Date: 7 July 2011

Venue: Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9HQ

Times: 11:00 to 15:00 approx

Refreshments will be available from 10:30.

Agenda:

Presentations:

• Adrian Young, Head of Digital Workspace Group at the University of York, will talk about 'The Role of Virtual Desktops in a Digital Workspace Strategy'.
• Matt Johnson, Head of Research at Eduserv, will describe the UMF (University Modernisation Fund) Cloud Pilot Project, a cloud service being built especially for education.

Followed by  Q & A before lunch at around 12:30.

Then an open discussion covering the following broad topics;

• Server virtualisation 
• Application/Desktop virtualisation 
• Licensing 
• Status of Chest Agreement negotiations 
• Cloud computing 
• Open source software

Signing up:

Please contact Jenny Carroll if you or one of your colleagues would like to come to the meeting - include contact details and any special dietary requirements in your email.

If you would like to add any other topics to the discussion then please include these in your email.