Ali Shadman is the Chief Technology Officer of Unisys’ Systems & Technology Division. In this role, Ali represents the division to both internal and external audiences to position and drive strategic technology direction in the market place.
Before his current role, Ali was the Vice President and General Manager of the Open Source Solutions group where he was responsible for program strategy and execution related to open source suites (stacks), value-add software, integrated offerings and related technology services.Ali has also been VP and GM of Innovative Programs Business in Systems & Technology, responsible for commercializing leading edge R&D efforts (more information can be found here) in areas of platform and application management, Java related technologies and application development tooling.
Ali has over 24 years of deep experience covering a broad spectrum of computing covering large systems development, Internet-centric computing and model-driven architectures in a variety of capacities including strategy, marketing, and business development.
In addition to helping leading companies such as Microsoft realize their vision of delivering unique products and services to their enterprise clients, Ali has also founded three companies in areas of database development, business transaction engines and model-based application development.
Ali remains active in helping early stage companies and is a member of the advisory group for University of California, Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computing Sciences.
Ali Studied Operations Research at London Metropolitan University graduate school after receiving a Double Major with Honors in Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the University of Essex, England.

Andrea Di Maio is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research, where he focuses on the public sector, with particular reference to the business value of IT, e-government strategies, open-source software and the impact of technology on the future of government. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Di Maio was with the European Commission, where he was responsible for part of the R&D framework program, as well as for all activities on the impact of the year 2000 problem and the IT impact of the European single currency. Before the European Commission, he held management and technical positions in the systems and software industry. He has more than 20 years of experience in IT.

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.

Jason Matusow is a leading strategist on the broad spectrum of issues that make up Microsoft’s global commitment to interoperability.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.

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 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.

Mr. Ben Berry serves as ODOT’s Chief Information Officer providing overall leadership, planning, development, and delivery of information technology services for ODOT and several other non-transportation organizations. As CIO for one of the largest state agencies and Chair of the State’s CIO Council, Mr. Berry supports Intelligent Transportation Systems, e-Government and major systems change and is responsible for systems supporting highways, bridges, rail service, right-of-way determinations, DMV and Motor Carrier Commercial Trucking inspections and licensing throughout the state. He is the former Chief Technology Officer of Providence Health System Oregon supporting a Service Area of 7 hospitals and 33 clinics. Mr. Berry has held executive and management positions in industries such as State and Local government, healthcare, telecommunications, aerospace/defense and airport transportation. He received his M.B.A. from UCLA and a B.S. in Life Science - Biotechnology from the University of Portland. He has 25+ years in computer software program management and operations, computer applications development and design, and systems development for public and private sectors both in the U.S.A. and the Middle-East. In addition, he has facilitated business process improvement for the automotive, aerospace, healthcare industries and is the Winner of the Public Sector 2007 Oregon IT Executive of the Year, as chosen by the Society of Information Management (SIM).

Bob Devyldere: Bob DeVyldere leads the award winning Information Services group at the Oregon Water Resources Department. During the past 15 years Bob has been responsible for strategically delivering high quality and quantities of information to both internal and external customers. An early adopter of Open Source and Internet tool sets, he has directed an organization that leads all Western States in delivering water resource information to customers. He is active in several statewide groups developing data standards for Geographic Information Systems that encourages data sharing between State, Local and Federal agencies. He has also led other state agencies in developing their long term information management strategies and currently serves as Chair of the Sate CIO Council's Open Source Community of Practice.Mr. DeVyldere received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Willamette University and is a certified Oregon Project Manager.

Navica's founder and CEO, Bernard Golden, is a recognized authority on open source software. Called “a renowned open source expert” (IT Business Edge) and “an open source guru” (SearchCRM.com), he is regularly featured in magazines like Computerworld, InformationWeek, and Inc. His blog “The Open Source” is one of the most popular features of CIO Magazine's website. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences like LinuxWorld, the Open Source Business Conference, and the Red Hat Summit. He is the author of “Succeeding with Open Source,” (Addison-Wesley, 2005, published in four languages), which was described as containing “some of the most valuable, practical advice I have seen on how to transform use of open source software from an accidental process into a powerful strategy for gaining an edge on the competition” (Terry Bollinger, IT Analyst, The MITRE Corporation, and author of “Use of FOSS in the United States Department of Defense”).

