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PROGRAM AGENDA

InfoWorld's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) has concluded.
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Tuesday, March 25 (Day 1)

7:30am - 6:00pm Registration
8:45am - 9:00am

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Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:00am - 9:30am Keynote: Open Source and True Innovation
  • Jim Whitehurst, President & CEO, Red Hat
9:30am - 10:00am

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Keynote: Bringing Television to the Web with Open Source
  • Steven Pearson, VP, Advanced Technologies, CBS Interactive
10:00am - 10:30am Morning Break:  Visit Open Source Showcase
10:30am - 3:50pm Putting Open Source to Work...for the CIO/CTO Putting Open Source to Work...for the CEO/CMO Putting Open Source to Work...for the General Counsel Putting Open Source to Work: Highlighted Products & Services
10:30am - 11:20am The Community Imperative: Building and Leveraging Community into IT
John Mark Walker, Community Manager, Hyperic (Moderator)
Russ Danner, Manager, Software Development, Christian Science Publishing Society
Gautam Guliani, Executive Director, Architecture, Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions
Paolo Juvara, Chief Products Officer, Openbravo
Gianugo Rabellino, CEO, Sourcesense
The Future of Open Source: Exploring the Investments, Innovations, Applications, Opportunities and Threats
Michael Skok, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners (Moderator)
Roger Burkhardt, President & CEO, Ingres
Mårten Mickos, CEO, MySQL AB
John Roberts, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, SugarCRM
Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Ubuntu
Jeff Whatcott, VP, Marketing, Acquia

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Putting Open Source Compliance to Work (On Your Own Terms)
Jason Haislmaier, Partner, Holme Roberts Owen

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There is No Such Thing as an Open Source Business Model!
Larry Alston, VP and GM Open Source, IONA Technologies

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11:30am - 12:20pm CIO Best Practices: Open Source: Driving Performance and Innovation at PayPal
Matthew Mengerink, VP, Core Technologies, PayPal

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Learning from Zimbra: Creating a Sustainable Open Source Project and a Profitable Business
Scott Dietzen, President & CTO, Zimbra

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Implementing Your Open Source Business Strategy through Your Legal Strategy
Mark Radcliffe, Partner, DLA Piper US LLP

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The Future of the Operating System
Raven Zachary, Research Director, Open Source, The 451 Group (Moderator)
Dirk Hohndel, Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist, Intel
James Hughes, Sun Fellow & VP, Sun Microsystems
Roger Levy, SVP & GM of Open Platform Solutions, Novell
Jack Lo, Sr. Director of R&D, VMware
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch Sponsored by Novell:  Visit Open Source Showcase
2:00pm - 2:50pm CIO Best Practices: How Weather.com Uses Open Source Software to Deliver a Highly Scalable and Cost-Effective Website
Dan Agronow
CTO, The Weather Channel Interactive

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Tailoring an Open Source Business Model for Your Business
Rob Bearden, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Benchmark Capital

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Selecting an Open Source License for Your Open Source Project
John P. Brockland, Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

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What Open Source Can Learn from Microsoft and the Proprietary World
Stephen Walli, Consultant (Moderator)
Jean Barmash, Director of Services, Alfresco
Neelan Choksi, COO, SpringSource
Sam Ramji, Director, Open Source & Linux Strategy, Microsoft Corp.
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation
3:00pm - 3:50pm Open Source Social Computing in the Enterprise
Robin Vasan, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund (Moderator)
Stuart Cohen, CEO, Collaborative Software Initiative
Aaron Fulkerson, Founder & CEO, MindTouch
Dr. Ian Howells, CMO, Alfresco
Jon Williams, CTO, Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions
Smoothing the On-Ramp to Commercial: Making it Easy for Open Source Users to Buy
Larry Augustin, Managing Director, Augustin Ventures

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Getting Open Source through Legal
Lawrence Rosen, Partner, Rosenlaw & Einschlag

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The State of the Open Source Database Market
Matthew Aslett, Analyst, Enterprise Software, The 451 Group (Moderator)
Andy Astor, CEO, EnterpriseDB
Roger Burkhardt, President & CEO, Ingres
Ken Jacobs, VP, Product Strategy, Server Technologies Division, Oracle
Zack Urlocker, EVP of Products, MySQL
4:00pm - 4:30pm Afternoon Break:   Visit Open Source Showcase
4:30pm - 6:00pm Keynote: Parallels Between Open Source and Proprietary Software Business Models
Brad Smith, SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Microsoft Corporation

