News: cloudcomputing congress Europe 2010

Well for quite some time I’ve been thinking about whether to attend the conference. As per the website the advantages of attending the conference are:

• Establish and Develop a strong partnership program
• Exchange information on innovative Cloud Technologies
• Hear what leading Cloud Computing Providers have to say
• How can Cloud Computing benefit your business, from a small start up to a leading brand
• Meet and network with End users, IT professionals, Leading IT providers and vendors
• What are the risks of entering ‘The Cloud’
• Leverage competitive advantage from our other conference stream: Social Media World Forum, Social TV, Mobile Social Media & Enterprise
• Listen and get an insight to future of Cloud

I am quite interested in the “risks” and “perspective of users” about the cloud computing industry and its future. After attending SFDC’s CloudForce2 event in London I was quite impressed with their product but the security issues about the cloud industry were sadly not addressed to by anyone. I hope that I might get to meet some people from security who know what and why (fingers crossed) they are switching to the cloud industry.

The congress has an impressive line-up of professionals from various domains, I believe the event might be a fruitful one. Here is part of the list of the speakers as per the site:

• Jason Hart, Senior Vice President, CRYPTOCard
• Scott Dobson, Managing Director, Cloud Distribution Ltd
• Kenneth Verlage, CIO, DHL Express
• Adrian Steel, Head of Infrastructure Management, Royal Mail