Plenary I a - Welcome and Opening Keynote

Chair: Farnam Jahanian, NSF Assistant Director for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate

Fran Berman, Co-chair RDA, Chair RDA/US

Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Plenary I b - Benefits and Possibilities of Open Data Sharing

Chair: Sayeed Choudhury Associate Dean for Research Data Management, The Johns Hopkins University

John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks

Carole Palmer, Director, Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) and Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Plenary II - RDA Business including news from Council and the first Organisational Assembly

Chair: Herman Stehouwer, RDA Secretariat

Plenary III - Building Global Partnerships. The Perspective of Funders and Affiliate Organisations

Chair: Chris Greer, NIST Acting Director, Cyber Physical Systems and Smart Grid Program Office, Engineering Laboratory

Plenary IV - Technical Advisory Board and general technical collaboration

Chair: Larry Lannom, VP, Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)

Plenary V - Initial Meeting Results and Working Group Reports

Chair: Carlos Morais-Pires, European Commission

Plenary VI: Community discussion

Mark Parsons, RDA Secretariat