Panelist: Dr. Johnson joined Sun in March of 1996 after nearly 15 years in the private and public R&D sector where he participated in a variety of activities, primarily involved with data-intensive remote sensing technologies. Currently in the Corporate Standards Department, he is working to identify and further the adoption of key standards for advanced technologies and emerging markets. The impact and role of Internet technologies and standards has been a central theme in these efforts, including likely future evolution and exploitation of wireless, network-centric and related architectures. The roles of standards creation processes, intellectual property rights, and their impact on the creation and growth of technical markets is also of great interest to Dr. Johnson. He has been involved extensively, both as an organizer and participant, in an annual series of conferences known as the Standards Edge, produced by the Bolin Group, addressing a number of emerging standards related topics.

In addition to extensive experience in designing and developing computing architectures for the analysis of diverse physical data sets, he has published more than 50 articles, reports and presentations on a variety of scientific topics, primarily in the physical sciences. These topics include laser-based chemical remote sensing, galactic structure and satellite-based image sensor design and exploitation, as well as the design and implementation of algorithms for remote sensing data analysis.

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Panelist: Dr. James King is a Senior Principal Scientists at Adobe Systems Incorporated and has the job title of PDF Platform Architect. He currently is the Adobe technology lead in handing control of the PDF standard over to ISO and has been nominated by the US committee to become the PDF/ISO standard technical editor. More generally, he is responsible for guiding the current and future Adobe contributions to the Portable Document File format that is the basis for Adobe’s Acrobat and LiveCycle product lines. Dr. King has been with Adobe since 1988 when he formed the Advanced Technology Group (ATG). He is currently an individual contributor in what is now called the Advanced Technology Laboratory (ATL) within the Office of Technology. Previously he worked within IBM Research both in at the T. J. Watson Research center in New York and at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He is the inventor of many patented ideas and is well known for his ability to clearly explain the technologies on which Adobe’s products are built.

Panelist: Arnaud Le Hors is responsible for overseeing the management of IBM standards activities and leading IBM open source and standards program in the emerging markets. He has been working on open standards for over 10 years, both as a staff member of standards development organizations (SDO) such as W3C and as a representative for IBM. Arnaud has been involved in every aspect of the standards development process. This includes the technical, strategic, political, and legal aspects, both internal and external to an SDO and to a company like IBM. Arnaud was involved in the development of standards such as HTML and XML. He has also been involved in open source projects, such as Xerces, the XML parser developed by the Apache Software Foundation for which he was one of the lead architects.

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Panelist: Buck "Marbux" Martin. Marbux is a retired Oregon lawyer who volunteers his time with the OpenDocument Foundation as its director of legal affairs and is also a freelance investigative writer with an intense interest in software interoperability issues and closely-related subjects such as software patents. Marbux is also a member of the OpenDocument Technical Committee. He received his J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law. "Buck 'Marbux' Martin" is a pseudonym used to maximize his privacy in retirement.
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Panelist: As the Senior Director of Interoperability for the Microsoft Corporation, Jason Matusow is a leading strategist on the broad spectrum of issues that make up Microsoft’s global commitment to interoperability. His work in this role covers technology, public policy, and business strategy. He and his team have responsibility for the global advocacy of Microsoft’s approach to interoperability. Matusow consults with governments, corporations, academics, and analysts globally on his areas of expertise. Commentary, musings, and critique on the subjects of standards, open source, and emerging business models can be found in his blog. He has been published on the subject of open source as a contributing author in the MIT Press book Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, and other academic journals.
He has been in the software industry for more than 15 years. Before joining Microsoft, he founded his own PC and networking business. Matusow is a graduate of Boston University. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and two children.

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Panel Moderator: Andy Stein is Director of Information Technology at the City of Newport News, Virginia. Using Open Source as a best practice model for collaborative software development, the City of Newport News is engaged in shared projects with other localities. The City of Newport News has developed a strategy to replace legacy applications through a collaborative ecosystem with public entities and through public-private partnerships.

In addition to his current work in Government, Andy’s professional background includes management and operation of large scaleable computing environments at Capital One, as well as work in application development, relational database and systems architecture in IBM’s consulting practice. Andy designed and implemented the RISC chip for IBM in the mid 1980’s.