Agenda for PRISM Forum at NeSC, Edinburgh
April 26th to 28th 2005
Accommodation
Please register and book your accommodation through the NeSC Centre
conference booking system: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/esi.html.
Accommodation will be at the Novotel1 in Edinburgh and will be booked on your
behalf by NeSC (£68.00 per night).
Session 1
Day One: Tuesday 26th April 2005, afternoon
Towards a service oriented
architecture: The role of
GRIDs and Web Services.
12:00 Lunch (NeSC e-Science applications demonstrations in foyer)
Location: National e-Science Centre (NeSC), Edinburgh
13:00 Welcome (Malcolm Atkinson, NeSC Director)
13:15 Background to the GRID Session (Chris Jones, CERN)
13:30 Keynote: e-Science, Cyberinfrastructure and Web Service Grids:
towards a service oriented architecture for the enterprise
(Professor Tony Hey, Head of UK e-Science Programme).
14:15 NeSC Project Showcase: BRIDGES;
Bridges is a GRID-enabled biomedical research informatics architecture;
http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/projects/bridges/
(Richard Sinnott, e-Science Technical Director, Glasgow).
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Current activties of W3C's Semantic Web for Life Sciences (Eric Neumann,
Global Head of KM Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals)
16:00 The Web Service standards landscape (Malcolm Atkinson, NeSC Director)
16:30 PRISM Members’ GRID Slides Analysis (Chris Jones, CERN)
17:00 Discussion of current state within Pharma
17:30 Close
19:30 Dinner at Skippers Bistro, (http://www.skippers.co.uk ) Skippers bistro is
located in Leith, the old dock’s area of Edinburgh.
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Session 2
Day Two: Wednesday 27th April 2005, morning
09:00 Grids for business (Mark Parsons, NeSC & EPCC Commercial Director)
09:30
Workflow for web services (Sharon Boyes-Schiller, Skyscape Solutions)
10:00 OGSA-DAI: tools for data access over web services (Neil Chue Hong, EPCC)
10:25 WS-DAI: data access and integration standards (Mario Antonioletti, EPCC)
10:45 Coffee
11:30 Grid Computing – The Impact of Software Licensing (Steve Wallage, The
451 Group)
11:55 Challenges and Opportunities in Grid Adoption (Dave Pearson, Oracle)
12:45 Closing comments on Prism Forum GRID Session (Chris Jones, CERN)
Session 3
Closed PRISM Forum Session
Round table presentations
of a maximum of 15 minutes
per person
Day Two: Wednesday 27th April 2005, afternoon
13:00 Lunch
13:30 PRISM Business (round table updates)
15:00 Coffee
15:30 IBM, 2010 An update on future trends in Pharmaceutical R&D
(Mark Hammond, Managing Consultant IBM)
Followed by discussion
17:00 PRISM Business/Future activities
17:45 Close
19:30 Dinner in The Atrium (http://www.atriumrestaurant.co.uk/)
Session 4
Closed PRISM Forum Session
Day Three: Thursday 28th April 2005, morning
09:00 PRISM SIG Subject update session (Uwe Trinks, Sentrx)
09:40 LS-IT Aims and Objectives http://www.lsit.org/ (Geoff Odell, Genomics
Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation)
10:00 PRISM Forum Opportunities with the HealthGRID Association (Howard
Bilofsky, U.Penn)
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Work of the e-Science Institute and NeSC (Dr David Berry, NeSC Research
Manager)
12:00 Lunch and end of meeting
Contact
Mrs Lee Callaghan
Conference Administrator/PA to the Assistant Principal
National e-Science Centre
13-15 South College Street
Edinburgh EH8 9AA
+44 (0)131 650 9817
lee@nesc.ac.uk
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