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Keynote speakers for the Open World Forum 2009 included

Jacques Attali, Michael Tiemann (Chairman of OSI and VP of Red Hat), Jim Zemlin (Executive Director of the Linux Foundation), Mike Milinkovich (Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation), Sander Striker (President of the Apache Software Foundation 2005-2007), James Bessen (Director of ResearchOnInnovation.org), Chris Hoffmann (Director of Engineering and Special Projects at the Mozilla Foundation), Cedric Thomas (CEO of the OW2 consortium), Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu ), Andrew Aitken (founder of the Open Source Think Tank) and Matthew Aslett (Analyst at The 451 Group) among others.

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Andrew Aitken, Founder, Olliance, Open Source Think Tank

Andrew has over 18 years senior management experience building and leading national professional services companies. Prior to founding Olliance, Andrew held positions as VP of Business Development, Corporate Strategy, and Marketing, with various national technology services providers, including Renaissance Worldwide and eWork. In 2001 Andrew founded Olliance Group with other industry veterans, to provide management and business strategy consulting to companies leveraging open source. Andrew is a frequent speaker on the topic of open source. He has chaired and spoken internationally at multiple industry and government conferences, is a member of the Open Source Software Institute's Board of Directors, SDForum’s Board of Advisors and Chair of their annual Open Source Conference, is on the Board of Advisors of SugarCRM, and has personally worked with companies such as: IBM, Sun, Intel, Nokia, HP, and others, assisting them with developing their open source strategies.

Matthew Aslett, Analyst, Enterprise Software, The 451 Group

Matthew covers data management software for The 451 Group, including relational and nonrelational databases, data warehousing and event processing. Matthew is also an expert in open source software and contributes regularly to reports produced through the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service, as well as to the 451 CAOS Theory blog. Prior to joining The 451 Group, Matthew was Deputy Editor of monthly magazine Computer Business Review and ComputerWire's daily news service. There he covered Linux and open source software and launched the successful Open Source Weblog in January 2006. Matthew started in IT journalism in 1997 as a staff writer with monthly magazine Unix and NT News, where he became editor in 2000. He has also contributed to a number of other publications, including Unigram/X, IBM System User and JavaVision.

Jacques Attali, Prospectivist, President of PlaNet Finance

Dr. Attali, is an international economist and prospectivist. From 1981 to 1991, he was an advisor to President François Mitterrand. In April 1991 he became the first President of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the financial institution established by western governments to assist the countries of eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet Union in their transition to democratic market economies. He worked at the bank until 1993. In 1998 Attali founded the French non-profit organization PlaNet Finance which focuses on microfinance. Attali is also known as the author of an impressive prospective work : “A Brief History of the Future” (2006) and of an analysis of the current economic crisis and its consequences “After the crisis” (2009).

James Bessen, Director, ResearchOnInnovation.org

James Bessen is recognized as an innovator in the electronic publishing industry, having developed one of the first commercially-successful desktop publishing programs. As an economics researcher, a former software developer and CEO, James Bessen brings a unique perspective to the study of innovation. Bessen is currently Lecturer in Law at Boston University School of Law where he does research on the economics of technological innovation, including patents and Free/Open Source Software. His research on software patents with Eric Maskin (Nobel Laureate in Economics) and Robert Hunt has been influential in European policy deliberations. He is the author (along with Michael J. Meurer) of Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk (Princeton 2008).

Chris Hofmann, Director of Engineering and Special Projects, Mozilla Foundation

As director of engineering and Special Projects at the Mozilla Foundation and Corporation, Chris Hofmann has spearheaded the research and development work of thousands of open source contributors around the world. A Netscape employee before joining Mozilla full-time, Chris contributed to every Netscape and Mozilla browser release since 1996. The first employee at the Mozilla Foundation in August 2003, Chris led a small but devoted team of orginal ten engineers that establish the Mozilla Foundation as an independent and self-sustaining organization. In 2004, Chris managed and executed the first worldwide release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0. Chris now helps to build and strengthen the Mozilla communities around the world that are involved with localization and release of Firefox in to over 70 languages, extend Firefox with Addons, and provide support to Firefox users. He engages with security researchers to help improve browser security, and works on a variety of mobile initiatives using the Mozilla technology.

Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation

Mike Milinkovich, is Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation supporting the Eclipse open-source community and commercial ecosystem. Mike has been contributing to the technology industry for over twenty years. Most recently as vice president in Oracle's Development Group, Mike led the Application Server Technical Services team, a group of highly technical experts who support Oracle's application server strategic customers and partners. Prior to joining Oracle, Mike was with WebGain where he was Vide President of Worldwide Services and President of WebGain Canada. Other experiences include: The Object People which did world wide technology consulting and training; Object Technology International where he held various roles in software engineering, product management and business development; and IBM, where Mike was responsible for world wide product marketing of a major IBM software product line.

Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Ubuntu

Mark is founder of the Ubuntu Project, an enterprise Linux distribution that is freely available worldwide and has both cutting-edge desktop and enterprise server editions, and has become very popular. Mark studied finance and information technology at the University of Cape Town, and went on to found Thawte, a company specialising in digital certificates and cryptography. He sold Thawte to US company VeriSign in 1999, and founded HBD Venture Capital and The Shuttleworth Foundation. He moved to London in 2001, and began preparing for the First African in Space mission, training in Star City, Russia, and Khazakstan. In April 2002 Mark flew in space, as a cosmonaut member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to the International Space Station. In early 2004 he founded the Ubuntu project, which aims to produce a free, high quality desktop OS for everybody.

Michael Tiemann, President, Open Source Initiative, VP Red Hat

Michael Tiemann is President of the Open Source Initiative as well as Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat Inc. Michael Tiemann is a true open source software pioneer. He made his first major open source contribution over a decade ago by writing the GNU C++ compiler, the first native-code C++ compiler and debugger. His early work created world-leading technologies and also informed the first open source business model. In 1989, Tiemann's technical expertise and entrepreneurial spirit led him to co-found Cygnus Solutions, the first company to provide commercial support for open source software. During his ten years at Cygnus, Tiemann contributed in a number of roles from President to hacker, helping to lead the company from a fledgling start-up to an admired open source leader. Tiemann also provides financial support to organizations that further the goals of software freedom, including the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the GNOME Foundation.

Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation

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. Keep track of Jim's thoughts on his blog: http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/

Larry Augustin, CEO SugarCRM

Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Appcelerator, Compiere, DeviceVM, DotNetNuke, Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, Pentaho and SugarCRM. 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.

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Other previous speakers included:

