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CENIC 2012 Call For Proposals And Nominations

Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 October 2011 Written by Janis Cortese Friday, 14 October 2011

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) will hold its 16th annual conference, Beyond the Network, March 12-14, 2012, at the Sheraton hotel in Palo Alto, California. The CENIC 2012 Program Committee has called for proposals and award nominations.

The committee is now accepting proposals for presentations, demonstrations and panel discussions focused on network-enabled applications and research. Proposals should be no longer than three pages and should be submitted in RTF, PDF, or plain text format. The deadline for proposals is November 18, 2011.

Presentations typically fall into one of the following categories:

• technology/infrastructure
• teaching and learning
• application development and use
• trends/future developments in network technology and related applications

Presentations focused on research, teaching and learning activities involving multiple segments of the K-20 community, and/or international collaborations are especially encouraged. Projects or studies to be featured may be works-in-progress. The conference venue will have broadband connection to CalREN, NLR and Internet2 to enable live demonstrations of content or capability.

The program committee is especially interested in presentations about projects and initiatives that benefit from access to broadband networks and/or incorporate use of network technologies. The 2011 conference program provides examples of the types of presentations CENIC seeks and can be viewed at http://cenic2011.cenic.org/program.

In addition, CENIC has issued a call for nominations for its 2012 Innovations in Networking Award.

Each year CENIC seeks to discover and recognize exemplary innovations that leverage the California Research and Education Network (CalREN) and have the potential to improve the way instruction and research is conducted. We are requesting nominations from the community of applications and projects which represent innovative uses of the network. Awards will be presented in the following four categories:

• Education Applications
• High Performance Research Applications
• Experimental/Developmental Applications
• Gigabit/Broadband Applications

CENIC encourages nomination of applications and projects focused on research, teaching and learning activities involving collaboration across multiple segments of the K-20 community, and/or international collaborations that have been developed within 2010-2011. An Award committee will review the nominations and determine the award winners on the basis of submitted materials, and additional interviews as necessary.

CENIC will present these awards at Beyond the Network, March 12-14, 2012, at the Sheraton Hotel in Palo Alto, California. The deadline for submission of nominations is November 18, 2011, by 5:00 pm.

For more information about submitting a presentation proposal visit: http://cenic2012.cenic.org/cfp.html.

For more information about award nominations visit: http://cenic2012.cenic.org/cfa.html.

General conference registration will open on November 7, 2011. Updates will be posted to the CENIC 2012 website: http://cenic2012.cenic.org/

General questions about the program, awards, or proposals may be addressed to CENIC via e-mail at cenic2012-info@cenic.org.<>

Janis Cortese is Manager of Publicity and Communications at CENIC.