We have created quite a lovely OpenNebula Conf line up for you and gave our very best to get the perfect balance of topics. Now everything is ready and we can proudly tell you that:

• David Lutterkort from Puppet Labs will visit us in Berlin and talk about what an enchanting match Puppet and OpenNebula are
• Armin Deliomini from Runtastic will tell us the story of how OpenNebula was the perfect choice for their virtualization
• Stefan Koomann will explore the features and the future of OpenNebula with you
• We have even more cool speakers for you on the website

So now it is your turn to wallow in all the information here and register directly after that here for 3 days fully packed with enlightenment.

If you all were wondering how you could support such a lovely conference like this one, we will now give you all the information you were desperately craving for. You can:

1. Spread the word
… on your blog or website or whenever you meet people who shouldn’t miss the Conf
You can use all press material from here if you want to.

2. Be a Speaker
… make sure to register here until August 15th and support us with a great talk!

3. Get your Ticket
… or get your ticket here and support us with your presence at the Conf

And of course you can help us by being a sponsor! Everything you need to know about your sponsorship opportunities is here. We are also happy to hear from you whenever you have questions.

We had a big response to the call for proposals. Thanks for submitting a talk proposal!. Although all submissions were of very high quality and merit, only a small amount of abstracts will be presented. The Lightning Talk Session provides a new opportunity to submit presentation proposals.

Do not forget to register as soon as possible since the number of places is limited. There is still time to take advantage of our early registration offer, which expires at the end of June. You can also take advantage of the available sponsorship opportunities which are a great chance to present your company with the leading open source datacenter virtualization solution.

Keynote Speakers

• Unleashing the Future of Open-source Enterprise Cloud Computing, OpenNebula & C12G Labs, Ignacio M. Llorente
• Discovering the Bumpy Road to the Cloud, Produban – Bank Santander Group, Daniel Concepción
• OpenNebula at China Mobile, China Mobile, Zhihong Zhang
• Enabling Scientific Workflows on FermiCloud using OpenNebula, FermiLab, Steven Timm
• Improve! Every day!, Deutsche Post E-Post, André von Deetzen
• Opening the Path to Technical Excellence, European Space Agency, Jordi Farrés
• CentOS and OpenNebula, a Perfect Match, CentOS Project, Karanbir Singh
• Simplicity and Flexibility for your Enterprise Cloud, OpenNebula & C12G Labs, Ruben S. Montero

Sessions about User Experiences and Case Studies

• Making Clouds: Turning OpenNebula into a Product, CloudWeavers R&D, Carlo Daffara
• Leveraging OpenNebula for SMEs: Terradue’s Transition to DevOps Enabled Products and Services, Terradue Srl, Emmanuel Mathot
• Monitoring Large-scale Cloud Infrastructures with OpenNebula, IT Consultant, Simon Boulet
• Clone your Infrastructure with OpenNebula, Akamai Technologies, Thomas Higdon
• OpenNebula in a Multi-Customer-Environment, NetWays, Bernd Erk
• Monitoring of OpenNebula installations, Freelance Troubleshooter, Florian Heigl
• How Can OpenNebula Fit Your Needs: A European Project Feedback, BonFIRE Project (INRIA), Maxence Dunnewind
• Adventures in Research, BBC, Joel Merrick
• Top Ten Security Considerations when Setting up your OpenNebula Cloud, inovex, Nils Magnus

Session about Integration with other Cloud Tools

• Best Practices to Create Infrastructure Services in OpenNebula Using viApps, AGS Group, Xavier González del Aguilar
• OpenNebula and Salt Stack, databus.pro, Valentin Bud
• Contrail Virtual Execution Platform, CONTRAIL Project (INRIA), Yvon Jegou
• Kanopya & OpenNebula: Service Centric Cloud Management Platform, Hedera Technology, Jérémie Bourdoncle
• OpenNebula and FreeBSD: The Power to Serve, NetOpenServices, Soltani Imad

Session about Interoperability and HPC Clouds

• Enabling eScience with OpenNebula, KTH, Zeeshan Ali Shah
• High Performance Computing Cloud at SURFsara: Experiences with OpenNebula 3.x, SURFsara, Markus van Dijk
• rOCCI – Providing Interoperability through OCCI 1.1 Support for OpenNebula, CESNET, Boris Parak
• Community Clouds from Scratch, CESCA, Jordi Guijarro

Session for Community Discussion and Involvement

• Hands-on Tutorial: Build, configure and operate your own OpenNebula cloud
• Hacking Sessions: Meet face to face to discuss development, coordinate, write code and collaborate with other developers
• Open Spaces: Discuss passionate questions, burning ideas, features, integrations or any topic of your choice
• Lightning Talks: Present your feature, integration, experience, use case, collaboration invitation, quick tip, or demonstration in five minutes

We are Looking Forward to Welcoming you Personally in Berlin!

