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. The Kassel project "Value4Cloud", supervised by Prof. Leimeister and others, will also be presented at this event.

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

Over 120 representatives from 44 companies and 22 research institutions as well as other experts took part in the launch conference for the Trusted Cloud technology program. The Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, Hans-Joachim Otto, will open the conference with a keynote speech.