Keynote Speeches :

Network in EGEE: Building end-to-end network services for the grid
by Mathieu Goutelle

Abstract
In this talk will be presented the efforts and actions taken by the EGEE project towards network integration in the grid infrastructure. This will mainly include the work of EGEE to provide to the applications and users end-to-end network services (in a broad sense, both network services and operational services) and the expectations of EGEE to enhance the currently provided services.

Biography of Mathieu Goutelle
Mathieu Goutelle is a Network engineer in the UREC team of CNRS, France. He currently works as the activity manager of the SA2 activity (Networking Support) of the EGEE-II project since Apr. 2006. He was already a member of the SA2 activity during the first phase of the EGEE project (Apr. 2004-Mar. 2006). His main interests include application interface to advanced network services, network resource reservation mechanisms for grid applications and operational interface to the networks.
He was a member of the DataTAG Project and worked on the behavior of TCP over a DiffServ-enabled gigabit network. In 2002, he graduated as a generalist engineer (equiv. to an M.Sc. in electrical and mechanical engineering) from Ecole Centrale in Lyon, France. In 2003, he received an M.Sc. in Computer Science from ENS Lyon, France.

Grid networking technologies for next generation architectures and applications 
by Michiaki Hayashi

Abstract
Grid networking technologies allow applications to manage network resources as well as computing resources. This concept is not only attractive for e-science applications but also to emerging applications in a telecom carrier field. This presentation briefly introduces and describes related activities in standardization bodies, demonstration with the unified control plane technologies, and expectations towards future networking for telecom carriers.

Biography of Michiaki Hayashi
Michiaki Hayashi received the B.E. degree in electronics engineering from Gunma University, Kiryu, Japan in 1995. He also received M.E. and Ph.D degrees in electronics and information engineering from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 1997 and 2004, respectively. In 1997, he joined submarine cable systems department of KDD Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Since 2000, he has been engaged in research on optical signal processing, optical networking, control plane technologies and Grid networking as a research engineer of Optical Network Laboratories of KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc. He received the Young Engineering Award from IEICE in 2003. He is a member of IEICE.