ICT FOCUS
November 14, 2022 - November 15, 2022
Einstein St.Gallen (conference & night stay)
On the topic
The ICT Focus event will discuss research infrastructure in higher education with national and international experts. We will showcase planned developments and discuss about the challenges and future needs of a robust and accessible infrastructure.
Language of the event will be English.
Agenda
Moderated by Christoph Witzig
1) Developing a data strategy at SWITCH to support the Swiss education, research and innovation community (FR, EN, DE)
2) Interoperability and discoverability of linked data - an enrichment also for the institutional repositories? (EN, DE, EN)
3) Egal, illegal or SWITCHlegal? (DE, EN, DE)
4) Your eID (DE, EN, EN)
5) Welcome@TRID, M365 & edu-ID (EN, DE, EN)
6) SWITCH your research support (EN, DE, EN)
7) Further development of IT infrastructure (EN, EN, DE)
8) Meet & Greet Tom Kleiber (Managing Director, SWITCH)
9) Meet & Greet Jens-Christian Fischer (Team Leader Community Shared SOC)
10) Community topic
(3 sessions of 25 minutes)
Parallel session - research infrastructure
Parallel session - IT services
Parallel session - liflong learning
Speaker: Mirjam van Daalen
Moderated by Kurt Baumann (Data Engineer, SWITCH)
Speaker tba
Moderated by Christoph Graf (Program Manager, SWITCH)
Philippe Morel: Aquisition of VM/ware/Broadcom at EPFL
Daniel Bertolo: SCION at GÉANT - Increasing the global footprint
A team of people from SWITCH, ETHZ and OVGU Magdeburg successfully deployed a SCION backbone infrastructure within the GÉANT network. This allows other research and education networks to easily connect to a SCION infrastructure providing more global footprint.
Jens-Christian Fischer: Update Community SOC and CloudSOC Update with University of Basel
Organized shuttle by SWITCH (luggage can be carried along)
Guided tours give us an insight into the art collection of the University of St. Gallen and the new meeting center "SQUARE".
Art @ HSG: https://www.unisg.ch/de/universitaet/besucher/kunstfuehrungen/kunstgalerie
SQAURE: https://www.hsg-square.ch/de/
Speakers
Tom Kleiber is the managing director of SWITCH. He has devoted himself to the ICT industry and the education community for 30 years. As an entrepreneur and digitalisation consultant, he held positions as the CEO and founding member of Zetamind AG as well as various leadership positions in large corporations such as Microsoft, Siemens and Alcatel.
Prof. Dr. Lutz Jäncke holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the Psychological Institute of the University of Zurich. He has been scientifically studying the human brain and behavior for decades. Especially the individuality, the extraordinary, the ability to learn but also the tremendous irrationality of humans have fascinated him for many years.
Jens-Christian has been working at SWITCH for over 9 years. He was responsible for the design and implementation of the SWITCHengines Community IaaS offering. In 2022 he switched to the Securty department and is building the CommunitySOC service as “Head of Community SOC”. He holds a MSc in Information Technology. Previously he was a software developer and involved in several startups.
Daniel Bertolo studied Computer Science at the HSR in Rapperswil and joined SWITCH in 2007. He worked as a System Engineer on the Network Team and was responsible for the optical transport systems as well as SWITCHconnect. In March 2013, he became Team Leader of the Network Team.
Dr. Nina Roehrs (based in Zurich and the Engadin) is a business economist with 14 years of experience in the financial sector and an expert on art in the digital age.
In 2016, she co-founded Roehrs & Boetsch, whose program is dedicated to the influence of digitalization on art and society.
Today, she supports players (mostly) in the cultural sector in their digital transformation. In 2021 and 2022, Nina Roehrs was awarded as Digital Shaper by Bilanz. And she is the curator of the first institutional art exhibition on blockchain and NFT in Switzerland, opening in October 2022 at Kunsthalle Zurich.
Registration
Location for conference
Einstein St.Gallen (conference & night stay)
Berneggstrasse 2, St. Gallen
9000 St. Gallen
SWITCH has a hotel room contingent at Hotel Einstein. Please book via phone or email and mention SWITCH for the booking!
Contingent till 30.9.2022
Economy rooms CHF 195/night (incl. breakfast & VAT, excl. tourist tax)
Comfort rooms CHF 225/night (incl. breakfast & VAT, excl. tourist tax)
Dinner location
Tibits St. Gallen (apéro & dinner)
Bahnhofplatz 1A, St. Gallen
9000 St. Gallen
Overnight stay
Hotel Walhalla St.Gallen (night stay)
Poststrasse 27, St. Gallen
9000 St. Gallen
SWITCH has a hotel room contingent at Hotel Walhalla. Please book via phone or email and mention SWITCH for the booking!
Contingent till 29.9.2022
Double rooms (for single use) CHF 130/night (incl. breakfast & VAT, excl. tourist tax)
