Rosa M.Badia

Rosa M. Badia has a PhD in Computer Science (1994) from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Since year 2008 she has been a Scientific Researcher from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) . And has been the manager of the Grid Computing and Cluster research group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) since 2005. She has been involved in teaching and research activities at the UPC since 1989, where she has been an Associated Professor since 1997. From 1999 to 2005 she has been involved in research and development activities at the European Center of Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA). Her current research interest are: performance prediction and modelling of MPI programs and programming models for complex platforms (from multicore to the Grid). She has participated in several European projects (like DAMIEN or CoreGRID) and currently she is participating in projects BeinGRID, Brein, XtreemOS and OGF-Europe and she is a member of the HiPEAC2 NoE.

Adrian Mouat

Adrian is an Applications Consultant at EPCC. He graduated from Heriot Watt University with a BSc Hons in Computer Science, before completing an MSc in High Performance Computing at EPCC. He is currently working on the BEinGRID project. He was a technical member of FilmGrid, one of the first wave of Business Experiments. He also founded the open source project diffxml, based on his undergrad dissertation.

Mark Parsons

Dr Mark Parsons is Commercial Director of EPCC, the supercomputing centre at The University of Edinburgh. Mark joined EPCC in 1994 as a software developer working on various industrial contracts before being appointed the Centre’s Commercial Director in 1996. He is a leading figure in the European Grid and HPC community and has led several of the major EC funded Grid projects. With degrees in Physics and Digital Microelectronics, Computer Science and Particle Physics, Dr Parsons has a very broad spread of knowledge in the area of advanced IT.

Theodora A. Varvarigou

Prof. Theodora A. Varvarigou received the B. Tech degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece in 1988, the MS degrees in Electrical Engineering (1989) and in Computer Science (1991) from Stanford University, Stanford, California in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University as well in 1991. She worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, New Jersey between 1991 and 1995. Between 1995 and 1997 she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece. In 1997 she was elected as an Assistant Professor while since 2007 she is a Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, and Director of the Postgraduate Course “Engineering Economics Systems”. Prof. Varvarigou has great experience in the area of semantic web technologies, scheduling over distributed platforms, embedded systems and grid computing. In this area, she has published more than 150 papers in leading journals and conferences. She has participated and coordinated several EU funded projects, including IRMOS, SCOVIS, ANSWER, BEinGRID, AKOGRIMO, POLYMNIA, NextGRID, FIDIS, MARIDES.

Stefan Wesner

Stefan is the deputy director of the High Performance Computing Centre in Stuttgart and has worked in the area of distributed systems for more than ten years, starting with CORBA based systems and early Grid solutions such as UNICORE 1.0. He contributed to early efforts to move Grids towards a Service Oriented Architecture as well as business aspects of Grids whilst a member of the GRASP andTrustCoM projects. These projects developed the concept of the Virtual Hosting Environment and Abstract Entity, which are quite similar to Cloud approaches. He technically coordinated the Integrated Project Akogrimo, which looked into Mobile IPv6 Network, Network- and Grid middleware integration using virtualisation approaches. He is currently involved in this area as technical coordinator of BREIN and the principal investigator for the High Performance Computing Centre in BEinGRID and IRMOS.

Daniel Field

Daniel Field is a business consultant at Atos Origin. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and Management from Imperial College London (United Kingdom). With experience across a number of areas including scientific investigation and research in economics and business theory he started work as an analyst at Prous Science SA (Now part of Thomson Reuters) reporting research trends in the pharmaceutical field, He joined Atos Origin in 2007 as an analyst and business consultant. He has had business analysis, exploitation and dissemination responsibilities in several EU funded projects, Including BEinGRID and BREIN.

Avner Algom

Avner Algom has over 20 years of professional experience in the management of hi-tech companies, business development and marketing in Israel, US, Europe and the Far East. For the last 4 years, Avner has been managing the Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT) www.grid.org.il, a non-profit organisation of leading vendors, ISVs, customers and academia, focusing on knowledge sharing and networking for the development of Enterprise Grid, Virtualisation and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions. IGT is an open, independent and vendor-neutral organisation aimed at creating business and technology opportunities by providing frameworks of conferences, work groups, training, a Grid lab and a WEB knowledge center for business and technology networking. The IGT is also an affiliate of the Open Grid Forum (OGF). Avner also serves on OGF-Europe’s Industry Expert Group.

