Harvey Anderson,  General Counsel,  Mozilla
Greg Armanini, Director of Marketing, Zimbra
Matt Asay,  VP, Business Development,  Alfresco & Event Chair
Larry Augustin, Managing Director, Augustin Ventures
Jay Batson, CEO, Acquia, Inc
Connie Benson, Community Strategeist, Techrigy
K.S. Bhaskar, Senior Vice President, Fidelity Information Services
Seth Bindernagel, Community Evangelist, Mozilla
Robert Blasi,  Partner,  Goodwin Procter LLP
Joe Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager, Novell
Dries Buytaert, CTO, Co-Founder, Acquia
Fabrizio Capobianco, Chief Executive Officer, Funambol
Joyce Chow, Director, Legal - Software Products, Apple, Inc
Eugene Ciurana, Director, Systems Infrastructure, LeapFrog Enterprises
Stuart Cohen,  CEO,  Collaborative Software Initiative
Christopher Coppola, Founder and CEO, The rSmart Group
Shay David, CTO, Kaltura
Mark De Visser, CEO, Sonatype
Lothar Determann, Partner, Baker McKenzie
Joseph di Paolantonio, President and Principal Consultant, Interactive Systems & Consulting
Chris DiBona,  Open Source Program Manager,  Google
Sara Duval Harrington, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati
Peter Fenton, General Partner, Benchmark Capital
Ryan Floyd,  General Partner,  Storm Ventures
Richard Fontana, Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel, RedHat, Inc.
Aaron Fulkerson, CEO/Founder, mindtouch
Brian Gentile, Chief Executive Officer, Jaspersoft
Tim Golden, Senior Vice President, Bank of America
Eric Gries, CEO, Lucid Imagination, Inc.
Tim Guleri,  Managing Director,  Sierra Ventures
Jeffrey Hammond, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Ron Hovsepian,  CEO,  Novell
Chad King, Partner, K&L Gates, LLP
Vinod Kutty, Associate Director, Chicago Mercantile Exchange
John Lilly, CEO, Mozilla
Van Lindberg, Partner, Haynes & Boone LLP
Jay Lyman, The 451 Group
David Maharaj, VP Technology, Fox Digital Media
Heather Meeker, Co-Managing Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
Mårten Mickos, Senior Vice President, Database Group, SUN/MySQL
Graham Miller,  CEO,  Marketcetera
Josep Mitja, COO, Openbravo
Navin Nagiah, CEO, DotNetNuke, Inc
Dave Neary, Consultant, Neary Consulting
Karna Nisewaner, Patent Counsel, Intuit, Inc
Greg Olsen, Managing Partner, Olliance Group
Mike Olson, Chief Executive Officer, Cloudera
Sam Parker, CIO, CBS Services
Stormy Peters,  Executive Director,  Gnome
Mark Radcliffe, Partner, DLA Piper LLP (US)
Carol Rizzo, CTO, Kaiser Permanente
John Roberts, CEO, SugarCRM
Gabriele Ruffatti, Architectures & Consulting Director, Research & Innovation Division, Engineering Group
Roy Russo,  CEO,  LoopFuse
Jonathan Schwartz,  CEO,  Sun Microsystems
Michael Skok, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
Javier Soltero,  CEO,  Hyperic
Tara Spalding,  VP Marketing,  Groundwork
Gary Spiegel, Assistant General Counsel, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Robert Sutor, Vice President, Open Source and Linux, IBM
Virginia Tsai Badenhope,  Partner,  Smithline Jha
Zack Urlocker,  VP Lifestyle Marketing,  Sun
Duane Valz, VP, Global Patents, Yahoo Inc
Robin Vasan, General Partner, Mayfield
Stephen Walli, Free and Open Source Software Consultant,  
Lance Walter, Vice President, Marketing, Pentaho
Jim Whitehurst, Chief Executive Officer, RedHat, Inc.
Tim Yeaton, CEO, Black Duck Software
Robert Youngjohns, President, North America Sales & Marketing and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Jim Zemlin,  Executive Director,  Linux Foundation
Angela Ziegenhorn, Director, Legal Department, Symantec

Biographies

Harvey Anderson
General Counsel,  Mozilla

Harvey Anderson has counseled internet, technology, and consumer goods clients in complex commercial transactions, as well as financial, corporate, litigation, and intellectual property matters for the past 16 years. He is currently Vice President Business Affairs and General Counsel of the Mozilla Corporation, distributor of the Firefox browser used by 200M people worldwide. He has led M&A activities for public and private companies, successfully directed significant patent litigation matters, set industry wide licensing standards, and created valuable IP portfolios. Prior to Mozilla, he served as SVP Corporate Affairs and General Counsel for Seven Networks, a software company providing white label mobile email solutions to wireless carriers worldwide. Previously he was COO and General Counsel for Flywheel Communications, Inc. and Medscape (MSCP). At Medscape, a provider of electronic medical records, he led the company’s filing and registration activities resulting in a successful IPO and the launch of one of the first consumer personal health records. Prior to Medscape, he served as Assistant General Counsel for Netscape Communications Corp (NSCP). At Seven Networks, he managed the company’s legal and corporate affairs activities, including corporate and commercial transactions, licensing, finance, and patent litigation activities. As Assistant General Counsel of Netscape Communications, he directed technology licensing, intellectual property development and litigation, and other complex sales and corporate transactions. Prior to Netscape, his practice at McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen and Limbach & Limbach focused on intellectual property litigation. He has a J.D. from the University of San Francisco, a B.S. in engineering from Marquette University, and is a member of the United States patent bar.

Greg Armanini
Director of Marketing, Zimbra

Greg Armanini is Director of Marketing of the Zimbra Business Unit at Yahoo! Inc.  Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! in October 2007; currently and prior to the acquisition Greg has led marketing of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite.  Zimbra is known for its innovative marketing and sales strategies which have resulted in successful open source as well as commercial distribution.  Prior to Zimbra, Greg was Director of Product Management in Yahoo!'s Communications Group and at AOL; he has over 10 years experience developing applications and delivering them to large audiences.

