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.

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:
• David Cohen, Senior Technologist, EMC
• Michael Enescu, CTO of Open Source Initiatives, Cisco
• Christopher Ferris, Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Cloud Interoperability, IBM
• Doug Orr, Senior Engineering Director, Google
• Paul Rad, VP Private Cloud, Rackspace
• Ben Verghese, VP Engineering, Illumio (formerly VP at VMWare)

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.

More information on the conference is available at http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/.

IC2E 2014 is supported internationally by many leading universities and organizations including the following listed.

[Organizing Committee]

General Chairs:
Azer Bestavros, Boston University
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne
Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Program Chairs:
Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge
Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo
Baochun Li, University of Toronto

Industry Track Chair:
Dilma Da Silva, Qualcomm

Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs:
Roy Campbell, UIUC
Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University

Cloud Summit Chair:
Orran Krieger, Boston University

Workshops Chair:
Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University

Tutorials Chair:
Adrien Lèbre, Mines Nantes

Local Arrangement and Registration Chair:
Ellen Grady, Boston University

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Kiriakos Karenos, Microsoft (UK)
Rahul Singh, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Zhenjie Zhang, ADSC

Finance Chair:
Zhe Zhang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Publication Chair:
Partha Kanuparthy, Yahoo! Research

[Program Committee]

Jonathan Appavoo Boston University
Roger Barga Microsoft Research
M. Brian Blake University of Miami
Sara Bouchenak University of Grenoble
Roy Campbell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jiannong Cao Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Han Chen IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Lucy Cherkasova H. P. Research
Gregory Chockler Royal Holloway University of London
Yeh-Ching Chung National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Paolo Costa Microsoft Reseach Cambridge
Eliezer Dekel IBM Research Haifa
Colin Dixon IBM Research Austin
Patrick Eugster Purdue University
David Eyers University of Otago
Yuan Feng Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ian Foster University of Chicago
Geoffrey Fox Indiana University
Kartik Gopolan Binghamton University
Xiaohui Gu North Carolina State University
Indranil Gupta University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Hsu Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology
K. R. Jayaram H. P. Research
Fabio Kon University of São Paulo, Brazil
Erwin Laure KTH University of Technology, Sweden
Veena Mendiratta Alcatel-Lucent
Derek Murray Microsoft Research
Priya Narasimhan Carnegie Mellon University
Klara Nahrstedt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beng Chin Ooi National University of Singapore
George Pallis University of Cyprus
Guillaume Pierre IRISA / University of Rennes 1
Peter Pietzuch Imperial College London
Donald Porter Stony Brook University
Rajiv Ranjan Australian National University, Canberra
Berthold Reinwald IBM Research Almaden
Brian Shand NCRS, Public Health England
Jatinder Singh University of Cambridge
Swami Sivasubramanian Amazon
Stefan Tai Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Kian-Lee Tan National University of Singapore
Florian Waas EMC/Greenplum
Jon Weissman University of Minnesota
Dan Williams IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Jeffrey Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xiaofang Zhou University of Queensland

[Steering Committee]

Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge
Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Dilma Da Silva, Qualcomm
Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo
Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University
Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs