Hi Brooklin,

I am not sure that you are aware of what the Industry Group was trying to do in Washington at GGF18, but we had two sessions with industry people with extensive experience using Grids. The idea is to get industry oriented users to pinpoint issues they face in using Grids (issues that will probably prove to be similar to what other firms in that industry will face). These issues are to feed into an exercise that is part of promoting greater collaboration between the standards side of OGF and the Enterprise/Science side. Issues from the user side can identify areas where advances in standards would be most helpful to users in industry and science. In the Washington sessions, there was certainly evidence from users that Grids were adding value and could be used at a wide range of firms in the sectors that were part of the discussion. There were also a number of attendees that were relatively new users of Grids.

In previous discussions of the OGF20PC, there was no attempt to have the industry sessions be the only sessions available for users to attend. But the idea was to continue the process that was begun in Washington. If many people feel that is not a productive way to move ahead, the entire process should be canned.

Bob Cohen

Brooklin Gore wrote:
Re: [ogf20pc] Draft outline for industry track I’m still a little confused with the concept on industry tracks like auto and pharma, etc. I wonder how many businesses ‘new’ to the grid would be attracted by these sessions. Certainly one or two companies from this segment doing a case study on why the grid is good for their business (with elements that could be applied to other companies not yet doing grid) would be great, I just don’t understand the value of branding along an industry segment.

I think every presentation should make attendees not using grid yet 1) want to come and 2) walk away beleiving 1) this stuff is really adding business value 2) we can use this stuff.

~Brooklin

From: Robert Cohen <bcohen@bway.net>
Reply-To: <bcohen@bway.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:08:00 -0500
To: Dave Berry <daveb@nesc.ac.uk>, <ogf20pc@ogf.org>
Subject: Re: [ogf20pc] Draft outline for industry track

Dave,

This looks ok, but it does leave out the main sessions for the industry track that we had discussed that would be parallel sessions on Tuesday. These would include the sessions from the draft "Straw man OGF20 industry":

Also on Tuesday: Enterprise Requirements workshops
These are scheduled to run at the same time as the “Issues in Grids” sessions.  We can take advantage of the people attending these workshops to give presentations in other sessions, e.g. in the Collaborative Grids session.
11:00-12:30:    Auto & Aerospace industry requirements
16:00-17:30:    Pharma industry requirements
18:00-19:30     Requirements roll-up meeting
 
 
It would be useful to have the Collaboration Grids session after the Auto and Aerospace industry requirements meeting so that people from the requirements session could present there.

Bob Cohen


Dave Berry wrote:
  
Dear PC,
 
 
At the last meeting of industry sub-committee I took a task to prepare an outline of the industry track, as we understand it so far, that people could give to potential participants.  I have now done this and attach the result.
 
 
Best wishes,
 
 
Dave Berry
Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development
National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street
Edinburgh, EH8 9AA                  +44 131 651 4039
 
 
 
 
 
 


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