<div dir="ltr">The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2014) is pleased to announce the speakers for the conference keynotes and for the affiliated Cloud Summit. The IC2E 2014 keynote speakers will be Dr. Stuart Feldman of Google and Professor Michael Stonebraker of MIT. Dr. Feldman is Vice President of Engineering at Google, where he has executive responsibility for Google’s engineering offices in the eastern part of the Americas, Asia, and Australia. Professor Stonebraker, hailed as “Big Data Forefather”, currently heads MIT’s new big data research center. <br>
<br>The Cloud Summit in IC2E 2014 will feature top industry leaders in cloud computing who will describe current practices, key challenges, and how researchers can have an impact. Confirmed speakers for the Cloud Summit include:<br>
· David Cohen, Senior Technologist, EMC<br>· Michael Enescu, CTO of Open Source Initiatives, Cisco<br>· Christopher Ferris, Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Cloud Interoperability, IBM<br>· Doug Orr, Senior Engineering Director, Google<br>
· Paul Rad, VP Private Cloud, Rackspace<br>· Ben Verghese, VP Engineering, Illumio (formerly VP at VMWare)<br><br>IC2E is a high-quality, comprehensive IEEE forum whose scope spans the entire cloud stack, and that offers an end-to-end perspective on the challenges and technologies in cloud computing. To be held on March 11-14, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts, IC2E 2014 is currently calling for paper submissions to its main technical program, industry track, and doctoral symposium, and is also soliciting proposals for co-located workshops and tutorials. Selected papers of IC2E 2014 will be recommended for publication in a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.<br>
<br>More information on the conference is available at <a href="http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/">http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/</a>.<br><br>IC2E 2014 is supported internationally by many leading universities and organizations including the following listed.<br>
<br>[Organizing Committee]<br><br>General Chairs:<br>Azer Bestavros, Boston University<br>Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne<br>Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center<br><br>Program Chairs:<br>Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge<br>
Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo<br>Baochun Li, University of Toronto<br><br>Industry Track Chair:<br>Dilma Da Silva, Qualcomm<br><br>Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs:<br>Roy Campbell, UIUC<br>Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University<br>
<br>Cloud Summit Chair:<br>Orran Krieger, Boston University<br><br>Workshops Chair:<br>Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University<br><br>Tutorials Chair:<br>Adrien Lèbre, Mines Nantes<br><br>Local Arrangement and Registration Chair:<br>
Ellen Grady, Boston University<br><br>Publicity Co-Chairs:<br>Kiriakos Karenos, Microsoft (UK)<br>Rahul Singh, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center<br>Zhenjie Zhang, ADSC<br><br>Finance Chair:<br>Zhe Zhang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center<br>
<br>Publication Chair:<br>Partha Kanuparthy, Yahoo! Research<br><br>[Program Committee]<br><br>Jonathan Appavoo Boston University<br>Roger Barga Microsoft Research<br>M. Brian Blake University of Miami<br>
Sara Bouchenak University of Grenoble<br>Roy Campbell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>Jiannong Cao Hong Kong Polytechnic University<br>Han Chen IBM T. J. Watson Research Center<br>
Lucy Cherkasova H. P. Research<br>Gregory Chockler Royal Holloway University of London<br>Yeh-Ching Chung National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan<br>Paolo Costa Microsoft Reseach Cambridge<br>
Eliezer Dekel IBM Research Haifa<br>Colin Dixon IBM Research Austin<br>Patrick Eugster Purdue University<br>David Eyers University of Otago<br>
Yuan Feng Hong Kong Polytechnic University<br>Ian Foster University of Chicago<br>Geoffrey Fox Indiana University<br>Kartik Gopolan Binghamton University<br>
Xiaohui Gu North Carolina State University<br>Indranil Gupta University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>Robert Hsu Chung Hua University, Taiwan<br>
Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology<br>K. R. Jayaram H. P. Research<br>Fabio Kon University of São Paulo, Brazil<br>
Erwin Laure KTH University of Technology, Sweden<br>Veena Mendiratta Alcatel-Lucent<br>Derek Murray Microsoft Research<br>Priya Narasimhan Carnegie Mellon University<br>
Klara Nahrstedt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>Beng Chin Ooi National University of Singapore<br>George Pallis University of Cyprus<br>
Guillaume Pierre IRISA / University of Rennes 1<br>Peter Pietzuch Imperial College London<br>Donald Porter Stony Brook University<br>Rajiv Ranjan Australian National University, Canberra<br>
Berthold Reinwald IBM Research Almaden<br>Brian Shand NCRS, Public Health England<br>Jatinder Singh University of Cambridge<br>Swami Sivasubramanian Amazon<br>
Stefan Tai Karlsruhe Institute of Technology<br>Kian-Lee Tan National University of Singapore<br>Florian Waas EMC/Greenplum<br>Jon Weissman University of Minnesota<br>
Dan Williams IBM T. J. Watson Research Center<br>Jeffrey Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong<br>Xiaofang Zhou University of Queensland<br>
<br>[Steering Committee]<br><br>Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge<br>Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign<br>Dilma Da Silva, Qualcomm<br>Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo<br>Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University<br>
Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center<br>Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs<br></div>