The EGI Technical Forum 2011 will be held in Lyon, between 19-23 September 2011. The event will be hosted by EGI.eu, the Computing Centre of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics (CC-IN2P3) and France Grilles, the French National Grid Initiative.

The Technical Forum will provide an overview of the EGI community and review the community's plans and progress towards the adoption of a federated virtualised infrastructure for European researchers.

The event will be co-located with the Open Grid Forum and Grid 2011 it will provide a unique opportunity to appreciate the current developments of e-Infrastructure in Europe and the standards development activity and longer-term computer science research being undertaken in this diverse and exciting field.

For more information: http://tf2011.egi.eu/p...mme/index.html

A BEgrid session will be included in the OGF – GRID2010 conference.


OGF – Grid2010 is an international conference commonly organised by the Open Grid Forum and the GRID2010 team, supported by ACM and IEEE. It takes place between 24 and 28 October 2010 at the Thon Hotel in Brussels.

Participants to the BEgrid afternoon will receive a free one-day pass to the conference. Moreover BEgrid participants can benefit from a reduction of € 150 of the applicable registration fee if they wish to attend the whole conference.

For registering to the BEgrid session and obtaining a free daypass, register at : http://www.ogf.org/OGF30/
choose non-member one day pass, use the code OGFBelgium and send a mail to begrid@belnet.be with the subject registration BEgrid afternoon daypass

For registering to the full conference at reduced rate, register with the code OGFBelgiumFull at http://www.ogf.org/OGF30/
and send a mail to begrid@belnet.be with the subject registration BEgrid afternoon full conference

The next e-IRG open workshop will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 13-14 October 2010. The e-IRG workshop, organized in the frame of the Belgian Presidency of the EU, will have a strong focus on e-Infrastructure governance, also addressing other important topics like e-Infrastructure services, Energy and Green IT, Exascale computing and Data Infrastructures. These important topics will be treated during panel sessions that will provide the ground for an active participation and discussion by all attendees.

In addition, two invited speakers will elaborate in more detail on the possibilities of Public Private Partnership for e-Infrastructures and on the possibilities of the Authorization and Authentication Infrastructure.

We invite e-Infrastructure users and e-Infrastructure policymakers to attend the e-IRG workshop and contribute to the future of European e-Infrastructures.

Please visit the e-IRG website to access the agenda and to register to the event:

http://www.e-irg.eu/e-...14-october.html