The Information Grid Speaker Information Dr Liz Lyon Director, UKOLN e.lyon@ukoln.ac.uk Prof. Tony Hey Director, e-Science Programme Tony.Hey@epsrc.ac.uk Dr Alicia Wise Head of Development, JISC Andy Powell Assistant Director, UKOLN a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk Prof Keith Jeffery CLRC RAL K.G.Jeffery@rl.ac.uk Dr. Reagan W. Moore moore@sdsc.edu Dr Moore is Co-Program director for Data Intensive Computing at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and an Adjunct Professor in the UCSD CSE department. He coordinates research efforts in development of massive data analysis systems, data grids, and persistent archives. An ongoing research interest is support for knowledge based data-intensive computing. Moore is an active participant in the digital library, data grid, and persistent archive communities. Recent publications include an article on “Collection-based Persistent Archives” published in D-Lib. Moore has been at SDSC since its inception, initially being responsible for operating system development. Prior to that he worked as a computational plasma physicist at General Atomics on equilibrium and stability of toroidal fusion devices. He has a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of California, San Diego, (1978) and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (1967). Kevin Ashley k.Ashley@ulcc.ac.uk Kevin Ashley (K.Ashley@ulcc.ac.uk) works at the University of London Computer Centre, which operates computing services for the UK and European research, education and public sectors. For the past seven years his work has primarily involved the preservation of large-scale digital resources and their description and access. Most recently these resources have been primarily archival in nature, whether born digital or as digital surrogates, and have involved many types of information (databases, text, images, video and audio) with different access patterns and cataloguing requirements. He is currently Service Manager for NDAD (http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/) operated for the Public Record Office of England and Wales, and the National Data Repository at ULCC, which provides digital archiving and distribution services for organisations such as the British Library. He is a board member of the Digital Preservation Coalition and a contributor to electronic records management training provided by the Archive Skills Consultancy (www.archive-skills.com). His career has previously involved pattern recognition in medical image analysis, network protocol development, standards development and numerical software tools. Prof David De Roure and Dr Jeremy Frey University of Southampton dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk j.g.frey@relay.soton.ac.uk Alan Robiette agr@westgate.force9.co.uk Alan Robiette is Programme Director for Authentication and Security within the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), which provides national infrastructure and services for UK further and higher education. Alan is a physical scientist by training and pursued a teaching and research career in chemical physics for a number of years. Following a move into IT management, he was an IT Director for some 15 years, working in some of the country's leading HEIs. He is a former member of the Computer Board for Universities and Research Councils, and has served on numerous national committees and other bodies related to computing and computational research Michael Breaks m.l.breaks@hw.ac.uk Michael Breaks has been University Librarian of Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh since 1985, having previously worked in university libraries in England, Wales and Ireland. He has been a member of a number of UK policy-making committees in the area of networked information services, including the eLib Information Technology Sub-Committee of the Follett Group and the JISC Committee for Electronic Information. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of Eduserv, which includes CHEST, NISS and the ATHENS authentication service, and is President of IATUL (International Association of Technological University Libraries), which has over 200 members from 40 countries. He is Director of ‘EEVL: the guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing Information on the Internet’ (www.eevl.ac.uk), the internationally recognised service based at Heriot Watt University, which provides a subject gateway to Internet information resources. Dr Richard Durbin Deputy Director, Head of Informatics The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Richard.durbin@sanger.ac.uk