The Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop II

The purpose of the second  Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop is to report on the status of these efforts and to socialize the NIST strategy to collaboratively develop a Cloud Computing Roadmap among multiple federal and industrial stakeholders, and to advance a dialogue between these groups.  To frame the discussions, the United States Chief Information Officer and Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology will present their vision on the first day (November 4, 2010.) Panel discussions will consider the roles of standard organizations and ad-hoc standards in the cloud; need and use of a reference architecture to support cloud adoption; key cloud computing issues and proposed solutions; security in the cloud; and international aspects of cloud computing. Breakout sessions on the following day (November 5, 2010), designed to actively engage stakeholders, will discuss these issues, and develop a series of next steps for the effort in cloud computing standards.

 Locations:   November 4, 2010 - Panel Discussions 
                   National Institute of Standards and Technology
                   100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD, Red Auditorium   

                  November 5, 2010 - Workshops
                  Gaithersburg Holiday Inn
                  2 Montgomery Village Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20879