Lower Mekong Initiative Proposed Agenda

When:     August 18-22, 2014
Place:      Hanoi, Vietnam
            

Monday, August 18 – All participants together

09:30               Registration

10:30               Welcome by Local Hosts

                        Introduction: Background, Objectives

                        NSF and State Department Welcome

Theme 1: “The Impact of Climate Change and Water Disasters In the Lower Mekong Region” - Dr. Surajate, Thailand Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute

Theme 2: “How Cyberinfrastructure, Advanced Communication Technologies and Network-enabled Collaboration can help mitigate or assist the adaptation to Climate Change and Natural Disasters” – TBD

Theme 3: “Evolving Developments in Extreme Weather Prediction/Forecasting and communication technologies for near real time warning of imminent impacts” – TBD

12:30                Lunch

14:00               Mechanisms, strategies, and organizations to assist cyberinfrastructure in the LM region-speaker(s) TBD

15:30               Break

16:00               Current and Evolving R&E Network Infrastructure in the Lower Mekong

Panel 1 Country update: Dr. Chalermpol (Thailand), Dr. Van (Vinaren), Dr Smith (NSRC- to address Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar)

Panel 2: Connecting the Lower Mekong Region to the rest of the World and engagement with regional and international communities: Likely participants: TEIN representative, George McLaughlin: APAN representative, Dante, Internet 2, Pragma, TransPac3

Wrap up of day one

Tuesday, August 19 – Split into two Tracks: Science and Network Support Staff

Networking Track:  NSRC Campus Network Training

08:30               Best practices for network design, cabling design

13:00               Lunch

14:00               Local Area Networking (Layer 2) theory

Science Track:

08:30               Disaster Recovery/Planning TBD

11:00               Flooding Case Study

13:00               Lunch

14:00               TBD

17:00               Bring everyone together: day overview

Wednesday, August 20– Split into two Tracks: Science and Network Support Staff

Networking Track:  NSRC Campus Network Training

08:30               Local Area Networking hands on labs

12:30               Lunch

14:00               Routing (Layer 3) theory

Science Track:

08:30               Case Study: Water Management

12:30               Lunch

14:00               2 parallel half day tutorials on GIS tools, Data management tools

17:00               Bring everyone together: day overview

Thursday, August 21 – Split into two Tracks: Science and Network Support Staff

Networking Track:  NSRC Campus Network Training

08:30               Routing (Layer 3) hands on labs

12:30               Lunch

14:00               Network monitoring and management primer

Science Track:

08:30               TBD

12:30               Lunch

14:00               2 parallel half day tutorials on GIS tools, Data management tools

Science Track:

2  half day and one full day OR 4 half day tutorials

17:00               Bring everyone together: day overview

Friday, August 22– All participants together

0800-1300:   Review/Summary of the various session

Panel Session – “Where to from here”

Propose action plans and draft recommendations,

Allocate tasks

Wrap up and summary