Cloud Foundry Summit Europe Brings Multi-Cloud and IoT Platform Best Practices to Frankfurt

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – July 28, 2016) – Cloud Foundry Foundation, home of the industry-standard multi-cloud platform, today announced the schedule for its Europe Summit, September 26-28, 2016 at the Congress Center Messe in Frankfurt is now live. The schedule features keynotes from leading organizations like EMC, Fidelity, Dutch Government Agency Rijkswaterstaat (RWS), Pivotal, SAP and Volkswagen.

More than 600 businesses, developers and vendors from across Europe are gathering to share best practices and hear senior executives discuss how Cloud Foundry has helped them build and deploy robust, resilient and flexible cloud native applications across multiple cloud platforms at the Cloud Foundry Summit. Early-bird discount offers nearly 40 percent off ticket prices for people who register by August 2.

“For businesses wrestling with the challenges of integrating multiple public and private clouds, hearing how others have done it successfully can help drive their strategy forward,” said Sam Ramji, CEO of Cloud Foundry Foundation. “For enterprise developers focused on increasing the velocity of application development or trying to build cloud native applications at scale — this is the perfect opportunity to learn more.”

Summit attendees will collaborate with peers, meet the developers behind Cloud Foundry and discuss future roadmap plans for the fastest growing multi-cloud platform. Developers can participate in two full days of training on microservices and IoT development in a continuous delivery environment, and see how others are leveraging multi-cloud models to deliver apps faster than ever before. The Summit also gives attendees insight on how they can get started with Cloud Foundry and even help influence the project.

Cloud Foundry is collectively developed by Cisco, EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Pivotal, SAP, and leaders in manufacturing, telecommunications, and financial services. Only Cloud Foundry delivers the velocity needed to continuously deliver apps at the speed of business. Cloud Foundry’s container-based architecture runs apps in any language on your choice of cloud — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Platform (GCP), OpenStack, VMware vSphere, SoftLayer and more. With a robust services ecosystem and simple integration with existing technologies, Cloud Foundry is the modern standard for mission critical apps for global organizations.

Attendees can also attend one of three pre-conference training sessions:

• Cloud Foundry for Beginners
• Microservices on Cloud Foundry
• Operating a Platform

For a full list of keynote speakers and the event schedule visit: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/community/summits/program/about/?summitId=11993.

To register for Early Bird pricing, visit: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/community/summits/attend/?summitId=11993.

About Cloud Foundry Foundation

The Cloud Foundry Foundation is an independent non­profit organization formed to sustain the development, promotion and adoption of Cloud Foundry as the industry­ standard multi­-cloud platform. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications. Cloud Foundry is an Apache 2.0 licensed project available on Github: https://github.com/cloudfoundry. To learn more, visit: http://www.cloudfoundry.org.