The growing use of Open Source and economics of outsourcing have made testing for intellectual property (IP) cleanliness and proper satisfaction of legal obligations an essential task for ensuring quality and market acceptability. Real or perceived IP issues can delay product cycles and derail entire projects or business transactions. This panel of experts will cover the important legal aspects of Open Source adoption, and the tools and procedures for safe adoption and management of Open Source software in large as well as small and mid-size organizations:

- Discussion of issues concerning commercialization of software-intensive products in the wake of accelerated adoption of Open Source software and extensive use of outsourcing.

- Examination of the requirements, processes and techniques available for proper software IP management and code portfolio mapping necessary to avoid legal pitfalls The performance/cost efficiencies of various techniques will be evaluated. Business results of developing appropriate Software Bill-of-Materials records and applying corrective and preventive tools for software IP management will also be discussed.


2nd OCTOBER 2009 - 11.00-13.00 - EUROSITES GEORGE V, PARIS


09.00-10.30

OPEN WORLD FORUM OPENING KEYNOTES: with Karel De Vriendt, Alix Cazenave, Mark Shuttleworth, etc.

11.00-11.05

Conference Opening (Paris Room)

Session Leader: Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu, Protecode

Panel session and participants introduction

 

11.05-11.20

“Open Source is Not Really Free of Obligations”

Session Leader: Olivier Iteanu, Avocat & Prof. Telecommunications Law, Paris I Sorbonne.

Legal issues concerning commercialization of software-intensive products using Open Source software and/or outsourced developments are summarized. Some notable judicial decisions concerning infringement of license and/or copyright obligations are discussed for illustration.

11.20-11.35

“5 Key Steps to Adopting Open Source in the Enterprise”

Session Leader: Steven L. Grandchamp, President & CEO Open Logic Inc.

A thorough analysis of how successful companies navigate the open source waters and ensure they are complying with their open source policies and open source licensing leads to 5 key steps for the safe and successful adoption of open source in the enterprise:
- Creating an open source policy
- Selecting & provisioning open source
- Auditing open source usage
- Complying with open source licenses
- Supporting open source in production

11.35-11.50

“Efficient Mastering of Open Source in Small and Mid-Size Organizations”

Session Leader: Mahshad Koohgoli, President & CEO Protecode Inc.

3rd generation tools and real-time “legal obligation discovery” techniques are enabling the use of a simplified workflow for the safe and efficient adoption and transfer of open source and other external code, even for small and mid-size organizations. These tools do not require any special training of software developers and do not disturb the normal process of development. Such “forward open source adoption workflow” maintains developer freedom of choosing most applicable open source solutions.

11.50-12.05

“Quality Assurance in an Embedded Open World”

Session Leader: Mr. Neil Langmead, CEO Emenda Inc.

Real-time systems have become quite complex with software components embedded in many chips, subsystems and application layers, most of which make use of open source. This presentation looks at a strategy to enforce licensing / ownership and compliance issues at the developer desktop, and how this leads to increased quality and confidence in the released applications, simultaneously reducing IP infringement risks, and the risks of defects escaping into the field post-release.

12.05-12.20

Best Practice in the Commercialization of IP from ICT Based Research”

Session Leader: Dr. John McGuire, Commercialization Executive, National University of Ireland

The key activities required to identify, protect, and commercialist the IP developed in an ICT based research institute will be discussed, with emphasis on issues pertaining to extensive use of Open Source solutions. The presentation will identify the key activities required to identify, protect and commercialize the IP developed. Each activity will be defined and best practice in managing these activities will be introduced through a case study.

12.20-12.35

"Legal Issues from Global to Local: a QualiPSo Initiative”

Session Leader: Stephane Dalmas, Legal Issues Leader, QualiPSo Project, INRIA

Although FLOSS is global, Law is local, and the differences that may affect FLOSS are not only on the handling of Intellectual Property but also on contract laws, liabilities, consumer laws... We will discuss an initiative taking place in the QualiPSo European project to build a reference site to centralize the existing knowledge on legal issues related to FLOSS. It focuses on the different national laws to provide a resource of accurate, organized and qualified information to lawyers and working practitioners worldwide.

12.35-13.00

Open Panel Discussions

Questions and answers

13.00-14.00

Cocktail-Lunch and networking

 

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Olivier Iteanu,

Avocat & Prof. Telecommunications Law, Paris I Sorbonne

Olivier ITEANU is Founder & CEO of the most prominent French law firm dedicated to Information Technology. He serves as Professor of Telecommunications Law at the University of Paris I Sorbonne and Paris XI, and is responsible for the training of junior lawyers, members of the Bar of Paris, in computer law and the internet. Olivier has published the first seminal French books on internet and the law: “Internet and Law” (1996), “Tous Cybercriminels” (2004) and “L’identite numerique en question” (2008).

