Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz is a Chief Development Architect and Research Fellow at SAP AG. He has worked on a variety of topics in his career, ranging from networked multimedia systems through eLearning to main memory database systems. He holds a masters degree in Computer Science from Karlsruhe University and previously held positions at Digital Equipment and Compaq. Burkhard is Industrial chair of the European Cloud Expert group and a member of the ACM Europe Council.