OSGi Community Event 2013 (http://www.osgi.org/CommunityEvent2013/Schedule) ABSTRACT The Cloud is booming. Economic advantages of utility computing, better time-to-market and apparent flexibility is what drives more and more businesses to move their critical systems into the third party infrastructures of cloud providers such as Amazon and Google. But are these providers and their infrastructures reliable? Are they secure and do they comply to local rules and regulations with regard to privacy sensitive data? Most "Service License Agreements" are nowhere near to accepted industry standards and, as such, certainly do not meet the requirements for time and mission critical systems. And what about that so called flexibility? Each provider introduces their own proprietary management interfaces and platform services locking customers in as fast as possible. The infrastructure may be virtualized, but unless great care is taken, moving between providers when infrastructure fails or a cheaper alternative emerges, becomes a major hurdle. This talk introduces INAETiCS, a research project that aims to define an open platform architecture and application model that supports truly dynamic and hybrid cloud applications by leveraging, but not locking into, existing public and private cloud solutions as well as native and embedded systems. Through a "Quality of Service" based deployment model, run-time automated infrastructure management, resource and topology management as well as dynamic software provisioning and configuration, the goal is to provide a non-intrusive environment where applications can run anywhere, anytime in a most optimal configuration. These concepts will be illustrated by looking at the implementations of key components and mechanisms, such as OSGi Remote Services, being developed by the open-source projects Amdatu Platform, Apache ACE and Apache JClouds where anyone interested is welcome to get involved. SPEAKER BIOS