On 28th-30th September Krákow will be the host of the first joint event organised by the major European e-Infrastructure initiatives (GÉANT, EGI, EUDAT,OpenAIRE and RDA Europe).

As the digital technology demands of modern research and education increase it becomes ever more important for the European e-infrastructure providers to work together. This Digital Infrastructrures for Research (DI4R) conference will for the first time bring together the major e-infrastructure projects to help shape the digital future of Europe.

GÉANT is working across all the threads of the conference with contributions to sessions covering;

Digital infrastructures for Research
Interoperable e-infrastructures
AAI for researchers
Federated service management
Cloud procurement
Integrated approach towards research engagement
Joint service catalogue for Research
Exploitation of COPERNICUS Data in the e-infrastructures
Security
SME engagement
Harnessing the power of end to end networks

GÉANT will also be supporting three training sessions during the conference for;

An introduction to e-infrastructures
Building user-defined and user-controlled virtual networks for WAN workflows
Federated AAI meets reality, Security Incident Handling Role Play in DI4R

This conference is a unique opportunity to find out more about how the EU e-infrastructure initiatives can support your research and how they are working together to drive forward Research and Education across Europe.

The programme of the event is available here www.digitalinfrastructures.eu/programme

Registration for DI4R is open at http://www.digitalinfrastructures.eu/register_and_plan