EVENTS

7th eConcertation Meeting
12-14 October 2009, Brussels, Belgium
This event is organised by the Commission with the support of the BELIEF-II project and with the active participation
of projects in the e-Infrastructures area. It will bring together the e-Infrastructures’ community in order to take stock of the current developments and to discuss the future orientations. The ultimate aim is to develop world-class e-Infrastructures as part of a strategy to achieve European leadership in e-Science. For further information please
visit www.beliefproject.org

E-IRG workshop
14-15 October 2009, Uppsala, Sweden
The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group organises workshops twice a year in collaboration with the country holding
the EU presidency. Workshops are open to all, and function as incubators for feeding new information and trends into the e-IRG plenum work. Internal meetings for the e-IRG delegates are also scheduled four times a year. For further information please visit www.e-irg.eu

WINDS-Caribe Seminar “Fostering EU-Caribbean cooperation in ICT research”
20 October 2009, Brussels, Belgium
Key ICT research leaders from the Caribbean will meet in Brussels to inform European researchers about outstanding ICT research initiatives from Cuba, Martinique, Dominican Republic and Jamaica and to discuss future strategies to foster EU-Caribbean cooperation in ICT research. During the event, participants will get an overview of
the ICT research capacities and dynamics present in the Caribbean region, as compiled by the WINDS-Caribe project and will have the possibility to find research partners from the Caribbean region. Further information available at
http://www.winds-lac.eu/brussels_seminar.

eResearch Australasia
09–13 November 2009, Sydney, Australia
This year’s theme of the eResearch Australasia is No boundaries. What challenges are raised by a world with no boundaries? What potential can we unlock? The conference features speakers and demonstrations from the Australian and international eResearch community and provides a catalyst for innovation and collaboration, by bringing together researchers, practitioners, educators from diverse disciplines and a forum to support the development, enhancement, and harmonisation of national, regional and discipline-specific eResearch infrastructures
and services. For further information please visit http://www.eresearch.edu.au/index.html

SC 2009
14-20 November 2009, Portland, Oregon, USA
SC09 returns to Portland, Oregon for its 21st annual conference. Recognized globally as the premier international
conference on High Performance Computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis, SC09 will feature the most interesting and innovative HPC scientific and technical applications from around the world. For further information
please visit http://sc09.supercomputing.org/index.php

Second EELA-2 Conference
25-27 November 2009, Choroní, Venezuela
The Second EELA-2 Conference aims to be both an “open conference” and a “user forum” and its Scientific Programme is conceived to reach two main objectives. The first objective is to present a selection of the most im37
pressive results obtained by scientific communities using not only EELA-2 but also other e-Infrastructures in Latin
America and the rest of the world and the second goal is to discuss policies and plans for the long term sustainability of Regional e-Infrastructures with special emphasis on the Latin American one. For further information
please visit http://indico.eu-eela.eu/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=201

CHPC National Meeting 2009 and 5th BELIEF Symposium
7-9 December 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa
This event aims to highlight the development of the CHPC within the national cyberinfrastructure intervention supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The importance of the cyberinfrastructure will
also be illustrated through a selective successful research projects from different local and international reputable
institutions. Furthermore, as a member of the BELIEF-II consortium, the CHPC will make use of this event to cultivate
dialogues that are aimed at enhancing its service delivery and strengthening an integrated partnership amongst local and international stakeholders. For further information please visit http://www.chpcconf.co.za

SEE-GRID-SCI User Forum
9-10 December 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
This international event dedicated to distributed and parallel computing with a main focus on research fields of Earth Science. Contributions that investigate parallel and distributed techniques, algorithms, models and applications; present innovative software tools, environments and middleware; focus on various aspects of grid computing; introduce novel methods for development, deployment, testing and evaluation are invited. For further information please visit http://sgsuf.ceng.metu.edu.tr/index.php?conference=sgsuf&schedConf=sgsuf09

5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science
09-11 December 2009, Oxford, United Kingdom
The e-Science 2009 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research
communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest research and product/tool developments and to highlight related
activities from around the world. For further information please visit http://www.escience2009.org/

PTC’10
17-20 January 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Through a network of members extending across more than 50 nations, PTC promotes the development and use of telecommunications and ICT to enhance communications in the Pacific hemisphere. PTC’s acclaimed annual conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii every January is the pre-eminent meeting place for telecom and ICT industry
executives, professionals, government representatives, educators, regulators, lawyers, researchers and many others. This senior-level event attacts over 200 Presidents, Chief Executives and other top-level industry leaders along with over 500 “C-suite” and senior executives (COO, CTO, CFO, Executive Vice President, etc.) among
the participants. For further information please visit http://www.ptc.org/ptc/index.php?q=about-ptc

eLearning Africa 2010
26-28 May 2010, Lusaka, Zambia
eLearning Africa is delighted to announce that next year’s conference, the fifth in the highly successful series of pan-African gatherings, will take place in Zambia. From May 26 – 28, 2010, the Continent’s largest annual assembly of eLearning and education professionals from Africa and beyond will convene in the capital, Lusaka. For further information please visit http://www.elearning-africa.com/