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EUBrazilCC EU-Brazil Cloud infrastructure Connecting federated resources for Scientific Advancement D6.3 Cloudscape Brazil 2nd Workshop Takeaways & Future Steps Contract number: FP7-614048 / CNPq 490115/2013-6 Start Date of Project: 1 October 2013 Duration of Project: 28 months Work Package: WP6 – Interoperability of e-Infrastructures & Standardization Synergies Due Date: M27 – 31/12/2015 Submission Date: 02/02/2016 Partner Responsible for the Deliverable: Trust-It Services Dissemination Level: PU Nature: R Author(s): Roberto Cascella, Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, Silvana Muscella, Nicholas Ferguson, Stephanie Parker – Trust-IT Services Reviewer(s): Enrique Bayonne (UPV), Gabriel Ferreira (Fiocruz)

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EUBrazilCC EU-Brazil Cloud infrastructure Connecting federated

resources for Scientific Advancement

D6.3 Cloudscape Brazil 2nd Workshop

Takeaways & Future Steps Contract number: FP7-614048 / CNPq 490115/2013-6

Start Date of Project: 1 October 2013

Duration of Project: 28 months

Work Package: WP6 – Interoperability of e-Infrastructures & Standardization Synergies

Due Date: M27 – 31/12/2015

Submission Date: 02/02/2016

Partner Responsible for the Deliverable: Trust-It Services

Dissemination Level: PU

Nature: R

Author(s): Roberto Cascella, Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, Silvana Muscella, Nicholas Ferguson, Stephanie Parker – Trust-IT Services

Reviewer(s): Enrique Bayonne (UPV), Gabriel Ferreira (Fiocruz)

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Change Log

Version Date Description Author(s)

V0.1 16/12/2015 Initial Table of Contents & Draft Roberto Cascella

V0.2 18/12/2015 Contribution to all sections Roberto Cascella

V0.3 23/12/2015 First internal version Roberto Cascella

V0.4 03/01/2016 Comment Review Silvana Muscella

V0.5 08/01/2016 Edits to take-away message and conclusions, overall review Sara Pittonet Gaiarin

V0.6 13/01/2016 Final editing for review Roberto Cascella

V1.0 21/01/2016 Final version addressing reviewers comments

Roberto Cascella

Document Review

Review Version Date Reviewers Comments

V0.6 19/01/2016 Gabriel Ferreira V6.0_Gabriel

V0.6 20/01/2016 Enrique Bayonne Small corrections. See deliverable review form.

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Table of contents

Disclaimer ................................................................................................................................................... 5

Executive Summary .................................................................................................................................... 6

Principal Take-Aways .................................................................................................................................. 8

1. Strengthening the EU-Brazil cooperation: plan the future ............................................................... 10

2. Cloud landscape in Brazil & RNP and SERPRO strategies ................................................................. 11

3. The EUBrazilCC cloud scenario and how to help communities tackle global societal challenges .... 14

4. Cloud Federations to facilitate Cross-Border Collaboration ............................................................. 16

5. Cloud computing, experimental platforms and HPC ........................................................................ 18

6. Brazilian SMEs presenting innovative products and services ........................................................... 20

7. Key challenges for international cooperation in ICT ......................................................................... 22

8. Cloudscape Brazil Promotional Campaign ........................................................................................ 24

9. Who attended Cloudscape Brazil? .................................................................................................... 32

Annex: Cloudscape Brazil 2015 Agenda ................................................................................................... 36

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................................... 40

List of figures

Figure 1 - Cloudscape Brazil 2015 official supporters .................................................................. 7 Figure 2 - Cloudscape Brazil 2015 – the audience ....................................................................... 9 Figure 3 - Augusto Burgueño Arjona welcome speech, Head of the e-Infrastructure Unit at European Commission ............................................................................................................... 10 Figure 4 - Luis Claudio Pereira Tujal, Senior Consultant and Evangelist at SERPRO, Cloudscape Brazil 2015 keynote .................................................................................................................... 13 Figure 5 - Cloudscape Brazil concluding session ........................................................................ 22 Figure 6 - Cloudscape Brazil 2015 logo ...................................................................................... 24 Figure 7 - Cloudscape Brazil 2014 official supporters ................................................................ 25 Figure 8 - Cloudscape Brazil 2015 Position Paper online booklet cover .................................... 26 Figure 9 - Some popular #cloudscapebrazil tweets .................................................................. 26 Figure 10 - EUBrazilCC Twitter Analytics November – December 2015 .................................... 27 Figure 11 - José Luiz Ribeiro Filho provides insights about his participation to Cloudscape Brazil and the RNP cloud computing roadmap .................................................................................... 29 Figure 12 - Jaime Puente talks about cloud computing barriers and how Cloudscape Brazil event helps addressing the cloud computing market sector ..................................................... 30 Figure 13 - Moacyr Martucci summarises the outcomes of the EU-Brazil policy dialogue ....... 30 Figure 14 - RNP & MCTI Post event articles ............................................................................... 32 Figure 15 - Cloudscape Brazil – provenance break-out ............................................................. 32 Figure 16 - Cloudscape Brazil – type of organizations attending ............................................... 33

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List of tables

Table 1 – Cloudscape Brazil Participants list .............................................................................. 35

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Disclaimer

EUBrazilCloudConnect EU-Brazil Cloud infrastructure Connecting federated resources for Scientific Advancement (2013-2015) (hereinafter “EUBRazilCC”) is a Small or medium-scale focused research project (STREP) funded by the European Commission under the Cooperation Programme, Framework Programme Seven (FP7) Objective FP7-ICT-2013.10.2-EU-Brazil Research and Development cooperation, and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil (CNPq) of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT) under the corresponding matching Brazilian Call for proposals MCT/CNPq 013/2012.

This document contains information on core activities, findings, and outcomes of EUBrazilCC project, and in some instances, distinguished experts forming part of the project’s External Expert Committee. Any references to content in both website content and documents should clearly indicate the authors, source, organization and date of publication.

The document has been produced with the co-funding of the European Commission and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the EUBrazilCC Consortium and its experts and cannot be considered to reflect the views of the European Commission nor the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil.

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Executive Summary

Encouraged by the success of the first edition of Cloudscape Brazil and the well-established yearly appointment with the Cloudscape Europe series, which is now in its eighth year, the EUBrazilCloudConnect project rolled-out the second edition of Cloudscape Brazil. The event took place on December 1-2 2015 in Rio de Janeiro. High on the agenda was the ambition to shape cloud developments in both Brazil and Europe by bringing insights into current market trends, challenges slowing down mainstream adoption of cloud services and best practices to address them. Cloudscape Brazil also zoomed in on European and Brazilian co-operation priorities, cloud computing and big data strategies with insights from policy makers in both regions, essential to build trust, as well as to ensure safe and fair contracts and a level playing field for the supply side. Cloudscape Brazil 2015 was an excellent opportunity to share insights on co-operation activities between Europe and Brazil, and celebrate the successes to date, highlighting the fundamental role that cloud federated infrastructures play in enabling researchers tackle major social challenges. It was also an opportunity to present new co-operation activities under the third coordinated call, learn about research and innovation on cloud technology in Europe, and see how businesses from different sectors are benefitting from cloud services in both Brazil and Europe. Cloud computing & Digital Single Market

Building the Digital Single Market means revitalising European industry with a strong focus on cloud computing and the data economy. However, we still need to invest in cloud technology to fully realise its benefits, driving also a common understanding of best practices, such as security and data protection, to build the trust and confidence in cloud services that is currently lacking. Cloudscape Brazil, an open and international dialogue with all relevant stakeholders discussed the practical steps to overcome barriers for use by businesses, public organisations, researchers and consumers. The promotion of innovative technologies has been a major focus in recent years and further advances in information and communication technologies will significantly benefit the social and economic potential of Europe. We know the Brazilian government has recently implemented fiscal policies favouring ICT investment and fast wireless broadband take up. Europe, on the other hand, has set out ambitious goals in the field of telecommunication and digital policies, including fast broadband connections for all citizens and ultra-fast connections for at least half of all citizens by the end of the decade. In terms of knowledge and skills creation, research collaboration is an important pulling factor of job creation in Europe and Brazil, with a constantly growing collaboration between the two regions since 2012. New opportunities in Brazil The Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP) deploys and operates cloud services in collaboration with Brazilian public universities and research institutions to create a Brazilian Academic Cloud. RNP has benefitted from best practices in Europe in developing the kind of cloud-based services that educational and research institutions need and want. RNP has played an active role in both the coordination of the upcoming EU & BR coordinated calls as well as monitoring the strategic

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construction design of the submarine cable between Lisbon, Portugal and Fortaleza Brazil, as part of its capacity dedicated to education and research, under the Bella project. Scientific collaborative success stories

The EUBrazilCloudConnect project is strategically positioned to support collaboration between Europe and Brazil in the scientific fields of application, biodiversity and biology, considered as domains of great importance for Europe & Brazil. Cloudscape Brazil offered perspectives from international communities on how cloud federated infrastructures are enabling researchers to tackle major societal challenges, from neglected diseases and cardio-vascular diseases affecting mostly poor groups to understanding the role of biodiversity ecosystems in buffering climate change. The integration of data and processing, in addition to the possibility to access external resources (both data and computation) are key benefits to facilitate the job of scientists.

Cloudscape Brazil also explored the on-going developments of EUBrazilCloudConnect cloud computing e-Infrastructure, enabling researchers to focus on their core work and speed up the time it takes to make new discoveries.

A cloud federation to strengthen the cross border collaboration

Several initiatives have proposed different federation models highlighting the need of supporting standards and ensure interoperability to facilitate the integration of resources. To shape the future in cross-Atlantic collaborations it is key to leverage the lessons learnt in combining and managing resources, potentially heterogeneous, from distributed data centers so that the users’ demand can be accommodate during peak periods with a more efficient use of the resources. Cloud-enabled applications need to run on standardized global technologies; architecture, middleware and services; and efforts towards International Standardization processes. This is particularly true when pushing the computation near the data, thus facilitating a cross-border collaboration.

Strategic engagement with Industry, SMEs & StartUps

Cloudscape Brazil featured the participation of the big players in the cloud market like Microsoft, Gold Sponsor of the event, and IBM. Cloudscape Brazil also brought small firms and university spinoffs to establish a potential new co-operation between Brazil and Europe in this field. Panel debates and lightning talks shed lights on how to transform research results into profitable business with cloud computing, in Europe, in Brazil, as well as cross-regional stories, future research priorities and policies. Cloudscape Brazil saw the participation of over 70 people from research and academia (49%), IT Small and medium enterprises (12%), Government and Public Administration (12%), coming from Brazil (77%) and Europe (23%).

Figure 1 - Cloudscape Brazil 2015 official supporters

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Principal Take-Aways

I. Tangible dialogues for the Leishmaniasis Virtual Lab. The three user communities behind the EUBrazilCloudConnect project showcased their results on epidemiology, biodiversity, and medical informatics tools as well as plans to sustain these scientific applications after funding ends in early 2016. The team behind the Leishmaniasis Virtual Lab (LVL http://lvl.i3m.upv.es) showcased the open, collaborative research environment for the molecular surveillance of Leishmania and their vectors to the Technical Leishmaniasis Group of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. The interaction has led to further discussions on its potential wider deployment in Brazil to be taken forward in 2016.

II. Open source ICT industry is a growing market. Cloudscape Brazil was the place to learn how

companies of all sizes are acting as an innovation hub in the cloud and big data space. Both large companies like Microsoft and SERPRO, and small firms and spin-offs are just as smart when it comes to creating new business opportunities and jobs. Examples of innovative applications leveraging cloud and big data technologies were presented: the traffic prediction project, chemical engineering and mineral processing, the LiveOcean project and the cancer DNA sequences analysis, together with the opportunities for using the wide azure4research program. Six Brazilian SMEs moderated by Cedric Thomas of OW2 competed for the best pitch addressing IT solutions in the “XaaS” (Everything as a Service) world, i.e. storage, data analytics, VM selection, OS consulting, demonstrating that Brazil has a highly growing ICT economy and that a strong change towards open source activities is undergoing.

III. Cloudscape Brazil 2016 and 2017 will be the place for ICT networking between Europe and

Brazil. Another exciting feature of Cloudscape Brazil was the session on new EU-Brazil collaborative project starting in early January 2016. SECURECLOUD, EUBra-BIGSEA, EUBrasilCloudForum, HPC4E and Futebol presented their ambitious plans to advance cloud, HPC, and future Internet technologies through a collaborative research environment across Europe and Brazil. They all share the common goals of knowledge transfer and sustainability to ensure return on investment. The EUBrasilCloudForum will be organising Cloudscape Brazil 2016 and 2017, offering all the EU-Brazil collaborative projects a chance for a progress check, emphasising impacts on markets. These future workshops will be the place for networking, helping to meet the common policy goal of the European Commission and the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) in terms of high level co-operation and fruitful synergies between all these initiatives.

IV. Federation of cloud e-infrastructure is the way forward. A very active debate highlighted

several challenges around network, data format and security when federating cloud resources across regions. Challenges that future cross-regional cloud federated projects will need to address. Moving computation near to data is an appropriate approach to reduce the risk of network bottlenecks. However, there is no one-size- fits-all approach to federation, as much depends on the user communities, what legal agreements are in place for exchanging data between countries, and the type of heterogeneous resources and platforms to be integrated as an enabling technology to produce a new service. EUBrazilCloudConnect & EGI shared their experience of implementing interoperability at infrastructure, platform and application layer. In terms of Cloud Standards the event highlighted the growing importance of TOSCA and the need to include it in the future interoperability plugfests.

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Figure 2 - Cloudscape Brazil 2015 – the audience

Nicholas Ferguson, Trust-IT Services, introduced the audience the second edition of Cloudscape Brazil, run under the remit of the EU-Brazil Cloud-Connect project jointly funded by both CNPq Brazil and the European Commission. Brazil and Europe have a lot in common when it comes to ICT Research & Innovation priority areas and this edition of Cloudscape Brazil has been organised as part of the EU BR Policy dialogue for 2016 & 2017, which looks at identifying priorities where Europe & Brazil can collaborate together.

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1. Strengthening the EU-Brazil cooperation: plan the future

Augusto Burgueño Arjona, Head of the e-Infrastructure Unit at DG CONNECT of the European Commission, welcomed the audience with a message acknowledging the relevance of the EU-Brazil coordinated calls and the importance of science, crucial for human development and economic growth. The EU-Brazil cooperation, active since 2010, has been very fruitful so far, with the EUBrazilCloudConnect project being a pioneer for the joint cooperation and promoting the importance of a cross-Atlantic federated cloud infrastructure. The new optical fibre cable will further strengthen the cooperation by connecting Latin America and Europe with an increased networking capacity. Now even more important with the launch of the projects of the third coordinated call that has increased the mass of projects in cloud computing with nearly 40 organisations involved.

Figure 3 - Augusto Burgueño Arjona welcome speech, Head of the e-Infrastructure Unit at

European Commission

Augusto Burgueño Arjona stressed the importance of Cloudscape Brazil as international forum to discuss insights on EU-Brazil cooperation and to showcase cloud user stories from both regions by highlighting how cloud infrastructure has enabled researchers to tackle societal challenges. The welcome message has further indicated cloud computing has the enabling technology with high potentials to bring innovation and revitalising the EU industry. Open exchanges like Cloudscape Brazil are important for developing new ideas and building consensus on how cloud services can help researchers and business activities.

Moacyr Martucci, Professor at the Escola Politécnica of Universidade de São Paulo and Brazilian National Contact Point Coordinator for the Horizon 2020 and for ERC in Brazil, presented the main outcomes of the EU-Brazil policy dialogue which took place in Brasilia on November 2015. The Brazilian government and the European Commission have decided to launch the 4th coordinated call, which will be officially opened in November 2016, in two main areas: cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) Pilots. The cloud computing call will focus on the development of innovative technologies for next generation cloud infrastructures and services able to address the requirements and tackle the challenges from high impact socio-economic applications; standardisation, such as interoperability and data portability, should be the enabler to develop secure and trustworthy applications. The objective is to finance 2 projects within a total budget of 5M Euros (2,5M Euros from each agency). The IoT pilot call has the objective of demonstrating the IoT technologies and applicability of the already developed platforms in real-world scenario addressing specific socio-economic challenges in real-life settings. The call will finance 3 projects proposing pilots applied to government and private sector with a total funding of 9M Euros (4,5 Euros from each agency). The 5 areas of interest for this call are: (i) environmental monitoring; (ii) smart water management; (iii) energy management; (iv) smart assisted living and wellbeing; (v) smart manufacturing. The pilots should involve end-users on both sides of the Atlantic. Moacyr Martucci indicated as priority for the call and the development of future technologies 3Os: Open data, Open platform and Open science.

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In session 4 of the second day, Paulo Cesar Gonçalves Egler, Research coordinator at the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), presented the lesson learnt from EU-Brail cooperation in the Leadership project, which identified ICT R&I priorities in Latin American countries and assessed their alignment with the ICT priorities of the EU work programme.

2. Cloud landscape in Brazil & RNP and SERPRO strategies

A number of obstacles stand in the way of making Brazil internationally competitive and in smoothing the way towards easier and mutually beneficial EU-BR cooperation. RNP’s national cloud infrastructure roll-out plan signifies a concrete step towards a sustainable exploitation model for research results is the potential relationship between RNP and both Commercial Cloud Providers in Brazil & StartUp Brazil. The Brazilian government recognises the importance of cloud computing and has put it on the agenda for priority development at the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), the national research and education network, RNP, has defined its strategy for cloud computing based also on an analysis of other NRENs in Europe and is a leader in networking Latin America. The Brazilian government is discussing the legal environment for international requirements in security, interoperability, privacy, and sovereignty over data. In Session 2, Juliana Muller, Infrastructure Analyst from the Broadband Department of the Brazilian Ministry of Communications, gave insights about the Brazilian broadband infrastructure program to increase the productivity of the economy and maximise the return of investment. The speaker pointed out that Brazil is still lacking behind other countries for the number of data centres (only 34 at the moment) due to the complex bureaucracy, tax, limited legal guarantees and infrastructure not fully developed. The motivations for a change in Brazil are many starting from the recent investment in infrastructure connectivity (within the country and to other continents) to the promotion of investment attraction with fiscal incentives. This stresses even further the importance of policies, better governance and data safety regulations to drive the Brazilian ICT market. The Brazilian government is at work to prepare a Personal Data Protection Bill to regulate data privacy by defining rules for data principle of finality and international data transfer.

