Even those who are not in the Hotel, Casino and Events Center Enjoy Viña del Mar to participate in TICAL2015 may follow the Conference of Directors of Information and Communications Technologies of the Latin American Universities. Thanks to the support of the host network, REUNA, TICAL released in its website a link to the live broadcast of the event.

The broadcasts will mainly contemplate the plenary sessions, in which will be present the international guest speakers Andrés Holguín Coral (Colombia), the Msc. Manuel Moreno Castañeda (Mexico), Susan Grajek (USA), Eloy Rodrigues (Portugal) and Hans Pongratz (Germany).

TICAL2015 begins next Monday, July 6, but the organizers of the event are expecting the participants on Sunday 5, at the third floor of the Hotel for the delivery of materials and the finishing of the registration. The reception desk will open between 16h and 18:30h.

To follow the live broadcast and get more information about the conference, visit http://tical2015.redclara.net. Follow us also in Twitter: @RedCLARA and @TICAL2015.

In order to facilitate the process of your registration in TICAL2015, the organizers of the Conference are waiting for you on Sunday 5 at the third floor of the Enjoy Hotel, Casino and Event Centre, in Viña del Mar, to give you your materials and finish all the details of your registration.

We will have a registration table opened between 16:00 and 18:30 PM. Come and avoid the rows in Monday morning.

If you want more information about TICAL2015, please visit http://tical.redclara.net

TICAL is almost here. In a few days, hundreds of ICT directors of the Latin American universities will meet in Viña del Mar, Chile, to share knowledge and hear about the experiences of the international guest speakers. Andrés Holguín Coral, from Colombia, is one of them. In this interview, the last with the speakers of the fifth edition of the event, he says what motivated him to participate in TICAL2015 and highlights the peculiarities of the Conference.

What are your expectations for the Conference and of your participation in it?

My expectation is to be able to share with the other institutions the security process in which we are working at the University of Los Andes during the recent years, in order to receive feedback about our initiative and encourage other universities to start its awareness process on this issue.

What motivated you to accept the invitation to attend the conference?

The possibility of sharing experiences in ICT management at university level. We have some similar events around the world, but TICAL allows different advances because it gives us contact with people who have the same problems, since they are part of the same continent.

Talking about the issues that will be addressed by you in the Conference, what is the most important thing you would like to highlight?

The information security is a challenge that every organization is now facing. In this context, the challenge of education is to achieve balance between security and freedom. That's part of what I want to share at the event, learning how this process has been done at other universities.

Viña del Mar is known for its many beauties. What do you think of the choice of this city as TICAL2015 venue?

TICAL is characterized by lead its participants not only to a high quality event, but also to the best cities in Latin America. I imagine that the winter weather and the time we’ll dedicate to the Conference will not allow us to enjoy the beaches of Viña, but I want to know the historical places of the city, and, of course, to enjoy its cuisin

Both activities are free of charge and open to all the TICAL2015 Conference participants and to the members of the RedCLARA partner NRENs. Vacancies are limited, so to ensure your participation you must register in each one of the activities.

These two training activities will be carried out within the TICAL2015 Conference and thanks to the MAGIC project - Middleware for Collaborative Applications and Virtual Global Communities (which, co-financed by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 program, started last May 1) - will be developed after TICAL closing on Wednesday, July 8, 2015, in the Hotel, Casino & Event Center Enjoy, in the city of Viña del Mar, Chile. Engineers, developers, teachers, researchers and ICT leaders from academic institutions and national networks gathered around the TICAL Conference are invited to participate.

The first activity, the Panel of Federations and eduroam services, will take place between 14:00 and 16:00. In it, the academic networks that currently offer eduroam and have federations will share their experiences in the area.

Between 16:00 and 18:00 will be held the training in NRENum.NET, a service that allows the use of the existing DNS infrastructure for the global marking of multimedia services. As part of the MAGIC project, RedCLARA promotes the release of NRENum globally and, in this activity, the guidelines to carry out its implementation will be given.

Registrations for the two activities are independent. Ensure your participation now by registering through the following links.

Panel of Federations and eduroam Services: https://eventos.redclara.net/indico/event/509/
Training in NRENum.NET: https://eventos.redclara.net/indico/event/508/