Jean-Pierre Archambault, Professor, CNDP-CRDP Paris, SCEREN

Ana Amorim, Serpro
Eric Bachard, Professor, UTBM
Christophe Ballihaut, Manager, Nexen Services
Jesus Barahona, University Rey Juan Carlos
Jean-Pierre Barberis, General Manager, Bull Services
Nicolas Barcet, Ubuntu Server Product Manager - Canonical
Eric Barroca, CEO, Nuxeo
Marcus Bauer, Founder, TangoGPS
Christian Bayle, Gforge Community leader in Europe, France Telecom Orange
Roland Benedetti, Managing Director, eZPublish
Jérôme Bernard, Director EMEA Operations for Amazon EC2, Elastic Grid
Jean-Luc Beylat, Vice President, Business partnerships, Alcatel-Lucent Bells Labs
Gaël Blondelle, CTO, EBM Websourcing
Lucas Bonnet, OpenMoko expert, Bearstech
Olivier Bouzereau, Global Security Mag
Thierry Brettnacher, Directeur du Conseil Nexedi ERP5
Tom Cahill, EMEA Director, JasperSoft
Stefano Camuzzo, Project Manager, SpagoBI Engineering
Davide dalle Carbonare, Project Architect, Engineering
Cédric Carbone, CTO, Talend
Miguel Carrillo, Telefonica I+D
Rogerio Atem de Carvalho, Federal Center for Technological Education (Brazil)
Emmanuel Chaillox, Université Paris 6
Olivier Chamberaud, IBM - Affaires Nouvelles et Développement
Jean-Marie Chauvet, Founder and Partner, LC Capital
Stephan Chraibi, Head of IT Strategy and Architecture, AVIVA
Charly Clairmont, CTO, ALTIC
Paulo Coelho, Proderj
Scott Collison, CEO, Ohloh
Clarice Coppeti, CIO - Caixa Econonica Federal
Roberto Di Cosmo, Professor, University Paris Diderot Paris 7
Jean-Luc Couasnon, Senior Executive, Accenture
Alex Coutant, Atelier Citoyen
Stéphane Crozat, Professor, UTC Compiègne
Loïc Dachary, APRIL
Stéphane Dalmas- INRIA
Renzo Davoli, University of Bologna (Italy)
Philippe Davy, Journaliste
Thierry Delprat, CTO, Nuxeo
Jean-Christophe Deprez, QualOSS project coordinator, CETIC
Christophe Deruel, Director, Zend France
Laurent Doguin, Nuxeo
Jean-François Donikian, President of StarXpert
Julien Dubois, Regional Director, SpringSource
Ludovic Dubost, CEO, XWiki
Marc Dutoo, Consultant, Open Wide
François Elie, Chairman, ADULLACT
François Exertier, Project Leader, Bull
Miguel Valdes Faura, BPM Manager, Bull
Olivier Fendt, Director, OSS Clearing House, Siemens
Stefane Fermigier, Founder and Chairman, Nuxeo
Pierre Ficheux, CTO, Open Wide/OS41 (Open Source For Industries), Technical leader of RTEL 4I project
Oliver Fendt, OSS Clearing House Director, Siemens
Stefane Fermigier, Founder and Chairman, Nuxeo
Dr. Matthias Fluegge, Head of Interoperability Research Group, Fraunhofer FOKUS (Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communications Systems)
Cyril Fonlupt, Université du Littoral (France)
Vincent François, Consultant, StarXpert
Christiana Soares de Freitas, University of Brazilia
Maxime Gaillard, StartX
Jean-Noël de Galzain, VP Program Committee and CEO, Wallix
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, FLOSS Program Leader, UNU-MERIT
Jose Gato Luis, Engineer, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Elmar Geese, Chairman, Linux Verband
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, FLOSSMetrics project coordinator, Rey Juan Carlos University
Tugdual Grall, VP Business and Product Strategy, eXo Platform
Steven L. Grandchamp, President and CEO, OpenLogic
Gilles Gravier, Global Government Industry Solutions Architect
François Gruyer, Skill Group Manager, OSMM expert, CapGemini
Florent Guillaume, Head of R&D, Nuxeo
Laurent Guiraud, Google
Christer Gundersen, Friprogsenteret, OSOR.EU
Hervé Guyomard, Business Development Manager, Black Duck Software
Sébastien Hache, Teacher, Sésamath
David Hammerstein, Member of the European Parliament
Olivier Heintz, Founder, NEREIDE, OfBiz
Wang Huaimin, Professor, China National University of Defense Technology
Valérie Humery, ANDSI
Benjamin Jean- LINAGORA
Bryan Joseph, Directeur (CEO), Zarafa
Fabio Kon, Professor, University of Sao Paulo
Laurent Kott, Directeur, Inria-Transfert
C N Krishnan, Director, Indian National Resource Centre for Open Source
Franz Kudorfer- Senior Consultant, Siemens
Deivi Kuhn, Serpro
Jean-Pierre Laisné, Open Source Chief Strategist, Bull
Didier Lamouche, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bull (*)
Bernard Lang, Research Director, INRIA
