We are excited to announce that Jack Wadden of Akamai Technologies, and James Cuff and Justin Riley of FAS Research Computing at Harvard University will be keynote speakers at the Fifth OpenNebula Cloud Conference, the must-attend open cloud event, that will take place on June 19-20 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. More speakers will be announced shortly and a preliminary program will be ready by the end of March. This is the first edition of this open cloud conference in the United States. The call for presentations is open through March 17 and the very early bird registration is available through March 20.

OpenNebula Conferences are vendor-neutral events focused on real-world practices and how to successfully implement open source in your cloud. They are education events that serve as a meeting point of cloud users, developers, administrators, integrators and researchers, featuring talks with real user experiences and use cases. They also include hands-on tutorials, lightning talks, and hacking sessions that provide an opportunity to discuss burning ideas, and meet face to face to discuss development. Previous speakers include Santander Bank, CentOS, European Space Agency, FermiLab, Puppet, Red Hat, BlackBerry, Telefonica,,Runtastic, Unity3D and Citrix.