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Over
the past 10 years the open source movement has
quietly become a solid business phenomenon.
While the roots of Open Source come from the
“free” software movement, Open Source
has evolved into surprising method to create
very complex and high quality software products
– with solid business models.
The
open source movement has produced many software
projects which compete directly with products
from world leading companies. Microsoft, Oracle,
IBM and Sun.
All
have to reckon with the rising power of open
source and learn how to deal with it. In fact,
some of the very companies that were threaten
by Open Source software have now embraced Open
Source as a viable way of doing business.
Those
companies that have resisted Open Source may
have found their match. Regardless of the outcome,
as a formidable tool, competitive advantage
or threat - Open Source is here to stay. And
the high tech businesses need to understand
how to deal with this phenomenon for the long
term.
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Schedule
| 5:30PM-6:30PM |
Poster Sessions/ Buffet Dinner/ Networking |
| 6:30PM-7:30PM |
Startup Company Presentations / Q & A |
| 7:30PM-7:55PM |
Break |
| 7:55PM-8:00PM |
Introduction
to Open Source Software |
| 8:00PM-9:00PM |
Panel
Discussion |
| 9:00PM-9:30PM |
Discussion |
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| Moderator:
Falguni Bhuta, Reporter, RED
HERRING |
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Falguni
Bhuta |
Falguni
Bhuta is a reporter with Red Herring magazine
and covers business software, open source, and
Internet for the publication. She has a master's
degree in mass communications from San Jose State
University and a bachelor's degree in accounting
and finance from the University of Bombay. Previously,
she worked as a reporter at a Florida-based daily
newspaper, The Tampa Tribune, and also has experience
working as a writing for and managing an online
publication in India. |
| Panelist:
Mary
Coleman, Managing Director USA,
WALDEN INTERNATIONAL |
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Mary
Coleman |
Mary
joined Walden International in 2002. Prior to
joining WI, she was CEO of Rightworks, an e-procurement
and trading exchange software firm, which was
acquired by I2 Technologies. She joined Rightworks
from Internet Capital Group, where she had been
a Managing Director focusing on investments in
enterprise software and internet infrastructure
including companies such as Rightworks. Prior
to Internet Capital Group, Mary was the CEO of
the Baan Company, a leading European ERP software
firm. She attained this position after selling
Aurum Software, a customer relationship management
software firm, where she was the CEO, to the Baan
Company, after taking Aurum Software public on
NASDAQ. Earlier in her career Mary served as a
Vice President of Marketing in several high technology
firms.Mary studied electrical engineering and
computer science at the University of Colorado
in Boulder.
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| Panelist:
Benoit
Schillings, Chief Technology Officer, TROLLTECH
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Benoit
Schillings
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Benoit
responsible for leveraging Trolltech's existing
technologies and services in addition to strengthening
the company's ability to bring new technologies
quickly to market.
Mr. Schillings was a principal contributor to
the launch of Be Incorporated, where he designed,
developed and implemented the technically acclaimed
BeOS. More recently, Schillings comes to Trolltech
from his position as CTO at Openwave Systems where
he was responsible for the structure, design and
operation of Openwave Phone Suite Version 7. In
2003, he was named Distinguished Engineer for
his influential work in the conception of "top
to bottom" integrated software for mass-market
phones.
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Panelist:
Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager,
GOOGLE
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Chris
DiBona |
Chris
DiBona is the Open Source Programs Manager for
Mountain View, Ca based Google, Inc. His job
includes running the Summer of Code and releasing
open source software on Google's Code website,
which can be found at http://code.google.com.
Before
joining Google, Mr. DiBona was an editor/author
for the popular online website slashdot.org
and He is an internationally known advocate
of open source software and related methodologies.
He co-edited the award winning essay compilations
"Open Sources" and "Open Sources
2.0" and writes for a great number of publications.
