Fabio Giust is a Senior System Architect with Athonet. His research interests include 5G mobile networks, mobile-edge computing, and network virtualization.

Dr. Geir Horn is Head of European ICT Research at University of Oslo. His research interests are on how to handle complexity and services choreography for distributed applications.

Adrian is the co-founder and CTO of Opening.io. He is deeply interested in software and hardware architecture, streamlining of user experience, data manipulation, optimisation of content delivery.

Jordi Arjona Aroca is researcher at Valenciaport Foundation and, formerly, at Nokia Bell Labs. His research interests include energy optimization in data centers and data center networking.

Tomas Fredberg is Senior Expert IT & Telco Datacenter Infrastructure, with more than 15 years of experience within system development for hardware infrastructure platforms.

Prof. Carlos E. Cuesta holds the position of Associate Professor at URJC. His main research area is Software Architecture in its many variants, from Reflective Architectures to Self-Adaptive Systems.

Israel Herraiz is a Strategic Cloud Engineer at Google. His research activities focus on Statistics and Programming, specifically software evolution and Object-Oriented systems.

Aidan Gallagher is the CEO of InishTech, a software licensing and protection services spinout from Microsoft. Aidan has over 30 years’ experience in the Global ICT sector.

Jussi Kangasharju is a Professor at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include information-centric networks, edge and cloud computing, content distribution.

Azimeh Sefidcon is a Director of Cloud Technology Research at Ericsson where she explores future differentiators and value creating cloud technologies.

Dr. Rajiv Ranjan is a Reader in Computing Science at Newcastle University. He is an internationally established scientist with expertise in cloud computing, big data, and IoT.

Dr. Weisong Shi is a Professor of Computer Science at Wayne State University. He is one of the world leaders in the edge computing research community.

Alessandro Rossini, PhD, is a Senior Manager in the Business Technology group at PwC Consulting in Oslo. He has a successful record of accomplishments in research and innovation projects, both in academia and industry.

Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor of Computer Science with a focus on Internet Technologies heading the Distributed Systems Group at the TU Wien.

Miguel Garcia Gonzalez is an expert on public fundraising from major EU research and innovation programmes, such as Horizon 2020, FP7, CIP-ICT Programme, ECSEL, Eranet and Interreg.

Luis is a Software Engineer at Red Hat EMEA. His research interests include QoS support, autonomic resource management, and fault tolerance within highly distributed systems.

Ivona Brandic is University Professor for HPC Systems at TU Wien. Her interests comprise virtualized HPC systems, massive-scale data analytics and cloud & workflow QoS.

Xavi Masip is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at the UPC. He is actively working in the areas of cloud computing, IoT and novel network paradigms.

Stefano Salsano is an Associate Professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His interests include Network Function Virtualization, Software Defined and Information-Centric Networking.