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Conference Agenda

Thursday 18th September, Opening Keynotes

Coffee and registration and OSiMWorld 2008 ExhibitionVisit

8.00

Chair’s Introduction

8.50
  • Caroline Lewko, Founder & CEO, Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP)

Raising Operator Confidence in Open Source

9.00
  • What is the benefit of Open Source for Operators?
  • What reservations are there about Open Source?
  • Understanding what the Operator wants to hear
  • Are Operators comfortable outside the walled garden?
  • Guido Arnone, Director,Terminals Technology Vodafone

Redefining Mobile Device Experiences and User Expectations with Open Source

9.25
  • Five years of Linux in mobile: A retrospect
  • Proliferation of Linux and open source technology within the industry
  • Experience-driven product development - how to leverage the benefits open source technology offers
  • Best practices for enabling and engaging with the growing developer community
  • Christy Wyatt, Vice President, Software Platform & Ecosystem Motorola

The Operators Perspective of Open Source

9.50
  • Does the operator care about Open Source?
  • How involved should the operator be?
  • How does the operator approach to developers and communities differ to that of the vendor company?
  • Steve Glagow, Vice President, Marketing Operations Orange

Networking Refreshments and OSiMWorld 2008 Exhibition Visit

10.15

Moblin – The Next Generation Internet experience

11.00
  • What is the next big thing in Mobile Internet?
  • What are the Linux challenges and opportunities for the Mobile ecosystem?
  • How can open source revolutionize the standardizing the development of Internet-centric applications?
  • How does the hardware and software ecosystem come together to build the market?
  • Imad Sousou, Open Source Technology Centre Director Intel Software Solutions Group

Debunking Security Myths Surrounding Open Source

11.25
  • Hadi Nahari, Principal Security Architect eBay

Driving Innovation on New Platforms: Android and the Open Handset Alliance

11.40
  • A high level of the motivations behind Android and the Open Handset Alliance
  • What Android is and how the OHA supports Android
  • A technical walk-through of the technical structure and potential of Android.
  • Demos of a few of Android's capabilities
  • Mike Jennings, Android Developer Advocate Google

Explaining Operator Involvement in Android

11.50
  • What is it about Android that attracts operator involvement?
  • The importance of mobile advertising
  • Increasing the inventory surface
  • Alternative ways of making content available to the user
  • Luis Ezcurra, Director,Terminals and Multimedia Telefónica

Networking Lunch and OSiMWorld 2008 Exhibition Visit

12.15

Stream 3 - Working With Developers and Further Technical Aspects

Stream Chair: Caroline Lewko, Founder & Chief Executive Officer,Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP)

Cross - Platform Open Source Communities - the Story of Qt Everywhere

13.30
  • The importance of a common API
  • Web enable your community
  • More than just Linux
  • Benoit Schillings, Chief Technical Officer Trolltech

Panel Discussion: Effectively Building and Maintaining an Open Source Community

13.55
  • Community management best practices
  • Working to ensure you have similar goals
  • Managing community dynamics and defining what you should contribute to
  • Learning to relinquish control
  • Understanding the map of community driven companies
  • Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
  • Erik Jacobson, Product Manager, Symbian
  • Petri Räsänen, Founder and Director COSS - The Finish Centre for Open Source Solutions
  • Ralph Mueller, Director of Ecosystem Development, Eclipse Foundation
  • Mr Abi Nourai, Technical Director, Europe, Open Kernel Labs
  • Dave Neary, Gnome Foundation Member, GNOME

Uncovering the Changing Face of the Developer

14.35
  • How to engage the modern developer
  • The new generation of developers being brought up ‘The Open Source Way’
  • Understanding what appeals and removing the developer stereotype
  • How the modern developer can contribute to the bottom line
  • Asokan Thiyagarajan, Technology Evangelist Motorola

Motivations for Participating in an Open Source Eco System

15.00
  • What different types of eco systems do we see
  • What are the motivators for companies and individuals
  • What are the different approaches for ISVs and 'software consumers'
  • Ralph Mueller, Director of Ecosystem Development Eclipse Foundation

