This afternoon event will highlight two key areas of interest in distributed computing and enterprise applications to Information and Communication Technology companies. The meeting will be held as a joint forum with First Tuesday Geneva, a networking organisation for business and investors in the Geneva region.

The CERN openlab for DataGrid applications is a means by which companies may partner with CERN to testbed their hardware and software products for Grid applications. Grid technology developed at CERN is already being used for particle physics and healthcare applications, making the laboratory an ideal site for collaborative development. British companies are already participating in this initiative and the opportunity is now available to medium-sized IT companies. In addition, a number of enterprise applications will be described. This software has been developed to manage the unique engineering and administrative challenges of this international organisation, which is building the largest scientific instrument on the planet. The event will be followed by a reception.

This meeting is supported by Intellect, PPARC, CERN, the Office of Science and Technology, the British Consulate in Geneva and UK Trade and Investment.

Organizer for CERN side: Francois Grey; Organizer for UK side: Nathan Hill

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