"My intention is to show RNP’s plans to deploy the Brazilian academic cloud, collect impressions from the audience to help us improve our plans and discuss the next steps. I believe that the information about RNP’s plans and strategies regarding the academic cloud will help the participants to better plan their future projects to use and develop applications for the cloud."

José Luiz Ribeiro Filho Director of Services and Solutions of the Brazilian National Education and Research Network (RNP)

RNP, the Brazilian NREN, (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa), plans, designs, deploys and operates a nationwide networking infrastructure under a contract with the Ministry for Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI). Its objectives include connecting university, research institutes, hospitals, museums, and many other public Research and Education (R&E) institutions through its network infrastructure. RNP offering include connection for more than 600 organisations covering more than 900 sites (universities, research institutes museums and university hospitals), through an advanced multi-gigabit national backbone, and more than 40 optical metropolitan area networks. RNP also offers advanced services on top of this network, potentially benefiting more than 3.5 million users. Compared to 2014 the number of organisations connected via a high capacity network is increasing, sign of the willingness of the government and institutions to reduce the digital divide and connect

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more clients, users, applications, and bigger data objects as explained by Michael Stanton, RNP Director of R&D. At the moment RNP is served by 2 classes of international links: RedCLARA is the Latin America backbone network connecting NRENs - such as TERENA in Europe - of 13 mainland countries with links to US (Miami) and EU (London), just upgraded to 5G, and IRNC (submarine cable) links to US. The new submarines cables are planned by 2017-18 to interconnect Brazil with US (Miami, Monet cable), EU (Lisbon, Ellalink), Africa (CBCS and SACS cables). Michael Stanton pointed out that the network is challenge given the size of Brazil.

José Luiz Riberio Filho, RNP Director of Services and Solutions, at Cloudscape Brazil offered insights into RNP’s strategy to deploy and operate cloud services in collaboration with Brazilian public universities and research institutions, i.e. the Brazilian Academic Cloud. In particular, RNP sees the need to address the growing storage and computing demands to support scientific and technological applications in a flexible, scalable and sustainable way. The desired result will be a robust and cost-effective infrastructure to host national platforms and a repository to store and preserve digital and digitalized content.

Partnership with private and public commercial cloud providers is the key to implement the RNP cloud strategy. The best strategy that emerged for RNP’s cloud service/infrastructure was a hybrid, community and federated cloud. The hybrid model allows RNP to act as a public (commercial) contract broker for “low risk” services, such as student e-mail, document sharing, etc, where RNP will coordinate and fine tune the available resources to supply users’ demands and requirements. RNP has started the development of shared data centres in Recife, for RNP national platforms, and Manaus, for cloud services’ hosting and testbed for the national cloud model. Interconnected containers are used to build the data centres and facilitate interoperability support to offer cloud services to different users and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Through the community model, universities and research institutes can offer their own data centre infrastructure (in full or partially) to the national cloud. The sustainability model of the IT infrastructure and services RNP that will provide to its stakeholders needs to consider that the maintenance of the IT infrastructure relies on the funding from central agencies to the project for almost 20% and that universities and research institutes prefer to pay their services on demand without allocating a fix amount. To address this aspects, RNP is studying multiple sustainability models for the community cloud: (i) Entirely private cloud managed and operated by RNP; (ii) Community with obligation, where all participants should share resources; (iii) Opportunistic Community where there is no obligation to share resources, but costs; (iv) Balanced Opportunistic Community where resources are bartered across data centres; (v) Distributed Community.

RNP has identified a new pilot to start testing the Fogbow middleware, developed in the framework of the EUBrazilCloudConnect project, to test these service models. Fogbow has been identified as a key component to manage cloud resources. RNP was very keen to establish new potential collaboration relationships with other initiatives in Europe to help bridging the gap between the Brazil and European infrastructure and propose new cloud federation solutions in the near future. This aspect has led to further discussion given the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) at the event.

Besides this, RNP is investigating how the service model can be applied to cloud services and applications, like distance communication, tele health and tele theatre for sharing content among universities, hospitals and research centres. This aspect raised the attention at Cloudscape Brazil where different end user communities and SMEs were present.

"I guess the experience from the government side on thinking and using the cloud is the major contribution SERPRO can offer to Cloudscape. Nowadays it’s not that hard to build and operate a

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cloud. But the cultural aspects have always been the slight catch, haven’t they? As a public company, SERPRO has been standing between the private and the public realities for over 5 decades. For about 9 years I have been working on projects that are slowly consolidating the many aspects on the Brazilian federal government scenario. So this experience might be of some interest, I guess."

Luis Claudio Pereira Tujal Senior Consultant and Evangelist at the Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service (SERPRO)

In Session 1 of the second day, Luis Claudio Pereira Tujal, Senior Consultant and Evangelist at SERPRO, presented the company strategy and roadmap to cloud computing. SERPRO is a government-owned corporation of IT services in Brazil and linked to the Ministry of Finance. It is the largest South American Government ICT Company providing structural systems for the Brazilian Federal Government with three datacenters in Brasília, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The strategy involves three different lines of actions: (i) develop third platforms (Cloud, Big Data, Mobility and Social Networks) and IoT based services; (ii) collaborate and cooperate with other public and private organisations to enhance partnerships with public companies and education entities); (iii) host and integrate large government databases and build profitable line of services (Big Data, machine learning, predictive analysis) for the SERPRO Information Center.

Figure 4 - Luis Claudio Pereira Tujal, Senior Consultant and Evangelist at SERPRO, Cloudscape

Brazil 2015 keynote

As part of a clear cloud strategy and roadmap, SERPRO is planning the release of improvements in services such as billing, accounting, monitoring, etc. This is being accomplished by the adoption of OpenStack’s component for telemetry, i.e., Ceilometer. This has been installed and configured in the SERPRO environment the full stack of projects offered through their site. SERPRO are gradually consolidating them in their production environments. Combined with Ceilometer, SERPRO has their own applications, mostly Python-Zope-Plone and PHP/Symfony portals. They have also developed some python middleware and APIs to work with the OpenStack APIs.

SERPRO is evolving rapidly from an “introspective” public ICT company to a complex structure open for collaborations with research groups and startups, with cloud technology being the main driver. The cloud strategy involves the offering of virtual data centers through IaaS environment, and building and delivering cloud services, such as the Open Data Portal Factory. The integration of various Cloud

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initiatives in SERPRO and the understanding, defining and building a “data lake” within the cloud will help building cloud-based big data solutions in the future.

3. The EUBrazilCC cloud scenario and how to help communities tackle global societal challenges

The discussion towards the concrete benefit of adopting cloud solutions for scientific discovery was led by Ignacio Blanquer, Associate Professor at the Technical University of Valencia and EUBrazilCloudConnect EU coordinator. Ignacio Blanquer presented in session 1 the EUBrazilCloudConnect view of an Open Science Cloud, which should be federated (with respect to authentication, to infrastructure such as offering interoperable support of multiple cloud management platforms, to platform such that exposing a set of infrastructure-agnostic application development framework, and to services and applications that should be compatible with multiple IaaS). Cloud computing has been proven to be to provide additional resources and minimize the cost in the acquisition of new resources while interoperable and standard-based cloud federations prove to effectively achieve scientific applications requirements. At the same time, there are still limitations when dealing with non-cloud expert scientists and their demands for high computational power and communication to run scientific applications. Thus, it is important to have a comprehensive open science cloud that includes conventional computing models and data analytics tools, while at the same time guaranteed usability, i.e., not requiring cloud expert skills, and scalability to automatically adapt the capacity to real workload.

Cloudscape Brazil explored on-going developments for new cloud platforms such as EUBrazilCloudConnect, which is specifically designed for better performance, enabling researchers to focus on their core work and speed up the time it takes to make new discoveries. Ignacio Blanquer presented the set of integrated services developed in the framework of EUBrazilCloudConnect and showed the audience three concrete examples of scientific applications with important social impact, that have been implemented on top of the EUBrazilCloudConnect infrastructure. The Leishmaniasis Virtual Laboratory perfectly responds to key integration and interoperability issues of a global infrastructure such as data access & integration by providing integration of high-quality databases for the study of leishmaniasis; Integrating of computing resources to efficiently deal with the workload ofmolecular analyses; and the provision of a user-friendly integrated environment, providing a community-like scientific Gateway to support researchers in sharing data, executing processing and accessing multiple data sources. The Cardiovascular Simulator integrates the Alya and ADAN simulators that require the coordinated execution of jobs in cloud infrastructures. The Biodiversity and Climate Change application has been implemented as a scientific gateway for Retrospective Data analytics on biodiversity and climate data to facilitate the use of scientist who can infer future conditions. It integrates multiple tools running on the cloud for the evaluation of large scale biodiversity indicators such as evapotranspiration and the analysis of ecosystem dynamics, among others.

Cloudscape Brazil gave the opportunity to scientists to discuss further these three applications from the user community perspective with four presentations focusing on epidemiology, biodiversity and medical informatics.

Israel de Souza Pinto, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz in Brazil, presented the WHO statistics about the impact of Leishmaniasis on the populations. He further gave an introduction to the data sources, already available in the Leishmaniasis Virtual Laboratory tool, and that scientists can search to monitor the disease. In particular he brought the user´s view and insights on the Leishmaniasis Virtual Laboratory

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(LVL). The added value of the tool is the single entry point for processing and data exploring in Leishmaniasis and it does not require separately accessing multiple data sources, formats and software tools. The presentation has raised the interest of Lucas Edel Donato, representative of the Ministry of Health in Brazil, who was interested in the platform.