He was briefly the Linux guy on TechTV and speaks
on a variety of open source issues internationally. |
| Panelist:
Ken
Drachnik, Open Source Group, SUN
MICROSYSTEMS INC. |
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Ken
Drachnik |
Ken
is a Community Development and Marketing Manager
in the Open Source Group at Sun
Microsystems where he coordinates Sun's
participation with the Free and Open Source
Communities to release open source versions
of Sun's middleware software products and Enterprise
Java (Java EE). With more than 20 years of technical
industry marketing experience, Ken has been
in Sun's software organization for more than
4 years marketing solutions and products based
on Java EE and Java ME. Last year he launched
Project GlassFish; an open source community
led by Sun to develop the next generation Java
EE 5 application server which was released in
May of 2006. |
| Panelist:
Steve
Gerdt, Open Source Program Director, IBM
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Steve
Gerdt is currently Program Director of IBM software
group's Open Source Program Office, where he manages
strategy for open source initiatives, manages
the review of planned usages and participation
in open source, and provides leadership for involvement
in key open source communities. He has been a
leader of IBM's Open Source Program Office since
2000. Prior to his current role, he held various
development, architecture, and management roles
at IBM in storage software. |
| Panelist:
John Lilly, Chief Operating Officer
and Member of the Board,
MOZILLA |
John
Lilly
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John is responsible for Mozilla's operations across
the company, including delivering products, forming
strategic alliances worldwide, and running day-to-day
business operations. Prior to joining Mozilla,
John founded Reactivity, an XML security company,
where he also served as Chief Technology Officer
and VP Products. John blends extensive user and
customer experience with expertise in the enterprise
software and networking markets. Previously John
served as a Senior Scientist at Apple Computer
and as Director of Product Design at Trilogy Software
with responsibility for their product suite and
delivery to Fortune 100 enterprise customers.
John has also held staff positions at Hewlett-Packard
and Sun Microsystems. In addition to his role
at Mozilla, John currently sits on the board of
directors at the Open Source Applications Foundation,
advises several high tech startups. He holds Bachelor's
and Master's degrees in Computer Science from
Stanford University and holds five U.S. patents. |
| Panelist:
Paul Weinstein, Executive Vice President of Business
Development, MySQL |
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Paul
Weinstein |
With
MySQL AB, Mr. Weinstein has worldwide responsibility
for building and maintaining relationships with
the company's wide range of technology and channel
partners, as well as corporate development activity.
Prior to joining MySQL, he served as VP for worldwide
business development and alliances at Check Point
Software, VP of business development and international
operations for Zone Labs, and SVP sales and marketing
at ThinkLink. In addition, Mr. Weinstein has also
held senior management positions at Pacific Telesis,
MCA/Universal, GTE/Verizon and previously worked
as an investment banker specializing in mergers
and acquisitions for Alex Brown & Sons. |
| Introduction
to Open Source Software |
| Speaker:
Ismael Ghalimi, CEO, INTALIO
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Ismael
Ghalimi
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Ismael
Ghalimi has been referred to by many as a technology
visionary, and strategic industry leader. Having
founded Intalio in 1999, Ismael’S team created
the first standards-based Business Process Management
System (BPMS), defining the scope and functionality
for this new breed of enterprise software. Ismael
has spearheaded major partnerships and industry
alliances, most notably the founding of the Business
Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org), the
original standards body for BPM technologies.
Ismael is the author of IT|Redux, a weblog covering
the transformation of the IT industry, coined
the term Office 2.0, and is the organizer of the
Office 2.0 Conference. Prior to Intalio, Ismael
organized the first ExoLab Session, the Open Source
software conference held in Nantes, France, that
laid the foundation for BPMS technology. Ismael
is an advisor to multiple companies, including
3TERA, EchoSign, and Zoho. Ismael holds an engineering
degree from the Ecole des Mines de Nancy (France),
and studied parallel computing at the Ecole Normale
Superieure de Lyon (France). |
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