TNC17
the leading
networking conference
for RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
29 May - 2 June 2017, Linz, Austria
Preliminary
Programme
The Art of Creative Networking
The annual networking conference, TNC, is organised
by GÉANT. This year’s conference, TNC17, will be hosted
by ACOnet, Austria’s national research and education
network (NREN), represented by the University of Vienna
and showcase the Art of Creative Networking.
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PRELIMINARY
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The full programme for TNC17, including the latest changes and updates can be found at:
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the art of creative networking
‘’Creative breakthroughs and great innovations don’t simply emanate from the minds of individual
geniuses; they are born from intelligent networks’’. Richard Ogle, author of Smart World:
Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas
Research and education networks have evolved over the years to provide innovative services
across society and serve diverse scientific disciplines. Furthermore our communities are not only
running the network to support science, the arts and humanities now, but they also have to be
creative in the way technologies are deployed to allow adaptability. Technical innovation can often
move faster than society, but constant changes and human demand provide opportunities for
even more visionary solutions.
TNC17 will address creativity across many different themes including uses of cloud technology, big
data, moving beyond traditional networking and the impact of innovation on life. We will look at
ways in which creative solutions have been found to practical needs as well as the many ways in
which technology has advanced our enjoyment and understanding of the world we live in.
The conference programme has four parallel session tracks and daily plenary sessions in which
prominent experts deliver keynote presentations.
The conference sessions will be streamed live and will be archived for future reference.
GÉANT is Europe’s leading collaboration on e-infrastructure and services for research
and education. Through national research and education networks (NREN) the GÉANT
network connects more than 50 million users across 40 countries and allows them to
collaborate with their peers in over 100 countries worldwide. GÉANT is co-funded by
Europe’s NRENs and the European Union through the GÉANT Project, which delivers
value and benefit to society by enabling research communities across Europe and
the world to collaborate on groundbreaking research. The GÉANT Project is run by
the GÉANT organisation on behalf of its membership and partnership community.
Presentations about the GÉANT network and other elements of the GÉANT Project are
included in the appropriate parallel sessions throughout the conference programme.
Plenary sessions
Tuesday 30 May
Research and Development at the Ars Electronica Futurelab
The Ars Electronica Center (AEC) is a creative venue for electronic arts based in Linz, Austria. It is
a place of inquiry and discovery, experimentation and exploration that assembles and presents
influences from many different ways of thinking and of seeing things. In TNC17 first plenary
session AEC Artistic Director, Gerfried Stocker will tell us how ground breaking ideas come to life.
Gerfried Stocker is a media artist and telecommunications engineer. In 1991, he
founded x-space, a team formed to carry out interdisciplinary projects, which went on
to produce numerous installations and performances featuring elements of interaction,
robotics and telecommunications. Since 1995, Gerfried Stocker has been the artistic
director of Ars Electronica. In 1995-96, he headed the crew of artists and technicians
that developed the Ars Electronica Center’s pioneering new exhibition strategies and
set up the facility’s in-house R&D department, the Ars Electronica Futurelab. He has
been chiefly responsible for conceiving and implementing the series of international
exhibitions that Ars Electronica has staged since 2004.
Wednesday 31 May
Two experts highlight the opportunities and challenges raised by new software-based routing
concepts.
The Zero Touch Network: An Evolution of SDN at Google
Bikash Koley shares with us Google’s experience of SDN in a fast-evolving and challenging
environment, focusing on the flexibility and innovation allowed by the new technology.
Bikash Koley is a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Network Architecture,
Engineering and Planning at Google. He is responsible for designing and building out the
global network infrastructure, spanning data-centres, backbones, optical and content
delivery layers, that fuels every Google application and Google Cloud Platform. His team
oversees Google’s software defined networking evolution, network technology strategy,
networking research and innovation as well as scaling and operation of the network
infrastructure. Prior to Google, Bikash was the CTO of Qstreams Networks, a company he
co-founded. He also spent several years at Ciena Corporation in various technical roles
developing DWDM and Ethernet technologies.
Bikash is a frequent speaker in conferences and industry forums. He has published many
research papers and received 10+ patents related to networking technologies.
The End of the Traditional Router?
For a decade, SDN concepts have challenged the status quo of router-technology but yet have
failed to completely replace it. ‘’The IP/MPLS router is here to stay’’ says Hannes Gredler. In
this talk Gredler will discuss both the working and non-working parts of contemporary router
designs and offer alternative solutions for discussion.
Hannes Gredler is the CTO of RtBrick Inc., where he is working on 3rd generation
routing software targeted to open networking hardware. In his previous stint Hannes
has been 15 years with Juniper Networks working on the design and implementation
of the BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS routing and signaling protocols.
