The Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit Europe (HCTS EU) is the premier forum for executives in the hosting, cloud computing, datacenter and Internet infrastructure sectors. Corporate leaders, industry visionaries, practitioners, financial professionals and end users come together to learn, network and map out strategies for today's rapidly changing marketplace.

The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) will be held in the framework of the Future Internet Event (FIE) and Future Internet Week (FIW) in Poznań.

FIE and FIW will take place in the Lecture-Conference Center on the premises of the campus of Poznań University of Technology. It is situated on the banks of Warta River, with the view of the oldest part of the City. The complex consists of two buildings. The first part was built in 2005, and the second was constructed last year.

Clouds are on the way to replace traditional IT infrastructures for providing and consuming all sorts of services in research and commercial environments. As scope and complexity of both offerings and requirements increase technology is needed allowing to (automatically) optimise such Cloud environments in multiple dimensions, e.g. in terms of the infrastructure, management of trust, security and risk, service deployment and provisioning, guarantees for QoS, federation of clouds and reliable and efficient selection mechanisms for bursting into the Cloud.