Panel Moderator: Daniel D. Frye, Vice President - IBM Open Systems Development, is the head of IBM’s Linux development team - the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) - and is responsible for overseeing IBM’s Linux technical strategy and IBM’s participation in the open source Linux development community.

The mission of the LTC is to help the global open source Linux community make Linux better, to ensure Enterprise-level Linux support for IBM’s Hardware, Software, and Services brands, and to help expand the reach of Linux into new markets. LTC engineers are trusted, valued members of dozens of open source communities and contribute broadly to open source in many respects.

Prior to his current responsibilities, Dr. Frye was a member of IBM’s Emerging Technologies and Business Opportunities team where he worked on company-wide technical strategies that predicted future trends and transitions in the IT industry. It was during this time that Dr. Frye co-authored the original IBM corporate strategies for Linux and open source. Since then, Dr. Frye has been a key participant in both the IBM-wide Linux and open source core teams that have overseen the adoption of Linux and open source as key strategic initiatives for IBM.

Dr. Frye has an M.A. in Physics from The Johns Hopkins University (1982) and a B.A. in Physics from the University of Idaho (1979). He also received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Atomic Physics from The Johns Hopkins University (1985). Dr. Frye is a member of multiple Linux and open source industry groups including being a founding Board Member of The Linux Foundation.

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Panelist: Dr. Ron Adams has been Dean of the College of Engineering at Oregon State University since 1998. He been a key leader and board member in the launch of Oregon’s first collaborative signature research center on nanoscience and micro technologies (ONAMI).

Prior to Oregon State he was Vice President of R&D and senior Tektronix Fellow for the Color Printing and Imaging Division of Tektronix. During his 14 years at Tektronix, Dr. Adams led the start up of the company’s solid ink printing business and then led subsequent solid ink technology advancements and their commercialization.

Prior to Tektronix, Dr. Adams was an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at OSU, a research staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratories, and a Lieutenant and R&D Program Manager at the USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization. He holds a BSME from Oregon State, a SM in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT, and a Ph.D. ME from Oregon State. Dr. Adams’ contributions to technology advancement range from hypersonic aerodynamics of aerospace vehicles to the micro fluidics of ink jets. He is a Fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology.

www.engr.oregonstate.edu/

Panelist: Peter Kronowitt is a Software Strategist in the Software and Solutions Group at Intel Corporation. The Software and Solutions Group (SSG) is responsible for enabling the Intel Architecture products through operating system, Software Vendor, solutions, and core system software technology enabling. SSG provides leading-edge products such as compilers, libraries, and tools that allow customers to get the full performance benefit of Intel architectures. Pete is responsible for developing and managing the worldwide program for Linux operating system vendors at Intel. He consults with Linux distributors, industry and community for enhancement of Linux for Itanium and IA-32 processors architectures and strategic platforms.

Pete also directs alignment of key relationships with Linux-based and open source software companies to align Intel’s product and technology development to improve product introductions into the market place. Peter has 20 years in the high-tech sector, with IBM, Xircom and more than ten years with Intel, leading global teams for market and platform roadmap development in the worldwide channel, directing software ecosystem relationships for new Intel platforms. He has been evangelizing Linux and Open Source within Intel and the industry since 2000, and regularly contributes to Intel's corporate Open Source strategy. Pete has formerly held positions as board observer in JBoss as part of an Intel Capital equity investment, a founding and Steering Committee member of the Open Business Readiness Rating announced in 2005, and Steering Committee Vice Chair for the Open Source Development Lab Desktop Linux Working Group.

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Panelist: Jeff R. Wright is founding Dean of Engineering at the University of California, Merced (since September, 2001), Director of the UC Merced Energy Institute, and the Campus Director of the Center for Computer and Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). He was formerly Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Civil Engineering, and Director of the Indiana Water Resources Research Center, at Purdue University. Dean Wright holds undergraduate degrees in social psychology and in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington, an MSE in Environmental Engineering also from the University of Washington, and a Doctorate from The Johns Hopkins University through the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. Professor Wright is a noted authority on the design and implementation of decision support systems for public-sector engineering planning and management, particularly spatial analysis and distributed decision support modeling for natural resources and environmental engineering.

