Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit | Speakers

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Valerie Aurora, Red Hat File Systems Developer

Valerie Aurora (Henson) is a file systems developer and writer. She designed or developed ZFS, ext2/3/4, and chunkfs and is a regular contributor to Linux Weekly News. She founded the Linux file systems workshop in 2006.

Union Mounts: Fast, Efficient File System Sharing
9:45 am, Friday, April 16th

Brad Benton, IBM HPC Architect, Linux Technology Center at IBM

Brad Benton is the HPC architect for IBM's Linux Technology Center. He came to IBM from one of the many, now defunct, InfiniBand startups (Lane15). While at IBM, he has worked with InfiniBand and various clustering solutions and was a member of the team that programmed the Roadrunner supercomputer to become the world's first system to achieve a sustained 1.0 petaflops. Brad worked for many years at Tandem Computers where he was in the Unix kernel group in support of Tandem's Unix-based fault-tolerant systems. He is active in the Open MPI Project (1.4 series Release Manager) and the OpenFabrics Alliance. Brad has undergraduate degrees in both math and musicology.

Linux, and the Path to Exascale Computing
3:30 pm, Thursday, April 15th (High Performance Computing)

Keith Bergelt, Open Invention Network (OIN) Chief Executive Officer

Keith Bergelt is the CEO of Open Invention Network (OIN), the collaborative enterprise that enables innovation in open source and an increasingly vibrant ecosystem around Linux. OIN enables and defends Linux through its royalty free patent licensing program and efforts such as Linux Defenders (www.linuxdefenders.org). Prior to joining OIN, Mr. Bergelt served as CEO of two hedge funds formed to unlock the considerable asset value of intellectual property in middle market companies. He raised over $300 million at these firms while financing IP-centric portfolio companies of leading financial sponsors. Previously, Mr. Bergelt served as a senior advisor to the technology investment division at TPG. He also headed business development, IP and licensing for Cambridge Display Technology. Additionally, he established and served as GM of the Strategic Intellectual Asset Management business unit and director of Technology Strategy at Motorola. He is a frequent speaker on corporate strategy, finance, and IP management.

Consistently Codifying Your Code: Taking Software Development to the Next Level
9:15 am, Thursday, April 15th, Osaka Room (Legal For Non-Lawyers)

Josh Berkus, PostgreSQL Experts Chief Executive Officer

Josh Berkus is primarily known as one of the Core Team of the world-spanning open source database project PostgreSQL. He has been involved with various open source projects since 1998, including SPI, OpenOffice.org, LedgerSMB, Bricolage and OpenBRR and is on the selection committee for OSCON. Josh consults on database performance, and also makes pottery.

Keynote: How to Prevent Community: Making Sure Your Pond Stays Small
4:15 pm, Wednesday, April 14th

James Bottomley, Novell Distinguished Engineer & Linux SCSI Subsystem Maintainer

James Bottomley is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Novell, a Director of the Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. He is Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, the Linux Voyager port and the 53c700 driver. He has also made contributions to PA-RISC Linux development in the area of DMA/device model abstraction. He was born and grew up in the United Kingdom. He went to university at Cambridge in 1985 for both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He joined AT&T Bell labs in 1995 to work on Distributed Lock Manager technology for clustering. In 1997 he moved to the LifeKeeper HA project. In 2000 he Joined SteelEye Technology, Inc as Software Architect and later as Vice President and CTO.

Panel: The Linux Kernel: What's Next
2:00 pm, Wednesday, April 14th

Paolo Carlini, Oracle  

Paolo Carlini set up his first Linux system in 1995 and never looked back. Since 2002 co-maintains the GNU implementation of the C++ runtime library, part of the GNU Compiler Collection, and contributes also the development of the C++ front-end, with a special focus on the new C++1x features. In 2008 has joined the Oracle Linux team, and on behalf of it also participates to the ISO C++ Standards activities and meetings, as principal member of PL22.16.

C++ For the Rest of Us
9:30 am, Friday, April 16th (Toolchain Track)

Alan Clark, Novell Emerging Standards

Alan Clark focuses on Industry Initiatives and Emerging Standards for Novell. To facilitate the awareness and adoption of open source and open standards, Alan participates on several Industry forum Board of Directors, steering committees, technical committees and work groups. With 20 years of experience as a Software Engineer, a principal portion of Alan’s career has been devoted to the research and development of operating systems and distributed multi-platform server services. His experience is with file systems, Directory Services, LDAP Services, Object Databases, Security, Developer Interfaces, Web Services, Network Protocols and more.

Why Should You Worry About Conformance Testing
2:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th (LSB)

Adrian Cole, Cloud Conscious, LLC Chief Executive Officer

Adrian Cole is the founder of the open source jclouds project and CEO of Cloud Conscious, LLC. Adrian also runs the Cloudhacker’s group in San Francisco, a regular gathering of cloud developer enthusiasts. His 17-year career in IT includes design and implementation of mass automation and deployment products for financial, hosting, and education contexts.

jClouds
10:00 am, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura B Room (Cloud Computing)

Karen Copenhaver, The Linux Foundation Legal Counsel

Karen Copenhaver is a partner in Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP's Business & Technology practice focusing on technology transfer and licensing of intellectual property with a specific emphasis on open source business models. Most recently, Copenhaver was executive vice president and general counsel at Black Duck Software, Inc.