Matt Asay
VP, Business Development, Alfresco & Event Chair

Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open source business strategists. Asay currently manages sales and business development activities in the Americas for Alfresco, the open source leader in Enterprise Content Management.

Prior to Alfresco, Asay co-founded Novell®'s Linux Business Office and was an early agitator and architect for the company's shift to open source. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, the industry's premier open source strategy event, and has served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners. Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo®, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Residential Gateway business. Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two of his three years studying software licensing and innovation. He holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and Brigham Young University, respectively.

Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Compiere, Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, Pentaho, SugarCRM, and XenSource. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source," he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. From 2002 to 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX), where he served as CEO until August 2002. While CEO he launched SourceForge.net and led the company through an IPO in 1999. Larry can be found online at http://lmaugustin.com.

Virginia Badenhope is an associate at Smithline Jha LLP, a San Francisco law firm focusing exclusively on technology transactions and global outsourcing. Our clients range from venture funded start-ups to industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Electronic Arts and Polycom. Open source advising is a significant part of our practice. We advise manufacturers of proprietary software and hardware products in their use of open source, help F500 companies create and maintain open source usage policies and represent open source solution providers such as MuleSource and GroundWork.

Prior to joining Smithline Jha, Virginia was a corporate and securities associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and contract corporate counsel at VERITAS Software Corporation (later merged with Symantec Corp.) Virginia received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School. Virginia is admitted to practice in California and Massachusetts.

Robert Blasi
Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP

Fabrizio Capobianco is CEO of Funambol, Inc., the #1 open source mobile email and PIM synchronization solution for the mass market. Fabrizio is a serial entrepreneur and veteran executive, with work experience that includes stints at Reuters and Tibco. He founded the first Italian Web company, Internet Graffiti, in 1994. He also founded Stigma Online, a developer of an information portal product with customers that included Kraft, Novartis, Italian Broadcasting Television and the Italian Stock Exchange. Capobianco has taught university courses on mobile and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pavia, Italy. Fabrizio has been recognized as a top high tech leader and for being a mobile email visionary. He writes a mobile open source blog that was voted among as one of the best in the wireless industry.

Joyce Chow
Director - Legal, Apple Inc.

Joyce Chow is a Director at Apple where she oversees Apple’s open source efforts and supports the Software Engineering Division. In her open source role, she is responsible for formulating, coordinating and managing open source licensing strategy, compliance and policy on a company-wide basis. She also provides legal support on a wide range of matters to the Apple Engineering teams that create Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop operating system, and its related operating systems. Prior to Apple, she worked in private practice with law firms in Palo Alto, Tokyo and Los Angeles. Joyce received her B.A. in Economics from Mills College, and her J.D. from UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law.

Eugene Ciurana
Director, Systems Infrastructure, LeapFrog Enterprises

Eugene Ciurana is an open-source evangelist who specializes in the design and implementation of mission-critical, high-availability large scale systems.  As Director of Systems Infrastructure, he and his team designed and built a 100% SOA and cloud system that enables millions of Internet-ready educational and handheld products and services.  As chief liaison between Walmart.com Global and the ISD Technology Council, he led the official adoption of Linux and other open-source technologies at Walmart Stores Information Systems Division.  He’s also designed high performance systems for major financial institutions and many Fortune 100 companies in the United States and Europe.

Stuart Cohen
CEO, Collaborative Software Initiative

Stuart Cohen is the chief executive officer of CSI. A seasoned IT executive with 25 years of international business experience, Cohen is responsible for marshaling CSI's leadership team and IT business and technology leaders to apply open source methodologies to software development and business communities.

Previously, Cohen served as chief executive officer at Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), which merged with the Free Standards Group to form The Linux Foundation. In Cohen's four years as the senior executive at OSDL, he more than tripled the Labs' vendor membership and formed Linux User Advisory Councils (LUACs) in three geographies to bridge vendors, users and the community, helping Linux grow from an emerging market opportunity to a mature market success. Prior to his post at OSDL, Cohen was vice president at RadiSys Corporation, where his responsibilities included sales, marketing and developing strategic partnerships within the technology industry. Cohen holds a B.S. in Quantitative Business Analysis from Arizona State University.

Chris Coppola
Founder and CEO, rSmart

Chris Coppola is a founder and the CEO of rSmart, a company that supports open source business applications for colleges, universities, schools and districts globally. He is responsible for rSmart’s open source community strategy and leads the rSmart team as they engage and support open source projects that offer great potential for global education. Working with leaders from Indiana University, Stanford, Cambridge, and other institutions, Chris and rSmart are helping to build a rapidly evolving ecosystem of open source software in the Education sector. Chris recently completed a three-year term on the Sakai Foundation board of directors and is now serving on three Kuali Foundation boards. He writes and speaks frequently about open source and education.

Shay David
VP Business and Community Development, Kaltura Inc.

Dr. Shay David is a scholar and serial entrepreneur who specializes in collaborative and open source information and communication systems. Shay is co-founder of Kaltura, which has developed the world's first open source video platform, where he oversees technology and strategy. Prior to Kaltura, Shay was co-founder of Destinator Technologies, a leader in mobile-GPS-navigation software, and MindEcho, a collaborative filtering software company. He also led various product development cycles and consulted on open systems to Fortune 500 companies like Toyota and Becton Dickson.

Shay holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science, a B.A. in Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, from Tel-Aviv University, and M.A. from New York University. Shay wrote his PhD dissertation on 'The social construction of participatory information networks' at Cornell and he is a fellow a t The Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Shay has published extensively in leading academic journals, and presented his work all over the world.

