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PROGRAM AGENDA

TRACK HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Open Sourcing the Enterprise for the CIO/CTO
  • Open Sourcing the Enterprise for the CEO/CMO
  • Open Sourcing the Enterprise for the General Counsel
  • Open Sourcing the Enterprise: Products & Services


Tuesday, March 24 (Day 1)

7:30am - 6:00pm Registration
8:45am - 9:00am Welcome & Opening Remarks
Matt Asay
, GM Americas, Alfresco & Event Chair
9:00am - 9:30am

Linux in the Service-Driven Data Center
Ron Hovsepian, CEO, Novell

9:30am - 10:10am North Bridge Venture Partners Keynote Panel
Moderator:
Michael Skok, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
Panel:
Mårten Mickos, Senior Vice President, Database Group, Sun/MySQL
Dries Buytaert, Founder, Drupal.org; Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Acquia
Ron Hovsepian, CEO, Novell
John Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, SugarCRM
John Lilly
, Chief Executive Officer, Mozilla  
10:10am - 10:40am Morning Break:  Visit Open Source Showcase
10:40am - 3:50pm Open Sourcing the Enterprise for the CIO/CTO Open Sourcing the Enterprise for the CEO/CMO Open Sourcing the Enterprise for the General Counsel Open Sourcing the Enterprise: Products and Services
10:40am - 11:30am

Creating a Thriving Internal Open Source Community: Legal and Development Working Together

Karna J Nisewaner, Patent Counsel, Intuit

 

After Wall Street's Chernobyl: Funding Open Source through the Downturn

Moderator:
Larry Augustin, Angel Investor

Panel:
Peter Fenton, General Partner, Benchmark;
Ryan Floyd, General Partner, Storm Ventures;
Tim Guleri, Managing Director, Sierra Ventures;
Robin Vasan, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund

Drafting and Enforcement of Open Source License Terms after the Jacobsen v. Katzer case

Dr. Lothar Determann, Partner, Baker McKenzie

 

Managing in a Recession – the New Economics of IT

Tom Berquist, CFO, Ingres Corporation

11:40am - 12:30pm

Where's the Risk, Exactly?

Chris DiBona
, Open Source Program Manager, Google

 

Dirk Hohndel, Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist, Intel Corporation

What's Open Source Worth?

Moderator: Stephen Walli, Free and Open Source Software Consultant

Panel:
Brian Gentile, CEO, Jaspersoft
Stuart Cohen, CEO, Collaborative Software Initiative
Javier Soltero, CEO Hyperic
Graham Miller, CEO, Marketcetera

Going Commercial: Transitioning an OS Project to a Commercial Company

Moderator:
Mark Radcliffe, Partner, DLA Piper LLP

Panel:
Jay Batson, CEO, Acquia, Inc.;
Eric Gries, CEO, Lucid Imagination, Inc.;
Navin Nagiah, CEO, DotNetNuke, Inc.

Six Easy Pieces in Quantitatively Analyzing Open Source Projects

Dirk Riehle, Director, Open Source Research Group, SAP

 

12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch:  Visit Open Source Showcase
2:00pm - 2:50pm

Policies and Purposes Behind Enterprise Open-source Adoption

David Maharaj
, Vice President, Fox Broadcasting

 

Effective Marketing and Sales for Open-source Businesses

Moderator:
Zack Urlocker,
VP Lifestyle Marketing, Sun

Panel:
Greg Armanini, Director of Marketing, Zimbra
Mark De Visser,
CEO, Sonatype
Roy Russo
, CEO Loopfuse
Mike Olson, CEO, Cloudera
Tara Spalding,
VP of Marketing, Groundwork

Legal Issues in Commercial/FOSS "Dual-Licensing"

Robert Blasi
, Partner
Goodwin Procter LLP

Tim Yeaton, CEO, Black Duck Software

Moving Open Source Up the Stack

Moderator:
Joseph A. di Paolantonio, Principal Consultant/Blogger/Analyst, InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc.

