The AIP-5 Kickoff Workshop will be held May 3-4, in Geneva at the UNEP International Environment House #1.  The main purposes of workshop are to form the AIP-5 Working Groups and to agree on plans and initial designs in each WG. 

• Results of the Kickoff
  • Summary Presentations:
    
    • Short version, Long version,  Closing plenary slides - very long
  • AIP-5 Topic Areas and Working Groups were established in Kickoff
  • Thank you to UNEP for hosting the workshop.

• Overall plan for sessions
  • Opening Plenary Agenda
  • Closing Plenary Agenda
• Parallel Sessions descriptions
• Location and registration
  • Kickoff Registration Page

The Kickoff Workshop is one of two times that the Pilot participants will meet face-to-face during an AIP phase. All organizations responding to the GEO AIP-5 Call for Participation (CFP) should plan to attend the workshop. The AIP Development Process states the objectives of the Kickoff Workshop as: 

• To begin the development portion of AIP-5 
• To develop detailed plans for AIP-5
• To develop specific collaboration and interoperability goals for AIP-5
• To develop the detailed design based on the GEOSS AIP Architecture
• To develop user scenarios suitable for directing development of Operational Exemplars.

Kickoff Workshop Sessions - DRAFT

Location: Rooms 2, 4, and 5 of the UNEP International Environment House 1.  Rooms 4 and 5 are 15 persons maximum, room 2 is 25 persons maximum.

Thursday, May 3rd

Friday, May 4th - DRAFT

Opening Plenary Agenda - DRAFT

0900 to 1045

Telecon/Webex: OPlenary

Links are to DRAFT presentations that will be updated before the Plenary.

Closing Plenary Agenda- DRAFT

Telecon/Webex: CPlenary

Parallel Session Topics and Leaders 

Co-leads for each session are  listed.  Additional co-leads may be identified. 

Session leader responsibilities

1. Prepare a slide or two for opening plenary
2. Organize the Parallel Session, including inviting presentations in advance.
   • A typical agenda for the parallel session.
   • An analysis of the CFP Responses provides input to the session planning.
   • Session leaders may prepare a session web page using the GeoViQua wiki
3. Prepare summary of session for closing plenary session.

SBA sessions:

• Disaster Management
  • Session Leader: Herve Caumont
  • Topics: preparedness
    and mitigation
  • Session Page 
• Water
  
  • Session Leader: Jeff de La Beaujardiere
  • Topics: Improving water-resource management
    through better understanding of the water cycle
  • Session Page - Link TBS
• Health:
  
  • Session Leaders:  Ingo Simonis, Angel Palomares Pérez
    
  • Topics:  Air
    pollution; Waterborne
    diseases
  • Session Page - Link TBS
• Agriculture
  • Session Leader: Liping Di
  • Topics:
  • Session Page - Link TBS
• Energy SBA
  
  • Session Leader: Lionel Menard
  • Topics:
  • Session Page

Technology sessions

• User Authentication and Metrics
  
  • Session Leaders: Steve Browdy, Lucia Lovison 
  • Topics:
  • Session Page - TBD
• Quality Data Model for producers and consumers:  
  • Session Leader: Joan Maso
  • Topics:
  • Session Page - TBD
• Semantics:
  • Session Leader: Masahiko Nagai
  • Topics:
  • Session Page - Link TBS
• Licenses for GEOSS Data-CORE
  
  • Session Leader: Steve Browdy
  • Topics:
  • Session Page - Link TBS
• GCI Research topics:
  • Session Leader: Stefano Nativi
  • Topics: Discovery and Access Broker, Launching Enabler Applications
  • Session Page - Link TBS
• System Design:
  • Session Leader: Larry McGovern, Herve Caumont
  • Topics: GEOSS AIP Architecture, use of RM-ODP viewpoints, UML models, SBA Scenario models, Transverse Use Cases
  • Session Page - Link TBS
• WaterML/Water Information Services:  
  • Session Leader: Stefan Fuest 
  • Topics: WaterML encoding for hydrology based on GML and O&M.
  • Session Overview - Link TBS
• Crowd Sourcing:
  • Session Leader:
  • Topics:  
  • Session Overview - Link TBS
• Mobile Client Applications:
  • Session Leaders: Ingo Simonis, Angel Palomares Pérez
  • Topics:
  • Session Page - Link TBS

AIP-5 Kickoff Workshop Logistics

• Dates: 3-4 May 2012
  
  • 9 am to 5 pm on each day
• Location: UNEP International Enviromental House
  • Building #1, Rooms 2, 4 and 5
  • 11-13 Chemin des Anémones, 1219 Chatelaine, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Tel: +41 22 917 8619
• Directions to UNEP
  • General Directions
  • Bus 22 -
    
    • Get off at the bus stop Châtelaine
      • Walk up to the corner by the Pont de l'Ecu, turn right and walk two short blocks.
    • Bus 22: goes Châtelaine to Nations to reach WMO
  • Bus 6 - goes from Gare Cornavin to Châtelaine
  • If you are staying at the hotel in Geneva for the duration of your stay Geneva public transport network are FREE.  Just ask for it in the establishment where you stay, you will receive a personal and non-document format of a credit card.
    
  • free bus ticket from the airport (scroll to the middle of the page):

• Kickoff Registration Page
  
  • Listing of Persons already registered
• Lodging
  • Geneva Hotels list from WMO
• Dress is Business Casual

Telecon/webex Logistics

The telecon and webex reservations have been made as listed below.

Telecon and webex to be provided for plenary only.

Open Plenary Telecon/Webex

• Date and Time: 9:00 am to 11:00 am Geneva time, Thursday 3 May
  
  • Starting time in world timezones
  • 3 am Washington DC, 4 pm Tokyo
• Telecon
  • +1 415 363 0833 passcode:665541
  • International Dial-in Numbers
• Webex 
  •  link to webex
  •  password: AIP5ko

Closing Plenary Telecon/Webex

• Date and Time:  1:30 pm to 5:00 pm Geneva time, Friday 4 May
  • Starting time in world timezones
• Telecon
  • +1 415 363 0833 passcode:665541
  • International Dial-in Numbers
• Webex
  • Link to webex
  • password: AIP5ko