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]

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: Andrew Lampitt: OSCON 2010, The O'Reilly Open Source Convention - ...

As Senior Director of Business Development at Jaspersoft (link: https://www.jaspersoft.com/,) Andrew is responsible for strategic initiatives and technology partnerships including cloud business intelligence, advanced analytics, collaboration, and analytic databases. Prior to Jaspersoft, Andrew led the Asia Pacific region of Sunopsis, the leading ETL/E-LT for enterprise data warehouses; Sunopsis was acquired by Oracle in 2006. Prior to Sunopsis, Andrew was the GUI program manager for Business Objects’ WebIntelligence, the world’s first web-based business intelligence tool. Andrew began his career in sales and product marketing for SDP’s PowerDesigner, the Gartner Magic Quadrant leading database design tool. SDP was acquired by Sybase/Powersoft in 1995, and Sybase was recently announced to be acquired by SAP. Andrew earned a BS in engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Speaker: Bryan Sivak: OSCON 2010, The O'Reilly Open Source Convention - ...

Bryan Sivak was appointed by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty on October 13, 2009 to the Cabinet post of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the District of Columbia. As CTO, Sivak leads the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), an organization of more than 500 staff that provides technology services and leadership for 86 agencies, 38,000 employees, residents, businesses and millions of visitors. Sivak has over 15 years of experience in building software and internet technologies and organizations. In 2002, he founded and developed InQuira, Inc., a multi-national technology solutions company whose products are used at top private and public sector organizations including Bank of America, UK Ministry of Defence, Nokia and T-Mobile. During his tenure, he oversaw every aspect of the business from design and development of the product to sales, marketing and management activities relating to the overall execution of InQuira's business plan and growth of the company. In 2005, he moved to...

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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.

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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 analysts on the Emerging Technologies team for the City and County of San Francisco. He has been responsible for supporting and implementing many open source applications and initiatives for San Francisco. His latest projects are creating a SugarCRM instance for the General Services Agency's Human Resources Group to track HR issues, a CiviCRM on Drupal for the San Francisco Police Department for citizen outreach, and innovative e-Government solutions that will help offer better San Francisco services faster and cheaper than previously possible.

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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]

Building Next Generation Web Applications with the Spring 3.0 Web Stack: ...

By Jeremy Grelle

Building modern Java™ technology-based Web applications that expose your business services to the widest-possible audience has become an increasingly difficult task in this day of Ajax, RIA, and SOA. Spring 3.0 strives to bring effective weapons in the battle against complexity, including a complete modular stack of Web-focused solutions.

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