Keynote Speaker

Wolfgang Gentzsch,
DEISA Project, and member of the Board of Directors of the Open Grid Forum
Topic: Grids and Clouds, the Dawn of e-Science Infrastructures.

Wolfgang Gentzsch is currently Dissemination Advisor for the DEISA Distributed European Initiative for Supercomputing Applications and a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Grid Forum standards organization. Before, he was an adjunct professor of computer science at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; Chairman of the German D-Grid Initiative; Vice Chair of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group e-IRG; Area Director of Major Grid Projects of the Open Grid Forum Steering Group; member of the US President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST-NIT); Managing Director of MCNC Grid and Data Center Services in North Carolina; Sun Microsystem's Senior Director of Grid Computing in Menlo Park, CA; Founder, CEO and CTO of software companies Genias and Gridware, and professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg, Germany, among others. Wolfgang Gentzsch studied mathematics and physics at the Technical Universities in Aachen and Darmstadt, Germany.