Conveners
Tuning into the Community: Cloud, Trust, and Funding: 2D
- Dawn Ng
Description
In an era of geopolitical uncertainty, accelerating cloud adoption, fragmentation, and rising security risk, NRENs hold together far more than infrastructure - they hold communities. This session explores the key ingredients sustaining collaboration: funding models that shape collective purpose and financial sustainability; approaches that maximise community value from cloud infrastructure investments; and models for building a more cohesive trust fabric across NRENs, federations, universities, and libraries. Drawing on perspectives from GÉANT, Internet2, and EBSCO, the talks invite participants to tune into how different communities are creating the bridges that global research and education professionals need to overcome current day threats.
National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) have built global impact through physical networks and identity federations. This session explores building a third pillar: collaborative human networks for cloud infrastructure. Internet2's Cloud Infrastructure Community Program (CICP) leverages hyperscaler standardization to create workforce multipliers. By sharing solutions, data, and skills...
Libraries are core to the R&E mission—they provide access to knowledge that powers the academic enterprise. Yet in cybersecurity terms, they remain one of its least integrated components. While universities and NRENs have advanced identity and incident-response programs, libraries often operate alongside these efforts, relying on access methodologies that offer limited assurance and put...
The presentation will recap on the ways the GÉANT Association – and, more broadly, collaboration within the European R&E networking community - has been funded to date. It will reflect on what has worked well and what remains unstable and uncertain, share insights into future funding trends, and outline potential funding scenarios considering the current knowledge of the next Multiannual...