Dr. Lothar Determann is a partner with Baker & McKenzie LLP in San Francisco and Palo Alto, California. Focusing on technology and international business law, his practice covers counseling technology companies on taking their R&D, products and contracts international, as well as software licensing, electronic commerce, data protection, intellectual property and outsourcing. Dr. Determann is admitted to practice in California and Germany. He teaches Computer Law, Data Privacy and Internet Law at UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), USF Law School and Freie Universität Berlin and is a member of the Association of German Public Law Professors since 1999. He has authored three books and over 40 articles, including Dangerous Liaisons - Software Combinations as Derivative Works? (21 Berkeley Tech. L. J. 14412006); and SCO v. Linux — A case study in the implications of upstream intellectual property disputes for software end users, Computer & Law International (2003, co-author: A. Coan). For more information see www.bakernet.com.

Mark de Visser has extensive experience and accomplishments in marketing open source software and software development tools. At Zend, the PHP Company, he is responsible for the company's overall market strategy, as well as for product marketing and corporate communications. Zend plays a key role in the adoption of PHP as a first-tier web application platform, and its open source PHP application framework (Zend Framework) and the open source PHP IDE (Eclipse PDT - PHP Development Tools) have gained enormous traction. Before Zend, de Visser was vice president of marketing at Red Hat Inc. where he was a member of the team that created the company's market-leading position with the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. He also worked for 12 years at Borland International in international and product marketing roles, and as vice president of corporate marketing.

Joseph di Paolantonio, President and Principal Consultant, Interactive Systems & Consulting

Joseph di Paolantonio has been involved with open source since 1996 when he encourage our consultants to contribute to FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux whilst "on the beach". Beginning in 2000, with the formation of InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc. he directed the use of open source projects in BI & DW engagements where possible. With the infusion of serious venture capital into open source companies in 2005, he began blogging about open source solutions for data management & analysis (DMA) on The TeleInterActive Press OSS blog. Over the past decade, he's seen open source projects expand beyond operating systems & web servers to serious enterprise applications, watching an handful of DMA open source solutions growing to over 60 such projects today.

Mr. di Paolantonio has over 25 years of data analysis and program experience, and has been involved in very large database architecture, data warehousing and BI solutions since 1994. Prior to IASC, he was an Executive Director of The Williams Cos [NYSE:WMB] and General Manager of CapTech IT Services. Most recently he has been working with SaaS providers to leverage open source solutions and Open Source providers to monetize through SaaS, in the areas of Master Data Management, SOA, REST, Reporting, OLAP, Predictive Intelligence and Collaboration. He has also been working with the open source R statistical programming language to recreate his Objective Bayes risk assessment methodology.

Chris DiBona
Open Source Programs Manager, Google

Chris DiBona is the open source programs manager at Mountain View, Ca. based Google where his team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches.

Mr. DiBona is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He occasionally appears on the This Week in Tech and Cranky Geeks podcasts. He is a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has a masters in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he serves on the advisory board of imeem, a San Francisco, Ca. based social networking firm.

Before joining Google, Mr. DiBona was an editor and author for the website Slashdot.org . Additionally, he coedited the award-winning essay compilations "Open Sources" and "Open Sources 2.0" and writes for several publications. He was the host of Floss Weekly with Leo Laporte and made a number of appearances on TechTV's "The Screensavers"

Peter Fenton
General Partner, Benchmark Capital

Peter Fenton joined Benchmark Capital in 2006 after spending seven years as a partner with Accel Partners, where his investment interests included software, digital media, and technology enabled services.
Prior to joining the venture capital community, he spent several years working with Silicon Valley software and high-technology companies as an entrepreneur and strategy consultant. He was an early employee at Virage, a multimedia information retrieval company that went public on the NASDAQ in 2000. Peter also worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, where he advised high-technology businesses in Silicon Valley on their product and business strategies.

Ryan Floyd
General Partner,  Storm Ventures

Ryan Floyd is a founding member of Storm Ventures. At Storm Ventures, Ryan has focused on enterprise IT, internet and web infrastructure opportunities. He has invested in both semiconductors and components (MetaRAM, SandForce, and Ignis Optics/acquired by Bookham), as well as well as software (Appcelerator, DeviceVM, Netforensics, Yieldbuild and Kidaro/acquired by Microsoft.)

Prior to founding Storm Ventures, Ryan directed the business development activities at E-TEK Dynamics where he focused on building strategic OEM and customer relationships, scaling E-TEK's manufacturing operations as well as directing the equity investing and acquisition activities until E-TEK merged with JDS Uniphase in 2000.
Prior to joining E-TEK, Ryan was with Summit Partners, a private equity firm, where he focused primarily on the communications industry, including Summit's investment in E-TEK Dynamics in July 1997. Ryan received his B.S. and M.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

Richard Fontana
Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel, RedHat, Inc.

Richard E. Fontana is Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel at Red Hat, Inc. His responsibilities at Red Hat concern all intellectual property aspects of inbound and outbound software licensing, including open source, copyright, patent, and trademark issues. Fontana also participates in patent litigation defense and in public policy
initiatives concerning open source, open standards, and patent reform. Prior to joining Red Hat, Fontana served as Counsel at the Software Freedom Law Center, where he advised and represented some of the best-known free software and open source projects and foundations. He was co-author, with Richard M. Stallman and Eben Moglen, of version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3), the first update of the most
widely used open source license in over 15 years. Fontana holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, a master's degree in computer science from Yale University, and a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University.

Aaron Fulkerson
Founder & CEO, MindTouch

Aaron is a multifaceted entrepreneur and technology advocate. He has held senior management positions at three technology startups and has helped to launch non-profits and businesses outside the technology industry. Aaron received his B.S. in Computer Science from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He worked for Microsoft Advanced Strategies and Policies on distributed systems and owned and operated a successful technology consulting firm. He is a recognized expert on communities, software, and open source and is regularly asked to speak on these topics at conferences and Universities.

