Date

The meeting was held on 11th December, 2024, hosted by PSNC at Poznan, Poland.

Venue/Location

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Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) office

Polish Optical Internet Research Center
Street Jana Pawła II 10
61-139 Poznan, Poland

Google maps link:

How to get there: https://www.psnc.pl/how-to-reach-us/cbpio/.

Accommodation/recommended hotels:

The list of recommendations: https://www.psnc.pl/how-to-reach-us/base-of-hotels/.

Remote participation:

Will be possible via Webex. Details will follow after registration.

REGISTRATION

For any questions, please email schaefer@dfn.de

AGENDA

Timing	Topic & Presenter
Tuesday 10 December
19:00	Group dinner at 'Wiejskie Jadło'
Wednesday 11 December
09:00 - 09:30	Welcome & Intro - Leonie Schäfer (DFN) and Daniela Brauner (GÉANT) News from the GÉANT Community Programme - Dawn Hsu-hua Ng (GÉANT) - presentation SIG-AI for NRENs Roadmap - Leonie Schäfer (DFN) and Daniela Brauner (GÉANT) - presentation
09:30 - 10:45	*PSNC - Overview of current AI Projects* AI for Next Generation Networks - Bartosz Belter (PSNC) ML/AI for early diagnosis and therapy of diseases - Cezary Mazurek (PSNC) LLM and Generative AI in practice - Marcin Wolski (PSNC) AI for Humanity and Cultural Heritage - Tomasz Hoffman (PSNC) Joint presentation
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Panel: A view on AI for NRENs from the SIG AI Steering Committee perspective
	Using Machine Learning approaches to facilitate network situational awareness - Jan Kohlrausch (DFN-CERT) - presentation
	The Current AI Landscape in Greece: A View from the Supply Side - Panos Louridas (GRNET) - presentation
	From GPT-NL to WiLLMa to dealing with AI(-ACT) - an overview on what is happening at SURF - Albert Hankel (SURF) - presentation
	High-Performance Artificial Intelligence Activities at ASNET-AM: Bridging Advanced Computing and AI - Hrachya Astsatryan (ASNET-AM) - presentation
	AI impacts on the research lifecycle and AI for NRENs, what's next? - Daniela Brauner (GÉANT) - presentation
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	*Discussion in Breakout Groups - Online and F2F*
	Discussion and presentation of the results
14:30 - 15:00	Session: Short presentations by SIG-AI participants (Part I)
	Making a service out of Whisper - Lars Lund Thomson (NORDUnet) - presentation
	NREN as AI broker - Facilitating access to AI platforms - Jakob Tendel (DFN) - presentation
	GenAI initiative for NRENs in the Asia Pacific region - Asitha Bandaranayake (LEARN) - presentation
15:00 - 15:20	Coffee Break
15:20 - 16:00	Session: Short presentations by SIG-AI participants (Part II)
	Building an AI-Driven Platform for Proactive Threat Detection - Antonio Fuentes Bermejo (RedIRIS) - presentation
	Implementing preventUEBA for risk assessment: Lessons Learned and Challenges - Nil Ortiz Rabella and Albert Calvo (I2CAT) - Virtual - presentation
	Secure AI services for Austrian academic institutions Michael Pisecki (ACOmarket GmbH) - Virtual - presentation
	The importance of ethics in AI development - Magdalena Rzaca (GÉANT) - presentation
16:00 - 16:15	*Final Comments & Closing* - Leonie Schäfer (DFN)

Meeting Notes

Discussions in Breakout Groups

Notes about the main discussions of the groups are in this folder:
https://geant.app.box.com/folder/297896284541