Dr. Wright is a member of the Action Forum on Diversity of the National Academy of Engineering, and served for 10 years as founding Editor-in-Chief of the American Society of Civil Engineer's Journal of Infrastructure Systems. He is co-author of a leading textbook entitled Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering (Prentice Hall).

www.eng.ucmerced.edu/soe/

Dean Anderson is the IT Director for Polk County and is responsible for all aspects of information technology including Information Management Systems, the County Website, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the hardware architecture required to support County government. Dean is a member of the Oregon Association of Government Information Technology Management (OAGITM), Oregon Geographic Information Committee (OGIC), a board member of the Oregon & Southwest Washington URISA chapter, and member of the Oregon GIS Policy Advisory Committee. Prior to joining Polk County, Dean was the northwest regional manager for ESRI where he managed and provided technical support for a wide number of GIS projects to support national, regional, state, and local government business activities. Dean also managed and provided technical support for implantation of GIS technology for the private sector including timber, utility and mapping industries. Dean has over 25 years experience in the GIS and Information Management industries.

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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.

Erwin Tenhumberg is a member of the Open Source Group at Sun Microsystems which is led by Sun's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps. Among his roles and responsibilities are community development and marketing for OpenOffice.org. In addition, Erwin Tenhumberg focuses on open source business models and open source in the public sector. Besides his role in the Open Source Group, Erwin is also co-chairing the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) Adoption TC (Technical Committee). As part of his work, he is involved in various ODF efforts like at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the US or within the European Union. In addition, he collaborates with the OASIS OpenDocument Format TC, the ODF Alliance and the OpenOffice.org open source community. http://photos.sun.com/page/1892

Greg Lund-Chaix is a developer and project manager at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. Greg's current project is the Oregon Virtual School District. The OVSD is a joint project with the Oregon Department of Education to provide digital teaching and learning resources to Oregon public school teachers. Greg is also a mentor and organization administrator for the Google Summer of Code, where he managed the OSL's participation in the mentoring of students learning to participate in the open source community. Prior to joining OSU, Greg spent the previous 12 years as a developer and systems administrator on various distance learning and telecommunications systems for the Oregon Department of Administrative Services.

Greg Lund-Chaix is a developer and project manager at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL). Greg's current project is the Oregon Virtual School District. The OVSD is a joint project with the Oregon Department of Education to provide digital teaching and learning resources to Oregon public school teachers. Greg is also a mentor and organization administrator for the Google Summer of Code, where he managed the OSL's participation in the mentoring of students learning to participate in the open source community. Prior to joining OSU, Greg spent the previous 12 years as a developer and systems administrator on various distance learning and telecommunications systems for the Oregon Department of Administrative Services.

Lance Albertson is Infrastructure Architect at OSL bringing extensive experience in large scale academic computing environment and Open Source Community involvement. Lance also serves as senior systems administrator for OSL. He comes to the lab from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas where he was responsible for over 30,000 faculty/staff and student email and system accounts as well as serving as the advisor for the Linux Users Group. Lance's involvement in the Open Source Community started in 2003 with the Gentoo Linux distribution. As a leader within the Gentoo Community, Lance has served on the Foundation, has held the position of Operational Manager for the Infrastructure team, and is a developer and maintainer for several core infrastructure packages.

Jeff Sheltren is Infrastructure Manager at OSL. Jeff comes to the Lab from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he was a Senior Systems Administrator and Programmer for the Computer Science department. In 2003, Jeff began working with the Fedora Legacy Project, and later went on to setup and maintain the build system used to build all Fedora Legacy packages. Jeff was elected to serve as a member of Fedora's Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) Steering Committee in 2007. As a leader of the relatively new EPEL community, Jeff is working to establish EPEL as a valuable resource to Enterprise Linux users in addition to encouraging community participation in the project. He also currently maintains a number of packages for the Fedora Project, as well as being a Mentor for Google's Summer of Code.

Ian Skerrett is the Director of Marketing for the Eclipse Foundation. In this role, Ian works to raise the awareness of the Eclipse open source projects and the wider Eclipse ecosystem. Ian has over 15 years of experience in the software industry working in product management and product marketing.

