Unlock the Cloud. Open New Markets.

ABOUT THE EVENT

Nowadays, the Cloud services market is dominated by an oligopolistic situation. The "Cloud Giants" set up hampers the development of the European Cloud market, posing issues, rising costs, and harming both the competitiveness of European industry and the purchasing power of European end customers.

To solve this harmful situation, the Open Services Cloud initiative aims to enable new services and new market conditions. Leveraging an unlocked Cloud will lead to a new Cloud ecosystem — a new market to foster the full-power of self-operated managed services, through:

Increasing quality of service portfolios for Cloud Service Providers of all sizes.
Enabling true Cloud portability and interoperability for both software vendors and users.
Optimizing integration costs

Join us at this workshop to learn more about the Open Services Cloud platform. You will have the opportunity to hear from experts in the field, get an overview of the latest results from a Cloud market research study and gain valuable insights into the latest developments in cloud interoperability.

Unlock the power of our Cloud research study!

Our report gives valuable insights into how Europe can address both legal and technical steps needed to enable Cloud interoperability.

*The complete report will soon be available to download.

Cloud Market Research Study Presentation

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Session Name	Scheduled Time
Break Check-in & Registration	13:30 - 14:00
Session Welcoming words	14:00 - 14:10
Session Cloud Market Research Study Presentation Our report gives valuable insights into how Europe can address both legal and technical steps needed to enable Cloud interoperability.	14:15 to 14:35
Session Panel 1 - Building technical interoperability in the cloud market: specifications, standards and open source Interoperability and portability of data and cloud services need technical implementation by our industry based on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), open specifications, open standards and open source collaboration. Our speaker will discuss the need for such elements while discussing the future collaboration model of OSC to reach cloud interoperability and portability. Speakers: Thomas Weber, Chief Product Owner at Huawei Markus Spiekermann, Head of Data Business Department at Fraunhofer Stephan Ilaender, General Manager for Service and Runtimes at StackIt Michael Plagge, Vice-President Ecosystem Development at Eclipse Foundation	14:40 - 15:35
Break Coffee break	15:40 - 16:10
Session Panel 2 - DMA & Data Act: What are EU policies doing to implement cloud interoperability? Recent policies and policy proposals, such as the Digital Markets Act and the Data Act, have clearly identified the cloud market as a key market with interoperability and competition issues as well as technical elements as preferred solutions. Our speakers will discuss the recent EU proposals impact on the cloud market as well as their synergies on shortcomings to reach cloud interoperability and portability as the European industry needs it. Speakers: Astor Nummelin Carlberg, Executive Director at Open Forum Europe Clark Parsons, Managing Director at the Internet Economy Foundation Other speakers from the European Commission and the European Parliament are to be confirmed after the Easter's break.	16:15 - 17:10
Session Closing words	17:15 - 17:30
Break Networking Cocktail	17:30

* All times displayed are in Central European Summer Time (CEST).

60 rue Ravenstein - 1000 Brussels

ABOUT THE EVENT

Speakers

Astor Nummelin Carlberg

Clark Parsons

Kurt Garloff

Michael Plagge

Markus Spiekermann

Stephan Ilaender

Gael Blondelle

Mark Reeve

Thomas Weber

Emma Wehrwein

Alban Schmutz

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