[wg-all] GGF17 Registration Deadline approaching

[Steve Crumb]

1. GGF17 Registration Deadline
2. GGF17 Program Highlights 
3. GGF17 Student Scholars Accepted

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1. GGF17 Registration Deadline

The Full registration deadline for GGF17 in Tokyo (10-12 May) is quickly
approaching.  To take advantage of the lowest rates, please sign-up at:
http://www.ggf.org/GGF17/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf17.htm.  The last date to
register at a discounted rate is May 1.

Full program information is now available at
http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/.  

2. GGF17 Program Highlights

Hiro Kishimoto (Fujitsu) and Masao Sakauchi (National Institute of
Infomatics) will kick-off the program offering at the upcoming GGF17,
collocated with the 3rd Grid World Japan Exhibition in Tokyo, May 10-12.  

Highlights include:
- 40-plus group sessions 

- Free access to the Grid World Japan exhibition floor and program

- 8 Birds of a Feather sessions on topics such as:
Grid Education & Training (GET-CG) BoF
HPC Profile BoF
Data Movement Interface Standardization
Software Certification BoF - Grid and Distributed Software  
Certification and Quality Assurance BoF
Storage Networking Community Group BoF
Standards Roadmap/Grid Internoperability Now (GIN) Joint BoF
Plus a follow-up on the Interop Fest BoF from GGF16

-  Workshops and technology updates on topics such as:
Bridging the Divide between Application Requirements and Standards 
Grid Solutions in Cancer Research and Drug Discovery 
Usage of Grids in the Japanese Enterprise
Managing Security across Grids 
Metadata, Search and Preservation Environments on Data Grids 
Gridsphere & Grid Portlets 
OGSA & Alternative Grid Architectures

Grids and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (see desc. below)
...and many more.  

- The Voice of the Community (VOC) forum and Vendor Adoption Forum (VAF)
will be introduced at GGF17.  
The goal of the VOC is to bring end-users together to capture requirements
and use cases that can then be incorporated into the GGF standards
development process.  The VAF will bring together the vendor & developer to
identify issues and constraints that make Grid standards feasible and
cost-effective to implement.

For a full schedule, visit: http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/.

3. We are pleased to announce the following recipients of the GGF17 Student
Scholarship: Kathryn Cassidy - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Charles
Dowling - DePaul University, US, Hao (Howie) Huang - University of Virginia,
US, Ian Kelley - Cardiff University, UK, Diego Fernandez Slezak - University
of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dylan Stark - Louisiana State University, US.
GGF believes in fostering and encouraging the work of students as our future
grid leaders.  Join us in congratulating each and every one of our Scholars
in Tokyo. 

Steve Crumb
Executive Director, GGF
scrumb at ggf.org
+1 630-252-8610
+1 630-915-3324 (cell)