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= Plenary Update: GENI and Future Cyberinfrastructure Research =

This session includes a brief project update and a preview of the future of mid-scale cybeinfrastructure
and the role of the GENI community and GENI technology, as well as a demonstration.

== Session Leaders ==
 * Mark Berman, GENI Project Office
 * Niky Riga, GENI Project Office

== Agenda / Speakers ==

 * ''Welcome'', Sandeep Gupta, Chair of Computer Science and Computer Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
 * ''Welcome and GENI Update'', Mark Berman, GENI Project Office [attachment:"2016-03-08 Berman Welcome and Update.pdf?format=raw" slides]
 * ''Some thoughts about sustainability,'' Nancy Forbes, Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO)
 * Jim Kurose, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
 * ''Looking beyond the Internet workshops update'', Chip Elliott, GENI Project Office [attachment:"Elliott - Looking Beyond @ GEC 24 Tempe.pdf?format=raw" slides]
 * ''Demo: Steroid !OpenFlow Service at work for medical and science applications'', Ryan Izard and Geddings Barrineau, Clemson University