The Cloud for Europe conference “Readiness for Cloud Computing in the European Public Sector” will bring together industry and the public sector and offer exclusive insights into the European public sector cloud market, such as security and privacy issues, national cloud initiatives, the role of cloud computing in the digital service infrastructure, and cloud computing services and market places.

The International Open Data Dialog (ODD) seeks to target the industry, civil society, government as well as research to discuss the status, needs and challenges in opening data to the public. With this year’s motto “THINK OPEN, THINK BUSINESS” the ODD emphasizes the great potentials of Open Data for businesses, that are yet to be realized. We will review and discuss new business cases and businesses being established on open data as well as review and discuss organizational, legal and regulatory settings for open data.