Networking Refreshments and OSiMWorld 2008 Exhibition Visit

15.25

Finding the Heart of User Experience in User Interface

16.00
  • What constitutes a good User Interface and what are the latest design best practices?
  • Seperating a good User Interface from a bad one
  • Enhancing the user experience through haptics and touch screen technology
  • Understanding user intention – how to target a specific type of user on a particular device.
  • Guiding the user so they understand what’s happening on the screen.
  • Ola Larsén, Vice President, Marketing, The Astonishing Tribe

Utilising Open Source to Generate Social Good in the Developing World

16.25
  • How can Open Source be used for the greater good
  • Working with developers in the DevelopingWorld, what approach should you take?
  • Engaging the rest of the ecosystem
  • Ken Banks, Founder, kiwanja.net

Open Source Java and its Impact upon the Mobile Industry

16.50
  • What does the success of the mobile industry look like, and what roles do Java play?
  • Is Java the right technology to address the tension between the need for standardization and consistency and the need for differentiation?
  • Terrence Barr, Technical Evangelist Sun Microsystems

Open Source and Open Mobile Browsers

17.15
  • Problems encountered in creating an open source browser specific to mobile
  • Addressing increasing user demand
  • Dealing with fragmentation
  • Daniel Zucker, Chief Technology OfficerWake3

Close of Conference

17.40

Stream 4 - Further Strategic Considerations and Legal Requirements

Working Within a Mixed Source Environment

13.30
  • What are the attributes of Open Source and Proprietary Source?
  • How can Open and Proprietary Source come together?
  • What are the considerations for an attractive mix and match?
  • Why would Open and Proprietary Source be combined?
  • Sebastian Thalanany, System Architect US Cellular

Panel Discussion: The Influence of Web 2.0 in Mobile Open Source

13.55
  • How open internet is driving new services for mobile phones
  • Is mobile software dragging behind?
  • What to transfer across from the PC
  • Fabrizio Capobianco, Chief Executive Officer, Funambol
  • Dave Pollington, Senior Manager,Terminals Research, Vodafone
  • Tim Raby, Managing Director, Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP)
  • Leila Modarres, Marketing Director, DeviceAnywhere

Lesser Known Aspects of Mobile Open Source

14.35
  • The cultural roots of open source
  • Business models and how the industry is making money from open source
  • Mapping open source community dynamics
  • Why (almost) no one cares about the openness of Linux.
  • The challenges of Linux phone development
  • The taxonomy of Linux vendors: comparing software offerings and revenue models
  • Andreas Constantinou, Research Director VisionMobile

The Web Platform and Innovation in Mobile

15.00
  • How will the Web be used to build the next generation of innovative applications for mobile phones?
  • What are the barriers to unleashing that innovation?
  • What are the benefits for the OSiM community
  • Jay Sullivan, Mobile Director Mozilla Corporation

Networking Break and OSiM World 2008 Exhibition Visit

15.25

Who Owns Free Software? The Copyright and Patent Debate

16.00
  • Does there need to be an owner?
  • What is the goal of ownership?
  • Should ownership benefit the consumer or the community?
  • The relationship between ownership and Free Software Licenses
  • Preserving individual freedom and community freedom
  • Shane Coughlan, FTF Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe

Panel Discussion:How Do You Choose the Right License?

16.25
  • Which model is right?
  • Dual licensing schemes
  • Case studies, who picked what and why?
  • Adoption problems
  • Sean Hogle, Founder and Partner, HogleVisani LLC
  • Shane Coughlan, FTF Coordinator, Free Software Foundation Europe
  • Liz Laffan, Principal Analyst VisionMobile
  • Peter Vescuso, Vice President, Marketing, Black Duck Software

Key Legal Factors to Consider When Establishing Open Source Projects

17.10
  • Avoiding license proliferation
  • Contributor agreements
  • Dual licensing tracks
  • License Migration
  • Sean Hogle, Founder and Partner HogleVisani LLC

Close of Conference

17.35

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