1. EGEE INDUSTRY FORUM Christian SAGUEZ

2. OBJECTIVES Promotion of GRID Technologies Industry and Service Companies, Promotion of EGEE infrastructure and main results of the project, Requirements to EGEE architecture group, : Ex : Application Interface Experimentation of EGEE infrastructure with new applications

3. objectives Meeting point between « providers » and large industrial clients –Recruitment platform ( using promotion, benchmarking, demonstration) Gateway between solutions providers and EGEE developers –EGEE friends mail list (including Fab Gagliardi presentation) –Access procedure to key egee people to be discussed Experience forum exchange(users club) –Possibly including users from other horizons State of the art technology exchange forum Launch working groups –Industry Specification working group –Consulting for EEGE using industrial expertise

4. EGEE Industry Forum Participants : Potential users and providers of GRID Systems, Large Industry and Service Companies, SMEs or consortia of SMEs, National and International organisations, IT companies (hardware-software), GRID Service providers

5. EGEE Industry Forum Objectives of the meeting (1) Structure and organisation of the EGEE Industry Forum  Formal or informal organisation  Steering groups National representatives - Industrial sectors - type of activities…/  Permanent staff (president, VP…)  Links with EGEE project Role of the different participants

6. Steering committee Role: animation of the industry forum –Propose a structure, processes, Proposal HP: GELATO example –labelize working group (topic +initial manager) –Organize EGEE industry forum meetings –Labelize other meetings –Organize recruiting activities –Contact with egee management –Make sure of industry forum activities dissemination

7. Steering committee Membership Proposed : Sven Lung (Gridxpert,), Michel Bénard (HP), Saintoyant (Microsoft), Beppe Ugolotti (Nice), Federico Rossi (DATAMAT), Wojtek Wislicki (U. of Warsaw), Christian Saguez (Ecole Centrale), Guy Wormser (CNRS),Philippe Bricard (IBM) First meeting: 25 November in Paris…17h00

8. EGEE Industry Forum Objectives of the meeting (2) Promotion of EGEE and GRID Technologies  Electronic newsletter,  National seminars or meetings, CS: Innovation meeting Nov 26 Paris  Annual or biannual meeting (EGEE user Group ?…) EGEE launching meeting : April 16,23 2004,in Ireland End of project party for DATAGRID in March Paris

9. EGEE Industry Forum Objectives of the meeting (3) Working groups on topics of common and general interest Ex :  Management of GRID Infrastructures  Business models and accounting  QOS… Organisation of the working groups (Forum, specific meeting…)

10. Working groups –Technology oriented: security, qos, services, accounting,standards,… Initial interest: Microsoft, CS, Eurix, Hp, Gridxpert, PEP, Enterasys,CGG, IBM,Vodafone –Business oriented: benchmark, business models, services, applications,… Initial interest HP, Microsoft, Nice, PEP, CGG, IBM,CS, FUW,Finscore, Gridxpert, Vodafone