Brian Gentile
Chief Executive Officer, Jaspersoft

Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile is an open source community advocate with c-suite experience. His rich history in building developer communities at Apple and Sun Microsystems has resulted in his firm belief that open source collaboration is the essential ingredient for today’s software economy.

Before Jaspersoft, Brian was executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Informatica Corporation, the industry-leading data integration software company. Brian also served as executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Brio Software, a leading business intelligence software provider.

Prior to Brio, as a vice president at Sun Microsystems, Brian created Sun’s first-ever worldwide Developer Relations team and helped build the Sun and Java Developer Connection Programs, which reached over 2 million active members during his tenure. And prior to Sun, Brian led Apple’s Evangelism and Developer Relations team, enabling 10,000 independent software vendors to work closely and successfully with Apple’s products and technologies.

Tim Golden
Senior Vice President, Bank of America

As Bank of America's Open Source Software infrastructure strategist, Tim Golden is responsible for defining Linux/Open Source architecture requirements, setting engineering standards and best practices, analyzing and maintaining enterprise software readiness, and identifying adoption opportunities. A well-defined, universally-applied OSS standards framework forms the basis of Tim’s approach to solution delivery and management. Using this model, he has repeatedly proven that OSS solutions can scale to the ‘large enterprise’ level and successfully meet stringent – even unique – design requirements. Prior to joining Bank of America, Tim worked for IBM as an AIX Software Specialist. Tim is on several Open Source ISV Advisory Boards, provides consultation to industry financial analysts, and works part-time as an Open Source strategy consultant for technology Enterprises, ISVs, and start-ups. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from St. Mary's College.

Eric Gries
CEO, Lucid Imagination, Inc.

Eric Gries joined Lucid Imagination as the President and CEO, after spending more than 20 years in executive leadership roles, where he built high-growth technology-based businesses. Prior to joining the company, Eric was an Executive-in-Residence at Granite Ventures. Eric has served as CEO, general manager and vice president for companies in application development, systems management, networking, financial services and hardware systems, in both the U.S. and Europe. Prior to joining Granite Ventures, Eric led XACCT, a pioneering network mediation market leader, as its president and CEO. XACCT was acquired by Amdocs in 2004, at which time Eric joined Amdocs' executive team as Senior Vice President. Earlier in his career, Eric served as general manager of Compuware's Network and Systems Management division, and held product management, marketing, sales and engineering positions at companies such as ACI, Cullinet Software and DEC.


Tim Guleri
Managing Director,  Sierra Ventures

Tim Guleri is a Managing Director at Sierra Ventures, responsible for the Firm’s consumer, datacenter infrastructure software, and open source investments. He has led the Firm’s investments in and serves on the boards of Approva, CodeGreen Networks, Everest Software, Greenplum, MakeMyTrip.com (in India), NebuAd, Sourcefire (FIRE: NASD) and CarWale. Tim has also served on the boards of AirMedia (acquired by AOL), Motiva (acquired by Siebel Systems), Net6 (acquired by Citrix Systems) and Octane Software (acquired by Epiphany).

A serial entrepreneur, Tim built two infrastructure software companies before joining Sierra in 2001. He headed Sales and Marketing functions at Scopus Technology (SCOP: NASD), which went public in 1995, and was a leader in the CRM space. After that, Tim founded and was CEO of Octane Software, a leading provider of e-commerce infrastructure, which he sold to Epiphany (NASDAQ: EPNY) in 2000 for $3.2B. “I love helping build companies, and entrepreneur’s can relate to that passion in me,” says Tim. “I’m the coach who played the game before, not just the guy that’s giving advice but has never been on the field.”

Tim’s playbook is built not only on 20 years of hands—on operating and investing experience, but also on a solid technical education. Tim holds a BSEE from Punjab Engineering College in India and a MS in IEOR and Robotics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He began his career at LSI Logic.

When he’s not reading executive summaries for prospective investments or unraveling a portfolio company’s growth challenge, don’t expect to find Tim holed up in his living room. Three times a week in the spring and summer, Tim is on the soccer field, playing the physically demanding position of midfielder. In the winter, he adds snowboarding to his sports repertoire. Back at home, his two daughters, ages 8 and 10, remind him that “you can’t take yourself too seriously,” says Tim. “If you love what you’re doing, and attack it with passion, success will inevitably follow.”

Sara Harrington
Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Sara Harrington is a partner in the technology transactions practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. She focuses on counseling various companies involved in the development, distribution, licensing, disposition, and acquisition of technology and intellectual property rights for various start-ups and established enterprises.

Sara has represented clients in a wide range of industries, including those involved in search technology, business application software (both open source and private source), e-commerce (business-to-business and business-to-consumer), Web 2.0, entertainment/media industries, database services, consulting, networking devices, semiconductor, telecom, medical device, consumer goods, and audio services. She has constructed and negotiated a variety of international and domestic agreements, covering such areas as strategic alliances, marketing, development, licensing, advertising, distribution, services, outsourcing, open source, and manufacturing. She also has significant experience advising companies on intellectual property matters in connection with investments, financings, asset purchases and sales, corporate structuring (spin-outs), and mergers and acquisitions.

Ron Hovsepian
CEO,  Novell

Ron Hovsepian serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Novell, Inc. He is responsible for setting the company's strategic direction and leading its growth as a global provider of enterprise-class software and services.
Mr. Hovsepian, 45, joined Novell in June 2003 as President of North America, and has most recently served as President and Chief Operating Officer. In that role he had direct worldwide responsibility for product development, marketing, and field operations, which includes sales, consulting and technical services. Previously, Mr. Hovsepian held management and executive positions at IBM Corporation over a 17 year period, including worldwide general manager of IBM's distribution industries, managing global hardware and software development, sales, marketing and services. With stints in various sales and marketing positions prior to taking profit and loss responsibility at several IBM units, he brings a proven track record of achieving revenue goals and profit growth in the IT solutions business. Mr. Hovsepian also served as a managing director of Internet Capital Group, a venture capital firm.
Mr. Hovsepian is non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ann Taylor Corporation. Hovsepian received a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College.