Philippe Laurent, Lawyer, Marx Van Ranst Vermeersch & Partners
Eric Leblond, CEO of INL
Arnaud Lefèvre, Directeur Général Adjoint, Nuxeo
Grégoire Lefèvre, Project Manager, OPIIEC
Bertrand Lemaire, Chef des informations CIO
Gwenael LeRoux, Colombbus
Laurent Letourny, Owner, Ysance and Partner, SugarCRM
Ouahiba Louafi, Epitech
Pascale Luciani, Profusus
Emma MacGrattan, VP engineering of Ingres
Eric Mahé, Silicon Sentier
Jose Carlos Maldonado, University of Sao Paolo - Sao Carlos
Christian Malz, Partner Manager, Jedox
Renato Martini, President, Brazil National Institute of Information Technology
Luc Maurer, Founder, CamptoCamp and Partner, OpenERP
Marcos Mazoni, President, Serpro
Emma McGrattan, CTO, Ingres
Corinto Meffe, SLTI/Ministery of Planing
Matteo Melideo, QualiPSo Project Coordinator, Engineering
Javier Pueyo Mena, PhD and Researcher, Science and Citizenship group, CSIC
Benjamin Mestrallet, Founder and Chairman, eXo Platform
Damien Metzler, Leroy Merlin
Jean-Marie Micallef, Founder, Phidias and Libertis Chairman, Compiere
Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation
Jean-Louis Missika, Paris City Council, Innovation, Research and Universities Deputy
Sandro Morasca, Professor, Insubria University
John Newton, Founder and CTO, Alfresco
Antonio de las Nieves, Co-Founder, Yerbabuena Software
Nnenna Nwakanma, Chair, FOSSFA council and Vice President, Digital Solidarity Fund and Board Member, OSI Board Member
Clément Oudot, Project Leader, Linagora
Jean-Marc Orliaguet, Chalmers University
Stefano De Panfilis, R&D Director, Engineering
Daniel Pascot - Université de Quebec
Ori Peckelman- AF83, DRUPAL Community member
Susanna Pelagatti, University of Pisa (Italy)
Jérôme Petazzoni, Pilotsystems
Cyril Pierre de Geyer, Observatoire du Logiciel Libre et Anaska from AlterWay group
Fabien Potencier, Founder and CEO, Sensio Labs
Mathieu Poujol, Pierre Audouin Consulting
Pierre Pronchery, RunningBear expert, Bearstech
Jean-Yves Pronier, Product Marketing Director, Sun Microsystems France
Rodolphe Quiédeville, April and Lolix
Sean Radford, Managing Director, Tacola
Klaus Reichling, SEMIC.EU Project Manager, ]init[ AG
Stéphane Réthoré- iB formation, CGOS Observatoire du Libre
Alain Ribière, Project Manager, EDF R&D
Paul Richardet, Silicon Sentier
Olivier Ricou, EPITA (France)
Phil Robb, HP, Chairman of FOSSBazaar.org
Teo Romera- Professor, Rey Juan Carlos University
Lino Roque Kieling, President, Dataprev
Marc Sallieres, Founder and CEO, Altic
Rogerio Santana, President, SLTI/Ministry of Planning
Gilles Saulière, NPAI
David Sapiro, Founder, Pilotsystems
Stefano Scamuzzo, BI Initiative Lead, Engineering
Hans-Ulrich Schmid, Director, Stuttgart Region Open Source Initiative
Gerd Schürmann, Director, Fraunhofer FOKUS e-Government Laboratory
Damien Seguy, Manager, Alter Way Consulting
Raphael Semeteys, QSOS Expert, AtosOrigin
Kazuhiko Shiozaki, Nexedi Japan
Alberto Sillitti, Professor, Free University of Bolzano
Jean-Paul Smets, CEO, Nexedi
Marine Soroko, Founder and CEO, Core-Techs
Jacques Souillot, CRDP Paris
Bruno Souza, Sun
Diomidis Spinellis, SQO-OSS Project coordinator, Athens University of Economics and Business
Bogdan Stefanescu, Architect, Nuxeo
JF Taltavull, R&D Manager, Wallix
Sun Tan, Nuxeo
Nel Taurisson, SkinSoft
Daniel Tallez, CTO and Co-Founder, Yerbabuena Software
Cedric Thomas, CEO, OW2 Consortium
Jean-Paul Triaille, Lawyer, Wolf & Partners
Theofanis Vassiliou-Gioles, CEO, Testing Technologies
Joannes Vermorel, Founder, Lokad
Dominique Vernay, Chairman, System@TIC
Jesus Villasante, Head of Unit, Software and Service Architectures and Infrastructures, European Commission
Quoc Viet Ha, Thales
Karel De Vriendt, Head of Unit, IDABC-DIGIT, European Commission
Frédéric Vuillot, member of the OpenOffice community in France
Huaimin Wang, Professor, NUDT School of Computer (National University of Defense Technology)
Anthony Wasserman, Professor and Director, Center for Open Source Investigation, Open BRR expert, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
Matt Watchinski, senior director of Vulnerability research
Jim Whitehurst, Directeur & C.E.O., Red Hat

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