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Announcing the 2008 Merit Member Conference

May 29, 2008

By Andy Rosenzweig

Merit Network is pleased to announce the 2008 Merit Member Conference, to be held June 12-13 at the Four Points by Sheraton Ann Arbor. Celebrating its tenth year, the Merit Member Conference is a Merit Member Conference logo

two-day seminar on best practices in networking and network-using technology, paired with ample time for interaction between professionals doing high-tech work in Michigan. The conference is especially geared toward Michigan's education and research communities and is open to anyone interested in building leading-edge networks and using them in education, research, healthcare, and business applications.

Featured speakers include:

Bill St. Arnaud, chief research officer of CANARIE, Inc., the "Internet2 of Canada." St. Arnaud, who blogs regularly on green technologies in computing, will speak on the topic "Saving the Planet at the Speed of Light: How Fiber Networks Can Help Reduce Global Warming."
Rob Malda, creator and editor in chief of Slashdot, will discuss the birth, growth and longevity of the legendary "News for Nerds" site.
Walter G. Weir, chief information officer for the University of Nebraska, will discuss strategies for educating future IT leaders in portfolio management and project management.

The conference will also include over 20 breakout presentations and roundtable discussions in two tracks--Technology and Policy & Education--providing information on key topics including virtual learning, network security, fiber-optic networking, VoIP, mass notification systems, server virtualization and videoconferencing. Merit will also present a series of presentations about its services, both operational and in development.

On Wednesday, June 11, four pre-conference workshops are available on the topics of disaster recovery, virtual switching, digital video transmission, and thin client technology.

Full details about the Merit Member Conference are available at:

http://www.merit.edu/mmc

For more information please contact .

About Merit Network, Inc.

Merit Network, Inc., a non-profit corporation governed by Michigan's public universities, owns and operates America's longest-running regional research and education network. Founded in 1966, Merit supports the high-performance networking needs of Michigan's universities, colleges, K-12 schools, libraries, state government, healthcare, and other non-profit organizations. Through Merit, Michigan's research and education organizations have access to leading-edge network research, state and national collaborative initiatives, and international peering. For further information, see http://www.merit.edu

For press/media contact:

Elwood Downing
Merit Network, Inc.
Phone: (734)527-5702
Email:

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