Previous Invited Speakers
The researchers below were distinguished invited speakers at previous CLOSER conferences.
We are indebted to them for their contribution to heighten the conference level.
2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
2018
Smart Connected Digital Factories: Unleashing the Power of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet 
Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands CLOUD, Trigger of a Socio-economic RevolutionTobias Hoellwarth, EuroCloud Europe, Austria Scientific Workflows in the Era of Clouds Péter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Will Cloud Gain an Edge? Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
2017
Not Acid, Not Base, but Salt - A Transaction Processing Perspective on Blockchains Stefan Tai, TU Berlin, Germany Big Data, Smart Data and Imbalanced Classification - Preprocessing, Models and Challenges Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain Challenges on Big data based Clouds Health-Care for Risk Predictions based on Ensemble Classifiers and Subjective AnalysisHamido Fujita, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Big Data - Evolution, Trends and Opportunities Roy Cecil, IBM Portugal, Portugal
2016
Native Cloud Applications - Why Virtual Machines, Images and Containers Miss the Point! Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Complexity Science with the Internet of Things Peter Sloot, Complexity Institute Singapore, Singapore; ITMO St. Petersburg; Russion Federation; University of Amsterdam, Netherlands The New Era of Multi-dimensional Data Management Verena Kantere, University of Geneva, Switzerland RTTMM: Role Based 3-Tier Mobility Model for Evaluation of Delay Tolerant Routing Protocols in Post Disaster Situation Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, United States
2015
Cloud Computing and Big Data Can Improve the Quality of Our Life Victor Chang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Change Alone is Unchanging - Continuous Context-aware Adaptation of Service-based Systems for Smart Cities and Communities Paolo Traverso, Center for Information Technology - IRST (FBK-ICT), Italy In-transit Analytics on Distributed Clouds - Applications and Architecture Omer Rana, Cardiff University, United Kingdom At Scale Enterprise Computing Chung-Sheng Li, Accenture, United States Software- and Systems Architecture for Smart Vehicles Cornel Klein, Siemens AG, Germany
2014
Agile Infrastructure at CERN - Moving 9'000 Servers into a Private Cloud Helge Meinhard, CERN, IT Department, Switzerland Probabilistic Resource Allocation based on a Large Deviations Principle Paulo Gonçalves, INRIA-DANTE, France OpenNebula - Latest Innovations in Private Cloud Computing Ignacio Martín Llorente, OpenNebula Director and CEO & Full Professor at UCM, Spain
2013
Breathing in the Clouds - Thin Air or Bad Atmosphere? Gottfried Vossen, WWU Münster, Germany Reducing Energy Consumption by using Clouds Ivona Brandić, Vienna UT, Austria Data Science, Clouds and X-Informatics Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, United States
2012
PERFORMANCE OF CLOUDS - Issues and Research Directions Eleni Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece EXPERIMENTAL COMPUTER SCIENCE - Approaches and Instruments Frédéric Desprez, Antenne Inria Giant, Minatec Campus, France DATA INTENSIVE SCIENCE AND CLOUD COMPUTING Fabrizio Gagliardi, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain
2011
SMART CLOUD ENGINEERING, NOMENCLATURE, AND ENABLEMENT Tony Shan, Keane Inc., United States CLOUD SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN Donald Ferguson, Columbia University, United States PROVISIONING OBJECT-ORIENTED SERVICE CLOUDS FOR EXERTION-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING Michael Sobolewski, Multidisciplinary Science and Technology Center, AFRL/WPAFB, United States LEVERAGING ARCHITECTURE - Service Engineering as the Next Challenge Wil Janssen, Networked Enterprises Manager, Netherlands