Aim of the Workshop

The workshop aims to present the latest developments and best practices in campus and NREN-related technologies for the research community of Balcan countries & to contribute to the development of short-term service strategy for BREN.

Programme

The broad workshop programme has been developed in order to reflect the latest trends in campus and NRENs services development. Dedicated workshop sessions will cover the following topics:

• GEANT services – eduGain and eduroam as the enablers for wide access to research resources and “stay online” solution.
• Best practices in physical infrastructure for WiFi access in campus networks
• Best practices in users account management and authentication
  • University of Strasbourg solution
  • UNINETT’s edu-ID as the successful solution for centralized electronic identification of research users in Sweden
  • A case study of edu-ID – access to scientific libraries in Sweden
• The latest developments in video services
  • This whole session organized by NORDUNET specialists will cover the history, present and future video services deployed in Nordic countries. Presentations will address all important issues including: organizational spects, financial model and cost effectiveness, interoperability with legacy systems. Topics like H.323, Skype for Business, AdobeConnect will be discussed and WebRTC solutions as the next gen service will be covered in detail
• Cyber security
  • This session will feature several tasks, from re-iteration of basic security principles, through the tutorial on protecting campus valuable assets to detailed cloud-security discussion. Final talk in this session will present the strategy for cyber-security in Bulgaria.
• CERT services
  • One of the sessions will be fully dedicated to CERT services in several countries of the region. The session is intended as the platform for exchange of experiences in organization and operations of CERTs in countries of the region.
• Round table on BREN’s short term service strategy
  • A round table on service strategy for Bulgarian research community will close the event. The experts and the stakeholders will discuss draft plan of service implementation strategy for Bulgaria and provide the recommendations for the future activities.

Audience

The workshop is planned for up to 100 participants. Workshop admittance is at “first come first served” basis.Since this is G4 event, GN4 partners may apply for travel funding to their activity leaders. 

Venue

Hotel Sankt Petersburg, Plovdiv (venue + conference hotel)

Accommodation

The workshops will be held at Hotel Sankt Petersburg in Plovdiv.  The organizer will block-book rooms for workshop participants at this hotel for convenience. If you need a room at the conference hotel we need to know as soon as possible!  Please fill out this hotel reservation form and send it to  Michalprzy@ <gmail michalprzy@gmail.com> after you have registered below. After receipt we will inform you if your hotel room was confirmed. 

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