The ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. The Middleware conference seeks original submissions of research papers on a diverse range of topics including but not limited to cloud and data centres, virtualisation, auto-scaling, provisioning and scheduling, data-intensive computing and more. The event is being held in Hong Kong, China.