Chad King
Partner, K&L Gates, LLP

Chad King is a partner at the international law firm of K&L Gates.  His practice focuses on transactions and issues involving software, technology, e-commerce, outsourcing, privacy and intellectual property, including issues related to the use and disclosure of open source software.  He represents clients in a wide range of industries, including companies involved in entertainment and media, finance, healthcare, retail, e-commerce, software applications, networking, telecommunications and others industries.  He is a frequent speaker and writer on technology topics and is used as a resource by national and international media, including the Dallas Morning News and Wired. 

John Lilly
CEO, Mozilla

As the chief executive officer of Mozilla, John Lilly is responsible for guiding the product and organizational development efforts for Mozilla Corporation. Before becoming CEO, John was Mozilla’s COO and focused primarily on day-to-day and international operations of Mozilla. Prior to his career at Mozilla, John was the founder, CTO and VP products of Reactivity, an XML Security company. He served as a senior scientist at Apple Computer Research Labs, and has held positions at Trilogy Software, Sun Microsystems and HP, among other companies. John is a regular speaker at industry events and serves on the board of directors of the Open Source Application Foundation and Participatory Culture Foundation. He is also a member of the board of library trustees for the City of Sunnyvale. He earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from Stanford University.

Van Lindberg
Partner, Haynes & Boone LLP

Mr. Lindberg practices intellectual property law, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law. He has experience with both computer hardware and software, including digital circuit design, operating system design and implementation, application programming, and networked and distributed systems. Mr. Lindberg also has experience with virtualization, wireless networking, high-availability web-based systems and programming languages.

Mr. Lindberg has particular expertise in the Open Source licensing model. He helps analyze the risks and benefits of using and creating Open Source software and advises on compliance with Open Source licenses.

Before joining Haynes and Boone, Mr. Lindberg was a research and development engineer at a multinational telecom and IP (Internet Protocol) services provider.

Jay Lyman
The 451 Group

Jay covers open source software for The 451 Group, focusing on Linux operating systems and distributors, virtualization, databases and other free and open source software created by communities and used by enterprise organizations. His coverage includes the software itself, the communities and the emerging business and licensing models.
Prior to joining The 451 Group, Jay wrote for LinuxInsider and TechNewsWorld, where he covered open source and a range of other IT topics from 2003 to 2006. He also covered open source software communities, development and products as a contributing editor with NewsForge from 2004 to 2006.
Covering Linux and open source since 2000 with NewsFactor Network, Jay has been a regular contributor to other publications, including those of CMP Media, Web Host Industry Review and Small Times, a nanotechnology website and magazine.
Prior to his focus on the technology industry, Jay worked as a newspaper reporter in Southern California, covering business, government and crime for the Glendale News-Press, a Los Angeles-area daily. His work has also been published by the Associated Press and Time Magazine. Jay holds a BA in Journalism from San Diego State University.

Heather J. Meeker's practice focuses on intellectual property transactions for technology clients. Heather's clients cover a range of industries including software, communications, educational testing, computer equipment and medical devices. She has extensive experience in open source licensing strategies, and in intellectual property matters related to mergers and acquisitions. Heather regularly advises software and technology companies on how to comply with the open source requirements of the GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Library General Public License (LGPL), Artistic License, BSD licenses, and other open source or "free software" licenses and how to structure open source business models.

Mårten Mickos joined MySQL AB as CEO in 2001. Under his leadership, the company has grown from a start-up to the second-largest open source company and the fastest-growing database vendor in the world. Prior to MySQL, Mickos held multi-national CEO and senior executive positions in his native Finland. He holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology.

Graham Miller
CEO,  Marketcetera

Graham Miller, co-founder and CEO of Marketcetera. Mr. Miller has over 10 years of experience in the finance and software industries, most recently serving as the director of electronic trading strategies at a hedge fund in New York. Prior to that Mr. Miller worked for Jane Street Capital, making markets in equity options on the floor of the American Stock Exchange, and directing electronic trading efforts. During his tenure on Wall Street, Mr. Miller oversaw the development of several high-throughput black box trading systems for equities, options, ETFs and futures. Before joining Jane Street Capital, Mr. Miller assisted in the development of several products and companies at Reactivity, a software incubator turned network security company, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007.

Mr. Miller holds bachelors and masters degrees in computer science from Stanford University, with a concentration in artificial intelligence.

Josep Mitjà
Chief Operating Officer

Josep is in charge of Openbravo's Product Strategy and Business Development unit. Among many activities in Josep’s wide range of responsibilities, he leads the definition and execution of the product strategy and marketing approach, drives business development activities, builds corporate alliances and is in charge of defining the international growth model, Openbravo’s web presence, as well as Openbravo’s marketing & communication initiatives and IT & Systems department. Lastly, Josep is also an Openbravo Board member and a Board member of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), which Openbravo co-founded.
Prior to joining Openbravo, Josep was a principal with DiamondCluster International (now Oliver Wyman), where he worked in more than 10 countries across 3 continents advising senior executives in the high tech industry. In the start of his career, he worked for BASF in Germany and Spain.
Josep holds an MBA from IESE in Barcelona, and from MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston. Previously he graduated in Telecommunications Engineering in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).
Josep also serves on the board on the Open Solutions Alliance, an international organization that aims to promote the use of open source in the enterprise and facilitate the interoperability among the leading open solutions.

