May 2004 - Special Edition
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First Annual Ontario R&E Summit
"Leveraging the Power of ORION"
June 14-15, 2004 - Toronto


"Leveraging the Power of ORION" theme of Ontario R&E Summit
Now that most Ontario colleges, universities, public sector research institutions and several school boards are or will soon be connected to the ORION high speed R&E network, the focus is now on how to take full advantage of this new and powerful resource. As the theme of the first annual Ontario R&E Summit suggests, “Leveraging the Power of ORION” is a call to action, says ORION President and CEO Phil Baker.
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At a threshold - Calling for a 'revolution' in cyberinfrastructure
While many are calling for a “revolution” and the deployment of new “cyberinfrastructure”, few voices are more compelling that that of Prof. Daniel Atkins, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, and Chair of the US National Science Foundation (NFS) Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure.
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From Dryden to Hawaii in real time - Ontario school boards discover advanced networks
For students in Dryden, Ontario, over 1,700 kilometres northwest of Toronto, a field trip to Hawaii, and then on to nine more countries, all in one day, is not just a pipe dream. In fact, for Ontario students participating in the first event Internet2 Student Megaconference earlier this month, meeting up with other kids and teachers in countries around the globe was made possible because of connectivity over the new ORION network.
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Collaboration - the new buzzword in research
It’s no mystery that collaboration is the new buzzword in research. New working partnerships between researchers and institutions, all enabled over very high-speed optical networks, is introducing fundamental changes in the way that research is designed and conducted here in Canada and around the world.
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Big science, big networks
Today’s leading edge R&E networks are changing the face of computation and analysis. New computational models have emerged, and access to enormous quantities of information from remote devices has been enabled.
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  • Birds of a feather - flocking to collaborate over ORION
  • Digital resources - changing the face of learning
  • Steve Corbato - chief architect of Internet2
  • Dr. Ted Sargent - Top 40 under 40
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PRESENTED BY THE ONTARIO RESEARCH AND INNOVATION OPTICAL NETWORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

Gold Sponsors
     
Silver Sponsors
   
Bronze Sponsors

   
      

Champion Sponsors and Regional Partners

The Ontario Council on University Research (OCUR) - an affiliate of the Council of Ontario Universities (COU)
The Association of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario (ACAATO)
Regional Networks of Ontario (RNO) / GTAnet / LARG*net / OttawaRAN / sureNET / WEDnet