Programme - Wednesday

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Wednesday 13th April 2011
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast - de Havilland Restaurant
   
Plenary Session
Chair Roland Trice, JANET(UK)
Room Weston Auditorium
09:00 Experiments into Biology-Technology Interaction
Kevin Warwick, The University of Reading
09:45 Debate: Insource versus Outsource
Matthew Cook, Loughborough University
Robin Breathe, Oxford Brookes University
   
10:30 Refreshments and Exhibition in Hertfordshire Sports Village
   
11:15 - 12:30 Parallel Sessions - Atrium
Session 2a Cloud Services and Data Centres
Chair Rina Samani, JANET(UK)
Room Weston Auditorium
11:15 Google Apps at Cambridge: a case study
Ruth Charles and Jon Warbrick, The University of Cambridge
11:40 The Shared Data Centre Project
David Birds, University of Oxford
12:05 Cloud Computing IaaS Reality
Matthew Cook, Loughborough University
   
Session 2b Security
Chair James Davis, JANET(UK)
Room N001
11:15 Network Defence on the Cheap: Honeypots as Network Security Monitors
Chris Moore, University College Plymouth, St. Mark and St. John
11:40 Intrusion Detection and Networking Monitoring on no Budget
Chris Wakelin, University of Reading
12:05 What does IPv6 mean to your site security?
Tim Chown, University of Southampton
   
Session 2c Wireless Networking
Chair Mark O'Leary
Room N002
11:15 Very High Throughput WiFi (future standards)
Matthew Gast, WIFI Alliance
11:40 The Ubiquitous Wireless Learning Curve
Jonathan Foster, University of Exeter
12:05 Optimising Passenger Data Services on Public Transport
Stephen Hall, Icomera UK Ltd
   
Session 2d Exhibitor Session C
Room N101
11:15

Enabling a step change in on-line communication and information sharing

Jeff Patmore,  Head of Strategic University Research, BT

BT research looking at  how people communicate and interact with information on-line and off-line, at home and at work . The research on communication brings together top Universities in the US, Europe, China and Australia and thought leaders in Psychology, Computer Science, Engineering, Social Economics, Cognitive Science, Social Anthropology, Art and Well-Being.    Learn how BT rapidly shares information across 80,000 employees and how contributors of knowledge and information can ‘discover’ and interact with other members of the  community.

11:55 HP Networking: Changing the Rules of Networking
Sean Dibble, HP Networking
   
Session 2e Exhibitor Session D
Room N105
11:15 Monitor, alert and report on your core network services with Tuscany networks' DNS & DHCP Activity Monitor
Paul Roberts, Tuscany Networks
11:55 Wireless Lan Virtualisation - making wireless as reliable as wired 
Mark Howell - Director of Education - Meru Networks
   
12:30 Lunch - de Havilland Restaurant
  Desserts and coffee in the Exhibition in the Hertfordshire Sports Village
   
Plenary Session
Chair Shirley Wood, JANET(UK)
Room Weston Auditorium
14:00 Five Years of Emerging Security
Sam Hartman, Painless Security
14:45 Visualisation
Paul Anderson, The Glasgow School of Art
   
15:30 Refreshments and Exhibition - Hertfordshire Sports Village
   
16:15 - 17:30 Parallel Sessions - Atrium
Session 3a Network Access
Chair Andrew Cormack, JANET(UK)
Room Weston Auditorium
16:15 eduroam developments
David Richardson, JANET(UK)
16:40 Great Expectations: Moonshot, grids and clouds
Jens Jensen, STFC
17:05 Project Moonshot update
Josh Howlett, JANET(UK)
Sam Hartman, Painless Security
   
Session 3b Research Applications
Chair David Salmon, JANET(UK)
Room N001
16:15 LOFAR: the role of the network in the world's first software telescope
Martin Hardcastle, University of Hertfordshire
16:40 Transfer of an optical frequency comb over the JANET-Aurora network
Giuseppe Marra, National Physical Laboratory and ORC - University of Southampton
17:05 ELIXIR: The e-Infrastructure for the Biological Revolution
Andrew Lyall, EBI
   
Session 3c Campus Networking
Chair Rina Samani
Room N002
16:15

Resilient Routing the Open Source Way
Simon Boggis, Queen Mary, University of London

16:40 Building Network Resilience – a UCL View
Bob Lawrence, UCL
17:05

Network Cabling Infrastructure decisions for the Campus Environment
Lee Funnell, Siemon
Mick Thacker, University of Central Lancashire
Ian MacDonald, St Andrews University

   
Session 3d Exhibitor Session E
Room N101
16:15 High Capasity High Performance Networking
Mark Gibbon, CIENA
16:50 Building an optimised cloud - with no fluff!
Alex Nichol, Brocade VCS specialist
   
Session 3e Exhibitor Session F
Room N105
16:15

Towards 100 Gbps: challenges and Solutions in optical Networking
Neath Elliot, Juniper Networks

16:50 Internet Traffic Management in Modern Campus Networks
Klaus Mochalski, Ipoque and Arthur Clune, The University of York
   
17:45 - 18:30 Birds of a Feather Sessions (BoFs)
Birds of a Feather F
Chair David Richardson, JANET(UK)
Room N001
Subject Data Centres
   
Birds of a Feather G
Chair James Davis, JANET(UK)
Room N002
Subject Security
   
Birds of a Feather H
Chair Jeremy Sharp, JANET(UK)
Room N003
Subject JANET and the PSN
   
Birds of a Feather I
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18:30 Finish
   
18:45 - 19:00 Coaches to The Forum, College Lane Campus
19:15 - 20:00 Drinks Reception
20:00 Conference Dinner
22:00 * After Dinner Entertainment - Radio City Theatre Group *Start time is approximate and subject to serving of meal
23:00 Coaches back to de Havilland Campus