Investment Summit, Tuesday, 23. January, 2007
New business models, new value chains, new markets:
Capital has discovered Open Source: Investments facilitating the growth of companies specialising in Open Source-based IT services are thriving.
Success stories - At the Investment Summit, part of the congress Open Source Meets Business, it's all about investors' motivation to engage in Open Source companies. On an international scope, successful examples are presented – from the finance as well as from technology and user sides.
Europe and Open Source - Open Source is an issue in political terms, too. The economic realm of Europe bears a vital interest in not letting the wave of investments, which is already going very high in the USA, pass by. Favourable basic conditions given, Open Source offers a chance for Europe to enter a top position.
Among the keynoters - Andre Boisvert, taking the IT supplier- as well as the Open Source-perspective: one one hand as investor into several Open Source companies and consultant for a number of private equity funds, on the other hand as chairman of Pentaho, where he plays an active role in business development.
And Bob Gett, president and CEO of systems-integration company Optaros: He will talk about the role of Open Source in the "ecosystem" of a restructuring software market.
Open Source Meets Money - Already successful companies, deserving and still needing financial support, will present themselves to the VC community and to the market. Open Source Meets Business creates a platform for those with ideas and those with money to talk and do business on. An analyst speech about the market potential of Open Source will top the programm off.
Programming challenge: In the context of the congress, Heise Publishing, together with the Free University of Berlin and the Linux Business Campus Nuremberg (LBCN), invite web application developers to the programming challenge Plat-Forms