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Many thanks to all the participants who attended the 3rd Annual European Cloud Conference in Square- Brussels Meeting Centre on 9th April.

Now in its third year, The European Cloud Computing conference is established as a leading forum for debate on issues related to Cloud Computing.  This year's conference, which brought together over 180 policy-makers and stakeholders from industry, government, academia and the press,  focused on the development of a Single Cloud Computing Market.

Below is the keynote video presentation given by Vice-President Neelie Kroes, to open this year's conference.

Speakers include

Neelie Kroes

Vice President and EU Commissioner for Digital Agenda

European Commission **

Victoria Espinel

President & CEO

BSA | The Software Alliance

Udo Helmbrecht

Executive Director

European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA)

Helmut Fallmann

CEO and Member of The Managing Board

Fabasoft AG

Paraskevi Michou

Director, Civil Justice, DG Justice

European Commission

Emmanuel Darmois

Vice-Chairman of the Board

ETSI

Bob Jones

Head of Openlab Project

CERN

Ken Ducatel

Head of Unit Software and Services, Cloud, DG CONNECT

European Commission

Xavier Poisson Gouyou Beauchamps

EMEA Vice President of Cloud Computing

HP

Abdellatif Benjelloun Touimi

Senior Standards Manager

Huawei

Frank van den Belt

CEO

ASP4all

Juan González

Director of Strategy and New Offer Monitoring

Indra

Michel Catinat

Head of Unit ICT for Competitiveness and Industrial Innovation, DG Enterprise and Industry

European Commission

Alexander Tettenborn

Head of Unit “Development of Convergent ICT

German Federal Minister of Economics and Energy

Nitan Pathak

Investment Manager, Venture Capital

European Investment Fund

**Via video presentation

Falling in a key period for policymaking, with the European Commission and European Parliament elections this spring, The 3rd Annual European Cloud Computing Conference was an opportunity to debate future policy priorities for the Cloud Computing sector.

It explored what the expected market developments in Cloud Computing in the next few years are and how Europe can best exploit the opportunities offered by the Cloud. It also discussed the necessary measures to restore trust in the technology following the PRISM revelations in Summer 2013 and how Europe can become the world cloud trusted region through standards and transparency guidelines. It analysed how cloud Computing solutions can support innovation in the context of policy objectives linked to Horizon2020, and examined how crucial the activities linked to the European Cloud Computing Partnership are in order to drive growth in Europe.

For information on the 4th edition of this event which will be held in 2015, then please contact Anne-Lise Simon anne-lise.simon@forum-europe.com / +44(0) 2920 783 023.