Jason Haislmaier is a Partner in the Technology and Intellectual Property Law Group of the law firm of Holme Roberts Owen . He is also an Adjunct Professor of Copyright Law and Technology Contracting Law at the University of Colorado School of Law. He blogs on open source and other technology law topics at "Thinking Open ". Jason represents emerging and established companies in licensing and other transactions relating to the commercialization and procurement of technology and intellectual property, with a special area of emphasis on free and open source software licensing and compliance issues. He has helped clients in the US, Europe and Asia develop and implement open source compliance strategies, contend with third party open source compliance inquiries, and deal with open source issues in a variety of corporate transactions. He has lectured internationally on technology and intellectual property issues, including the practical and legal issues surrounding the interpretation of open source licenses under the copyright and intellectual property laws of the US and EU.

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 also has a regular column in Enterprise Open Source Journal and is an advisor on open source strategy to various companies and governmental groups including Hyperic, Zmanda and the Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.

Louis Suárez-Potts is the longtime Community Manager and Chair of the Community Council for OpenOffice.org; he recently joined Sun Microsystems. The lead or co-lead of several projects and the primary spokesperson and representative of OpenOffice.org, Suárez-Potts also represents the project regarding OpenDocument format (ODF) matters, and is on the OASIS ODF Adoption Technical Committee and is a member of the ODF Alliance. He speaks frequently on the ODF, OpenOffice.org, education and open source, and community development throughout the world. Suárez-Potts is currently working on several articles regarding open source development and education. He lives in Toronto and received his PhD from U.C. Berkeley.

Mitch West is currently serving as the Executive Coordinator for the National Environmental Information Exchange Network . In that capacity, he advises the Exchange Network Leadership Council and the Network Operations Board on Network, and oversees the activities related to design, implementation and operation of the Exchange Network. Mitch has been involved in the creation and growth of the Exchange Network from its inception in 1999. From 1994 to 2007, Mitch worked at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality as a budget manager and later as an information systems manager. While working for the State of Oregon, Mitch participated in the Information Management Workgroup, a States/USEPA partnership focused on improving the quality, accessibility, and use of environmental data for decision-making. As a part of that effort, he contributed to the creation of an Environmental Data Standards Council and helped draft the blueprint for the National Environmental Information Exchange Network. Mitch was the first state co-chair of the Network Operations Board, tasked with directing implementation of the Exchange Network and overseeing Data Standards development. Prior to DEQ, Mitch completed a 22-year career with the United States Coast Guard, retiring as a Lieutenant Commander in 1994. While in the Coast Guard, he obtained his information systems background with a master’s degree in business from the University of Maryland. He guided an effort to bring efficiency to Coast Guard missions by using technology to reduce ship crew sizes. As a part of that effort, he participated in the development of international standards for electronic nautical charts and chart displays.

Rich Kolker is Chief Software Engineer for L-3 Communications EITS ITS&S Business Unit. In that role, he is responsible for Open Source development and promotion and serves as Chair of the Open Source Users Group. Rich has more than 20 years experience in software development, prior to that working in broadcast journalism.

Richard is the Pacific Northwest Regional Vice President for SugarCRM. Richard has been an integral to SugarCRM's growth in the public sector, working with organizations like the Oregon's Department of Health Services.

As Provost and Executive Vice President of Oregon State University, Sabah Randhawa oversees OSU’s 11 academic colleges, the Graduate School, the OSU Extension Service, the University Honors College and OSU Extended Campus.

Before taking on the interim provost and executive vice president position, Randhawa served as vice provost for academic affairs. He has been a faculty member at OSU for more than 20 years — much of it in the College of Engineering, where he headed the department of industrial and manufacturing engineering from 1993 to 1999. Randhawa was associate dean of engineering for two years before being named vice provost.

Randhawa is a 1976 chemical engineering graduate of the University of Engineering and Technology in Pakistan. He also has a master’s degree from OSU, and a doctorate from Arizona State University — both in industrial engineering.

