Business Technology

Speaker: Gregory Miller: OSCON 2010, The O'Reilly Open Source Convention - ...

Greg (link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gmiller/) is a Co-Executive Director of the OSDV Foundation. He brings 24+ years experience in the tech sector, divided between software development and technology business development. He is also a (non practicing) IP lawyer involved in Internet & technology public policy. His technical experience is in user interface, distributed computing, and digital security. He has significant product management/marketing experience in large firms and start-ups. He's spent the past 7 years in VC sector advising start-up ventures. Greg’s interests in voting technology and digital democracy have become his pursuits.

[Publish Date: July 19, 2010]

Speaker: Aslak Hellesøy: RailsConf 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, June 07 - ...

Aslak Hellesøy is the Chief Scientist of BEKK (link: https://bekk.no/,) a Norwegian business and technology consulting firm. In 2003, after seven years of Java programming, he fell in love with Ruby. He has contributed to dozens of open source projects and is the founder of the Cucumber (link: https://cukes.info/) project.

[Publish Date: June 07, 2010]

Speaker: Ward Spangenberg: Velocity 2010, Web Performance & Operations ...

Mr. Spangenberg is a seasoned security technology executive with a comprehensive background in both business operations and technology. His broad background with security solutions has enabled him to determine and implement best practices for managing confidentiality, security, and privacy issues from both the business perspective (such as process development, informed consent, and data statistics collection) as well as executing and supporting the technical perspective (host and perimeter security, access control and monitoring). In addition Mr. Spangenberg has extensive experience in designing and fielding security solutions for Fortune 1000 clients utilizing both enterprise as well as cloud architecture and deployment models. Mr. Spangenberg is also a respected speaker/researcher on PCI DSS, Cloud Computing, and Cloud Compliancy Issues. Mr. Spangenberg is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance.

[Publish Date: June 22, 2010]

Anatomy of an Open Source Cloud Ecosystem: OSCON 2010, The O'Reilly Open ...

By James Urquhart

If cloud computing is one natural conclusion of open source business models, what kind of cloud ecosystem would best support open source as a whole? Join James Urquhart, author of the "Wisdom of Clouds" blog on the CNET blog network, as he explores the technology and business models that could drive the open source opportunities of tomorrow--and a few that won't.

[Publish Date: July 19, 2010]

Speaker: James Urquhart: OSCON 2010, The O'Reilly Open Source Convention - ...

James Urquhart manages cloud computing infrastructure strategy for the Server Provider Systems Unit of Cisco Systems (link: www.cisco.com/.) Named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by the MIT Technology Review, and author of the popular C|NET Blog Network blog, The Wisdom of Clouds (link: https://news.cnet.com/the-wisdom-of-clouds,) Mr. Urquhart brings a deep understanding of these disruptive technologies and the business opportunities they afford.

[Publish Date: July 19, 2010]

Speaker: Alissa Black: OSCON 2010, The O'Reilly Open Source Convention - ...

Alissa Black is a Senior Business Analysts on the Emerging Technologies team for the City and County of San Francisco (link: https://www.sfgov.org/.) Her team is responsible for supporting and implementing OpenSF, an initiative to make San Francisco government more transparent and collaborative. Her latest project was the Open311 API, a collaborative effort with multiple cities, non-profits and developers to create a de-facto standard for requesting municipal services. Open311 API is a major step in making government a platform and has paved the way for future collaborative efforts at not only the local levels, but also state and federal. You can read more about the Emerging Technology team and projects by visiting opensf.wordpress.com (link: https://opensf.wordpress.com.)

[Publish Date: July 19, 2010]

Speaker: Dave Geller: OSCON 2010, The O'Reilly Open Source Convention - ...

Dave Geller is a business analyst for the Emerging Technologies group in the Department of Technology for the City and County of San Francisco.

[Publish Date: July 19, 2010]

Speaker: Chad Pytel: RailsConf 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, June 07 - 10, ...

Chad Pytel is the founder and CEO of thoughtbot, a software development firm specializing in Ruby on Rails and creators of paperclip, shoulda, factory_girl and Hoptoad among other projects. thoughtbot embraces both agile development methodologies and a “getting real” project philosophy. Chad was co-author of Pro Active Record: Databases with Ruby and Rails (APress) and has presented at various conferences around the world. Chad lives with his wife and son in Boston, MA. When not managing projects and writing code, Chad enjoys just spending time with his family. To follow along with Chad and the rest of the thoughtbot team's ideas on development, design, technology, and business, visit their blog (link: https://giantrobots.thoughtbot.com.)

[Publish Date: June 07, 2010]

Speaker: Alasdair Allan: OSCON 2010, The O'Reilly Open Source Convention - ...

Alasdair Allan is the author of Learning iPhone Programming (link: https://learningiphoneprogramming.com) and iPhone Sensor Programming (link: https://iphonesensorprogramming.com) published by O'Reilly Media (link: https://oreilly.com.) He is a senior research fellow (link: https://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/aa) in Astronomy at the University of Exeter, and as part of his work there he is building a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes (link: https://estar.org.uk) which, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical events. On the side, Alasdair runs a small technology consulting business (link: https://www.babilim.co.uk) writing bespoke software, building open hardware and providing training, and is currently developing a series of iPhone applications to monitor and manage cloud based services and distributed sensor networks.

[Publish Date: July 19, 2010]

Speaker: JP Rangaswami: OSCON 2010, The O'Reilly Open Source Convention - ...

JP Rangaswami is Managing Director, Strategy and Innovation for BT Design – BT Group’s design and delivery business. BT Design has total responsibility for designing, building and implementing BT’s network, IT and business processes, systems, networks (non-Openreach) and technologies.

[Publish Date: July 19, 2010]