"I’ll bring to Cloudscape Brazil a deep wish of a better understanding of the changes drivers in Caatinga Biome and how massive remote sensing datasets for enhanced climate change research into a user-friendly web-interface can help on it."

Iana Alexandra Alves Rufino Associate Professor at the Center for Natural Resources and Technology at Federal University of

Campina Grande, Brazil

Iana Rufino, Associate Professor at the Center for Natural Resources and Technology at Federal University of Campina Grande in Brazil, presented the EUBrazilCloudConnect use case on multi-temporal data driven analyses to support biodiversity and climate change research. The use case provides a computational framework for studying the impact of biodiversity and climate change using cloud computing services. It integrates multiple data sources for extracting key biodiversity and climate change indicators and develops transparent, representative science-based information of two selected vulnerable areas in Brazil: two different biomes (Amazon and Caatinga). The recently developed scientific gateway allows inputting a wide variety of (massive) data sets with different formats and offers interactive visualisation tools for rapid interpretation of the results.

“I can provide my vision of how cloud technologies can support the researching and other data-related activities, due to my experience in cloud explotation within Lifewatch community. We have several cloud usage examples that can contribute and help other communities to know what is the best way to use these technologies. These examples includes the use of different tools or technologies that tries to support biodiversity and ecosystem researching."

Fernando Aguilar Gómez IFCA-CSIC, Spain

Fernando Aguilar, Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (IFCA), presented the LifeWatch project, the European e-Science infrastructure for biodiversity and ecosystem research (an ESFRI), that allows users to tackle the big basic questions in biodiversity, as well to address the urgent societal challenges concerning biodiversity, ecosystems and other cross-cutting issues. LifeWatch provides ways for getting data discovered, integrated and processed to be used by people so they can interact with such data. Cloud computing is key to achieving this, where the EGI federated infrastructure is exploited by the user community.

“I’ll bring to Cloudscape 2015 my expertise in the development of scientific applications and support software technologies for HPC and cloud computing, and all the experience gained within the framework of the fruitful EUBrazilCloudConnect project on the federation of this diverse infrastructures."

Antonio Tadeu A. Gomes National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil

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Antonio Tadeu A. Gomes, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC) in Brazil, presented the EUBrazilCloudConnect use case on eHealth and Cardiovascular disease. The main computational challenge consists of the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency of the simulation. The integration of heterogeneous platform is the key for this scenario: the execution of parametric runs on a cloud infrastructure and the execution of coupled runs of high definition simulations on distributed HPC resources. The EUBrazilCloudConnect infrastructure is the perfect choice for achieving this. The Scientific Gateway gives users access to massive datasets, processing algorithms and visualisation tools. It is designed to integrate these components for analysing the multi-disciplinary nature of earth science systems, particularly dynamics related to biodiversity and climate change. The strong potential of the Scientific Gateway has been demonstrated with experiments running on SEBAL data, providing indicators of Land Use/Cover (LULC) trends.

Usable and flexible cloud interfaces as key enablers to help scientists tackling societal challenges

Cloudscape Brazil 2014 already identified cloud computing as a technology that gives democratization and transparent processes to access to high-performance computing. This edition of Cloudscape Brazil has confirmed this need and has highlighted the importance of clear and customisable interfaces for the user communities, who need an easy way to access the data and manage their experiments. The integration of data and processing, in addition to the possibility to access external resources (both data and computation) are key benefits to facilitate the job of scientists.

The quality of the data and the possibility to share is another important key concern. Moving the data across is quite resource demanding and in most of the cases not feasible due to limited available capacity. For instance, connectivity is a challenge in Brazil due to the limited capacity of the infrastructure and increased by the huge data volume necessary for scientists in carrying out their experiments. A cloud federation can help scientists in this direction, moving the computation near the data, thus maximising the usage of the resources and the network capacity.

Cooperation with Brazil is considered of key importance for the variety of the ecosystem and to test the scientific applications through different models. Data are motivating a profound transformation in the culture and conduct of scientific research in every field of science and engineering. Big data analytic tools are the key for dealing with increased volume of heterogeneous data.

4. Cloud Federations to facilitate Cross-Border Collaboration

Cloud federation is one of the possible business models to provision services to end-users. The main advantage is to combine resources, potentially heterogeneous, from distributed data centers so that the users’ demand can be accommodate during peak periods with a more efficient use of the resources. Several initiatives have proposed different federation models highlighting the need of supporting standards and ensure interoperability to facilitate the integration of resources. Cloud-enabled applications need to run on standardized global technologies; architecture, middleware and services; and efforts towards International Standardization processes. This is particularly true when pushing the computation near the data, thus facilitating a cross-border collaboration.

“I will be glad to share with the Cloudscape Brazil community our experience with and vision for a new generation of Cloud technologies that can enable high-value applications in the Cloud and help to transform how industries do their business."

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Renato Cerqueira Senior Research Manager, Natural Resources Solutions, IBM Research, Brazil

Cloudscape Brazil session 6, chaired by Renato Cerqueira, Senior Research Manager at Natural Resources Solutions dept at IBM Research Brazil, took a practical look at some of the major initiatives and barriers for the implementation of a cloud federation. Insights and practical tips come from a panel of international experts in cloud technology and with practical experience in implementing a cloud federation. Fogbow is a middleware that provides a very lightweight business model for the federation of private IaaS providers, based on the exchange of the resources. EUBrazilCloudConnect project. Francisco Brasileiro, Professor at the Computing and System Department at UFCG & EUBrazil Cloud Connect Brazilian Coordinator explained that Fogbow, now adopted in the EUBrazilCloudConnect project, follows a bartering model to provide access to cloud federations. It represents a way to federate multiple cloud on-premise working in practice and by decoupling federated-related functionalities from the orchestration middleware, it makes federation as non-intrusive as possible. Fogbow supports OCCI, with some extensions and uses EGI appDB as catalogue and automatic download of virtual images. Fogbow is currently being used in the EUBrazilCC federated infrastructure and soon in the experimental Compute@RNP service supported by UFCG and sponsored by RNP. SERPRO is also assessing the possibility of using it.

Yannick Legré, Managing Director at EGI.eu, gave an in-depth overview of the EGI Federated Cloud, which is in production operations since May 2014. EGI is a collaboration of communities operating the cloud for research and education purposes, thus choosing the services and APIs to implement the federation, and it is open as public cloud to any research community by means of set of standardised interfaces. The focus of the presentation was the Open Science Commons, a new approach proposed by EGI to tackle policy challenges and embrace open science as a new paradigm for knowledge creation. Data is the key for research and the initiative stimulates the creation of public repositories of open research data to favour the culture of sharing. Thus, it is important to support open standards for data formats and API to use a set of standardised generic ICT capabilities across countries and communities. EGI helps the communities by operating the services across the federated infrastructure and help them to integrate and co-create specific services and solutions.

Daniele Lezzi, Senior Researcher at BSC, presented the architecture of the EUBrazilCloudConnect project and to what extend it interoperates with EGI cloud federation. At the infrastructure level, Fogbow exposes an OCCI interface and can reuse EGI services. COMPSs and PMES, two platform-agnostic distributed computing programming frameworks, can directly access EGI resources via the OCCI interface. At the level of the application, EUBrazilCloudConnect reuses the EGI appDB catalogue. The use of standards and standardised APIs is the key for interoperability.

The importance of cloud interoperability and standards was explored further by Michel Drescher, Founder and Director of Cloud Consult, who presented the methodology developed in the framework of the CloudWATCH project to group and classify standards profile. CloudWATCH aims at accelerating and increase the use of cloud computing across the public and private sectors in Europe and supporting international efforts on interoperability and portability, responding to users’ concerns on lack of control, lack of standards, lack of integration and lack of RoI by delivering recommendations for a more transparent cloud coupled with use cases, best practice and advice for trusted in the cloud. The tool presented by Michel Drescher enables research projects and cloud service providers to score their objectives on a numeric scale against a set of Cloud characteristics as defined within the NIST model of cloud computing. Moreover, the tool helps mapping candidate standards to cloud architectures to

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help define a common approach to interpret and implement affected standards. Principal component analysis and other statistical tools are used to analyse the data. An interesting outcome of the presentation is that compliance to standards does not always guarantee interoperability.

Leandro Guimarães, Service Manager at RNP, gave insights on the Magic project, a worldwide initiative, that aims at establishing a set of agreements for participating world regions to consolidate and complete a middleware for a marketplace of services and real-time applications to benefit global science communities. Among the objective of the project, there is the need to deploy federated cloud services for a set of NRENs in Latin America, Europe, and Africa by using a set of standards for interoperability of cloud provisioning.

The discussion during the session overall highlighted the importance of standards to link heterogeneous resource providers. TOSCA is now the emerging standard to address the need of interoperability at the platform level and it should be included in the next interoperability plugfest. The implementation of cloud federations will bring new oxygen to the network infrastructure as the computation can be moved near the data, thus avoiding potential network bottlenecks when moving data from one site to another.

The panel of speakers identified the need to build trust with the user community to facilitate the penetration of the cloud solutions. Security and privacy preserving mechanisms are the first step towards a more secure development and experimental environment. The European Commission is moving in this direction with the new General Data Privacy Regulation on its way to definition. The speech of Juliana Muller (see Section 2) highlighted the work that the Brazilian government is doing for the definition of specific laws aimed at the protection of citizens’ privacy. Transparency is the next step and it can be achieved via a set of standardised interfaces.

