Grid and Entrepreneurship Workshop

The CERN openlab is organising a special workshop about Grid opportunities for entrepreneurship.

This one-day event will provide an overview of what is involved in spin-off technology, with a special reference to the context of computing and data Grids.

Lectures by experienced entrepreneurs will introduce the key concepts of entrepreneurship and review, in particular, the industrial potential of EGEE (the EU co-funded Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project, led by CERN). Case studies will be given by CEOs of European start-ups already active in the Grid and computing cluster area, and regional experts will provide an overview of efforts in several European regions to stimulate entrepreneurship.

This workshop is designed to encourage students and researchers involved or interested in Grid technology to consider the entrepreneurial opportunities that this technology may create in the coming years.

This workshop is organized as part of the CERN openlab student programme, which is co-sponsored by CERN, HP, Intel and the EGEE. 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. Participants from outside CERN should contact the organizers (Francois.Grey@cern.ch) to arrange access to CERN for the event.