The Meet in Italy for Life Sciences 2016, held in Roma at the end of October, closed confirming the success of the previous two editions, growing in the participating organizations, countries, and partners involved. The two novelties of this edition, the start-up’s boot camp and pitch sessions and the thematic workshops during the two days

The SWITCH project will participate at the Hackathon organised by CloudOpting, the opportunity of a single European marketplace for digital public services.

The scheduling and test plan will follow the already defined phases in the project. Four versions have been identified in the document Switch-overview-summary-zzhao [R1]. The release of the first version of SWITCH (SWITCH V1) is scheduled in January 31, 2017.

Following the successful CF2015 conference in Pisa October 2015, the Cloud Forward 2016 Conference will be held in Madrid, at the centrally-located Circulo de Bellas Artes from 18 to 20 October 2016. The conference will provide the scientific community a unique setting for presenting and discussing innovative technologies in the area of distributed computing as well as new technologies beyond CLOUDs, ranging from

At IMWorld 2016 the SWITCH project was presented and disseminated. The Internet Mobile World 2016 was held in Bucharest, Romania, on 5-6 October: the largest Business-to-Business expo-conference for IT and digital solutions in Central and Eastern Europe.