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Grid Entrepreneurship Day
Wednesday 26th July 2006
09:00 - 17h00
IT Auditorium
(bldg. 31-3rd Floor)
A CERN openlab event organised by Sverre Jarp and François
Grey, CERN
Objective:
This event aims to provide an overview of what is involved
in spinning-off technology, with a special reference to the
context of computing Grids. Lectures by experienced
entrepreneurs introduce the key concepts and review the
industrial potential of EGEE in particular. Case studies
introduce two European start-ups already active in the Grid
and computing cluster area, as well as summarizing efforts
in several European regions to stimulate entrepreneurship.
This workshop is meant to stimulate students and researchers
involved or interested in Grid technology to consider the
entrepreneurial opportunities that this technology may
create in the coming years.
Background:
This workshop is organized as part of the lecture
programme for the CERN openlab student programme, which is
co-sponsored by CERN, HP, Intel and the EGEE (Enabling Grids
for E-Science) project. PPARC, the Particle Physics and
Astronomy Research Council of the UK, is a special sponsor
of this event. The event is open to all and free of charge.
External
Participation:
Participants from outside CERN should contact the organizers
(Francois.Grey@cern.ch) to arrange access to CERN for the
event.
Workshop
Programme
Presentations and videos are already available ...
here
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Morning Session |
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09:00 |
Welcome and
Introduction to the EGEE project
Bob Jones, Director of the EGEE project
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09:15 |
Setting the Scene: why
Grid and Entrepreneurship?
Francois Grey, coordinator, openlab student
programme
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09:30 |
Assessing the market potential of technology
Nathan Hill, PPARC KITE Club Innovation Advisory
Service
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10:00 |
An
assessment of the Industrial potential of EGEE
Alex Efimov, PPARC KITE Club Innovation Advisory
Service
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10:30 |
Coffee
break |
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10:45 |
Developing a spin-out company - Nathan Hill
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11:30 |
Grid spin-out Case Study #1: Kerlabs -
Pascal Gallard, CEO
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12:00 |
Grid spin-out Case Study #2: MESH Technologies
Søren F. Nielsen, CEO
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12:30 |
Lunch
Break |
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Afternoon Session |
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14:00 |
Knowledge
and technology transfer at CERN
Beatrice Bressan, CERN Technology Transfer
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14:15 |
Regional Case Study #1: Spin-outs in France and
Switzerland
Joint presentation by
Bruna Carchia, Agence de Développement du Pays de
Gex et Bellegarde and Daniel Loeffler, Office de la
Promotion Economique, Geneve
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14:45 |
Regional Case Study #2: Spin-outs in Finland
Antti Heikkilä,
Big
Science ILO associate and EGEE Industry Liaison,
Finland
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15:00 |
Coffee Break |
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15:15 |
Partnering with Industry - Nathan Hill |
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16:00 |
Managing Intellectual Property - Alex Efimov |
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16:45 |
Q&A, Wrap-up |
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17:00 |
End
of workshop |
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