Silvana focuses on high-level strategy building, business acquisition, coordination and strategic marketing and communication developments in ICT for the 2 companies she runs  -Trust-ITServices.com -  Provides communications in ICT -  COMMpla.com - Delivers multichannel platforms. More recently she has been analysing the standardisation scenario in the distributed computing arena and semantic knowledge-based communication platforms in today’s networked society.  She has served as the technical coordinator of OGF-Europe, driving the Cloudscape workshop series forward and served as an at-large director for the Open Grid Forum OGF. She is currently Coordinator of CloudWATCH, which aims to accelerate the uptake of cloud across the public and private sector with the delivery of a common standards profile. She was the Technical Coordinator of the SIENA initiative, successfully bringing to the same table all relevant standards groups (OASIS, OGF, ETSI, DMTF, SNIA, IEEE, ITU) as key drivers of progress, pinpointing gaps and avoiding overlap.