Robin Winsor, President of Cybera, presented these slides at the Cybera 2010 Annual General Meeting on December 1, 2010.
Key messages included:
1) Global Competitiveness can be achieved two ways.....a) Staying on top of developments in innovation and emerging technologies (ie. technology helped David defeat. Goliath)....and b) Maintaining power in numbers by working together with collaborators and partners (becoming a shark insted of separate small fish).
2) New Cybera services being introduced this year include a Transit Exchange, Group Buying Program, Microcluster installation for testbed and production computing (joint with WestGrid), and addressing broadband connectivity in Alberta
3) Looking ahead, Big Data challenges need to be served across multiple disciplines -- and Cybera is in a position (in the phase between research development and maturity) to help make that happen.
For more information on upcoming Cybera initiatives or Cybera itself, please contact info@cybera.ca or visit http://www.cybera.ca.
2. Agenda
1. Call to Order and Confirmation of Quorum
2. Introductions
3. Approval of Agenda
4. Approval of 2009 AGM Minutes
5. Cybera Report to Members
• Chair’s Report
• President’s Report
6. Cybera Business
• Approval of the Recommended Bylaw Changes
• Appointment of Board of Directors
• Appointment of Auditors
• Receive audited financials for the period ended March 31, 2010
• Appointment of Nominating Committee for upcoming year (2011)
12. Cybera’s Areas of Activity
People Data Computers
People Collaboration Tools Portals WestGrid
• Virtual Organizations CSSDP CESWP
• CyberPorts GeoChronos
• “Facebook”-lookalikes
Data Databases WestGrid
GeoCENS Cloud
Amazon
Computers Networks
• Cybera
• CANARIE
• SuperNet
• Peering
13.
14. Vision Mission
To become the open source, web platform that To make all water and environmental data and
connects water and environmental data with the information freely open and accessible via the
tools and people needed to advance water web, freeing resources previously consumed
research, integrated management, innovation, and by searching for and acquiring data, thereby
economic diversification. enabling new water perspectives and
accelerating water research, integrated
management, innovation, and economic
diversification.