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.
2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
2024
Privacy-preserving Data Processing at Scale: How Much Can You Trust Your Cloud Provider? 
Pascal Felber, Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland Trustworthy Federated Learning SystemsLydia Chen, Technology University Delft, Netherlands Serverless Across the Edge-Cloud Continuum: Issues and Perspectives Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
2023
Towards Real-Time Reliable Edge AI Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Massivizing Computer Systems: VU on the Science, Design, and Engineering of Distributed Systems and Ecosystems Alexandru Iosup, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Taming the Wild West of Social Media: Computational and Data Challenges and Opportunities After the Digital Services Act Adriana Iamnitchi, Maastricht University, Netherlands
2022
15 Years of Cloud Control Erik Elmroth, Umeå University and Elastisys, Sweden Data Security and Privacy in Emerging Scenarios Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Scaling the Data Loop: Accelerating the Development and Testing of Autonomous Vehicles Ulrich Homann, Microsoft, United States
2021
Cloud-based Crowd Monitoring Maarten van Steen, Digital Society Institute, University of Twente, Netherlands Blockchain Application Design and Development, and the Case of Programmable Money Ingo Weber, TU Berlin, Germany AI Engineering –– Meeting New Challenges in System and Software Development of AI-based Systems Ivica Crnkovic, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden The Science of Systems Benchmarking Samuel Kounev, University of Würzburg, Germany
2020
Cloud Computing for Enabling Big Data Analysis Services Domenico Talia, University of Calabria and Fuzhou University, Italy New Horizons in IoT Workflows Provisioning in Edge and Cloud Datacentres for Fast Data Analytics: The Osmotic Computing Approach Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Quantum in the Cloud: Application Potentials and Research OpportunitiesFrank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Edge Intelligence - The Co-evolution of Humans, IoT, and AI Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
2019
Clouds for Real-Time Applications Scheduling IssuesEleni Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Putting the "Account'' into Cloud Accountability Martin Gilje Gilje Jaatun, Software Engineering, Safety and Security, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway, Norway Building Trust in the Cloud, Ensuring we Don't Need to Trust our Provider so Completely! David Wallom, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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, Independent Researcher, 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, Aston Business School, Aston University, United Kingdom 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, Independent Researcher, 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, Independent Researcher, Switzerland Probabilistic Resource Allocation based on a Large Deviations Principle Paulo Gonçalves, INRIA-DANTE, France
2013
Breathing in the Clouds - Thin Air or Bad Atmosphere? Gottfried Vossen, University of Münster, Germany Reducing Energy Consumption by using Clouds Ivona Brandić, Vienna UT, Austria
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 Cloud Standards Arlindo Dias, Independent Researcher, Portugal
2011
PROVISIONING OBJECT-ORIENTED SERVICE CLOUDS FOR EXERTION-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING Michael Sobolewski, Multidisciplinary Science and Technology Center, AFRL/WPAFB, United States SMART CLOUD ENGINEERING, NOMENCLATURE, AND ENABLEMENT Tony Shan, Independent Researcher, United States LEVERAGING ARCHITECTURE - Service Engineering as the Next Challenge Wil Janssen, , Netherlands CLOUD SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN Donald Ferguson, Computer Science Dept.,, United States