How did start the story that led an Argentine to move his family - with three very little children -  to live in Australia and become a kind of rock star in the world of ICT and within it, in the complex university scene? It started with his need of offering a better quality of life to his family. That is what led William Confalonieri in a journey that, among other things, made him winner of the CIO of the Year at the Australian Executive Awards (CEO Magazine) in 2016, and two years later of the same award, granted by IT News, recognizing the Deakin Genie project as Australia’s top IT project. In September he will be one of the main characters of the plenary sessions that will gather TICAL2018 and the 2^nd Latin American e-Science Meeting in the Las Americas Convention Center, in Cartagena de Indias, which is the reason why we invited him to have this conversation that we know will awaken your desire to know him and to be awaiting the chance of learning from his experience.

The capacity of the Brazilian academic network, the Ipê network, does not stop growing and the activation of new circuits in May brought more availability to the network in the North and Southeast regions of the country. The first was the link connecting Manaus (AM) to the Federal District, which received an upgrade from 1 Gb/s to 3 Gb/s. The other case was the activation of a new 10 Gb/s circuit between the Federal District and São Paulo.

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