Data federation is an emerging concept due to the need to run experiments using different data sets or when the data is contributed by different organisations. The heterogeneous nature of the data and the different needs of the scientific communities do not make possible to devise a single solution and strategy for data federation. The panellists identified this as the next step after cloud federations.

On one hand cloud federation will optimise the usage of the resources and move the computation near the data, being also resilient to faults. On the other hand, data might need to be moved or exchanged between countries, that might have different legislations. Cross-border legal aspects related to data management are not widely defined and they consist mainly in peering agreements between countries.

5. Cloud computing, experimental platforms and HPC

Fabrizio Gagliardi, Senior Strategy advisor at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and chair of EUBrazilCloudConnect External Expert Committee (EEC), brought the audience directly into the specific challenges that the European Union and Brazil will be asked to face together in the forthcoming EU-Brazil co-operation actions in ICT, through both the Research and Innovation Actions as well as the Coordination and Support Actions that will be supported.

Another exciting feature of Cloudscape Brazil was session 2 of the second day focused on new EU-Brazil collaborative project starting in early January 2016. SECURECLOUD, EUBra-BIGSEA, EU-BrasilCloudForum, HPC4E and Futebol presented their ambitious plans to advance cloud, HPC, and future Internet technologies through a collaborative research environment across Europe and Brazil. They all share the common goals of knowledge transfer and sustainability to ensure return on investment.

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Alvaro Coutinho, High Performance Computing Center, COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, presented the HPC4E High Performance Computing for Energy, a collaboration project involving several institutions and companies in Brazil and Europe. The project’s main objectives are: (i) to develop beyond-the-state-of-the-art high performance simulation tools that can help the energy industry to respond future energy demands and also to carbon-related environmental issues using the state-of-the-art HPC systems; (ii) improve the cooperation between energy industries from EU and Brazil; (iii) improve the cooperation between the leading research centers in EU and Brazil in HPC applied to energy industry. The HPC4E project will offer a valuable example of a multidisciplinary collaboration and application of HPC technology to several domains and it will reinforce the ties between EU and Brazil in critical aspects for society such as energy. The impact will be large and an impulse to EU and Brazilian economy by increasing the competitiveness of their key energetic players in a globalized world and it will offer a competitive advantage by having practical applications ready for next generation supercomputers.

“As an open-source contributor and academic researcher, I expect to share and learn experiences that help defining challenges that need to be addressed to supply the technical needs and to increase the adoption of cloud technologies."

Andrey Brito Professor at UFCG and Brazilian coordinator of the SecureCloud project

The next three talks focused on the recently approved projects in cloud computing. Andrey Brito, Professor at the Federal University of Campina Grande, presented the SecureCloud project, which aims at improving confidentiality of programs executed in the cloud by evaluating if and how hardware mechanisms in community CPUs can be used to protect applications. Cloud computing is exposed to several threats brought by employees, hackers and potentially other tenants running applications on the same hardware. Bringing trust in clouds is the key to facilitate organizations and businesses adopting cloud solutions and use cloud computing for processing their data in a secure way. Thus, it is imperative to address data privacy by using cutting-edge technology to store data with different levels of protection and in multiple locations.

Dorgival Guedes, Associate Professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais provided a general description of the Europe Brazil Collaboration on Big Data Scientific Research through Cloud-Centric Applications (EUBra-BigSea) project and discussed how it will leverage the results of the EUBrazilCloudConnect projects both in terms of technology and community of users. The project aims to create a sustainable cooperation activity in the area of cloud services for Big Data analytics by developing a framework for ensuring the QoS of data analytics services on top of cloud computing infrastructures ensuring security and privacy. Traditional data security measures are not efficient when applied to the large volumes and high velocities of Big Data, which requires different approaches and technologies. The solutions will be demonstrated on a massively connected society use case to determine traffic prediction models to address one of the major challenges in Brazil.

Roberto Cascella, Innovation & Research project manager at Trust-IT Services, gave insights on the EU-BrasilCloudFORUM project, a collaboration and support action, which will establish an engagement forum for policy, research and innovation dialogues between Europe and Brazil through a community-driven approach. Europe has as objective to create a Digital Single Market by enforcing a cloud computing strategy making trust, security, open source and open standards top priorities. Similarly, Brazilian government recognises the importance of cloud computing to revitalize the economy as discussed in Section 2. EU-BrasilCloudFORUM will identify and deliver a EU-BR vision and strategy for cloud research and innovation that requires between both regions. To achieve this, it will liaise with the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) on the creation of a Special Interest Group on Cloud Computing

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that leverages the expertise in academe and industry to shape future research directions. Moreover, it will facilitate the dialogue between the EUBra-BIGSEA and SecureCloud projects with Industry, public authorities and R&D organisations. The outcome will be a joint research and innovation Roadmap and Action Plan.

Cristiano Bonato Both, Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA) in Brazil gave insights about the EU-Brazil research and development cooperation in advanced cyber infrastructure within the FUTEBOL project. The result will be a control framework for experimentation, in Europe and Brazil that will enable experimental research at the convergence point between optical and wireless networks. Such a platform is required for experimentation-based exploration and validation of several 5G technologies (e.g. cloud radio access networks, cell densification) and the efficient use of the optical backhaul.

Leandro Ciuffo, Manager of R&D projects at RNP, presented the FIBRE testbed, a research facility constructed in the scope of a project funded by the 2010 Brazil-EU Coordinated Call in ICT. The project itself finished in October 2014. The speaker shared the experience on the evolution from a project to the implementation of a service; in 2015 the Brazilian member institutions took over FIBRE’s legacy infrastructure to start offering the testbed as a service. The FIBRE project will support the new funded FUTEBOL project to cover the experimentation at the wireless/optical boundary. A new governance model, admission rules, policies and service operation processes will be created.

All projects presented showed that sustainability is the main aim from the very beginning. EU-BrasilCloudFORUM will build an online EU-BR service-oriented platform to promote and market the results from EU-BR collaboration on research and innovation in cloud computing. It will offer a space for cloud service providers to help match supply and demand. The platform will gradually incorporate new offers from R&I projects, that focus on creating additional values by developing basic services that can be applied to address high impact socio-economic challenges. It is worth mentioning that all projects will deploy their technological solution by leveraging previous results and will develop services from data in previous experiences.

HPC is seen an enabling technology to create multidisciplinary collaborations for the future. While cloud computing has many potentials to drive the Brazilian and European economy and facilitate the creation of new services for citizens and the private sector, but security remains the main concern.

6. Brazilian SMEs presenting innovative products and services

" As a global independent open source organization, OW2 has a long-standing relationship with the open source ecosystem in Brazil. OW2 is happy to contribute to Cloudscape Brazil by helping organize a session dedicated to Open-Source, SMEs and Start-ups. Open source software has vibrant supporters in Brazil and OW2 can make sure this integral of the Brazilian software industry is appropriately represented in Cloudscape Brazil."

Cedric Thomas CEO at OW2

Brazil has a massive IT market. According to IDC, it is the fifth largest market in the world, accounting for USD 144 billion or 2% of global IT revenues. This is, in itself, an incentive for companies to invest in the country. However, the business model requires proper infrastructure and regulatory framework, which Brazil is still building.

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Web entrepreneurs, start-ups and ICT-savvy SMEs are the innovators taking new products and services to market, creating new jobs and boosting economic growth. Both Brazil and Europe are making significant investments to create a healthy environment where new businesses can flourish.

Cloudscape Brazil was the place to learn how companies of all sizes are acting as an innovation hub in the cloud and big data space. Six Brazilian SMEs moderated by Cedric Thomas, CEO of OW2, competed for the best pitch addressing IT solutions in the “XaaS” (Everything as a Service) world, i.e. storage, data analytics, VM selection, OS consulting, demonstrating that Brazil has a highly growing ICT economy and that a strong change towards open source activities is undergoing.

Anolis Tecnologia, presented by Guilherme Maluf, is a new startup in Brazil which aims to create a secure, resilient and available SDS service for academic researchers and, in the future, become a SDS reference company. Anolis IT has experience with heterogeneous environment spread across the country; we contribute to two open source cloud technology, Openstack and Owncloud. Anolis IT provide cloud services using the Brazilian Research Network (RNP) infrastructure.

Miguel Koren o' Brian gave insights on Konsultex, a systems integration and consulting organization based in Argentina and Brazil specialized in implementing business systems. The company has recently started to provide cloud services. Konsultex has implemented several private cloud solutions since 2010 based on the open source Xen hypervisor that give our customers competitive advantages.

John Lemos Forman, from Riosoft, explored the challenges for Startups in offering Open Source Software (OSS) solutions in Brazil. Compared to worldwide OSS Startups, in Brazil there is a lack of understanding on OSS with many pseudo-initiatives flourishing because the government push for Free OSS.

Carlos Eurico Pittas do Canto, Diretor de Negócios, Propus - Tecnologia dedicada a negócios, discussed the business opportunities by using cloud computing for Big Data. Propus is approaching the market by identifying strategic partners and meeting the demand of potential clients while defining its first applications.

Americo Sampaio, University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), presented the spinoff idea to approach the market with solutions for performance evaluation and capacity planning of IaaS cloud applications. The solution is to create a cloud capacitor to infer the performance of processes and a web application for manipulation and visualization of the capacity planning results. The framework implemented can be valuable for cloud service providers and their users.

