A successful publicprivate partnership
Alberto Di Meglio
CERN openlab Head
CERN openlab in a nutshell
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A science – industry partnership to drive R&D
and innovation with over a decade of success
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Evaluate state-of-the-art technologies in a
challenging environment and improve them
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Test in a research environment today what will
be used in many business sectors tomorrow
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Train next generation of engineers/employees
Disseminate results and outreach to new
audiences
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The history of openlab
III
2009
IV
2012
II
2006
I
2003
Set-up
2001
CERN openlab Board of Sponsor 2013
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V
2015
CERN
requirements
push the limit
Apply new
techniques
and
technologies
Produce
advanced
products and
services
Test
prototypes in
CERN
environment
Joint
development
in rapid
cycles
A public-private partnership between the research community and industry
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Phase V Preparation
 IT Challenges Whitepaper
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• Workshops, discussions, presentations
• Published in April 2014
Internal discussions, workshops, initial
use cases definitions
New projects starting or being defined
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Information Technology Research Areas
Data acquisition and filtering
Computing platforms, data analysis, simulation
Data storage and long-term data preservation
Compute provisioning (cloud)
Networks
Data analytics
Medical applications
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Who we have talked to
New
partners
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A Solid Educational Program
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At CERN
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Outside the lab:
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Regular workshops
Special workshops and lectures
Requirements workshops
Training courses on hardware platforms,
Parallel programming, etc.
CERN School of Computing
in Portugal (August 2014)
Thematic CSC in Split (June 2014)
Summer student program
The ICE-DIP project
Programs is highly structured,
with different tiers and
specializations – students, young
researchers, professional
researchers and experts including summer student
lectures as well as numerous
invited talks at CERN
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Summer Student Program
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Summer student program 2013
 720+ applicants
 22 selected candidates
 13 lectures (including new lectures
from external labs)
 A new lightning talks session
 22 technical reports
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Summer student program 2014
 850+ applicants
 23 selected candidates
 Lectures and visits program in
collaboration with, other
Labs/Institutes and companies
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Started February 2013
Recruited 5 fellows
Model can be extended to
other areas (e.g. data
analytics)
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Annual CERN openlab Event
Globe @ CERN
Capacity ~200
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High-visibility public event to promote the activities and
results of CERN openlab and its projects
• Press can be invited and the event broadcasted
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Each member is given visibility and seats according to their
membership level
• Members can invite their partners/customers
• Visits to CERN installations (LHC etc.) can be organised for participants
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Communication
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Project activities and results are
disseminated to a wide audience
Subject to agreement between all
the participating members that it
does not compromise legitimate
academic or commercial interests
Press releases (must not imply
endorsement of products by
research labs etc.)
Visibility and presence of member
companies on the website is
proportional to membership level
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Organizational Structure
Collaboration
Board
(all members
represented)
CERN
Partner
Contacts
Project 1
(Project leader)
CERN/IT Mgmt.
(DHO, IT-EC
Project
Office, etc.),
Legal, KT
Mgmt team
(Head, CTO,
Comms, Admin)
Project 2
(Project leader)
Project N
(Project leader)
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Membership levels
The membership level for industry members corresponds to their total accumulated
contributions across all the projects
Partner
Contributor
Yearly fee + 2 or more FTE + in-kind
Yearly fee + 1 FTE + in-kind
Associate
Yearly fee + in-kind
Research
Own costs, participation to common
activities
Membership benefits as described in the Framework Agreement – Annex 1
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CERN openlab Formal Agreements
CERN openlab Framework Agreement
Agreement signed by
each member (research
lab, company, etc.) with
CERN
Project 1
Project 2
Project Agreement
Signed
by all
project
participants
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Project N
Members
Partners
Contributors
Research
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EXECUTIVE CONTACT
Alberto Di Meglio, CERN openlab Head
[email protected]
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Fons Rademakers, CERN openlab CTO
[email protected]
COMMUNICATION CONTACT
Mélissa Gaillard, CERN openlab Communication Officer
[email protected]
ADMIN CONTACT
Kristina Gunne, CERN openlab Administration Officer
[email protected]
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