The Business Value of Open Source Software

Agenda

13.15: Registration

14.00 – 14.15 Welcome Address, Jim Cuddy, Finance & Enterprise

Software, Enterprise Ireland

14.15 – 14.45 Simon Phipps, "The Return of the Community: How Business Will
Interact With FOSS"

14.45 – 15.15 Tim Willoughby, "Open Source in Local Government"

15.15 – 15.45 Ronan Kirby, "Open Source Solutions People Bank On"

15.45 – 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 – 16.30 David Coallier, "Open Source for the Greater Good"

16.30 – 17.00 Mark Shuttleworth, "Open Minds in Open Communities"

17.00 – 18.00 Networking Session

Conference Details

Date: Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

Venue: Crowne Plaza, Northwood, Dublin

Further information and registration at http://www.een-ireland.ie, or contact David

Scanlon, david.scanlon@enterprise-ireland.com
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Speaker Profiles

Simon Phipps: A well-known and respected leader in the Free software

community, computer industry veteran Simon Phipps has been involved at
a strategic level in some of the world’s leading technology companies. In
2005 he was appointed Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems,
coordinating Sun’s extensive participation in Free and Open Source
software communities until he left in 2010.

Tim Willoughby: Tim is the Assistant Director of the Local Government

Computer Services Board (LGCSB), and has worked in the agency for more
than 10 years in several technical roles. He has been working in the public
service for 18 years in several engineering, technology and ICT roles. From
his early days as a computer teacher through to his current role, he has had
a passion for technology, particularly to understand and harness it for use
in government. Mr Willoughby is responsible for research and development
in the LGCSB and represents Irish Local Authorities on several cross
government and cross business committees.

Ronan Kirby: Ronan Kirby is Business Development Director for the Red
Hat software ecosystem in Northern EMEA. During his long tenure at Red
Hat, Ronan has held multiple leadership roles, on both the commercial and
technical side of the organisation. Most recently, Ronan was a core member
of the Boston MA based RHEL Product Marketing Team, which has
business ownership of the flagship Red Hat product. Ronan also acts as a
Senior Adviser in Technology for the European Bank (EBRD), where he
engages directly in economic development work in developing economies
across Siberia, Mongolia, Central Asia and the Balkans. Before joining Red
Hat, Ronan accrued considerable expertise, through a range of leadership
roles in Internet Service Providers and Integrators.

David Coallier: David has been helping startups and enterprises since
2001. As Director of Technology in echolibre, David drives technical
innovation and is responsible for ensuring the high quality production of
our client and internal projects as well as designing system architecture
for our client projects. A well known contributor to the international PHP
community, David has previously contributed to the PHP Core and PHP
Security Groups, and is currently President of the PHP PEAR Group, which
maintains the world's largest repository of reusable PHP modules. He is the
creator of FRAPI and spends most of his free time either hacking on FRAPI,
doing maths or complaining about how things should be done.

Mark Shuttleworth: Founder of the Ubuntu Project, a popular Linux-

based operating system that is freely available worldwide with desktop and
server editions. Mark currently leads design and product strategy at
Canonical Ltd, the company behind Ubuntu. Canonical provides support on
a commercial basis for the free Ubuntu operating system.