Carlo Daffara is co-founder and CEO of NodeWeaver, developers of the first autonomous and self-managing edge cloud platform; formerly head of research and development at Conecta, a consulting firm specializing in open source systems. Italian member of the European Working Group on Libre Software and co-coordinator of the working group on SMEs of the EU ICT task force. Since 1999, works as evaluator for IST programme submissions in the field of component-based software engineering, GRIDs and international cooperation. Since 2000, he is member of the Internet Society (ISOC) working group on public software as part of the group committee, and contributed to the open source part of the article presented by ISOC to Unesco on global trends for universal access to information resources. Coordinator of the open source platforms technical area of the IEEE technical committee on scalable computing, has been coordinator of the Open Source competence center of the DiTeDi digital district.Has collaborated in the field of cloud and open source economics with UK's JISC and Spain's CENATIC, as well as the creation of the SME open source toolbox in collaboration with Germany's InWent.Specialties: sustainability of open source-based business models, GRID and Cloud infrastructures, distributed file systems.