Olivier Iteanu also acts as Arbitrator at the International Forum Arbitration (USA), the Mediation & Arbitration Center in Paris, as well as an expert for the World Intellectual Property Organization.

http://www.iteanu.com

 

Steven L. Grandchamp

President and CEO, Open Logic Inc.

Steven L. Grandchamp has over twenty-five years of experience in the software industry, with executive roles for both vendor and IT customer organizations.

He was formerly President and CEO of Information Management Research leading the move into Enterprise Content Management. Prior, he was Vice President and a principal shareholder at American Fundware, where he was responsible for software development. Steven was a founding partner of Formation Technologies Inc, a software company for the banking industry that became a leader in the loan origination segment.

Steven also held senior management positions with Microsoft including the application development segment of Microsoft Consulting Services. Steven spent the early part of his career in progressively responsible IT roles in the banking industry.

Steven graduated summa cum laude from Regis University with a Bachelor's degree in International Business. Steven thrives in a variety of climates - having lived in both Alaska and Hawaii. He keeps life exciting by staying in constant motion as a cyclist, skier, motorcyclist and parent of 4 children.

http://openlogic.com 

 

Mahshad Koohgoli

President & CEO Protecode Inc.

Mahshad has spent his entire career in the technology field. Starting as a lecturer in the University of Exeter, England, Mahshad joined Bell Northern Research in Ottawa in 1982. In the next fifteen years he held various technical, marketing and executive posts in BNR, Northern Telecom, and Newbridge Networks (now Alcatel-Lucent).  Mahshad is a technology entrepreneur, and has created four companies in the last fourteen years: Spacebridge Networks (satellite communications), Lantern Communications Canada (metro optical networking),  Nimcat Networks (peer-to-peer Voice Over IP call processing), and Protecode Inc (Software Intellectual Property management), where he currently holds the position of President and CEO. 

Mahshad holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. from University of Sussex, England.

http://www.protecode.com 

 

Neil Langmead

CEO Emenda

Neil Langmead is a software testing consultant and founder/CEO of Emenda, a world-leading provider of software testing and quality solutions, consultancy and training with presence in several major European countries and in China.

Neil is a specialist in the testing of embedded software, particularly applications which need to reach demanding quality standards such as DO178B or FDA. He has provided training and consultancy to some of the largest companies in the world, including Nokia, Siemens and Alcatel and has authored several papers presented at international software conferences in Europe and China.

Neil is an expert in static source code analysis, software architecture and refactoring, and the development of unit and integration testing techniques. He has also lectured on software testing at Vienna University, and the Universities of Bath and Munich.

http://www.emenda.eu 

 

John McGuire

Commercialization Executive, National Univ. of Ireland

John McGuire has 18 years experience working for multinational companies such as SAP, IBM, Microsoft, Siebel Systems and Nortel. During this time John has held various posts from Software Engineering in Microsoft, Director of Research and Development in IBM to Director of Global Operations in SAP.

John is currently a Commercialization Executive working within the Technology Transfer Office, National University of Ireland Galway. John’s main role is in the identification, protection and commercialization of Intellectual Property resulting from ICT based research. John has developed Best Practice for Intellectual Property Management to ensure commercialization of Open Source projects.

John holds and MBA from Oxford University since 2002.

http://www.nuigalway.ie 

 

Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu

Protecode Inc.

Dr. Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu has 35 years international business & technology experience having been  involved in most facets of “innovation development”: from idea to market success on the global stage.  Most recently, he was Managing Director EMEA for Terawave – a California optical access company. As co-founder and President Global Portfolio of OrbitIQ – a global business accelerator, Sorin has been working with technology companies in North America and Europe to build their market strength. In 2000 he founded Wireless Multimedia Solutions in North Carolina.

Prior to 2000, Sorin held executive positions with Nortel Networks in Wireless, Enterprise Networks and Carrier Networks. Sorin was Director for Exploratory Programs at BNR. He has several essential patents in web services, wireless and digital signal processing, as well as over 70 publications and presentations.

In parallel, during the 80’s, Dr. Cohn-Sfetcu has been Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa. A Killam Scholar, he received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, an M.Sc in Physics and an M.Eng in Engineering Physics.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/sorincohnsfetcu

 

 Stephane Dalmas

Stéphane Dalmas earns a PhD in Computer Science and works at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique), the leading French research institute in IT. After spending ten years investigating various problems in symbolic computation (programming languages, user interface, code generation, deductive formula databases, representation of mathematical objects, automatic differentiation), he joined the technology transfer and industrial partnership team. As INRIA considers FLOSS as another powerful means to transfer its research results to the industry and society, he became involved in the CeCILL effort, coordinating the work on the second version of the license and on CeCILL-B and CeCILL-C to produce the first coherent family of FLOSS licenses with a high legal quality. Stéphane is the leader of the "Legal Issues" activity of the QualiPSo European project on the quality of Open Source.

 

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