Navin Nagiah
CEO, DotNetNuke, Inc


Navin is a senior business executive with extensive marketing, strategy, and operational experience in high-technology enterprises in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Prior to joining DNN Corp., Navin served as President and CEO of CIGNEX, an open source ECM company, and was the founder, president, and CEO of Xisource, a San Francisco-based enterprise software company with offices in London and Mumbai. Before Xisource, he was one of the founding employees of Internet Securities Inc., where he set up the company's operations in India, China, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, and was the managing director for Asia at the time of the company's $60 million merger with Euromoney (LSE Symbol: ERM). Navin also has extensive experience as a board member/advisor of pre-IPO companies and holds a Master's degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University.


Dave Neary
Consultant, Neary Consulting

Dave Neary is the founder of Neary Consulting, specialising in managing
community relations and free software strategy.

As a member of the GNOME community, he has been involved in all aspects the organisation of GUADEC since 2005, including a spell as conference
chair. He has served three terms as a member of the board of directors of the GNOME Foundation (2005 - 07), and was chairman of the board in 2006, and treasurer in 2007,where he oversaw massive growth in the GNOME advisory board. He created and edited the first annual report of the GNOME Foundation. As community development manager of the OpenWengo project, Dave refocused development efforts on the Linux platform, and saw a substantial increase in community contributions after initiatives such as the OpenWengo developers summit and the Free and Open source Telephony Summit, which he organised.

Dave has participated in free software communities since discovering Linux in 1996. He was a developer and release manager of the GIMP from 1999 until 2006. He organised the 2005 GIMP Developers Conference as part of GUADEC in Kristiansand, and in 2006 founded the Libre Graphics Meeting, a conference which brings together developers and users of free software graphics software ranging from infrastructure like LittleCMS and cairo to applications including the GIMP, Inkscape, Blender and Scribus.


Greg Olson
Senior Business Development Executive

Greg recently joined the Olliance Group as Senior Business Development Executive with 25 years of software industry experience in engineering, marketing, sales and business development. He was most recently Chairman and EVP of Business development with Sendmail, Inc, and continues to serve on their Board of Directors. As founder and chief executive of Sendmail, Greg created one of the first hybrid business models incorporating Open Source with market positioning and licensing models that have become standards for open source business, raised over $60 million of investment capital to realize this new model as a high-growth technology business, and built the company to a recognized leading vendor in Internet email with strong presence in North America, Europe and Japan.
Prior to Sendmail, Greg served as vice president of marketing for Integrated Systems, Inc., the largest provider of software and services to the embedded computer systems industry. Before Integrated Systems, Greg was VP of Strategy at Sybase, where he developed the company's Internet strategy in 1995 with founder Bob Epstein and managed a wide range of product and business initiatives. During his six years at Sybase, the company?s revenue grew from $80 million to over $1 billion. Greg joined Sybase from Britton Lee, Inc., where he held a wide range of executive positions including Chief Technical Officer, Vice President of Marketing, Vice President of Customer Services and Director of Software Development. Greg holds a BS degree in Information Sciences from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Michael Olson
Chief Executive Officer of Cloudera

Michael Olson is the Chief Executive Officer of Cloudera. Cloudera is commercializing Apache Hadoop to provide big data analytics to enterprise customers. Prior to founding Cloudera, Mike was CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB. He spent two years at Oracle Corporation as Vice President for Embedded Technologies after Oracle's acquisition of Sleepycat in 2006. Mike has held technical and business roles at database vendors Britton Lee, Illustra Information Technologies and Informix Software. He has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.


Stormy Peters
Executive Director, GNOME Foundation

Stormy Peters is Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. She joins the GNOME Foundation from OpenLogic where she set up their OpenLogic Expert Community. Previously, Stormy worked at Hewlett-Packard (HP) where she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office that is responsible for HP's open source strategy, policy and business practices. Stormy joined HP as a software engineer in the Unix Development Lab after graduating from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science.

Karna Nisewaner
Patent Counsel, Intuit

Karna Nisewaner is a Patent Counsel at Intuit. Her Intuit practice focuses on providing advice and counsel to developers and management in all areas of intellectual property law, with a particular focus on Open Source, Patents and M&A Strategy. Prior to Intuit she worked as an Attorney at IBM in a similar capacity, helping to restructure the IBM Software Groups Open Source review and contribution policy. She attended UCLA for Law School and Princeton University for her undergraduate degree in Engineering.

Mark Radcliffe
Partner, DLA Piper US LLP

Mark Radcliffe is a partner and co-chair of the Technology and Sourcing Group of DLA Piper US LLP. He earned a B.S. in chemistry magna cum laude from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Mr. Radcliffe's practice focuses on representing corporations in their intellectual property and finance matters. He is chair of the Open Source Industry Group at the firm. He assisted Sun Microsystems in open sourcing the Solaris operating system and drafting the CDDL. And he represents many open source startup companies, including SugarCRM, Inc., Laszlo Systems, Inc. and Zimbra. He also serves as outside general counsel for the Open Source Initiative and is the chair of Committee C for the Free Software Foundation in reviewing GPLv3. Mr. Radcliffe has published articles in such legal magazines as the National Law Journal, Trademark World, Computer Lawyer, California Law Business and Copyright World.

John Roberts, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of SugarCRM, is a pioneer in the enterprise software market. As co-founder of SugarCRM, John established SugarCRM's commercial open source business model, co-led the product design of SugarCRM products, and helped build the Sugar Community into one of the largest open source communities on the Web. With experience across marketing, business development and product management, John has established SugarCRM as the only viable alternative to established proprietary CRM solutions.

Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, John spent 14 years in various product management and sales engineering roles at leading CRM companies E.piphany, BroadVision, Baan/Aurum Software and IBM. John holds a BS in Business from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Gabriele Ruffatti
Architectures & Consulting Director, Research & Innovation Division, Engineering Group

Gabriele is director of Architectures & Consulting at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy. With over 27 years of experience in IT field, he held senior management positions at the holding company of Engineering Group, an IT global player and Italy’s largest operator in the IT services market. Active in project and product management activities, software process improvement & quality assurance, and in the architectural solutions definition, he contributed to the development of the corporate quality system and to the achievement of ISO 9001:2000 and CMMI certifications. He launched the open source SpagoWord Initiative of Engineering (www.spagoworld.org), in 2004. Gabriele coordinates open source related activities at Engineering and is currently member of the SpagoWorld Executive Board and of the OW2 Consortium Board (www.ow2.org). Ruffatti has been Adjunct Professor for open source at the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science Master Degree, University of Padua, Italy from 2006 to 2008

Roy Russo is helping LoopFuse to fulfill its vision and extend the adoption of demand generation solutions to marketing and sales organizations through an innovative open source business model. To this end Roy is responsible for overall strategy, management, and expansion.

Roy comes to LoopFuse following three years with JBoss/Red Hat where, as the co-founder of the JBoss Portal project, he led the successful incubation and launch of an enterprise portal product. Prior to JBoss, Roy worked at Sevista Messaging Technologies and SilverPOP, where he helped innovate the email marketing space over a five year process. Roy has a B.A. in Economics from Florida International University.

Jonathan Schwartz is chief executive officer and president of Sun Microsystems, and a member of Sun's board of directors. He became Sun's CEO in 2006, succeeding the Company's co-founder and current chairman of the board, Scott McNealy. Schwartz was promoted to president and chief operating officer in 2004, and managed all operational functions at Sun - from product development and marketing, to global sales and service. An inveterate communicator, Schwartz has led Sun's drive to engage the marketplace, and redefine corporate transparency. A leader behind many of Sun's open source and standard setting initiatives, Jonathan's been an outspoken advocate for the network as a utility with more than just value for the computing industry - but as a tool for driving economic, social and political progress. Prior to his position as COO, Schwartz served as Sun's executive vice president for software, its Chief Strategy Officer, and held a variety of leadership positions across product and corporate development. He joined Sun in 1996 after the Company acquired Lighthouse Design, where he was CEO and co-founder. Prior to that, Schwartz was with McKinsey & Co. Schwartz received degrees in economics and mathematics from Wesleyan University..

Michael Skok joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 2002. Prior to this Michael had been an entrepreneur and CEO in the software business for over 20 years. Michael founded, led and attracted over $100m in private equity to his investments in several successful software companies ranging from CAD/CAM, Document Management, Workflow, Imaging and Collaboration, Security to Analytics and spanning the Mini Computer, Workstation, PC, Client Server and Internet eras.

Six companies were successfully acquired by Siebel, Platinum, Filenet, Banyan and IBM and two went Public, including Symantec for whom he built Symantec UK into their most profitable international business. Michael has served on many private and public company boards as well as supported various software industry groups such as the Software Publishers association where he was Chairman for a number of years in Europe. Michael is a graduate of Nottingham University in the United Kingdom.

Javier Soltero is co-founder and CEO of Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source IT management. Prior to co-founding Hyperic, he was chief architect at Covalent Technologies, where he led the design and implementation of multiple enterprise products, including the configuration management product for Apache and the Covalent Application Manager - now Hyperic's flagship product Hyperic HQ. Prior to Covalent, Soltero was a senior software engineer at Backflip, where he met Hyperic co-founders Charles Lee and Doug MacEachern. At Backflip, he was actively involved in the design, implementation, and operational aspects of the site. Soltero also held senior engineering positions at Netscape, where he participated in the design development of e-commerce and Internet infrastructure suites. Soltero is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico and received his B.S. in Information Systems and Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Gary Spiegel
Assistant General Counsel, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Gary Spiegel joined Sun Microsystems as Assistant General Counsel through the acquisition of MySQL and acts as chief counsel to the Database Technologies Group. Before MySQL, Gary was Senior Corporate Counsel at Adobe Systems Incorporated for 8 years supporting product development, sales and licensing activities for a wide variety of software products and services including open source and SaaS offerings. He received his JD from the University of Minnesota Law School and started his legal career with several years as an attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Tara Spalding
VP Marketing,  Groundwork

Tara Spalding is Vice President of Marketing for GroundWork Open Source, the leading commercial open source IT management solution for companies who want to reduce ongoing monitoring costs, consolidate solutions and improve staff productivity.

Tara brings over a decade of branding and online marketing experience to GroundWork, and is known as a marketing pioneer for commercial open source applications. Tara’s team has focused on streamlining GroundWork’s positioning while providing a more automated consumer oriented approach primarily through website interactions.

GroundWork’s newly deployed marketing techniques include a single sign-on web experience throughout all GroundWork websites, lead nurturing process based on online behavior patterns and effective viral campaigns that keep the community engaged and entertained.

Previously Tara was the VP of Corporate Marketing at SugarCRM and was their first employee. Other companies Tara worked for were Epiphany, Edify and E&J Gallo Winery. Tara is a CU Boulder alum.

Robert Sutor,
Vice President, Open Source and Linux, IBM

Bob Sutor is the Vice President of Open Source and Linux for the IBM Corporation. In this role he has the responsibility for driving the IBM strategy, sales enablement, and technical pre-sales for software running on Linux and other open source environments. He works with customers, partners, government leaders, analysts, and the press to understand the value of adopting business-critical open source and Linux. He is also responsible for driving and executing the cross-company business and policy strategy for open standards as they relate to software, hardware, services, vertical industries, and emerging markets. Dr. Sutor has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in Mathematics.

Zack Urlocker
VP Lifestyle Marketing, Sun

Zack Urlocker is responsible for driving high volume online marketing for all software and systems products at Sun Microsystems worldwide. He was previously the EVP of Products at MySQL which was acquired by Sun Microsystems. At MySQL he managed Engineering and Marketing organizations and created the enterprise subscription business model that drove revenue growth. Urlocker has more than twenty years of experience in the software industry with executive positions at webMethods, Active Software and Borland. He is a well-known speaker and author on using open source technology to drive business innovation. In his spare time, he runs marathons and plays guitar, but not at the same time.