Scott Porter has over 20 years experience in public safety communications and systems development. He is currently the President and CEO of the Center for Advanced Public Safety Information Technologies, Inc. (CAPSIT), a professional services firm that specializes in the development of advanced, high-availability software systems for justice and public safety applications. Mr. Porter previously worked for the consulting firm Gartner, Inc. in Stamford, CT where he was a Director responsible for the public safety consulting practice. At Gartner Mr. Porter worked with federal, state and local justice and public safety agencies and assisted them in the planning and implementation of complex mission-critical systems. He was also responsible for researching the latest technology and software systems for public safety applications. During his career, Mr. Porter has also worked for two large systems integration firms as a project manager. He has experience implementing public safety systems in over 40 public safety agencies in North America and the U.K. ranging in size and complexity from the New York City Police Department and London Metropolitan Police to very small rural departments. As a public servant Scott worked as an E9-1-1 Communications Supervisor in San Mateo County, CA. There he was responsible for the supervision of a large multi-agency police, fire and EMS communications system. Prior to that he was an Advanced Life Support Paramedic in Alameda Co. CA for three years. Mr. Porter is a member of APCO and NENA and is considered an expert in the areas of public safety systems and communications. Mr. Porter has a Bachelors degree in Business and Economics from State University of New York.

Mr. Tashiro serves as General Manager of the Open Source
Software Center in Japan's Information Technology Promotion Agency,
a division of the national government charged with accelerating the
adoption of open source software in government and industry. Employment 1987-2000 Senior Researcher, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Ministry of International Trade and industry 2000-2006 Senior Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industry Science and Technology 2002-2005 Deputy Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 2003- Lecturer, Chuo University 2006- General Manager, OSS Center, Information technology Promotion Agency (IPA). Education 1978-1982 University of Tsukuba, College of Information Sciences 1982-1987 Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tsukuba 1982 Master of engineering. 1987 Ph.D. Computer Science.

Mr. McGaughey is Director of the Eclipse Ecosystem. Eclipse is a multi-language, multi-vendor open source platform for tool integration. There are over 800,000 organizations and over four million developers using Eclipse. Eclipse pioneered the linkage between building open source software and enabling successful and profitable ecosystems to deliver technology to customers. He is both a founding participant of Eclipse and its original Chairperson.

Following a teaching career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mr. McGaughey introduced advanced data processing technology as a management tool to the State of North Carolina. He also introduced distributed data processing for North Carolina’s Department of Public Education and human services where he was responsible for federal and state programs.

Mr. McGaughey’s career at the IBM Corporation was as an agent for change and technical innovation. He pioneered object oriented programming at IBM. He was chairman of the IBM Architecture Review Board that collaborated with Microsoft to design and bring advanced graphical user interfaces to market. He guided the creation of the IBM Visual Age family of products and helped design and introduced embedded programming tools. He was responsible for IBM’s visual imagery. He has been an activist in linking open source with open standards. He is a member of many international standards organizations and is forming an international open source consortium that creates interoperable tools for health systems.

Education: Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Ph.D. (abd) from University of North Carolina

Dr. Tim Schweizer is a frequent speaker to organizations that are exploring innovation efforts, but need guidance understanding the innovation landscape. He is the inventor of the term "Change Compression." Dr. Schweizer is a certified trainer in the Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking. He is also part of the global TRIZ community. His network includes scientists, TRIZ experts, industry specialists, entrepreneurs, de Bono certified trainers, CPS specialists, and open source ecosystem experts. He works with leading thought leaders in innovation, creativity, intelligence/counterintelligence, systems thinking, and change management. Dr. Schweizer teaches courses in Creativity and Innovation at Luther College. He also serves as a Visiting Lecturer for the Master of Arts in Creativity and Innovation at the University of Malta. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Arkansas. He earned his B.A. in Management from Luther College.

Tom Cort is a Systems Developer at the Vermont Department of Taxes. He is a member of the team that released the State of Vermont's first open source project, the gateway. Tom spends most of his time at the tax department developing tax software and managing Debian GNU/Linux systems.

Ward Cunningham is best known as the inventor of Wiki. He is now the Chief Technology Officer of AboutUs.org, a Portland based growth company hosting the communities formed by organizations and the people they touch. Ward co-founded the consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., has served as a Director of the Eclipse Foundation, an Architect in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices Group, the Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb. Ward hosts the AgileManifesto.org. He is a founder of the Hillside Group and there created the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences which continue to be held all over the world.