Venue
Montpellier University; The Faculty of Medicine
2 Rue de l'École de Médecine, 34090 Montpellier
The name of the meeting room is Macabies room
The name of the lunch area is Dugès room
Where to stay
Ibis Montpellier Centre (16 min walk)
Hotel Mercure Montpellier Centre Comédie (17 min walk)
Pullman Montpellier Centre (18 min walk)
Royal Hotel (12 min walk)
Hotel Oceania (13 min walk)
and just 2 min walk:
Best Western Hotel Le Guilhem
Access to Montpellier
Dinner
(a bus will be arranged to take us to the location)
Remote Participation:
- details will be shared on the 17th September evening
Registration is now open. Register here
Agenda
Tuesday, 17th September and morning 18th of September SIG-Marcomms meeting will take place.
Wednesday, 18th September 2019
Joint meeting SIG-MSP/SIG-Marcomms
| 12:15-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-13:15 | Welcome & introductions - Maria Ristkok (EENet of HITS) & Martin Bech (DeiC) |
| 13:15-15:35 | Host welcome & presentation |
| 13:35-15:15 | "Services marketing within a wider strategic plan", chaired by Martin Bech Session objective: better working together of services managers and marcomms teams to ensure a good fit between needs and outputs, to align team strategic planning and to support company strategy. Topics to include: Aspects of relationship management, how to get users involved in service development, how do we liaise with customers / users? How can marketing and service teams work together on this?
Michel Wets (SURFnet) Mark Tysom - JISC |
| 15:15-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-17:15 | "Brand management" - Panel discussion chaired by Lonneke Walk Session objective: discuss (and agree?) on brand management challenges and best practices for NRENs and GEANT community Topics to include: when to use an NREN-name/logo, how to address a request for wider GEANT (and EU) recognition among users, practical approaches |
| 19:00-22:00 | Group dinner - we have a bus arranged to take us to a nice beach restaurant "La Baie du Roi", located 20 min from Montpellier in the city of Grau du Roi. |
Thursday, 19th September 2019
SIG-MSP Meeting
| 09:00-10:00 | Round table - short overview of major developments planned by NRENs in their service portfolios for the next 3 years |
10:00-11:00 | Zoom in:
Network in more unusual places - Martin Bech, DeiC eduroam in atypical places - José María Fontanillo Muñiz, RedIRIS 2. Trust and Identity eduVPN - Tangui Coulouarn, DeiC AAI for virtual organizations- Christos Kanellopoulos, GÉANT (TBC) |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-12:00 | 3. Clouds etc. OCRE, Michel Wets, SURFnet Everything else that goes on in clouds on the European level and globally - Maria Ristkok, EENet What does RedIRIS do in blockchain - José María Fontanillo Muñiz, RedIRIS |
| 12:00-12:10 | Discussion |
| 12:10-12:30 | Scaling Customised Services and Localising Service Delivery - Lars Fischer, NORDUnet & Brook Schofield, GÉANT |
| 12:30-12:45 | Community AOB Progress to date on service catalogue for EOSC |
| 12:45-13:00 | Wrap up and next meetings |
| 13:00 | Lunch |