Conveners
A Day in the Life of an NREN: Reflections, challenges, and possibilities: 3D
- Dawn Ng (GÉANT)
Description
What is a day in the life of an NREN like? Do we all share the same daily grind? Are differences keeping us apart or are we brighter together?
In this session, 3 NRENs reveal their daily reality. They reflect on organisational culture, unravel the challenges ahead for NREN collaboration and question if the world needs more NRENs at all.
NRENs have come a long way as individual organisations and as a collective acting through GÉANT, and we’ve figured out how to achieve good and tangible results together. However, what served us well in the past may not be sufficient for the future. In this talk I aim to present a holistic and easy-to-understand overview of the challenges facing the GÉANT collaboration, possible paths forward...
National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) have played a crucial role in fostering collaboration, innovation, and connectivity in research and education. However, the question remains: does the world need more NRENs, or should efforts focus on optimizing existing ones? What have we done, what have we not done and what do we need to do? This presentation critically examines the current...
A look at the culture of NRENs from the perspective of how it can interact with and affect personal life. By looking into personal stories of emotion and trauma this talk brings to life how a good organisational culture can play out in daily life, how it affects individuals performance and wellbeing, and why NRENs are exemplars for simply getting these things right.
