ITK/Conference 2005

ITK Conference - October 2005 - Bethesda Maryland

Organization

The Insight Software Consortium and the National Library of Medicine are organizing the first ITK Conference to be held in Bethesda Maryland on October 12-14 2005.

Context

The ITK Conference will reunite developers and users of the Insight Toolkit and will provide an environment for discussing the use of the toolkit and its future development.

Program (Tentative)

This is a first Draft of the programm

• Thursday 13 October 2005
  • Key Note Panel: "Open Source Software Licensing." We are expecting to bring in several legal experts who will talk about open-source licensing.
  • Presentations by A2D2 contractors awarded in 2004
  • ISC Administrative meeting (attendence limited; agenda is available [HERE])

• Friday 14 October 2005
  • ISC Discussion on licensing and backward compatibility (open to all)
  • Presentations "Challenges to the Biological Imaging Community." We are expecting to have 3-5 speakers describing challenges to the ITK community.
  • Envisioning ITK: Toolkit Road map for 2005-2006 and into the future

Venue

Location

The ITK Conference will be held at the NIH Campus in Bethesda Maryland.

Security

Given that the NIH campus is a Federal Building, certain security procedures are in place for getting access to the building

Details on the security procedures can be found at

http://www.nih.gov/about/visitorsecurity.htm

Laptops

If you bring computers/laptop to the NIH campus, please make sure that you register them with the security officer upon entering the building. You will receive a tag for your computer, that you should present againt when leaving the building with your computer.