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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Jim Whitehurst
President & CEO, Red Hat
Tuesday, March 25th (Day One)
9:00 am to 9:30 am
Location: Gold Ballroom |
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Steven Pearson
VP, Advanced Technologies, CBS Interactive
Tuesday, March 25th (Day One)
9:30 am to 10:00 am
Location: Gold Ballroom |
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Keynote: Open Source and True Innovation
Open Source is the driving force behind the true innovation that happens daily in the community. True open source innovation is what drives value. Hybrid open source strategies cause confusion and sub-par customer experiences.
In his keynote at the Open Source Business Conference, Red Hat President and CEO, Jim Whitehurst, will share his observations from his time with customers and partners around the world who put open source into real business practice. Whitehurst will discuss the drivers of why companies are considering open source for the long-term and why it is strategic to business objectives.
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Keynote: Bringing Television to the Web with Open Source
CBS Interactive's VP of Advanced Technologies Steven Pearson will provide an overview of CBS's efforts to pair television and the web and the open-source technologies behind it.
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Brad Smith
SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Microsoft Corporation
Monday, March 25th (Day One)
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: Gold Ballroom
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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
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Keynote: Parallels Between Open Source and Proprietary Software Business Models
While it may be convenient to separate open source software and proprietary software into two opposing camps, the truth is that there are significant parallels between the two. In this keynote address, Microsoft's general counsel will address the commonalities between open source and proprietary software business models. Brad's comments will then be followed by an hour-long question-and-answer period, led by a panel of open-source development, business, and legal experts.
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Karl Paetzel
Manager, Open Source & Linux Organization
Hewlett-Packard Company
Tuesday, March 26th (Day Two )
9:00 am to 9:30 am
Location: Gold Ballroom |
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Jon Williams
CTO, Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions
Tuesday, March 26th (Day Two)
9:30 am to 10:00 am
Location: Gold Ballroom
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Keynote: Free & Open Source Software Governance
Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) is everywhere and the use of FOSS is rapidly expanding across every industry vertical. Learn what HP and other industry leaders like The Linux Foundation, Coverity, DLA Piper, Google, Novell, Olliance Group, OpenLogic and SourceForge, are collectively doing to help customers better understand and manage FOSS in their own environments.
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Keynote: How to Guide an Enterprise into Open Source
In this keynote, Jon Williams will discuss how to guide an enterprise through the process of selecting and deploying open source tools. This is not simply a matter of selecting a tool and starting, but rather one of dealing with the nuances and skepticisms within existing IT organizations on successfully deploying open source across many platforms and applications. Kaplan has successfully deployed the following open source applications across its billion-dollar business: Apache, Linux, JBoss, Alfresco, Moodle, PHP, Perl, Twiki, PHPSurveyor, and MySQL. The company continues to look to new open source platforms for new projects.
But how did it get to this point? As Jon will note, open source adoption often requires a phased approach that includes:
- Phase 1 - Stand-alone success & obvious (Linux)
- Phase 2 - Road-map & research
- Phase 3 - Major projects: slow phase-out on non-open source
Jon will cover these issues, as well as: how open source factors into a build versus buy decision; customizability of open source platforms; agility and open source; open source as a low barrier of entry; how to include proprietary vendors in an open source discussion; using development partners for open source expertise; and how to get IT staff excited about open source.
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| OSBC Event at a Glance |
Putting Open Source to Work
The 5th Year of the Open Source Business Conference brings together senior business leaders, C-level technical strategists, lawyers and venture capitalists to collaborate on emerging business models, strategies and profitability for open source software use.
March 25-26, 2008
Palace Hotel
San Francisco, CA
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Facebook Group:
Join your peers online and spark a discussion about topics you want to see covered in March.
Join at www.facebook.com and search for user group "Open Source."
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Who Should Attend:
--IT end-users across vertical markets (Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, Government, Education, Telecommunications)
--Finance/Venture Capitalists
--Legal
--Open Source Vendor Community
--IT Analysts
Sponsorship Info?
Mike Dutton
Sponsorship Sales
801-358-4231
Speaking Info?
Call for Papers closed 11/30
Kaitlen Murphy
Content Manager
415-978-3251
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