Rodrigo Assad, Usto.re, showed how the ICT Brazilian is increasing by 9% every year, being established as the 5th IT market in the world. Usto.re has been developing a set of product to demonstrate that even for even small-sized companies to have their own in-house cloud services with good quality, high security and at a low cost.

The “perfect” pitch contest was won by Guilherme Maluf Balzana, director of Anolis IT.

Few but strategic themes were addressed during the discussion. Service Level Agreements was identified as an important step to the service proposition of the companies to their customers. There are several ways in which Konsultex deal with contracts for consulting services and license sales. When it's with a private company a model based on the contract models that our partners use is applied such as Alfresco and Bonitasoft. When a Government body is involved, Konsultex does not have a choice as the contract is normally take-it-or-leave-it. However, recently lawyers have been employed by the company to assess government contracts. Konsultex are now considering involving lawyers to take on the role of working on contracts. Until now, this has always been an expense that the company has tended to avoid. Anolis IT provides cloud services using the Brazilian Research Network (RNP)

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infrastructure. At the moment RNP defines its own SLA with their costumers including Anolis IT. This follows old agreements of R&D Experimental Services, which do not include any SLA. From 2016, this will change and Anolis should start defining its own SLA with RNP. Overall there is a not a unique and standard way to define the SLA.

7. Key challenges for international cooperation in ICT

Cloudscape Brazil concluding panel session took these early findings from previous. José Luiz Riberio Filho, director of services and solutions at RNP, Phillipe O. A. Navaux, Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Moacyr Martucci, National Contact Point Coordinator for the Horizon 2020 and for ERC in Brazil, Yannick Legré, Managing Director at EGI.eu, Luis Cláudio Pereira Tujal, SERPRO, Paulo Cesar Gonçalves Egler, IBICT & LEADERSHIP project and Ignacio Blanquer as session

chair, were called to provide their different experience in research & education with the cloud, and their vision on the future of cloud computing for scientific and skills improvement.

Figure 5 - Cloudscape Brazil concluding session

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Lessons learnt & Calls to Action

Considerations for Cloudscape Brazil 2016. The next Cloudscape Brazil could be co-located with the annual Brasilia EU-Policy event (potentially in November 2016) to capitalise on the complete European & Brazilian stakeholder community. It was a missed opportunity that the EU-Brazil Policy dialogue took place in mid-November in Brasilia. Clearly, this should be capitalised in the following year in order to maximise synergies and policy representation. Getting Europeans to make the trip to Latin America is a costly effort, if the event helps support the other European and Brazilian coordinated call projects as well this can only support the further engagement of the stakeholder community. Engagement with Start-ups and SMEs is key for future coordinated calls. Cloudscape Brazil managed to attract a number of Brazilian SMEs and Start-ups to the event and they were able to learn about and contribute to discussion on the future of EU-Brazil collaboration. Future calls should take into account the needs and views of this stakeholder group. This is key if their participation in coordinated calls is to increase. Furthermore, Start-ups and SMEs can also act as prime adopter or ICT solutions developed by research initiatives, as well as source of contribute for business model activities. Engaging the user community through a coordinated approach. It is important to capitalise on the existing projects of cloud computing funded under the coordinated calls: EUBrazilCloudConnect, EUBra-BIGSEA & SecureCloud, and use the results produced under the Open Science Cloud infrastructure, which can be rolled-out in the user community in Brazil also. Since these projects are mainly engaged with the development of cloud based services, the tactical short term recommendation is that the projects should be strongly encouraged to assist in the integration and development of cloud based services that could be used on the Open Science Cloud federated public community cloud network, when available. The EUBrazilCloudFORUM CSA will monitor that discussions and networking is ensured among the funded projects so that these calls to action are followed up.

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8. Cloudscape Brazil Promotional Campaign

Pre-event activities

Event Branding. A specific Cloudscape Brazil logo was designed together with templates for graphical and web usage. A payoff was also created: “The Cloud at your Service: How business and research are innovating in the cloud”, promoting Cloudscape Brazil as an important way of linking industry and research between Europe and Brazil.

Figure 6 - Cloudscape Brazil 2015 logo

Venue. Cloudscape Brazil was a stand-alone workshop held at the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF), Botafogo in Rio de Janeiro. Other options such as co-location with the EU-Brazil Policy Dialogue, Brasilia, Brazil, 17th November 2015, were also identified. Co-location has a number of advantages with respect to attracting audience. However, the date for the Policy Dialogue has been decided late in September reducing the time for the organisation of the event.

By holding the event as a stand-alone workshop the consortium were able to provide free registration, reach out and attract a broader audience of stakeholders which included SMEs who otherwise would have been unable to attend.

Agenda definition and speakers engagement. The construction of Cloudscape Brazil agenda started in August 2015 and was build up in order to ensure a good representation of the strategic stakeholders from research and industry, scientific users and cloud providers, as well as policy makers from Europe and Brazil. Speakers’ engagement started in August 2015. A list of initial speakers was shared with the consortium and updated frequently according to their confirmation. Speakers’ profiles were published on the web to ensure visibility and interest towards external communities. The consortium and the EEC members were informed about the status of Cloudscape Brazil agenda and involved in the identification of speakers, participants and potential supporters.

Website updates, promotion and social media activity. Cloudscape Brazil webpage was published at the address http://EUBrazilCloudConnect.eu/cloudscapebrazil2015. Online registration was opened on October 2015 and a dedicated newsletter (available at this link http://www.EUBrazilCloudConnect.eu/content/looking-strengthen-your-research-business-between-europe-brazil-do-not-miss-cloudscape) was sent to the entire EUBrazilCloudConnect community database. A second newsletter was sent on November 11th 2015 with a special feature about European and Brazilian co-operation priorities to be presented at Cloudscape Brazil (http://www.EUBrazilCloudConnect.eu/content/step-your-co-operation-cloud-computing-cloudscape-brazil-1-2-december-2015-rio-de-janeiro). A third one was sent on November 26th 2015 (http://www.EUBrazilCloudConnect.eu/content/cloudscape-brazil-2015-approaching-be-sure-get-most-1-2-december-rio-de-janeiro-brazil) with the main highlights of the event in terms of agenda and

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speakers, supporters engaged, position papers collected and final logistics information. A mailing list

has been used specifically to provide support for the event ([email protected]).

Press release. A press release was produced in November 2015 and circulated to the project media contacts1. Continuous updates with news relevant for the event was performed on all 3 project social network profiles.

Supporters. A massive engagement activity for external supporters were performed. Industry was the main target of the supporters campaign, which was performed through direct email messaging and personal contacts of WP2 and other consortium members. Small and medium Brazilian enterprises and business accelerators were addressed as well, proposing online visibility (logo showcased in the event page and on the printed agenda), a dedicated online page with organization description in EUBrazil Cloud Connect website, the name of the organization mentioned in the event proceedings, the possibility to showcase some dissemination material physically at the event.

Thanks to this activity, 4 among industry and research organizations officially supported the event, promoting it through their media contacts and bringing effective visibility.

Figure 7 - Cloudscape Brazil 2014 official supporters

Position papers. A campaign to collect position papers from event participants and external stakeholders was performed, with promotion through newsletters and direct email messaging. An online template was created to invite people to submit position papers on the identified topics:

Federated cloud infrastructures for research and science - applications addressing societal challenges, big data value, open standards

Cloud service models including big data analytics, security and dependable cloud (Quality of Service, Quality of Protection)

Sustainability models and business models with high public value - how can we serve different users, from researchers and data managers to public authorities, as well as IT managers, R&D initiatives and managers of large-scale national platforms

Cloud service roll-out by the Brazilian research network, RNP

Cloud services for business - realising the innovation and growth potential for start-ups, SMEs and big corporations

EU-Brazil co-operation priorities and common programmes. Insights from Brazilian and European policy makers.

All the 18 position papers received were collected in an online booklet available for download at http://EUBrazilCloudConnect.eu/sites/default/files/Booklet_PositionPapers_december2015%282%29.pdf and organised in 6 different sections:

Taking the vision for Open Science global

Co-operation Success Stories: Europe and Brazil

EU & BR New Co-operations under H2020

How EU research funding is being rolled-out into the market

How Federation, Standards & Interoperability play a vital role in cloud Computing

1 Available for download at this link http://eubrazilcloudconnect.eu/content/press-release-europe-and-brazil-step-co-operation-cloud-computing-cloudscape-brazil-2015

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Capitalising on Open source and New Services in the Cloud

Figure 8 - Cloudscape Brazil 2015 Position Paper online booklet cover

On-site activities

Social media campaign. Cloudscape Brazil was followed by an intense social media activity mainly through Twitter using the specific hashtag #cloudscapebrazil. Over 170 tweets were written between November and December 2015 producing 25.000 impressions, around 900 profile visits and 23 new followers.

