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Since today Lima, the capital of the Republic of Peru, will be the host of the Second Conference of Directors of Information and Communication Technologies in Higher Education Institutions, Management of ICT for Research and Collaboration, TICAL 2012. Parallel sessions, plenary sessions, panel discussions and workshops will be part of the program that will also include the participation of outstanding speakers from Brazil, United States, Greece and Sweden.

In order to provide a space for reflection, exchange of knowledge and best practices that address these issues, in order to contribute to the improvement and optimization of the management and work of the universities in the region, on July 2nd and 3rd, 2012, will take place the second edition of the TICAL Conference.

The event will be held at the Hotel Estelar Miraflores and the program will involve the participation of the distinguished speakers Luiz Claudio Mendonça Director of the Data Processing Center (CPD) of the Federal University of Bahía, Roland Hedberg, IT Architect at the University of Umea, Sweden, Ognjen Prnjat, Manager of the European and Regional e-Infrastructure at GRNET and Karla Vega, Research Engineer in the Data and Information Analysis Group at the University of Texas. (Learn more about the work of each speaker here: http://tical_2012.redclara.net/es/conferencistas.html)

During the activities the attendees will have the opportunity to participate in parallel sessions, plenary sessions, panel discussions and workshops on topics including e-Science, Knowledge Management, Federated Services, Mobility, Visibility, and Telecommunications Strategies.

We invite you to know more about the program of the event and to follow each one of the activities through the updates available on the Twitter and the RSS feed.