Registration and refreshments

Introduction – Roger McClure, Chairman, JANET(UK)

JANET Strategic Vision – Tim Marshall, CEO, JANET(UK)
A strategic overview of the last year and looking forward to future opportunities and challenges

JANET Brokerage – Daniel Perry, Head, Strategic Business, JANET(UK) A progress report on new services that will become available

Buffet lunch in the Tavistock Room

JANET and other networks – Dr Bob Day, CTO, JANET(UK)
A look at recent work on JANET’s relationships with other  networks and how these present new opportunities for collaboration

Research – a step change in networking: a look at some of the challenges posed by the predicted “data deluge” - Professor Malcolm Atkinson, Director, The e-Science Institute and National e-Science Centre.

JISC Transition Group Update – Professor Jeff Haywood, Chief Information Officer and Librarian, University of Edinburgh
An update on the work of the JISC Transition Group and how this might impact on JANET services

Q&A session

Refreshments

Informal networking opportunity

There will be plenty of opportunity for discussion within the programme.