The e-AGE conference had established itself as an important venue for networking among experts and scientists. In 2019, e-AGE was held at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from December 11-12. The focus was on demonstrated successes in using research and education e-Infrastructures and the need for interoperable high-speed networks at national, regional, and international levels. The main theme of the conference was "Groundbreaking Research and Education Networks"
e-AGE19 included various events, workshops, and meetings, such as:
- The 12th Event on Euro-Mediterranean e-Infrastructure
- The 9th annual shareholders meeting of ASREN
- EUMEDCONNECT3 Project meeting
- AfricaConnect2 Project meeting
- Internet2 Middle East SIG Meetings
- Workshops dedicated to e-Infrastructure users
Special sessions were dedicated to specific domains, mainly focusing on experiences in connectivity and e-Infrastructure, applications, and services across various scientific domains. The event highlighted how research infrastructure creates tangible benefits to communities and collaborations and how research connectivity can promote collaboration and innovation. Discussions aimed to drive outcomes and concrete results on practical steps toward developing a regional e-Infrastructure.
Authors were invited to submit full papers reporting on their original and unpublished research in e-Infrastructures and computational and data-intensive sciences. All papers were peer-reviewed for relevance, quality, and originality of research. Posters were also welcomed, providing an excellent opportunity to advertise work and start conversations with e-AGE participants.
Topics of Interest:
- Scientific computing and data-intensive e-Science in areas related to energy, environment, health, climate, water, agriculture, biology, economy, medicine, as well as in social sciences and humanities.
- Perspectives on NRENs, including challenges, operation, sustainability, funding, governance, business models, security, and services.
- Problem-solving environments, Virtual Research Environments, Science Gateways, and collaborative tools, applications, and services.
- Education and e-Learning Technologies, access to educational resources, repositories, libraries and contents, cloud, grids, parallel and distributed computing, and high-performance computing.
- Internet technologies and trends, Internet of Things, Security, SDN, and AAIs.
- Artificial Intelligence tools, deep learning, big data, and open science platforms.
11-12 December 2019