Upcoming Events
Cloudscape - A Workshop Exploring Cloud Computing and its Impact on Enterprise IT
Dates & Venue: 14-15 January 2009, Hotel Mariott, Rue Auguste Orts 3-7, Brussels, Belgium
Focus
Cloud Computing from multiple perspectives: technology, policy & legal issues, and standardisation with speakers & panellists from the European Commission, enterprise (providers & users), EU policy bodies & research organisations. Themes explored include Market Perception & Analysis on Cloud Computing; top-level challenges, such as interoperability, policy, standards, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and security; and enterprise usage of clouds.
The concluding Panel Discussion will serve to define clouds and pave the way for a Special Report on the current landscape with a view to driving or influencing strategies developed by policy makers, industrialists and researchers.
Workshop Agenda.
Cloudscape targets the business decision-makers, technology developers and officers, and research organisations involved in distributed computing. Participants are invited to attend a Networking Cocktail on Wednesday 14 January at the Workshop venue.
Registration - register free of charge here.
Cloudscape is supported by OGF-Europe's Industry Expert Group, which is chaired by Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research, and comprises a highly distinguished panel of experts.
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1st European Conference on Software Services and Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities Technologies (SSOKU09)
Date & Venue: 13-14 January 2009, Brussels, Belgium
Event Website
Focus
This 2-day conference will pave the ground for an annual European Summit on Software Services & Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities technologies by exploring the future of these technologies and their benefits. The conference will present the latest results of the ECSS (European Community of Software & Services) White Paper on Software and Service Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering and of the Challengers’ Research Agenda and Roadmap on Grids, with the aim of fostering further discussions as we move towards new frontiers in software & services.
More information on the conference is available here.
The conference targets high-level researchers, industrialists, SMEs, and political representatives from the European Commission and national authorities.
Registration - click here.
SSOKU09 is jointly organised by the projects 3S and CHALLENGERS.