Conveners
NREN Service Delivery
- Maria Isabel Gandia (CSUC)
Description
This session explores how NRENs can evolve their services in a changing environment, balancing innovation with long-term maintainability. It brings together strategic and technical perspectives to examine how services are conceived, developed, and adapted over time to continue delivering clear value to research and education communities.
The session will highlight shared challenges such as avoiding duplication of effort, ensuring adaptability, and engaging the community in decision-making. Participants will reflect on how to build services that are not only successful at launch, but resilient, maintainable, and relevant in the long run.
As NRENs, we historically leverage technology and build services to support research & education. A technology focused exercise that has long been successful. But the context in which NRENs operate has become more complex: a general market with more integrated services, our added value in relation to the market is no longer self-evident and the world around us is changing and getting more...
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