Michael Resch is the director of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and the Depart-ment for HPC at the University of Stuttgart, holding a full professorship for HPC. Michael Resch was an invited plenary speaker at SC'07 in Reno, USA. He won HPC Wire awards for industrial applica-tions in 2015 and 2013 and won with his team the HPC Challenge Award in 2003. In 1999 his team received the NSF Award for High Performance Distributed Computing. He holds honorable doctoral degreea of the Technical University of Donezk/Ukraine and of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS) as well as an honorary professorship from RAS.. Michael Resch is a PI in the cluster of excel-lence for Simulation Technology as part of the German Initiative for Excellence in Research. Michael Resch holds an MSc in Technical Mathematics (Technical University of Graz/Austria) and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Stuttgart. In 2002 he held an Assistant Professorship at the De-partment of Computer Science of the University of Houston,TX.

Marios D. Dikaiakos is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus where he established and directs the Laboratory for Internet Computing. Since January 2015 he also serves as Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship of the University. He was Head of the Computer Science Department between 2010-2014. Dikaiakos received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University (1994). His research focuses on large-scale distributed systems with emphasis on Cloud Computing, Online Social Networks and the World-Wide Web. He has been a principal institutional investigator or principal investigator for 25 projects funded by the European Union and the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus, has published over 170 papers and led the development of several research software systems released internationally as open source.

Nectarios Koziris is a Professor of Computer Science at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. His research interests include parallel and distributed systems, interaction between compilers, OS and architectures, hardware virtualization and large scale storage systems. He has co-authored more than 140 research papers with more than 2500 citations. From 1998 he has been involved in the organization of many international scientific conferences including IPDPS, ICPP, SC, SPAA, etc. He has given many invited talks in conferences and universities. He is a recipient of two best paper awards for his research in parallel and distributed computing (IEEE/ACM IPDPS 2001 and CCGRID 2013) and had received recognition for his contributions in transactional memory (TSX synchronization extensions) from the processor industry. He has participated as a partner or consortium coordinator in several EU projects involving large-scale systems (GREDIA, GRID4ALL, ARCOMEM, CELAR, ASAP, EGI, PRACE etc). He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, senior member of the ACM, secretary/treasurer of the IEEE Greece Section and started the IEEE Computer Society Greece. To promote the open source software in Greece, he co-founded the Greek Free/Open Source Software Society (GFOSS-www.ellak.gr) in 2008, with members 29 Greek Universities and Research Centers, where he is now serving as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors. He was a member of the EU cloud computing expert group (2012-2013) which was established with the aim to develop a cloud computing vision for Europe and future research directions. For the last 10 years (2004-2014), Nectarios has served as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors for the Greek Research and Technology Network-GRNET (www.grnet.gr). He was the founder of the ~okeanos project, a public Cloud IaaS infrastructure, powered by the open source Synnefo software (www.synnefo.org). He has also served (2013-2014) as a member of the BoD for the Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies (https://www.athena-innovation.gr/). For more: http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/~nkoziris