Since 2013 Hannes serves as a co-chair of the IETF IS-IS working group. Hannes is
the author of “IS-IS the complete reference” and holds 20+ patents in the space
of IP/MPLS. Hannes received his M.S. in System Engineering, Manufacturing and
Automation” from the Technical University of Graz, Austria.
Thursday 1 June
Enjoy a day of inspiring talks delivered by five visionary speakers on a range of topics around
the conference theme.
Storytelling with data
Stories stick with your audience in ways that data alone does not. Why wouldn’t you leverage
the power of a story when communicating with data? Join this engaging session, during which
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic discusses the untapped potential of combining the magic of stories
with best practices in data visualisation for communicating effectively with data.
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic tells stories with data. She is the author of “Storytelling
with data: a data visualization guide for business professionals” and writes the
popular blog www.storytellingwithdata.com. Cole’s unique talent was honed over
the past decade through analytical roles in banking, private equity, and on Google’s
People Analytics team. Her well-regarded workshops and presentations are highly
sought after by data-minded individuals, companies, and philanthropic organisations
all over the world.
Living labs and creativity
Can the Internet become a new art form? The kinematograph was invented as a motion picture
film machine in 1890. Only after decades of synthesizing different crafts and expertise did it
become an art. Can the Internet follow the same track? Artur Serra i Hurtado takes us on a
journey towards generating new art forms from a global network of creative labs.
Artur Serra i Hurtado has been the Deputy Director of the i2cat Foundation
in Catalonia, Spain, since its creation in 2003. i2cat was one of the first European
programmes on the Future Internet. Also an anthropologist Artur’s work focused
very early on the convergence of culture and internet with projects like Opera Oberta,
Dancing Q, and many others developed in collaboration with Liceu de Barcelona,
RedIris,GéANT, Internet2, Cinegrid, KAIST, CANARIE, the RNP from Brazil and other
institutions globally. He is the precursor of the EU-funded SPECiFI project, dedicated
to build the “European Creative Ring” and which was presented in November 2016 at
the Smart City World Expo in Barcelona.
Dr. Serra is also a founding member of the European Network of Living Labs. He is
passionate about organising public-private-citizen partnerships fostering peopledriven innovation around the world.
Publishing data: rapid communication and credit
Openly sharing data has become a requirement upon publication in most high-quality journals.
Additionally, sharing data improves scientific and speeds discovery. In this talk, Laurie Goodman
will present new directions in publishing where the data itself can be published and, thus, cited.
She will also touch on the current extreme need for large databases with solid infrastructure.
Laurie Goodman is the Editor-in-Chief of the international open-access opendata journal GigaScience (co-published by BGI and BioMed Central), which has a
novel publication platform with article publication linked to a database that hosts all
affiliated data.
Goodman has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from Stanford University and
holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. She published a novel, A Spell of Deceit
with Del Rey Books and did her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado,
Boulder. After working as assistant Editor at Nature Genetics she moved to Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory Press in 1997 to serve as the Executive Editor of Genome Research
and Managing Editor of Learning & Memory.
In 2006, she started her own company, Goodman Writing & Editing, which provides
manuscript editing services and manuscript writing seminars.
The complexity of simple interoperability
As connectivity and computation transform society, several sectors are facing limits to vertical
optimisation, when horizontal interoperability between systems can bring answers. At the same
time, consensus around interoperability in the connective space and the services that rely on
connectivity is key to establishing global IoT-enabled urban services. Dr. Brynskov will outline
key developments and milestones towards a human-centered connected future.
Martin Brynskov, PhD, is an associate professor in Interaction Technologies at Aarhus
University in Denmark. He is also chair of the global Open & Agile Smart Cities initiative,
which encompasses 104 cities from 22 countries. At Aarhus University, Dr. Brynskov is
the founder and co-director of the Digital Living Research Commons, director of the
Digital Design Lab, and fellow at the Centre for Advanced Visualisation and Interaction.
He is the coordinator of the IoT Smart City Large Scale Pilot “SynchroniCity”, and the
IoT Smart City Experimentation-as-a-Service facility, “OrganiCity”.
Intersection between museums, libraries and digital technology
In the final plenary talk Seb Chan will talk about the opportunities and affordances of the
networked museum and the museum as an engine of curiosity.opportunities for students,
researchers and faculty staff throughout the world.
Seb Chan is the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at ACMI (Australian Centre for the
Moving Image) where he is responsible for creating and implementing a holistic,
multi-channel, visitor-centred design strategy. Until August 2015, he was the Director
of Digital & Emerging Media at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in
New York. There he led the museum’s digital renewal and its transformation into an
interactive and playful new museum. Prior to relocating to New York, Seb was Head of
Digital, Social & Emerging Technologies at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, where
he deployed pioneering work encompassing open access, mass collaboration and
digital engagement.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Conference registration is handled in-house by GÉANT’s Amsterdam office.
