On 17 February 2005 the second Eduserv Athens Data Service Provider seminar was held at The Diskus conference centre in London, UK. The seminar was attended by more than 50 staff from a variety of roles (systems administrators, software engineers, product managers) representing 34 DSPs.
Presentations were delivered by Eduserv Athens staff on a variety of technical and business issues, with an open forum at the end of the seminar for general discussion.
| 11:00 – 11:05 | Introduction to the Day Lyn Norris, Eduserv Athens Manager |
| 11:05 – 11:30 |
New directions & markets for Athens
Simon Pyne, Eduserv Athens Sales |
| 1:30 -12:00 |
Agent implementation: Best Practices
Tom Demeranville, Eduserv Athens DSP support |
| 12:00 – 13:00 |
Next Generation Athens Services
David Orrell, Eduserv Athens Technical Architect |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 – 14:15 |
Recent Athens Developments: Portal capability, attributes in practice, DSP statistics
Lyn Norris, Eduserv Athens Manager |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Open Forum · attribute based authorisation · SAML & Shibboleth · Management tools · Wishlist of enhancements · Future plans generally |