Mr. André von Deetzen will give a keynote entitled “Improve! Every day!”. The past few years were hard for the roles of software developers, system engineers, QA engineers or even managers! There is an ongoing shift from traditional IT departments towards organization where all this people sit in one room next to each other and build one strong team. Release cycles cut down from every 6 months to several times a day. Even worse for a traditional IT: product development teams want to deploy several times a day!. Some might say: not feasible. Here are some learnings on transforming an organization towards an agile / lean organization where such things are possible. A story full of risks, business continuity management and people who like or do not like to change.

Dr. Farrés will give a keynote entitled “Opening the Path to Technical Excellence”.

Mr. Karanbir Singh will give a keynote entitled “CentOS and OpenNebula, a Perfect Match”. OpenNebula is a great cloud orchestration and management tool, characterised by its flexibility, durability and focused feature matrix. A feature matrix that is driven largely by real world problem scenarios and real world feedback: something that has been the focus of CentOS Project as well. From large scale deployment automation to patch management and state control, the CentOS Project aims to solve real world problems faced by the people who run infrastructure: The Sysadmins administrators and operations teams. During this talk, I will share why OpenNebula and CentOS Linux are a perfect match and go into some user stories that demonstrate this relationships success in real world scenarios.

Mr. Concepción will give a keynote entitled “Discovering the Bumpy Road to the Cloud”.

Mr. Zhihong Zhang will give a keynote entitled “OpenNebula at China Mobile”. We chose OpenNebula as China Mobile Big Cloud’s core component to manage and schedule the virtualization infrastructure in 2009. Since then, we are glad to see OpenNebula to be more full-fledged each day. Now Opennebula has been used both in China Mobile’s private cloud and ready to provide public service. In the presentation, we like to introduce our experiences and contributions to OpenNebula community.

Dr. Timm will give a keynote entitled “Enabling Scientific Workflows on FermiCloud using OpenNebula”. The FermiCloud Project has been operating an Infrastructure-as-a-Service private Cloud using OpenNebula since the fall of 2010. FermiCloud has made significant contributions in X.509-based authentication and authorization, accounting, fabric deployment and high-availability cloud infrastructure. Our current program of work, carried out jointly with KISTI, focuses on interoperability and federation with the goal of running scientific cloud-based workflows across multiple clouds. I will identify some of the technical challenges that remain to be solved in widespread cloud deployment, as well as lessons that we have learned from grid computing and applied to the cloud environment.

• Discussing the latest technology updates, roadmap, and features
• Supporting the developers community
• Presenting use cases and deployment experiences
• Introducing new integrations and ecosystem developments
• Collaborating with other open-source projects and communities

In few weeks we will announce the line-up of keynote speakers.

CALL FOR PAPERS IS NOW OPEN

The agenda will consist of 45-minute slots for invited keynote speakers and accepted submissions. If you are a OpenNebula practitioner, user, architect, devop, admin or developer and have something important to share, we welcome your submission. Suggested topics include:

• Latest developments in OpenNebula
• Research using OpenNebula
• User experiences and case studies using OpenNebula
• Best practices and tools
• Integration with other cloud, virtualization and data center components
• Any other topics that you feel are relevant to developers, users, researchers and other members of the community

All submissions must be received before midnight June 15, 2013 CEST. Please submit all needed information using our submission form.

You will receive a notification whether or not your presentation proposal was accepted by June 30th.

CALL FOR SPONSORS IS NOW OPEN

Sponsoring OpenNebulaConf is a great chance to present your company with the leading open source datacenter virtualization solution on the market. For information on sponsorship opportunities you can visit the conference site. We offer a wide range of sponsorship opportunities to allow you to choose a package that suits your marketing needs. We’ll happily work with you to find a sponsorship that fits your needs.

ABOUT OPENNEBULA

The OpenNebula Project is an open-source project delivering the most feature-rich, customizable and open solution to build enterprise clouds and virtualized data centers. With thousands of deployments worldwide, OpenNebula has a very wide user base that includes leading companies in banking, technology, telecom and hosting, and research and supercomputing centers.