Dear OGF WG members and group participants, OGF is willing to sponsor group meetings and tutorials at the UCC and BDCAT conferences mentioned below. Please let us know if you would like to have a meeting room or to propose a tutorial on an OGF product at this meeting. Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Senior Director, High Performance Computing Center Co-Director, NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing Adjunct Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University President, Open Grid Forum ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 159, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill@ttu.edumailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu ph. 806-834-5940 fax 806-834-4358 : ==================================================================== (Apologies in advance for any multiple distribution postings.) [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/c6aba03a8efbf3f930697cd37/images/f03b8c7d-6e66...] Join us in beautiful Austin, Texas Dec. 5-8, 2017 The Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) and co-located Big Data Computing Applications and Technology (BDCAT) have built up a world-wide reputation as the premier event focused on real-world application of advanced academic concepts in large-scale distributed computing. Join us for this exciting event! Submission deadlines approaching! Submit your proposals for associated events, industry and research panel topics, invited speakers, and paper submissions to the main UCChttp://ucc-conference.org/ and BDCAThttp://bdcat-conference.org/ conferences and to the associated topical workshopshttp://ucc-conference.org/workshops.html and tutorialshttp://ucc-conference.org/tutorials.htmlat the links below. Deadlines are approaching soon! Book your lodging nowhttp://ucc-conference.org/venue.html to be sure of a room at the conference venue. Take a virtual tour of the conference venuehttp://ucc-conference.org/venue.html to see more of the facility. Note that lodging is highly sought after in Austin at this time of year, so book your lodging nowhttp://ucc-conference.org/venue.html to be assured of conference rates! The Conferences UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to utility computing, cloud computing services, and other forms of advanced distributed computing. UCC provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing multidisciplinary area. http://ucc-conference.orghttp://ucc-conference.org/ The 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2017) aims to provide a timely, informative platform for researchers from both academia and industry to present new discoveries in the broad area of big data computing and applications. http://bdcat-conference.orghttp://bdcat-conference.org/ Associated Workshops, Tutorials, and Events The following workshops and associated events have been accepted and the call for workshops is now closed. Please visit the workshop web pages listed below for further information. Proposals for tutorialshttp://ucc-conference.org/tutorials.html will be accepted until July 31, 2017 and accepted tutorials will be announced by August 27, 2107. * CCSTIM: International Workshop on Cloud Computing Security Threats, Intelligence, and Mitigationhttps://selene.hud.ac.uk/scomsp2/CCSTIM/ Workshop contact: Simon Parkinson (ccstim17(at)easychair.orghttp://easychair.org/) Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccstim17 * CloudAM: The 6th International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Applications Managementhttp://cloudam2017.lncc.br/. Workshop contact: Luiz Fernando Bittencourt (bit(at)ic.unicamp.brhttp://ic.unicamp.br/) Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudam2017 * DAAC: The 1st International Industry/University Workshop on Data-center Automation, Analytics, and Controlhttp://www.depts.ttu.edu/cac/conferences/ucc2017/page-2/daacworkshop.html. Workshop contacts: Dong Dai (dong.dai(at)ttu.eduhttp://ttu.edu/), Jerry Perez (jerry.perez(at)ttu.eduhttp://ttu.edu/) Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daac2017 * GDDC: 1st International Workshop on Game Development and Design in the Cloudhttp://computing.derby.ac.uk/c/iwgddc2017/. Workshop contact: Minsi Chen (M.Chen(at)derby.ac.ukhttp://derby.ac.uk/). Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwgddc2017 * HDCC: The 1st International Workshop on Heterogeneous, Distributed Cloud Computinghttps://sites.google.com/view/hdcc/submissions?authuser=1%22%22. Workshop contact: Seán Murphy (murp(at)zhaw.chhttp://zhaw.ch/) Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hdcc17 * RTDPCC: The 3rd International Symposium on Real-time Data Processing for Cloud Computinghttp://computing.derby.ac.uk/c/rtdpcc-2017-ii/. Workshop contacts: Xiaojun Zhai (x.zhai(at)derby.ac.ukhttp://derby.ac.uk/), Faycal Bensaali (f.bensaali(at)qu.edu.qa, Lu Liu (l.liu(at)derby.ac.ukhttp://derby.ac.uk/) Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtdpcc2017ii * SCCTSA: The 4th International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applicationshttp://www1.uwe.ac.uk/et/research/cccs/events/scctsa2017.aspx. Workshop contact: Zaheer Khan (zaheer2.khan(at)uwe.ac.ukhttp://uwe.ac.uk/) Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scctsa2017 * SD3C: The 3rd International Workshop on Sustainable Data Centers and Cloud Computinghttps://sites.google.com/view/sd3c. Workshop contacts: Luca Chiaraviglio (luca.chiaraviglio(at)gmail.comhttp://gmail.com/), George Koutitas (george.koutitas(at)gmail.comhttp://gmail.com/) Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sd3c2017 * UCIoT: International Workshop on Utility Clouds for the Internet of Thingshttps://hud-cs-research.github.io/uciot2017/ Workshop contacts: Louie Qin (Yongrui.Qin (at) hud.ac.ukhttp://hud.ac.uk/), Richard Hill (R.Hill (at) hud.ac.ukhttp://hud.ac.uk/) Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uciot2017 [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/c6aba03a8efbf3f930697cd37/images/25560e13-84d0...] State of the Art Research Top-notch researchers from throughout the world give presentations on their most up-to-date studies and projects. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/c6aba03a8efbf3f930697cd37/images/e74f8df1-bdcd...] Expert Panelists Keynotes and expert panels cover topics from academics and industry. Keep Readinghttp://ucc-conference.org/ [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/c6aba03a8efbf3f930697cd37/images/20301487-ac51...] Awards & Opportunities Students, industry members, keynote speakers and researchers interact with each other through sessions, tutorials and workshops, best poster and paper awards. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/c6aba03a8efbf3f930697cd37/images/7917830f-1ed3...] Tour of TACC A social opportunity including a tour of the resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Centerhttps://www.tacc.utexas.edu/education/tours will be arranged for a limited number of conference participants. See you in Austin Dec. 5-8, 2017!http://ucc-conference.org/