Internet2 Member Meetings provide many opportunities for the exchange of information about new and ongoing work in the member community. The Spring 2007 Internet2 Member Meeting convened hundreds of leaders within the research and education community to address key advances in high-performance networking and other leading-edge Internet technologies. Representatives from across our member community serve on the Member Meeting Program Committee, which has responsibility for creating the focus and program content for each meeting. The Program Committee recruits, evaluates, and selects Member Meeting track sessions. In 2007, Member Meetings featured over 85 track sessions and close to 200 side meetings covering a wide range of high-performance networking topics.
A different Internet2 university member hosts the fall meeting each year. In fall 2007, the meeting was hosted by University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and featured a wide variety of advanced networking activities on the UCSD campus, including advanced applications demonstrations presented at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), as well as tours and demos at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) facility.
Highlights from the 2007 Member Meetings included keynote addresses from Dr. Larry Smarr, director of Calit2, and Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Francine Berman, director of the SDSC—an NSF Cyberinfrastructure Center—moderated a panel discussion, "Cyberinfrastructure: The Way Forward.” Other meeting highlights included the presentation of the 2007 Internet2 IDEA Awards and the most recent Internet2 Land Speed Records.