HEAnet's National Networking Conference 2008
"Lighting the Future" : Strategies for Education and Research Networking

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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
19:30 21:30 Welcome Reception and Dinner
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
08:30 09:00 Registration
09:15 09:30 Welcome Remarks - Tom Boland, CEO Higher Education Authority, Chairman of the Board of HEAnet (Video)
09:30 10:00 Launch of HEAnet Strategic Plan - Dr Jimmy Devins, TD, Minister for Science Technology and Innovation DETE (Video)
10:00 10:30 "Lighting the Future", The New HEAnet Strategic Plan 2008 - 2013 - John Boland, CEO, HEAnet (Video)
10:30 11:00 Coffee / Tea break
  Main Auditorium
McCurdy Suite 1 & 2
Room A
MaGinnes Suite 1 & 2
Workshop
MaGinnes Suite 3
11:00 12:00 HEAnet Major Network Evolution(Slides)(Video)
Andrew Mackarel, Dave Wilson - HEAnet
Security Workshop
Hack the Network II
Aidan Carty, Rob Gallagher (HEAnet),

20 people max. Bring your own laptop.
12:00 12:30 3G Wireless For Students(Slides)(Video)
Eoin Kenny - HEAnet
12:00 - 12:15 Co-location(Slides)
Orla McGann - HEAnet
12:30 14:00
Buffet Lunch
12:45 - 14:00 Buffet Lunch
  Main Auditorium
McCurdy Suite 1 & 2
Room A
MaGinnes Suite 1 & 2
Workshop
MaGinnes Suite 3
14:00 14:30 Second Life - Brave New Frontier or Fleeting Gimmick?(Slides)(Video)
Cathal McCauley - NUI Maynooth, Peter Clarke - UCD
Virtualisation of Services(Slides)
Bernard-Joseph Roche, Dell
Security Workshop
Hack the Network II
Aidan Carty, Rob Gallagher (HEAnet)

20 people max. Bring your own laptop.
14:30 15:00 Digitisation: "How will I read this conference in 25 years time"- A strategic role for HEAnet in digital preservation (Video)
Marie Reddan,(Slides) Don Gourley - RIA(Slides)
HEAnet Centralised NAS Storage(Slides)
Justin Hourigan, HEAnet
15:00 15:30 Creating Futures - working at the convergence of arts, technology and enterprise at IADT(Slides)(Video)
Marion Palmer, IADT
Designing High Performance LDAP Directory Services(Slides)
Paul Mullen, HEAnet
15:30 16:00 Coffee / Tea break
16:00 17:00 Middleware & I.D. Management Plenary: SAML - A Mature Six Year Old?(Video)
Josh Howlett - JANET(Slides), Paul Caskey - UTexas(Slides), Glenn Wearen - HEAnet(Slides)
17:00 17:15 Close
17:15 18:00 BOF's:
Edugate - federated access within Ireland
Storage
Performing Arts
20:00   Gala Dinner Sponsored by LAN Communications
Friday, November 14th, 2008
09:30 10:30 "Anytime, Anywhere" - HEAnet and O2 Mobile Broadband
HEAnet
  Danuta Gray - CEO, Telefonica O2 Ireland
  Mary Crowe - UCD(Slides)
  Pat Larkin - CEO, Ward Solutions(Slides)
  Main Auditorium
McCurdy Suite 1 & 2
Room A
MaGinnes Suite 1 & 2
Workshop
MaGInnes Suite 3
10:30 11:00 University of Tomorrow(Slides)(Video)
Klaas Wierenga, Cisco Systems
Institutes of Technology Connectivity Update(Slides)
Owen Byrne, HEAnet
Multimedia Workshop(Slides)
Justin Hourigan, Kevin Dermody (HEAnet)
11:00 11:20 Coffee / Tea break
11:20 11:50 Defining Tomorrows Internet(Slides)(Video)
Andrea Soppera, BT Research
Honeypots and Darknets - What are they good for?(Slides)
Aidan Carty - HEAnet, Anthony Keane - IT Blanchardstown
11:50 12:20 IPv6.google.com Why and How?(Slides)(Video)
Niall Murphy, Google
Social Media: Why and how to take advantage of it(Slides)
Alexandre Passant, DERI
12:20 13:00 Here come the Internet cops - How ISPs and others are being required to police their users.(Slides)(Video)
TJ McIntyre, Digital Rights Ireland
13:00 13:15 Conference Close
HEAnet Ltd
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Dublin 1
Telephone: +353-1-660 90 40
Fax: +353-1-660 36 66
Email: conference@heanet.ie
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