Figure 9 - Some popular #cloudscapebrazil tweets

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Figure 10 - EUBrazilCC Twitter Analytics November – December 2015

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Post-event activities

Press release. A post-event press release was produced at the beginning of in December highlighting the main event achievements to be circulated to ScienceNode, media partner of the event and to the whole community database. Testimonials. An invite was sent to all Cloudscape Brazil speakers to provide a short quote about their takeaways from the event. Testimonials were also collected during the interviews. We recap them here:

"I would like to congratulate with the organisers of Cloudscape Brazil 2015 for the opportunity to be here and discuss with other colleagues our projects, our experience and everything related to the work we are doing related with cloud computing at RNP. I presented today the update of the strategy that we devised last year and now we have more applications and use that we identified and we are now working to provide these kinds of services for our users as well. The integration with Fogbow is now very key to our work in the near future and we are looking forward in 2016 to have some pilots using Fogbow for our scenarios to help us chose among the scenarios that we devised in terms of collaboration and structure to manage the cloud itself.” José Luiz Ribeiro Filho, Director of Services and Solutions of the Brazilian National Education and Research Network (RNP) “The Cloudscape Brazil 2015 event has been very impressive…. This event helped a lot. Today I have seen a variety of presentations showing how researchers can use cloud computing platforms for advance their research. I think this is the best scenario and the best place where people can come to address questions, receive answers and clarify all the concepts regarding cloud computing…. The way the event has been started in Brazil is very good because you have industry presence here, we have been able to showcase what we are doing in cloud computing. For the next event, you should have more presence of the industry and I would like to recommend is also a research showcase in which industry and also researchers can really show what they are doing in a combined effort as well.” Jaime Puente, Microsoft

“This meeting here was very important for us because it showed a great new big sea of opportunities for investing, and keep developing and working in this cloud aspect, mainly in the security aspect of the cloud where all projects have needs to store their data. So we can offer this and provide our knowledge and experience inside this area.” Guilherme Maluf Balzana, Infrastructure Director at Anolis IT Brazil

"Clouscape Brazil was an excellent opportunity to learn then initiatives being carried out in EU-Brazil cooperation. Besides this for us was the opportunity to get know partners who undoubtedly will contribute to our business. No doubt our participation was very fruitful." Carlos Eurico Pittas do Canto, Diretor de Negócios at Propus Brazil "Cloudscape Brazil 2015 was very useful for us because we learned about all the cooperation projects between Europe and Brazil which I never thought existed. This made me realize that Europe is a powerful force to consider for any cloud based work and we should look there as well as to other regions. The event was also very well organized with no intrusive bureaucracy and an audience that was very participative throughout”.

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Miguel Koren O'Brien de Lacy, Konsultex Informatica, São Paulo, Brazil Interviews. 7 interviews were organized during the event with:

José Luiz Ribeiro Filho, Director of Services and Solutions of the Brazilian National Education and Research Network (RNP)

Jaime Puente, Microsoft Research

Michel Drescher, Founder & Director of Cloud Consult Ltd., United Kingdom

Moacyr Martucci, Professor at Escola Politécnica of Universidade de São Paulo and Brazilian National Contact Point Coordinator for the Horizon 2020 and for ERC, Brazil

Carsten Schirra, Head of Philips Research Brazil

Miguel Koren O'Brien de Lacy, Konsultex Informatica, São Paulo, Brazil

Guilherme Maluf Balzana, Infrastructure Director at Anolis IT Brazil

Two more interviews will be provided by representatives of the Brazilian Ministry of Communication and Yannick Legré, Managing Director at EGI.eu. All the interviews will be available from the EUBrazilCloudConnect website by January 2016.

Figure 11 - José Luiz Ribeiro Filho provides insights about his participation to Cloudscape Brazil and the RNP cloud computing roadmap

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Figure 12 - Jaime Puente talks about cloud computing barriers and how Cloudscape Brazil event

helps addressing the cloud computing market sector

Figure 13 - Moacyr Martucci summarises the outcomes of the EU-Brazil policy dialogue

Online visibility results

The pre-event activities performed produced more than 10 clippings in media & projects channels in Europe and Brazil. Some of them are collected below. In Portuguese:

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1. Jornal do Brasil: http://www.jb.com.br/ciencia-e-tecnologia/noticias/2015/11/30/conferencia-internacional-sobre-computacao-em-nuvem-discute-pesquisa/

2. TI Maior: http://www.timaior.com.br/2015/11/05/ja-estao-abertas-as-inscricoes-para-o-cloudscape-brazil-2015/

3. Post event - Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation: http://www.mcti.gov.br/pagina-noticia/-/asset_publisher/IqV53KMvD5rY/content/infraestrutura-de-servicos-na-nuvem-e-destaque-do-cloudscape-brazil-2015?redirect=/noticia/-/asset_publisher/epbV0pr6eIS0/content/pesquisadores-sugerem-criacao-de-fundo-de-cooperacao-para-cristalografia;jsessionid=EC9F40FD9CDDE3343D1DB6218984B8B1&

4. RNP interview to Ignacio Blanquer, coordinator of the EUBrazilCloudConnect project covering Cloudscape Brazil https://www.rnp.br/destaques/rnp-entrevista-2

In English: 5. Propus Data Science: http://landpages.propus.com.br/cloud-scape-brazil-2015 6. Leadership project: http://www.leadershipproject.eu/?p=4631#.VnmQGvGk8iE 7. Redclara: https://eventos.redclara.net/indico/event/617/ 8. CloudwatchHub 2 project: http://www.cloudwatchhub.eu/cnectcloud-projects-publish-

position-papers-cloudscape-brazil-2015 9. Agro-know project: http://blog.agroknow.com/?p=1880 10. Hola Cloud project: http://www.holacloud.eu/cloudscape-brazil-rio-de-janeiro-brazil-1-2-

december-2015/ 11. OW2: http://www.ow2.org/bin/view/Events/Cloudscape_EU_Brazil 12. European Commission Digital Agenda: http://cordis.europa.eu/event/rcn/144255_en.html 13. Post event - European Commission Digital Agenda

http://cordis.europa.eu/news/rcn/144615_en.html 14. Post event - Magic Project: http://www.magic-project.eu/index.php/2015-05-28-22-53-

32/news-and-events/204-magic-is-presented-at-cloudscape-2015-in-brazil 15. Post event - RNP article: https://www.rnp.br//en/noticias/cloud-service-infrastructure-is-

highlight-in-cloudscape-brazil-2015

16. RNP interview to Ignacio Blanquer, coordinator of the EUBrazilCloudConnect project covering Cloudscape Brazil https://www.rnp.br/en/destaques/rnp-interviews-1

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Figure 14 - RNP & MCTI Post event articles

9. Who attended Cloudscape Brazil?

Figure 15 - Cloudscape Brazil – provenance break-out

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Figure 16 - Cloudscape Brazil – type of organizations attending

Cloudscape Brazil participant list

First Name Surname Organization Name Country

1 Roberto G. Cascella Trust-IT Services UK

2 Ednylton Franzosi SERPRO Brazil

3 Ricardo Makino RNP Brazil

4 Paulo Pagliusi Pagliusi CyberSecurity Brazil

6 Daniele Lezzi Barcelona Supercomputing Center Spain

7 Alvaro COUTINHO High Performance Computing Center, COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Brazil

8 John Forman FENAINFO Brazil

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First Name Surname Organization Name Country

9 Marilia MILLAN FEAINFO Brazil

10 Miguel Koren O'Brien de Lacy

Konsultex Informatica Brazil

11 Thomas Knape Applied Intelligence Analytics Limited Ireland

12 Carlos Eurico Canto Propus Science Brazil

13 Igor Oliveira IBM Research Brazil

15 Diego Morales Propus Brazil

16 Rodrigo Azevedo Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa Brazil

17 Moacyr Martucci Junior Universidade de São Paulo Brazil

18 Leandro Guimarães RNP Brazil

19 Caius Lao de Oliveira Colégio Pedro II - Campus Tijuca II Brazil

20 Cristina Ururahy TECGRAF/PUC-Rio Institute Brazil

21 FERNANDO MIELI ENGINEERING DO BRASIL S.A. Brazil

23 Paloma Shimabukuro FIOCRUZ Brazil

24 Carsten Schirra Philips Research Brazil Brazil

25 Americo Sampaio University of Fortaleza Brazil

26 Andrey Brito UFCG Brazil

27 Fausto Vetter RNP Brazil

28 Wagner Meira Jr UFMG Brazil

29 Maria Julia Dias de Lima Tecgraf PUC-Rio Brazil

30 Francisco Brasileiro UFCG Brazil

31 Cristiano Bonato Both Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre

Brazil

32 Antonio Tadeu Gomes LNCC Brazil

33 Niels Anders University of Amsterdam The Netherlands

34 Paulo Egler Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology

Brazil

35 IANA RUFINO UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE CAMPINA GRANDE

Brazil

36 Jacek Cała Newcastle University UK

37 Noemi Rodriguez PUC-Rio Brazil

38 Fernando Aguilar IFCA@CSIC Spain

39 André Costa Instituto Tecgraf/PUC-Rio Brazil

40 Dorgival Guedes UFMG Brazil

41 Michel Drescher Cloud Consult Ltd. UK

42 Antônio Carlos Fernandes Nunes

Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP Brazil

43 Rui Oliveira INESC TEC Portugal

44 Erik Torres Serrano UPV Spain

45 Ignacio Blanquer UPV Spain

46 Philippe O. A. Navaux Informatics Institute, UFRGS Brazil

47 Daltro Gama Tecgraf/PUC-Rio Brazil

48 Marco Sinhoreli ShapeBlue Brazil

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First Name Surname Organization Name Country