Please register for TNC17 online: TNC17.geant.org/register
Once you have registered, you will receive an acknowledgement by email. Terms and conditions
of registration, cancellation and payment are detailed on the online registration pages.
If you require assistance with registration payment, please contact: [email protected].
More information regarding the reimbursement of VAT is available online.
ON-SITE REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION DESK
From Monday 29 May until Friday 2 June, a registration/information desk will be located inside
the entrance of the conference venue, for on-site registration.
REGISTRATION FEES
Conference registration fee
Registration (1 March until 19 May)
€ 800 (exc. VAT) / € 960 (inc. VAT)*
Desk registration (after 19 May, on-site only) € 1000 (exc. VAT) / € 1200 (inc. VAT)
The conference registration fee includes:
• access to all conference sessions;
• all conference materials;
• opening reception (Tuesday 30 May);
• closing dinner (Thursday 1 June);
• lunches (on 30, 31 May and 1 June);
• refreshment breaks.
Additional social events ticket
€ 100 (exc. VAT) / € 120 (inc. VAT)
The additional social events ticket
combines entry to:
• opening reception (Tuesday 30 May)
• closing dinner (Thursday 1 June)
Additional Closing dinner ticket
€ 80 (exc. VAT) / € 96 (inc. VAT)
Additional Opening reception ticket
(available on-site only)
€ 40 (exc. VAT) / € 48 (inc. VAT)
* 20% VAT is charged in the Austria
how you can participate
GIVE A LIGHTNING TALK (Deadline - 17 April 2017)
Lightning talks are 5-minute presentations focusing on one key point: this can be an idea, a
successful project, a cautionary tale, a collaboration invitation, a quick tip or a demonstration.
Use this time wisely to present the pertinent message of the subject matter without the need
for background history, the problem space or a business-case justification.
Lightning talks are an excellent opportunity for first-time speakers.
We will have 32 lightning talks at TNC17. Submit your idea including your biography, a
proposed title and a short description of your talk to be considered. The deadline for
submissions is 17 April 2017.
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PRESENT A POSTER (Deadline - 17 April 2017)
In past years, many TNC participants have created high-quality poster presentations. An
effective poster presentation should summarise your work with graphs and images to tell
the story and should use text sparingly. Presenting a poster at TNC17 serves as an excellent
advertisement for your work, and can act as a great conversation starter with other TNC
participants.
There will be a poster exhibition at the conference venue. The Call for Posters is open and
poster proposals are due by 17 April 2017. Details are provided on the conference website:
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Details are provided on the conference website:
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EXHIBITION & SPONSORSHIP
The conference will include an exhibition area where conference sponsors and various
projects will have the opportunity to display their latest products and services. Information
about sponsorship opportunities can be found at:
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TNC17.geant.org/sponsorship
For further questions please send an email to the TNC17 team: [email protected]
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RELATED EVENTS AND MEETINGS
Surrounding the core sessions are many community meetings and interactive workshops from
Monday to Friday. Up-to-date information can be found at:
TNC17.geant.org/core/event/list
Monday 29 May
• REFEDS (Research and Education FEDerations)
• SDN global coordination
• CIENA workshop: The possibilities of the autonomous network
• AfricaConnect2 Coordination Meeting (closed meeting)
• Building modern research data portals in the science DMZ with Globus
• NSI working group meeting
Tuesday 30 May
• TNC 101 (Getting the most out of your 1st TNC)
• TF-RED: task force on research engagement development meeting
• “Above the Net” global products and services
• From FIRE to the next generation internet experimentation
• FileSender, large file transfer
• COmanage
• Proposed GÉANT legal task force
• CEO forum on security
• Evaluating enlighten your research
• How to use the “In The Field” platform to engage with users, funders and key influences
Wednesday 31 May
• AARC meeting
• Global eduroam Governance Committee (closed meeting)
• Transnational education NREN special interest group
• Cloud café
• Public affairs in R&E networking working session
• Global Network Architecture technical WG
Friday 2 June
• General Assembly (closed meeting)
• eduroam mobility day
• SIG-Marcomms & Global PR Network - joint meeting
• GÉANT eduPERT training: experts training session on performance monitoring and
verification subjects
• Next generation identity federation technology: building federations on OpenID Connect
SOCIAL EVENTS
Speakers’ reception (by invitation)
Monday 29 May, 18:00 – 19:30
This exclusive event for speakers and session chairs is the
perfect opportunity for them to meet and discuss the
presentations, as well as to meet former colleagues and
make new contacts.
The Speaker´s reception at the Old Town Hall of Linz
provides the perfect opportunity for speakers and session
chairs to meet and discuss the forthcoming presentations.
It is a great occasion to meet former colleagues and
establish new contacts. Snacks and drinks will be served
throughout the evening.
