Announcement - Last chance to register for London Business Day

Last chance to register for the London Business Day, being held on Wednesday 21 May 2008, One Great George Street, Westminster, London, on  “Distributed Computing Workshop: Why you need Grid & How do to it!”

Organized by the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Knowledge Exchange Service & STFC IT Special Interest Group Event, and co-hosted with EGEE Business Day, this workshop brings together an expert panel offering insight into how open source distributed computing is being applied in industry and scientific research. The Workshop is aimed at connecting scientists funded by STFC and EGEE, with companies and players from other research councils for a hands-on discussion about opportunities for knowledge transfer and collaborative development.

The workshop agenda offers a morning plenary session and two afternoon parallel sessions on Grid in finance and energy & Grid in Life Sciences and Healthcare.

*Takeaways*:

     * Learning how entrepreneurs and small companies could benefit from
       the Grid and how they can do it, with presentations from EGEE
       Business Associate (EBA), Excelian, along with Constellation
       Technologies, and Econophysica.
     * Seeing how large companies achieve their business objectives using
       distributed computing, with talks from Credit Suisse, Total UK,
       and Philips Research. EBA, Avanade, is presenting a case study on
       Cloud Computing adoption in EU banking.
     * Finding out how challenges in the public sector could be solved
       using distributed computing with a presentation from the
       Department for Transport.
     * Understanding large e-Science infrastructures, their capabilities
       and offerings for companies and scientists, with presentations
       from EGEE (Dr Robert Jones), GridPP and Daresbury Lab.
     * Gaining new knowledge on support schemes the UK Government offers
       to innovative companies interested in distributed computing
       technologies through Grid Computing Now! Knowledge Transfer
       Network and STFC Knowledge Exchange Service.
     * Workshop Proceedings, jointly published by EGEE & STFC.

Participation is free and open to all interested parties.

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