Andrea Manieri

Andrea Manieri graduated in Computer Science with Prof. C. Boehm at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” he joined Engineering Ingegneria Informatica R&D laboratory the same year. In 2000 he was appointed as Technical Leader in the ECOLNET project (European Collaboration Network) then, in 2002 he coordinated RTD activities in Engisanità Spa, one of the companies part of the Engineering Group and specialised in the HealthCare market. In April 2003 he joined the Engineering labs again as responsible of the development of new business on Grid Technology and recently (2007) he has been appointed as head of the Distributed computing infrastructure R&D unit. He has a long experience in R&D projects (e.g. DILIGENT, ETICS/2, Nessi-grid, Echogrid) and has recently run a consultancy study for the EC on “Exploiting Research Infrastructures potential in Key IST areas”, namely ERINA.

Craig Lee

Dr. Craig Lee was named President/CEO of the Open Grid Forum (OGF) in October 2007. He is a Senior Scientist in the Computer Systems Research Department of The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit, federally funded, research and development centre. At the Aerospace Corporation, Dr. Lee advises civil, commercial and governmental agencies on all issues relating to high-performance parallel and distributed computing and is responsible for the transfer of maturing technologies into new application domains. This work has led naturally to Dr. Lee’s involvement in the Open Grid Forum where he was a working group chair and an area director prior to becoming president. Lee has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Csilla Zsigri

Csilla Zsigri is the EU Business Development & Program Manager at The 451 Group. Csilla joined The 451 Group to extend business activities in Europe with special regard to EU research activities. As part of business development, she covers EU research trends, project outcomes and commercial opportunities for the 451 EURO service. Csilla is an economist with experience in international business consulting and business development in sectors such as information and communication technologies. Previously she worked as a business consultant for Atos Origin’s Research and Innovation unit in Barcelona, coordinating business activities in numerous EU-funded ICT RTD projects. Before that, Csilla did business development and consultancy work for a Hungarian management consulting company. Her focus was on seeking new business opportunities for the firm, as well as leading projects from launching new services on the local market to setting up new companies abroad. Csilla also has experience working at Nokia, working in turnkey projects for Vodafone, where she had to deal with key market players from the telecom industry. Csilla holds an Economist MSc degree specialized in Management and Business Consulting and a BSc in International Management and Business Studies.

Pawel Plaszczak

Pawel’s international software engineering experience includes work at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), British Telecommunications and Argonne National Laboratory. In 2003, Pawel founded GridwiseTech to lead pioneering work for the early adopters of scalable systems. Under Pawel’s leadership the company has won the trust and respect of customers including Turner Broadcasting, Ricoh, and Philips, and led numerous research efforts for international consortia. Pawel is the author of numerous articles and tutorials, the book Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager’s Guide, and a frequent speaker at professional conferences and events. Pawel is regularly publishing at http://bigdatamatters.com/.

Ignacio M. Llorente

Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science (UCM) and Executive MBA (IE Business School), is aFull Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology, and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid. He has held several appointments as an independent expert for the European Commission (Information Society and Media Directorate-General); visiting positions at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA); consultancy positions with Sun Microsystems; and a Senior Researcher position in the Advanced Computing Lab at CAB (CSIC/INTA center associated to NASA Astrobiology Institute).

Bastian Koller

Dipl. Inf. Bastian KOLLER joined the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart in 2004 after his diploma degree in computer science and he is currently working on his PhD thesis. Since 2007 he has his own research group “Service Management and Business Processes” which is strongly focused on the SLA topic. Mr. Koller is currently acting as Technical Manager of the IST project BREIN and involved in many research activities, within HLRS projects as well as in standardisation bodies such as the Open Grid Forum – OGF.