The 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom2010) was held from November 30 – December 3, 2010 at Indiana University in Indianapolis, Indiana. This conference had many events ranging from conferences and panels from researchers to interactive workshops and tutorials sponsored by trade leaders. A great amount of sharing also took place during oral and poster presentations. Presenters from around the globe brought their research to the conference to share and discuss with other professionals from the field.

Representatives from Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) included Ms. Nadirah Cogbill and Mr. Jeff Wood who both served as student volunteers during the conference. This experience gave them the chance to hear from world leaders in cloud computing discussing not only their work in programming and architecture, but also to discuss how the culture is changing toward cloud computing and the services is currently provides. Tried technologies in industry such as Azure and Hadoop were presented as well as scientific approaches to cloud computing such as the Indiana University FutureGrid project allowing researchers to place their work onto a high level computing environment without investing in the software and hardware to complete short lived projects.

Keynote speakers during the conference included:
Ian T. Foster
Director, CI, Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA

Dennis Gannon
Director of Applications for the Cloud Computing Futures Group, Microsoft Research, WA, USA

Kai Wang
Professor, IEEE Fellow, Director, Internet and Grid Comp. Lab., USC, USA