On October 4, 2011, the kick-off conference for the BMWi technology program "Trusted Cloud" will take place at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Berlin. In this context, the Kassel project "Value4Cloud", supervised by Prof. Leimeister among others, will be presented. 

Cloud computing is currently one of the most important IT topics. The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) has published the "Action Program Cloud Computing" together with industry and science. In parallel, the BMWi has launched the technology program "Trusted Cloud" with a funding volume of 50 million euros. The 14 selected projects were presented to the public at CeBIT 2011. 

The kick-off conference for the Trusted Cloud technology program was attended by over 120 representatives from 44 companies and 22 research institutions as well as other experts. Hans-Joachim Otto, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, will open the conference with a keynote speech.