Dr. Horacio González-Vélez, cHiPSet Vice-Chair, delivered the opening keynote of the 14th International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering and Science (DCABES 2015) in Guiyang, China on August 18th 2015. Entitled “High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications”. His talk explained the cHiPSet vision to the interested DCABES delegates.