1. Welcome

2. Steen Pedersen
CIO Technical University of Denmark
CEO DeiC

3. The fourth NeiC conference
From: 2013 Welcome (Petter Kongshaug)
- High quality networks and federated access needed
- Tools and services (HPC, storage, visualization) needed for collaboration between research partners
- ….
- Important to sync activities in the Nordics
- This conference should be the starting point for the next level of Nordic collaboration
Previous NeiC Conferences:
2013 Trondheim
2015 Espoo
2017 Umeå

4. The NeiC board is collaborating partners
The NeIC Board consists of one representative from each of the national e-infrastructure providers:
CSC (Finland),
SNIC (Sweden),
UNINETT Sigma2 (Norway),
DeiC (Denmark)
RH Net (Iceland),
and now also an observer form
ETAIS (Estonia)

5. Research related collaboration actors at the Nordic level
NordForsk – many active research programmes for Nordic researchers - since 2005
NORDUnet – close to 40 years collaboration in Nordic and international research networking
Nordic Five Tech – Strategic alliance between Technical Universities – since 2006
And recently: EOSC-Nordic and the EuroHPC consortium
And many more sector specific collaborations ….

6. The next level
The NeIC strategy from 2015 identified “Pooling and Sharing of e-infrastructure resources and competences” as the prime selection criteria for developing the NeiC activities.

7. The future next level?
Candidates for future criteria for prioritising new NeiC activities may include:
Benefit and outcome prediction and realisation. How to identify and use these terms in cross border research e-infrastructure collaboration?
Identify and select to develop activities, which will help to keep the Nordics in the digital forefront