Fall 2012 Internet2 Member meeting

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Title: Program Highlights: Tuesday, October 2

 

In short

Registration - The meeting Registration Desk, located in the Liberty Foyer, will be open on Tuesday from 7:00am - 6:00 pm.

Mobile Program - New for this meeting, we are pleased to offer an online program specifically designed for mobile devices. You can access the program from your mobile device at events.internet2.edu/2012/fall-mm/mobile.html

InfoTable - Stop by the InfoTable, located near Registration, for a selection of the latest Internet2 infosheets. Or, visit the Online InfoKit for information on additional services and projects.

Presentations - If you are presenting at any session during the Fall 2012 Internet2 Member Meeting, please send an electronic version of your slides for posting to the event website to: For more information, please refer to the Speaker Info page.

Complete Evaluations - and Win Prizes! Help us shape future meetings by completing the online session evaluations as well as the overall meeting evaluation. Attendees who complete the meeting evaluation will be eligible to win a prize. Your feedback is important to us!

Social Media & Tagging

Building on the trials at recent Member Meetings, photos, videos, and blog posts tagged with I2FMM12 will be aggregated at http://www.netvibes.com/Internet2. See http://www.internet2.edu/tags for more information.

If you use Twitter, you can follow Internet2 to get tweets during the meeting and use the #I2FMM12 hashtag to share tweets with other Twitter users.

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Program Highlights: Tuesday, October 2

On Tuesday, Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the National Science Foundation will lead off the General Session, followed by a live performance demonstrating LOLA (Low Latency audio/video): Real Time Musical Interaction over Advanced Networks. The LOLA demonstration team includes Roberto Díaz, President and CEO, Curtis Institute of Music; Claudio Allocchio, Senior Technical Officer, GARR the Italian Academic and Research Network; Marjorie Bagley, Associate Professor of Violin, University of North Carolina Greensboro; Dan Nichols, Internet2 Multimedia Specialist, Northern Illinois University; and Cheng-Hou Lee, Assistant Professor of Cello, Northern Illinois University. Shel Waggener, Senior Vice President of Internet2, NET+ Services will then offer an update on Internet NET+ Services.

Program Changes

For program updates, including room, time, and speaker changes, as well as session cancellations, please refer to the online program or mobile application.

Internet2 Sponsor Events and Activities

Internet2 gratefully acknowledges the sponsors of the Fall 2012 Internet2 Member Meeting. Internet2 would like to thank Platinum Sponsor Dell, Gold Sponsors Brocade, Fujitsu, and Microsoft, Silver Sponsors Aastra, Box, Ciena, and HP and Bronze sponsors ADVA Optical Networking, CenturyLink Government, codefortytwo software, Desire2Learn, Fischer International Identity, Globus Online, Infinera, Instructure, Juniper, Level 3 Communications, Mozy and Optelian. The generous support of these sponsors has helped make this Member Meeting possible!

Visit the Sponsor Display Hall and play the “Prize Passport” game to win a $500 Apple Gift Card, a $250 Amazon Gift Card, and several $25 Brookstone Gift Cards.  Prize drawings begin tomorrow! Please visit the Internet2 blog or refer to the “Prize Passport” infosheet you received at registration for full details of how to play and win!

The Sponsor Display Hall will be located in the Liberty C/D Ballroom and will be open on Tuesday from 7:00am–6:00pm.

The Welcome Reception, Breakfasts, Lunches, and Refreshment Breaks will provide key times to interact with sponsors. Please be sure to add the Sponsor Display Hall to your meeting agenda.

Industry Roundtable Sessions

Tomorrow, learn about topics like Community HPC and Dell Networking SDN from Dell, Windows 8, Office 365 and Azure from Microsoft, Cloud Computing for Unified Communications from Texas A&M and Tulane with Aastra, and many, many more, as the new Internet2 venue – Industry Roundtables kicks off.  This venue is for sponsors to share their expertise with members. These 45 minute sessions are short presentation and Q&A formats held at tables inside the Food & Beverage room.  The online schedule provides the topics and hosts. The roundtable sessions will be held tomorrow from 8:30am - 10:30am.