Towards a resilient and trusted cloud market – What the market needs

Reducing frictions between cloud buyers and sellers, and building trust in the Digital Single Market is essential. The cloud offers opportunities galore in terms of launching innovative solutions on the market. In this session, we set the scene for a resilient cloud market, and discuss the value of services that lead to greater trust and uptake of cloud.

Chair: Nicholas Ferguson, Trust-IT & CloudWATCH2 Coordinator

09:30 – 09:40 Welcome & a perspective from the EC

09:40 – 10:00 A roadmap towards a resilient and trusted European cloud market

James Mitchell, Strategic Blue

From Project to Product

Chair – Frank Bennett, iCloud Limited

Michel Drescher, University of Oxford; Frank Sullivan, Strategic Blue

This session intends to bring together selected EC funded projects that have already compiled a service offering as part of their intended legacy, and will end soon, with SMEs that are looking for innovations that are or soon will be ready to be brought to the market. CloudWATCH2 has worked with a select group of projects for analysing their product and service portfolio for market readiness, and map these onto similar projects in a larger cloud landscape for signposting cloud standards profile development, supporting projects on the technical level. We have also supported these projects in their analysis and their solutions’ market potential and, where attractive, to undertake the first steps in capitalising on these assets.

The goals are to help these projects pitch their idea, build a business model canvas session, develop a business case starting with the end user problem being addressed, advice on packaging the ‘big idea’ and enabling the cross pollination of ideas for business models between projects as a source of valuable feedback.

Feedback will be provided for the following things:

• Pitching & Communication
• Commercial Potential
• Business Models
• Go To Market Strategy
• Funding Strategies
• Online Media
• Tools & Planning

New Directions for the EC Clusters

Chair: David Wallom, University of Oxford

These practical break-out sessions will see the continuation of the EC Clusters on Cloud Computing. Newly funded projects will be invited to present their objectives and identify how they can contribute to the already active clusters in 4 break-out sessions. The session will also showcase the achievements of the clusters since their launch and focus on revising objectives based on the activities of new projects and EC expectations.

Break-out sessions

Software Engineering for Services and Applications – Room A

Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano & Cluster Chair

Data Protection, Security and Privacy services – Room B

Erkuden Rios Velasco, Tecnalia & Cluster Chair 

Novel approaches and technologies for Cloud resource and service management - Room C

Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara & Cluster Chair

Inter-cloud Challenges, Expectations and Issues – Room D

Ana Juan Ferrer, ATOS & Cluster Chair

Plenary Session: Reporting Back to Base on the Cluster priorities & future steps

Chair: David Wallom, University of Oxford

Panellists

Software Engineering for Services and Applications

Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano & Cluster Chair (TBC)

Data Protection, Security and Privacy services

Erkuden Rios Velasco, Tecnalia & Cluster Chair (TBC)

Novel approaches and technologies for Cloud resource and service management

Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara & Cluster Chair (TBC)

Inter-cloud Challenges, Expectations and Issues

Ana Juan Ferrer, ATOS & Cluster Chair (TBC)