Dear Programme Committee
Yesterday, at the call, someone was bright enough to recall something about a session on “the Future of NRENs”. I have been trying to find traces of our thinking in the wiki and managed to find none.
As I see it, the idea of this panel collides with the current plans for the “Disruption” session, where the idea is to have two short external presentations on why NRENs are being disrupted and then a panel consisting of one senior person (think CEO) per Nordic NREN. If we then also have a panel immediately after on the future of NRENs, I think that would be a little too much.
We can resolve this in a number of ways. - Drop the idea of a panel for the “Disruption” session and figure out something else to put in. I am afraid that doing this would still create a too big overlap between the two sessions. - Drop the “Future of NRENs” panel and consider it being handled in the “Disruption session” and use the slot for something else. - Drop the “Disruption session” and use the slot for something else. It is has the drawback that we have invited people and gotten their acceptance, so we would have to walk back on that.
In case we drop one of the two current sessions, we should think about what to do with the empty slot. We could use it for submitted presentations (an idea we left out because the programme was considered filled at our previous meeting). Or we could use it for some topic we would like to add - SMI and I had the thought that we could some non-Nordic NREN participants speak about their network strategy, of course considering a potential clash with the network track.
I suggest that before we reach out to potential participants in the two sessions, we con conclude on plan for how to resolve the potential clash.
All the best, Josva