Old Town Hall of Linz
The building still serves as the residence of the mayor
and the local council. The Old Town Hall unites modern
architecture with historic artefacts such as the artistic
chiseled, gothic craftworks or the Biedermeier Paintings
on the premises.
Opening reception
Tuesday 30 May, 20:00 – 23:00
Conference participants and registered accompanying guest
are invited to spend the evening on the boat MS Stadt
Linz. A buffet with various delicacies can be enjoyed while
floating on the Danube through the Austrian landscape.
The ship provides a remarkable location and unique
atmosphere for a wonderful event.
MS Stadt Linz
Closing dinner
Thursday 1 June, 20:00 – 23:00
Conference participants and registered accompanying guests
are very welcome at the conference´s main social event. The
closing dinner will take place at the traditional and familyowned Gasthaus Freiseder, surrounded by nature.
It is a hideaway secret to escape from town-life, offering
exquisite Austrian kitchen with traditional dishes. The
rustic and cosy rooms and garden areas show what a
typical “Gasthaus” in Austria looks like and guarantee a
relaxed and enjoyable evening.
Tickets for additional guests (upon availability) will be on
sale at the conference registration desk.
Gasthaus Freiseder
ACCOMMODATION
As Linz is a popular congress city with just a few hotels, we recommend that you make an early
hotel booking. For your convenience, a direct link to the local conference organiser´s hotel
booking website is available from the link below. All listed hotels have attractive rates which were
negotiated for the TNC17 participants.
Find our hotel preferential rates at: TNC17.geant.org/web/venue/hotels
The local conference organiser, Mondial, will handle the booking and answer any questions you
might have. Contact [email protected]
Visa requirements
Information about visa requirements and the location of embassies can be found on the
website of the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs. For an invitation letter, please check
requirements at: TNC17.geant.org/web/participate/register
CONFERENCE VENUE
The Design Center Linz is known for its innovative concepts and events. The modern and bright
location provides unlimited creative opportunities. Designed by Prof. Thomas Herzog the steelglass-construction conveys clarity and transparency. It is located in the city center easy to reach
with public bus.
There are several ways to get to Linz, conveniently located between Vienna, Salzburg and
Munich (DE). For details regarding Getting to Linz see: TNC17.geant.org/web/venue/gettingto
Address and contact information for
the conference venue:
Design Center Linz
Europaplatz 1
4020 Linz
Austria
www.design-center.at/en
CONTACTS
GENERAL INFORMATION
GÉANT
Singel 468 D
1017 AW Amsterdam
NETHERLANDS
T: +31(0)20 530 44 88
E: [email protected]
W: tnc17.geant.org
University of Vienna
Vienna University Computer Center - ACOnet / VIX
Universitätsstr. 7
1010 Vienna
AUSTRIA
T: +43-1-4277-14030
E: [email protected]
W: www.aconet.net
CREDITS
Local Host
Christian Panigl
Elisabeth Zoppoth
ACOnet
ACOnet
Austria
Austria
Conference Organisation
Gyöngyi Horváth
Jessie Brockhoff
GÉANT
GÉANT
International
International
Communication & PR
Manuella Abram
GÉANT
International
Technical coordination
Erik Kikkenborg
Anders Nilsson
Bartlomiej Idzikowski
Piotr Skałecki
NORDUnet
UMEA PSNC
PSNC
Nordics
Sweden
Poland
Poland
Local Support
Julia WimmerMondial
Gerit HainzMondial
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Austria
Austria
HOTEL INFORMATION & RESERVATIONS
Mondial
T: +43 1 58804 146
F: +43 1 58804 155
E: [email protected]
TNC17 Programme Committee
Chair
Christian Panigl
ACOnet
Austria
Vice-chair
Nicole Harris
GÉANT
International
Members
Josh Bailey
Johan Bergstrom
Tomi Dolenc
Rob Evans
Sergi Figuerola
Ana Hunsinger
Baiba Kaskina
Mirjam Kühne
Damien Le Carpentier
Ingrid Melve
Jari Miettinen
Inder Monga
Karen O’Donoghue
Chris Phillips
Afrodite Sevasti
Rhys Smith
Andres Steijaert
Peter Szegedi
David Wilde
Rodney Wilson
Google
New Zealand
EUNIS / UMEA
Sweden
ARNES
Slovenia
Jisc
United Kingdom
i2CAT
International
Internet2
USA
CERT.LVLatvia
RIPE NCC
International
CSC / EUDAT
Finland
UNINETT
Norway
CSC/Funet
Finland
ESnet
USA
Internet Society
International
CANARIE
Canada
GRNET
Greece
Jisc
United Kingdom
SURFnet
Netherlands
GÉANT
International
AARNET
Australia
Ciena
International
Return address: GÉANT, Singel 468 D, 1017 AW Amsterdam, Netherlands
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