Panel:
Christopher D. Coppola, President, The rSmart Group
Aaron Fulkerson, CEO/Founder, mindtouch
Tim Golden, Vice President - Unix Engineering, Security & Provisioning, Bank of America
Gabriele Ruffatti, Architectures & Consulting Director, Research & Innovation Division, Engineering Group, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.
Lance Walter, Vice President - Marketing, Pentaho

3:00pm - 3:50pm

The Elimination of Operational Risk and Maximization of Operational Efficiency in the Enterprise: The Audacity of Open Source Hope

Moderators: Heather Meeker, Partner, Greenberg Traurig; and Greg Olson, Managing Partner, Olliance Group

Panel:
Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager, Google Timothy Golden, Senior Vice President, UNIX Engineering, Security and Provisioning, Bank of America
Carol Rizzo, CTO, Kaiser Permanente
Sam Parker, SVP Operations, CBS Interactive

 

The Secrets of Building and Participating in Open Source Communities

Dries Buytaert,
Founder, Drupal.org; Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Acquia
Managing the Use of Open Source Software in a Proprietary Environment: Lessons from In-House Counsel

Moderator: 

Virginia Tsai Badenhope
, Associate, Smithline Jha LLP

Panel:

Joyce Chow, Apple
Gary Spiegel, Sun Microsystems
Duane Valz, Vice President, Global Patents, Yahoo! Inc.
Angela Ziegenhorn, Symantec



Concurrent Session

4:00pm - 4:30pm Afternoon Break:   Visit Open Source Showcase
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Open for Change
Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat

Followed by a panel addressing: "End Users and Linux: Do We Have a Participation Problem?"
Moderator: Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation;
Panel: Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat
K.S. Bhaskar, Senior Vice President, Fidelity Information Services
Timothy Golden, Senior Vice President, UNIX Engineering, Security and Provisioning, Bank of America
Vinod Kutty, Associate Director, Chicago Mercantile Exchange

6:00pm - 7:30pm Cocktail Reception in the Open Source Showcase


Wednesday, March 25 (Day 2)


8:30am - 8:45am Welcome & Opening Remarks
Matt Asay
, GM Americas, Alfresco & Event Chair
8:45am - 9:15am Free and Open: The Market and Technologies
Jonathan Schwartz,
Chief Executive Officer, Sun Microsystems
9:15am - 9:45am

A World of Choice: Partnering for Success
Robert Youngjohns, President, Microsoft North America

9:45am - 10:15am

Open Source, Linux, and a Smarter Planet
Dr. Robert Sutor, Vice President, Open Source and Linux, IBM Corporation

10:15am - 10:40am Morning Break:  Visit Open Source Showcase
10:40am - 3:50pm Open Sourcing the Enterprise for the CIO/CTO Open Sourcing the Enterprise for the CEO/CMO Open Sourcing the Enterprise for the General Counsel Open Sourcing the Enterprise: Products and Services
10:40am - 11:30am

Open Source Adoption - What Your Peers Are Up To.

Jeffrey Hammond,
Analyst, Forrester Research

 

A Successful Business Model for Open Source Systems

Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO, Funambol
Open Source in the Cloud: Legal Strategies

Moderator:
Harvey Anderson
, General Counsel, Mozilla

Panel:
Sara Harrington, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Product Demonstrations

Featured Demonstrations by:


rPath
Eng
OneHippo
Kaltura
Rhomobile

11:40am - 12:30pm

Open-Core Licensing:  The New Business Model Standard for Commercial 
Software

Moderator:
Dave Rosenberg, COO and GM, Americas, RiverMuse

Panel:
Andrew Lampitt, VP of Marketing and Co-founder, Zagile
Ed Boyajian, CEO, EnterpriseDB
Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, MindTouch

 

Managing an Open Source Company through Good Times…and Bad

Larry Augustin, Angel Investor

Shims and Shams: Firewalling Proprietary Code in a Copyleft Context.


Jeffery Norman, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Open Sourcing Video: the potential and pitfalls of open source video in a downward economy

Shay David, CTO, Kaltura


12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch:  Visit Open Source Showcase
2:00pm - 2:50pm

"Best of Breed":  A Blueprint for Blending  Open-source and Proprietary Software

Eugene Ciurana, Director of IT, Leapfrog

Company-Driven Communities

Moderator:
Stormy Peters,
Executive Director, Gnome

Panel:
Connie Bensen, Community Strategist, Techrigy;
Seth Bindernagel, Community Evangelist, Mozilla
Joe Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager, Novell;
Josep Mitjà, COO, Openbravo
Dave Neary,
maemo.org

Patent Reexamination: An Open Source Strategy for Neutralizing Patents

Van Lindberg
, Partner, Haynes & Boone LLP

The Ubuntu Server Survey - what do 7000 IT managers think?

Steve George, Corporate Services Director, Canonical

3:00pm - 3:50pm

Leveraging Communities 

Dave Neary, Consultant, Neary Consulting

 


Mobile Open Source Makes Its Move ... Quietly

Jay Lyman, The 451 Group

 

 

Open Source Due Diligence in M&A

Chad King,
Partner, K&L Gates

 

How U.S.-based FOSS Companies Effectively Market to Europeans

Sandro Groganz, Founder and Principal, InitMarketing