There are a number of sessions coming up at this year's spring Internet2 Member Meeting that may be of interest to people who work with real-time collaboration technologies like telepresence and videoconferencing. These sessions will be happening between April 18-20 in Arlington, VA:

• Distance Learning and Research on Cloud Nine: IOCOM and JANET talk about the Visimeet deployment for R&E in the UK
• Internet2 Video/Collaboration Forum: the Internet2 Commons; for people interested in Internet2's video and real-time collaboration offerings
• Where Videoconferening and Telepresence Meet: Immersion and Interoperability; experts from Cisco and Polycom (and I) will discuss challenges and solutions with telepresence interoperability
• Audio/Video Collaboration Infrastructure Special Interest Group
• Group Video Collaboration - The Social Application; applying video in a social environment, featuring the CEO of EVOgh
• Post DVTS: Creating the Next Global Media Collaboration Tool; learn about the next steps for the popular freely-distributed high bandwidth video software
• Collaboration Special Interest Group: focused on collaboration tools in R&E

While none of these sessions have been selected to be netcast, if you can't join us in Arlington, many of the slide decks will be posted online.