11:30 – 13:00

Room 205

The First Plenary Session:
Session’s Chairs

1. Mr. Wim JANSEN, European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate-General, GÉANT & eInfrastructures “European policies for e-Infrastructures”
2. Dr. Chris DE WISPELAERE, Director of Projects, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO. “The NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme”;
3. Prof. Vassilis MAGLARIS, Chairman of GEANT NREN PC. Presentation from GEANT Consortium;
4. Prof., acad. Andrei ANDRIES (RENAM), “RENAM - Research and Educational
Network of Moldova”;
5. Dr. Erich PEPLOW (NATO project co-director), “Story of RENAM - the Peoples Behind”;
6. Dr. Octavian RUSU - Presentation of NATO project co-director;

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 16:30

Room 205

The second Plenary Session:
Session’s Chairs:

1. Mr. Karel VIETSCH (TERENA), "The Case for NRENs and European collaboration in research networking";
2. Dr. John CHEVERS (DANTE), "GÉANT and the benefits of international research networks";
3. Dr. Yannis MITSOS (GRNet, Greece), “Leveraging the eInfrastructure efforts in South-East Europe";
4. Prof. Andrey MENDKOVITCH (CEENet), "CEENet. 15 years on Service to NRENs of Central and Eastern Europe";
5. Dr. Gabriel NEAGU (e-Infrastructure Reflection Group, Romania), “Current trends in the e-Infrastructure development at the European level"
6. Mr. Igor COJOCARU (Academy of Sciences of Moldova), “e-Infrastructure Development in Moldova based on SEERA-EI recommendations”;
7. Report of Moldavian NREN users’ community representatives (TBD);
8. Mr. Alexandru BULBOACA, Chief of Data Communication Dept., Felix Telecom S.A. (Romania) “Serving Research and Education (R&E) networks through Collaboration and Innovation delivered with Optical +Ethernet Convergence - Felix Telecom In Partnership with Ciena”
9. Report devoted to modern NREN’s infrastructure and services deployment for Research and Educational entities (TBD); NREN development perspectives - new technologies and services for Research & Educational community of Moldova;