45 15:15 EARNEST: The future of routing & networking technology
(Video)(Slides)
Kevin Meynell - Terena
WIMAX - Providing broadband connectivity in rural areas (Video)(Slides)
John O'Raw - Letterkenny IT
15:15 15:30 Running out of Space: IPv4 Exhaustion (Video)(Slides)
Brian Nisbet - HEAnet
15:30 16:00 Coffee / Tea break
16:00 16:45 Complexity in Networking - Challenges for Manageability and Security (Video)(Slides)
Michael Behringer, CISCO
16:45 17:30 Outsource everything : webservices in education and research
Alan Judge - Amazon
19:30   Pre-Dinner Reception (Georgian Room)
20:00   Gala Dinner and Entertaiment Sponsored by LAN Commuications
Friday, November 16th, 2007
09:15 10:15 Building a national access management infrastructure - Federated or Centralised Identity Management? (Video)(Slides)(Slides)
Experiences in HEAnet, JANET (UK) and Cardiff University
10:15 11:00

Ministerial Address by Mr. Michael Ahern T.D. Minister for Innovation Policy

(Video) Introduced by Tom Boland, Chief Executive, Higher Education Authority and Chairman of HEAnet Board.
11:00 11:30 Coffee / Tea break
 
Main Auditorium
McCurdy Suite 1 & 2
Room A
MaGinnes Suite 1 & 2
Workshop
MaGinnes Suite 3
11:30 12:00 College Email Solutions - Why? (Video)(Slides)
Michael Nowlan - TCD
Virtualisation Panel: Experiences so far (Video)(Slides)(Slides)(Slides)
Mahon McNamara - DCU, John Ronan - WIT, Brian Scanlan - HEAnet
Security Workshop
Hack The Network

Aidan Carty & Rob Gallagher (HEAnet)

20 people max. Bring your own laptop.
12:00 12:30 IT Security Policies and Campus Networks (Video)(Slides)
Sara Mc Aneney - TCD
YouTube Education: Can we cope with the demand? (Video)(Slides)
Brian Mulligan - IT Sligo
12:30 13:00 Traffic Engineering - Challenges for hybrid networks (Video)(Slides)
Mark Miklic - Google
Moodle - An Open Source tool, but what does it really cost? (Video)(Slides)
Eric Clarke - RCSI
13:00 13:30 Computing: It's more than binary code - It's also about criminals! (Video)(Slides)
Ed Gibson - Microsoft UK
13:30 13:45 Conference Close
13:45 14:15 Buffet Lunch Sponsored by BT