Panel: Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst, RedMonk (Moderator); James Bottomley, CTO, SteelEye Technology; Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Ubuntu; Andrew Updegrove, Co-Founder & Partner, Gesmer Updegrove LLP
6:00pm - 7:30pm Cocktail Reception in the Open Source Showcase


Wednesday, March 26 (Day 2)

7:30am - 3:00pm Registration
8:45am - 9:00am Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:00am - 9:30am

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Keynote: Free & Open Source Software Governance
  • Karl Paetzel, Manager, Open Source & Linux Organization, Hewlett-Packard Company
9:30am - 10:00am

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Keynote: How to Guide an Enterprise into Open Source
  • Jon Williams, CTO, Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions
10:00am - 10:30am Morning Break:  Visit Open Source Showcase
10:30am - 3:50pm Putting Open Source to Work...for the CIO/CTO Putting Open Source to Work...for the CEO/CMO Putting Open Source to Work...for the General Counsel Putting Open Source to Work: Highlighted Products & Services
10:30am - 11:20am Forget the Factory: Enterprise IT is a Deli
r0ml Lefkowitz, Vice President, Asurion

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I'll Show You My Forge if You Show Me Yours
Eric Knorr, Editor-in-Chief, InfoWorld (Moderator)
Joe Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager, Novell
Rod Johnson, CEO, SpringSource
Dave Rosenberg, CEO & Co-Founder, MuleSource
Javier Soltero, CEO, Hyperic
Jumping into the Pool: A Legal Guide to Engineering Your Open Source Code Release 
Heather Meeker, Partner, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

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How Yahoo! Succeeds with Open Source and Oracle
Jeremy Zawodny, Technical Yahoo!, Yahoo! Inc. with
Monica Kumar, Sr. Director, Open Source Product Marketing, Oracle
11:30am - 12:20pm The Real Benefits of Open Source from the IT Perspective
Andrew Aitken, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Olliance Group (Moderator)
David Johnson, Ph.D., Director, Software Engineering-Web Publishing Services, Los Angeles Times
Julian Lambert, Global E-Business Director, Shimano
David Rossellat, Technical Director, Electronic Arts
Finding Success in the New Open Source Landscape
David Skok, General Partner, Matrix Partners

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Open Source Governance: Recognizing & Dealing with the Unique Risks Associated With Free Software
Sara Harrington, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (Moderator)
Virginia Badenhope, Associate, Smithline Jha LLP
Phil Robb, R&D Section Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Linda Shih, VP, Legal Affairs, Wind River Systems

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Product Demonstrations:
Adaptive Planning
BitRock
Cleversafe
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica
Enomaly
KnowledgeTree
OpenLogic
xTuple
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch:  Visit Open Source Showcase
2:00pm - 2:50pm CIO Best Practices: Using Open Source to Service Enable Data
John Woolbright, SVP & CTO, Synovus Financial
Kirstan Vandersluis, Chief Architect, XAware

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Exits 2008 - Can XenSource, MySQL or JBoss Tell You Anything About Your Company's Prospects?
John Prendergast, VP, Software, Services & Media, Jefferies & Company Inc.

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Outsourcing, Contractors and Open Source Code
Dr. Lothar Determann, Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
Peter George, Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP

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Open Source: Out of the Server, Into the Network
Larry Augustin, Managing Director, Augustin Ventures (Moderator)
Artur Bergman, Director of Engineering, Wikia
Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO, Funambol
Kelly Herrell, CEO, Vyatta
Mark Spencer, Founder & CTO, Digium
3:00pm - 3:50pm The Case for Opening Up: An Enterprise Strategy for Open Source
Derek Gottfrid, Sr. Software Architect, New York Times
Jacob Harris, Sr. Software Architect, New York Times

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Converting the Open Source Lead Funnel
Raven Zachary, Research Director, Open Source, The 451 Group (Moderator)
Mark de Visser, CMO, Zend Technologies
Chris Harrick, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, SugarCRM
Dr. Ian Howells, CMO, Alfresco
Roy Russo, Co-Founder & CEO, LoopFuse
A Practical Guide to License Conflicts
Jeff Norman, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

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Can Open Source Communities Survive Mergers & Acquisitions?
Larry Augustin, Managing Director, Augustin Ventures (Moderator)
Harold Goldberg, CEO, Zend Technologies
Ben Sabrin, VP of Business Development, Appcelerator
Zack Urlocker, EVP of Products, MySQL
Rex Wang, VP, Product Marketing, Oracle