Marc-Elian Bégin

Marc-Elian Bégin is co-founder of SixSq, a cloud computing company based in Geneva, Switzerland, which specialises in process automation and agile development. With over 20 years of experience in the software industry, he has worked with the Canadian and European Space Agencies, as well as CERN, on distributed software systems, grid and cloud computing projects. His current focus is on SlipStream, an open source multi-cloud PaaS solution. He is also involved in the Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud – project, where he holds the position of co-chair of the Technology and Architecture Group. Marc-Elian regularly talks to local, national and international events, such as CloudStack Collaboration (Amsterdam 2013), Agile (Salt Lake City, 2011), XP (Madrid, 2011) conferences. He is also co-creator of the Geneva Clojure group. He is passionate about democratising cloud in order to open its advantages to companies big and small.