49 Nelson Peixoto Kotowski Filho

Fiocruz Brazil

50 CEDRIC THOMAS OW2 France

51 Guilherme Maluf Anolis Brazil

52 Nicholas Ferguson Trust-IT Services.com UK

53 Israel de Souza Pinto FIOCRUZ Brazil

54 Yannick LEGRE EGI.eu Netherlands

55 Flavio Lenz Cesar Ministry of Communications Brazil

56 José Luiz Riberio Filho RNP Brazil

57 Alessandro Jannuzzi Microsoft Brazil Brazil

58 Jaime Puente Microsoft Research Brazil

59 Renato Cerqueira IBM Research Brazil

60 Priscila Solis Barreto University of Brasília Brazil

61 Leandro Neumann Ciuffo RNP Brazil

62 Michael Stanton RNP Brazil

63 Luis Cláudio Pereira Tujal SERPRO Brazil

64 Rodrigo Assad USTORE Brazil

65 Fabrizio Gagliardi UPC Spain

66 Lincoln Werneck Clavis Segurança da Informação Brazil

67 Luiz Coelho RNP - Brazilian National Research and Education Network

Brazil

68 Felipe Leite PUC Rio Brazil

69 Iara Machado RNP Brazil

70 Eduardo Saint Clair SERPRO Brazil

71 BRUNO SCHULZE National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC)

Brazil

Table 1 – Cloudscape Brazil Participants list

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Annex: Cloudscape Brazil 2015 Agenda

DAY 1 - 1 December 2015 09:30 Registration Session 1 10:00 CLOUDSCAPE BRAZIL 2015 – OPENING & WELCOME Opening welcome Speech by Augusto Burgueño Arjona, Head of Unit, DG Connect

Assisting the creation of a cross-Atlantic scientific and technological communities. Ignacio Blanquer, UPV and EUBrazilCC European coordinator

Fostering an International Dialogue between Europe and Brazil (EUBrazilCloud Forum). Priscila Solís Barreto, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brazil - moved to Day 2

Session 2 10:30 CLOUDSCAPE BRAZIL INVITED KEYNOTES & DISCUSSION

Chair: Moacyr Martucci, Department of Enginering and Digital Systems of Escola Politécnica of Universidade de São Paulo and Brazilian National Contact Point Coordinator for the Horizon 2020 and for ERC, Brazil

Cloud landscape in Brazil. Juliana Muller, Infrastructure Analyst from the Broadband Department, Ministry of Communications, Brazil

11:00 Networking Coffee & demo area Session 3

11:30

HELPING COMMUNITIES TACKLE GLOBAL SOCIETAL CHALLENGES. EUBRAZILCLOUDCONNECT SERVICES ... AND THOSE WHO CAN BENEFIT The cloud applications and services developed within EUBrazilCloudConnect cloud federated infrastructure are enabling researchers to tackle major societal challenges, from neglected diseases and cardio-vascular diseases affecting mostly poor groups to understanding the role of biodiversity ecosystems in buffering climate change. Chair: Ignacio Blanquer, UPV and EUBrazilCC European coordinator

Life Science & Neglected Diseases: the Leishmaniasis Virtual Lab. Israel Pinto, FIOCRUZ discussing with Lucas Edel Donato, Ministry of Health, Brazil

A Scientific Gateway for integrated data analysis and research on biodiversity and climate change. Iana Rufino, UFCG, discussing with Fernando Aguilar, LIFEWATCH

eHealth and Cardiovascular diseases: EUBrazilCloudConnect Simulation Services Tadeu Gomes, LNCC

Session 4

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12:30

CLOUDSCAPE BRAZIL INVITED KEYNOTES & DISCUSSION: RNP USER COMMUNITIES EXPERIENCES Chair: Nicholas Ferguson, Trust-IT Services and CloudWATCH2 Coordinator

Update on the RNP’s Strategy for the Implementation of the Brazilian Academic Cloud José Luiz Ribeiro Filho, Director of Services and Solutions Optical infrastructure to support R&E networking in Brazil Michael Stanton, Director of R&D of the Brazilian National Education and Research Network (RNP)

Following: examples of cloud service roll-out by the Brazilian Research Network, RNP, including cncCloud: low cost cloud storage solution by Guilherme Maluf Balzana, Anolis Tecnologia

13:30 – 14:30 Networking lunch & demo area Session 5 14:30 CLOUDSCAPE BRAZIL INVITED KEYNOTES & DISCUSSION

Chair: Nicholas Ferguson, Trust-IT Services and CloudWATCH2 Coordinator

Open Source Tools on Microsoft Cloud as a Platform for Research. Alessandro Jannuzzi, Microsoft Research Brazil. Microsoft Azure for Research. Jaime Puente Microsoft Research.

Following: Case studies from Universities will be presented as examples of how researchers are already using the Azure cloud to leverage their works.

15:30 Networking Coffee & demo area Session 6 16:00 HOW DOES CLOUD FEDERATION HELP CROSS-BORDER COLLABORATION.

Lightning talks & open discussion with international cloud federation initiatives. Chair: Renato Cerqueira, Senior Research Manager, Natural Resources Solutions, IBM Research Brazil

Building on Fogbow a cloud federation. Francisco Brasileiro, Full Professor, Federal University of Campina Grande

EGI Federated infrastructure. Yannick Legré, Managing Director at EGI.eu

Linking EUBrazilCloudConnect and EGI Federated Cloud. Daniele Lezzi, Senior Researcher at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, BSC

From project objectives to Cloud interoperability, or: How to quickly group and classify vast numbers of projects. Michel Drescher, Founder & Director of Cloud Consult & CloudWATCH project

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A collaboration project to globally connect researchers and academics. Leandro

Guimaraes, Service division, RNP

18:00 - 21:00 NETWORKING COCKTAIL AT CBPF SPONSORED BY MICROSOFT RESEARCH BRAZIL

DAY 2 - 2 December 2015 08:30 Registration Session 1 09:00 CLOUDSCAPE BRAZIL INVITED KEYNOTE & DISCUSSION

Chair: Roberto Cascella, Trust-IT Services and EUBrazilCloudConnect

SERPRO's strategy and road-map to cloud computing. Luis Cláudio Pereira Tujal, SERPRO

Session 2 09:30 FEDERATED CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES FOR RESEARCH AND SCIENCE

Panel discussion with all the projects funded under the EU-Brazil Coordinated Calls 2 and 3, to debate around EU-Brazil Collaborations in Cloud Computing, Experimental Platforms & High-Performance Computing Chair: Fabrizio Gagliardi, Distinguished Research Director, UPC

High Performance Computing for Energy (HPC4E). Alvaro Coutinho, High Performance Computing Center, COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Secure Big Data Processing in Untrusted Clouds (SecureCloud). Andrey Brito, Professor Adjunto Dept. de Sistemas e Computação Universidade Federal de Campina Grande

Europe Brazil Collaboration of Big Data Scientific Research through Cloud-Centric Applications (EUBra-BigSea). Dorgival Guedes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Federated Union of Telecomunications Research Facilities for an EU Open Laboratory (Futebol). Cristiano Both, UFRGS, Futebol Brazilian Coordinator-Brazil

Future Internet Brazilian environment for Experimentation - The FIBRE legacy testbed. Leandro Ciuffo, RNP

Fostering an International Dialogue between Europe and Brazil (EUBrazilCloud Forum). Roberto Cascella, Trust-IT Services

11:00 Networking Coffee & demo area Session 3

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11:30 CLOUDSCAPE BRAZIL INVITED KEYNOTES & DISCUSSION Chair: Roberto Cascella, Trust-IT Services and EUBrazilCloudConnect

Lessons Learnt from EU-Brazil Cooperation. The LEADERSHIP Project. Paulo Cesar Gonçalves Egler, IBICT & LEADERSHIP project

Session 4 12:00 START-UP CHALLENGE PERFECT PITCH

5 minute lightning talks from EU & BR cloud computing intensive start-ups, including spin-outs turning outstanding research results into innovative products and services, plus an interactive panel discussion – Prize given to the Perfect Pitch Chair: Cedric Thomas, CEO at OW2

Guilherme Maluf, Anolis Tecnologia, Brazil

Miguel Koren o' Brian, Konsultex, Brazil

John Lemos Forman, Riosoft, Brazil

Carlos Eurico Pittas do Canto, Diretor de Negócios, Propus - Tecnologia dedicada a negócios, Brazil

Americo Sampaio, University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Brazil

Rodrigo Assad, Usto.re, Brazil

13:00 Networking lunch & demo area Session 5 14:00 WHICH EU-BRAZIL CO-OPERATION IN ICT?

Numerous e-infrastructures projects focus their work on Africa and Latin America and on how to maximise co-operation with Europe. This session addresses the open discussion launched by the EC on the key challenges for international cooperation in ICT. Panel discussion Chair: Ignacio Blanquer, UPV and EUBrazilCC European coordinator

Phillipe O. A. Navaux, Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

José Luiz Ribeiro Filho, Director of Services and Solutions

Moacyr Martucci, Department of Enginering and Digital Systems of Escola Politécnica of Universidade de São Paulo and Brazilian National Contact Point Coordinator for the Horizon 2020 and for ERC

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Yannick Legré, Managing Director at EGI.eu

Luis Cláudio Pereira Tujal, SERPRO

Paulo Cesar Gonçalves Egler, IBICT & LEADERSHIP project 16:00 WRAP-UP & CLOSING REMARKS

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

Acronym Definition

AOB Any Other Business

CA Consortium Agreement

CNPq National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil

CooA Coordination Agreement

DoW Description of Work

EC European Commission

EEC External Expert Committee

GA EC Grant Agreement

KPI Key Performance Indicator

MCT Ministry of Science and Technology

PEB Project executive Board

PM Person Month

PMB Project Management Board

TSC Technical Steering Committee

UC User Committee

WP Work Package

WPL Work Package Leader