Since the beginning of GARR history, this technical workshop has been an important meeting for experts in networking in the research and education community: an opportunity to receive professional updates and discuss about the trend topics of this domain.

This year, the programme will focus on Software Defined Networks, on the current developments both on the European backbone GÉANT and on other research networks as well as on telcos and on the changes that these innovations will bring for the R&E organisations’ campus network. We will also talk about cloud, apps and micro-services and how their constant growth is changing the role of infrastructure and network experts. Finally, there will be space dedicated to the themes of digital identity and cybersecurity two of the main pillars of GARR infrastructure.

As always, in the spirit that characterises GARR where knowledge sharing as well as the development of skills are of the paramount importance, on 7 October the workshop will be anticipated by training classes on some of the most interesting themes for the community.

GARR Conference is the annual meeting of users, operators and managers of the Italian national education and research network aimed at sharing experiences and comments on the use of the network as a tool for research, training and culture, in different contexts and disciplines.

At the hearth of this years’ conferenceare the new IT challenges in multidisciplinary research: from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, from data preservation to their reuse, from education to open science.
These are topics of interest for the many communities that are part of the GARR network and are becoming more and more interlinked and multidisciplinary. The conference will be an opportunity to present success stories of innovation and topics for discussion for the world of academia, research, education, health and humanities.

Presso il Dipartimento di Informatica dell’Università degli Studi di Pisa si è tenuto il workshop "Idee per innovare in rete". Dalle prime reti metropolitane ad oggi: valori e modelli da condividere.

Vent’anni dopo la realizzazione delle prime reti metropolitane, una giornata di incontro per celebrare i successi delle esperienze pionieristiche e per riflettere sugli scenari futuri a beneficio dell’intera comunità dell’istruzione e della ricerca.

GARR Conference is the annual meeting of users, operators and managers of the Italian national education and research network aimed at sharing experiences and comments on the use of the network as a tool for research, training and culture, in different contexts and disciplines.

The core themes of this editions are data, artificial intelligence and technology transfer both towards the enterprises and single persons. We will talk about open data and services, cybersecurity, industry 4.0 and its relations with research and innovation. We will discuss how education should be rethought in order to keep the pace with the continuous evolution of ICTs, also with the help of these very same technologies.

In this edition of this annual event for IT and networking experts from the research and education community we will address very hot topics, among which cybersecurity, new network models, and the sharing of infrastructures at the local level

The GARR Conference brings together users, technical operators and managers of the Italian Research and Education Network, with the aim to share experiences and ideas about the use of the network as a cross-disciplinary and cross-context tool for research, education and culture.

This years’ conference theme is the role of data in research. Data are a valuable asset that constitutes more and more the real basis of scientific work. They are in all disciplines, with common requirements, peculiarities and emerging needs.

From Big Data to open data, from data sharing to data storage, from processing of huge amounts of data to the Internet of Things: these are just a few of the many topics covered over the three days on innovation and collaboration for research.

During the conference, several aspects of the life of data will be analysed: production, storage, management, dissemination, reuse, security and interoperability. The conference will showcase success stories, good practice and the discussion on common strategies among national and international network. .

This year, the GARR Netvolution workshop - Ideas, Technologies, and Services for the Community will particularly focus on network models and architectures, cybersecurity, digital identity, and cloud services. These are current topics that will impact the future of research networks both nationally and internationally in the coming years, opening new scenarios for users and their reference communities.

During the workshop, discussions will revolve around network, security, identity, privacy, and data protection, not only from a technical standpoint but also concerning the policies to implement. The event will provide an opportunity to analyze the usage of the GARR network, the upgrades that have been made and are currently underway, and to discuss new trends in technology, innovative network models, and how these will translate into the next generation of networks. Additionally, new IaaS and PaaS services available on the federated GARR cloud will be presented, open to participation by all, and the initial usage experiences will be shared.
This year, ample space will also be given to working groups and training, with proposals for tutorials and seminars related to the workshop's themes.