The SDForum Open Source Summit and Expo will take place Dec. 11, 2003, at the Marriott Hotel, in Burlingame, Calif., from 2:00 PM to 8:30 PM. IBM VP of Emerging Internet Strategy Rod Smith delivers the opening keynote at 2:00 PM, followed by sessions in both Business and Technology tracks. Brian Behlendorf, founder of the Apache Project, delivers the evening keynote.

Event spokesperson Craig Oda comments, “In addition to the technical track, the perspectives from investors, legal experts, and marketing experts round out the summit. The connection between open source and money is a unique feature of this event.”

Oda adds, “Many people hope that a range of more mature open source business models will help to kickstart the tech economy in Silicon Valley.”

The following is a complete list of sessions for the business track:

• Business Models: — 2:40 – 3:25
  • Victoria Murphy, Reporter, Forbes
    
  • Matt Asay, Director Linux Business Office, Novell
    
  • Mike Olson, CEO, Sleepycat
    
  • Munwar Shariff, CTO, Cignex

• Investor Viewpoint — 3:35 – 4:20
  • Fred Vogelstein, Reporter, Fortune Magazine
    
  • Krys Corbett, Associate, Wilson Sonsini
    
  • Mitchell Kertzman, Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
    
  • Pradeep Tagare, Director, Intel Capital

• Legal Roundtable — 4:30 – 5:15
  • Heather Rafter, Esq., General Counsel, Digidesign
    
  • Hank Jones, Esq., Law Office of Henry W. Jones, III
    and Intersect Tech. Consulting
    
  • Steve Mutkowski, Esq., Attorney, Microsoft
    
  • Scott Peterson, Esq., Corporate Counsel, HP
    
  • Jason Wacha, VP Corporate Affairs; General Counsel

• Reception — 5:15 – 6:00
  • SDForum Appetizers and Networking

• Evening Keynote — 6:00 – 6:30
  • Brian Behlendorf, Founder, Apache

• Sales and Marketing — 6:40 – 7:25
  • Andrew Aitken, Managing Partner, Olliance Group
    
  • Lonn Johnston, Founder, Page One PR
    
  • Bernie Mills, VP Marketing, Collabnet
    
  • Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL
    
  • Dave Dargo, VP Linux Programs, Oracle

• CIO Panel — 7:35 8:30
  • Mike Evans, VP Business Development, Red Hat
    
  • Ken Harris, SVP/CIO, GAP
    
  • Matt Kesner, CIO, Fenwick and West

The following is a complete list of sessions for the technical track:

• Collaboration with Open Source Projects — 2:40 – 3:25
  • Joel West, Professor, San Jose State University
    
  • Rahul Vaik, Director of IT, Advantest
    
  • Mitch Ablove, Director of IT, GGTD
    
  • Jeremy Allison, Director of Samba, HP

• Development Model — 3:35 – 4:20
  • Alan Zeichick, Reporter, SDTimes
    
  • Cliff Schmidt, Director Open Source Strategy, BEA
    
  • Kurt Zeilinga, Chief Architect Open LDAP, IBM
    
  • Zack Urlocker, VP Marketing, MySQL AB
    
  • Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler, Mozilla

• The Open Source Desktop — 4:30 – 5:15
  • Wade Rousch, Editor, MIT Technology Review
    
  • Danese Cooper, Manager Open Source Programs Office, Sun Microsystems
    
  • Louis Suarez-Potts, Open Office Community Manager, Open Office Project

• Reception — 5:15 – 6:00
  • SDForum Appetizers and Networking

• Evening Keynote — 6:00 – 6:30
  • Brian Behlendorf, Founder, Apache

• Open Source in the DataCenter — 6:40 – 7:25
  • Wim Coekaerts, Director Linux Engineering, Oracle
    
  • Robin Goldstone, IT Director, Lawrence Livermore Labs

Click here for a map to the Burlingame Mariott, located at:

Marriott Sfo Airport
1800 Old Bayshore Highway
Burlingame, California United States 94010
866-244-9330

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