Duane Valz,
Vice President, Global Patents, Yahoo Inc

Duane Valz is presently VP & Associate General Counsel, Global Patents, at Yahoo! Inc.  In that principal role, he leads a team of attorneys and engineers responsible for the company’s worldwide invention harvesting, patent filings and portfolio management.  In addition to advising on IP-related litigation, licensing, policy and strategic corporate development matters, he also leads Yahoo’s Open Source Working Group, a cross-functional team of attorneys, engineers and business managers.  Mr. Valz has counseled a wide variety of emerging growth, private and publicly held companies on intellectual property and technology matters in various law firm, consulting and in house capacities.  He received his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), serving as Submissions Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.  He also earned his B.A., with Honors & Distinction in General Scholarship, from the University of California at Berkeley.

Robin Vasan
Managing Director, Mayfield Fund

Robin Vasan currently sits on the boards of Alfresco, Centrify, GroundWork, Informance, TrueDemand and Webroot. Robin's notable past investments include Akimbi (acquired by VMware), Determina, webMethods, Riverbed Systems (acquired by Aether Systems), Global Logistics (acquired by Oracle) and Trigo Technologies (acquired by IBM).

Prior to joining Mayfield in 1999, Robin was a founder and/or key member of several successful software startups including CATS Software, Infinity Financial Technology, acquired by SunGard (SDS) and Risk Management Solutions. Robin earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A.S. dual degree in industrial engineering and economics from Stanford University. Robin is an avid athlete, who enjoys tennis, golf, basketball and snowboarding. He is a vocal supporter of Room to Read, a non-profit organization that builds schools and libraries in developing countries.

Stephen Walli has worked in the IT industry since 1980 as both a customer and vendor. He currently consults on software development business and open source strategy, and is the open-source-strategist-in-residence for Open Tuesday out of Finland.

Stephen was VP, Open Source Development Strategy at Optaros, a business manager at Microsoft on open source, and VP, R+D and founder of Softway Systems, a venture-backed company that developed a UNIX portability environment for NT before being acquired by Microsoft. He was a long time participant and officer at the IEEE and ISO POSIX standards groups, representing both USENIX and EurOpen (E.U.U.G.) and a regular speaker and writer on open systems standards since 1991. Stephen has an essay in O'Reilly's Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution. He blogs at http://stephesblog.blogs.com.

Lance Walter
Vice President of Marketing, Pentaho

Lance Walter is Vice President of Marketing at Pentaho and joined the company in 2005. Prior to Pentaho, Lance was Vice President of Product Marketing for Business Objects. He has more than 15 years experience in business intelligence and data warehousing, having held technical and marketing roles at Siebel Systems, Hyperion Solutions, and Oracle.

Jim Whitehurst has recently been named president and chief executive officer of Red Hat. Whitehurst joined Delta Airlines in 2002, serving in various roles, most recently as chief operating officer, responsible for Operations, Sales and Customer Service, Network and Revenue Management, Marketing and Corporate Strategy. Prior to joining Delta, Whitehurst served as vice president and director of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and held various leadership roles in its Chicago, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Atlanta offices.

A native of Columbus, Georgia, Whitehurst graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics. He also attended Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany, holds a general course degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Whitehurst, 40, is married with two children.

Tim Yeaton
CEO, Black Duck Software

Tim brings 30 years of software and technology management experience to his role as President and CEO of Black Duck. Prior to joining Black Duck, Tim was Chief Marketing Officer at EqualLogic until its $1.4B acquisition by Dell in 2008, and as Dell’s Vice President of the Nashua (N.H.) Design Center, he led the integration of the two companies and managed Dell’s operations in the region. Prior to EqualLogic, Tim spent several years at Red Hat, the leading provider of open source software solutions, as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing & General Manager of Enterprise Products. At Red Hat, Tim was instrumental in expanding its business into the developer and middleware markets with acquisitions of JBoss and MetaMatrix, and built go-to-market partnerships with companies including IBM, HP, Dell, Sun and several other strategic partnerships as well. Tim was previously President and CEO of Avaki, a venture-backed data management software company that was acquired by Sybase. Before Avaki he was Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Server Products Division at Macromedia, via its acquisition of Allaire where he was previously Senior Vice President of Products. Tim spent the early part of his career at Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation, most recently as Vice President and General Manager of Compaq’s UNIX/Linux Software Division.

In addition to the Black Duck Board of Directors, Tim currently sits on the Board of Directors of the N.H. High Technology Council, and Stonebridge Country Club. He was previously on the boards of Avaki Corporation, The Open Group, and the Open Software Foundation. Tim holds an M.B.A. from Babson College, and a B.S., summa cum laude, from Roger Williams University.

Robert Youngjohns
President, North America Sales & Marketing and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

Robert Youngjohns is the president for Microsoft North America. As the leader for Microsoft's sales, services and marketing efforts in the United States and Canada, Robert is passionate about connecting with customers and partners on various topics, including our Open Source initiatives. A Silicon Valley native, Robert brings more than 30 years experience in sales, marketing and strategic business development.
Prior to joining Microsoft, he served as president and chief executive officer of Callidus Software, Inc., a publicly traded company and leading provider of sales management software based in San Jose, CA. Before that, Robert spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems, where he was last executive vice president of Global Sales, responsible for Sun's worldwide sales organization. He also spent 18 years in various roles at IBM.

Jim Zemlin, formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Zemlin previously served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, the leader in products and services for the Apache web server. Prior to that, he was a member of the founding management team of Corio, a leading enterprise application service provider that had a successful initial public offering in July 2000. Widely quoted in the press on open source and commercial software trends, Zemlin has also been a keynote speaker at industry and financial conferences including Gartner's Open Source Conference, Linux World and OSCON. Zemlin also has a regular column in Enterprise Open Source Journal and is an advisor on open source strategy to various companies and governmental groups including Hyperic, Zmanda and the Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.