Open Source Meets Business 2008

Abstract

Moderation: Dr. Oliver Diedrich, Chefredakteur heise open

Biographie: Larry Augustin

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) serving as CEO until August 2002. While CEO he launched SourceForge.net and led the company through an IPO in December 1999. Larry can be found online at http://lmaugustin.com.

Biographie: Paul Cormier

Since joining Red Hat in May 2001 as Executive VP of Engineering, Paul Cormier's leadership and experience in enterprise technology has led to the introduction of Red Hat's acclaimed line of enterprise products, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Cormier has been instrumental in forging tight partnerships with many leading technology companies.

Prior to coming to Red Hat, he served as senior vice president of research and development at BindView, helping the company achieve market leadership in 2000. Cormier holds a Master of Science in Software Development and Management from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Biographie: Johannes Helbig

Johannes Helbig gilt als einer der geistigen Väter des Konzepts der Service-orientierten Architektur und ist Begründer des SOA-Programms bei der Deutschen Post World Net. Dort verantwortet er derzeit als Mitglied des Bereichsvorstands und CIO die IT des Unternehmensbereichs BRIEF.

Biographie: Roger Levy

Roger Levy serves as the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Open Platform Solutions business unit at Novell. He is responsible for the development for all products that make up Novell's open source and open platform technologies, including SUSE Linux and Open Enterprise Server. Mr. Levy is a member of Novell's Worldwide Management Committee.

Mr. Levy brings 27 years of experience with Lucent in the development and delivery of technology solutions for large enterprises. Most recently, he held the position of vice president, product realization, responsible for product delivery for four internal startups spanning the markets of routing, mobile applications, enterprise security and service provider network security. In addition, Mr. Levy held the position of vice president, software technology center, where he led Lucent's open source initiative, driving the establishment of an open source policy, creation of processes to leverage open source, and definition of open source acceptance tests. His other assignments included vice president of GSM product realization, where he led a 1,500 person team across seven countries.

Mr. Levy holds a B.S in physics from Lafayette college and and M.S in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

Biographie: Sam Ramji

Sam directs the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft doing primary research on various open source projects, and driving interoperability between Microsoft and key open source technologies. He leads Open Source Technology Strategy, including engaging with commercial Open Source companies like Novell, JBoss, Zend and SugarCRM, to help Microsoft advance our support for and understanding of the open source development, community, and marketing models.

Sam has led engineering teams building large-scale applications on Open Source software (at Ofoto.com) as well as hands-on development of client, client-server, and distributed applications on Unix, Windows, and Macintosh. Prior to his current role at Microsoft, Sam was a Director of Emerging Business working on the Silicon Valley Campus where he managed relationships with Venture Capitalists and entrepreneurs. Sam has held management and strategy positions at BEA Systems and Ofoto.com and has worked with Fortune 500 CTOs and architects.

Sam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California at San Diego.

Biographie: Jim Zemlin

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 is an adviser on open source strategy to various companies and governmental groups including Hyperic, Zmanda and the Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.