Legal For Non-Lawyers Session Lead
9:00 am, Thursday, April 15th, Osaka Room (Legal for Non-Lawyers)

Jon Corbet, LWN.net Editor

Jonathan Corbet got his first look at the BSD Unix source back in 1981, when an instructor at the University of Colorado let him "fix" the paging algorithm. He has been digging around inside every system he could get his hands on ever since, working on drivers for VAX, Sun, Ardent, and x86 systems on the way. He got his first Linux system in 1993, and has never looked back. Mr. Corbet is currently the co-founder and executive editor of Linux Weekly News; he lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two children.

Panel: The Linux Kernel: What's Next
2:00 pm, Wednesday, April 14th

 
David Cowley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Molecular Science Computing (MSC) Operations Team Lead

David Cowley works for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where he leads the Molecular Science Computing (MSC) Operations team at EMSL. MSC operates Chinook (the #20 system on the November 2008 Top500 list of the world's top supercomputers), and a 3 petabyte scientific archive, among other systems. Mr. Cowley joined PNNL in 1988 as an engineer and has been managing large computer systems to support PNNL business and research ever since. He has been at the forefront of PNNL’s UNIX (now Linux) system administration since the early 1990’s and during that time has inspired or instituted many practices that remain in daily use. His primary interests are in the unique problems associated with architecting, engineering, and administering large scalable computer and data storage systems. He has presented at many conferences and workshops, including SP-XXL, NLIT, Commodity Cluster Symposium, and Lustre User Group.

Data-Driven Challenges in Scientific Computing at PNNL
1:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura C Room (High Performance Computing)

 
Cole Crawford, Autonomic Resources Chief Technology Officer

Cole is the CTO of Autonomic Resources, a federal cloud provider. He has been a user and advocate of enterprise open source software for over 12 years. Prior to his role at AR, Cole was the Principal Linux Strategist at Dell where he oversaw the technical direction of Dell's internal linux direction. He serves on several industry customer advisory boards and was the creator of the open source project Statix.

Service Measurement Tools and Cloud Computing
2:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura C Room (High Performance Computing)

 
Ann Davis, Novell

Ann Davis works for Novell as a partner engineer specializing in hardware enablement and kernel module packaging. Ann is a member of Novell’s Partner Linux Driver Program team.

Driver Backport Session Lead
9:00 am, Friday, April 16th, Sakura A Room (Driver Backport)

Mathieu Desnoyers, EfficiOS  

Mathieu Desnoyers works at EfficiOS Inc., an operating system efficiency consultancy. He is the author and maintainer of the Linux Trace Toolkit next generation (LTTng) project started in November 2005. He is the main developer of Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer (LTTV), which started in 2003. He works in close collaboration with Google, IBM research, Fujitsu, Nokia, and Ericsson. For the past years, he has prepared the ground for mainlining a tracer in the Linux kernel. He is the author of the Tracepoints found in the Linux kernel, initated the work on "static jump patching" with the "Immediate Values" infrastructure, and has extended the "Local Atomic Operations" found in the mainline kernel. A significant part of the kernel static instrumentation is derived from the LTTng project. In the last year, he authored the "Userspace RCU" library. He completed his Ph.D. in December 2009 on the topic of "Low-Impact Operating System Tracing".

LTTng, State of the Union
1:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Spring C Room (Tracing)

Chris DiBona, Google Open Source Program Manager

Chris DiBona is the open source and public sector programs manager at Mountain View, Ca. based Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches. In the public sector space, he looks after Google Moderator, the polling locations API. Additionally, he is on the board of Our Good Works, a non-profit that looks after the volunteer matching website Allforgood.org. Mr. DiBona is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He occasionally appears on the This Week in Tech and Cranky Geeks podcasts. He is a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has a masters in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he serves on the advisory board of imeem, a San Francisco, Ca. based social networking firm. Before joining Google, Mr. DiBona was an editor and author for the website Slashdot.org . Additionally, he coedited the award-winning essay compilations "Open Sources" and "Open Sources 2.0" and writes for several publications. He was the host of Floss Weekly with Leo Laporte and made a number of appearances on TechTV's "The Screensavers"

Keynote
4:45 pm, Wednesday, April 14th

Dawn Foster, Intel MeeGo Community Manager

Dawn Foster is the MeeGo Community Manager for Intel with experience and a passion for bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She is a co-founder and board member of Legion of Tech, a non-profit chartered with organizing free events for the Portland, Oregon technology community. As part of her work with Legion of Tech, Dawn is an organizer for Portland BarCamp, Ignite Portland and other events. Dawn holds an MBA from Ashland University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Kent State University. She has worked in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist. Dawn regularly blogs about online communities as the author of the Fast Wonder Blog, and she is the author of the book, Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy.

MeeGo Workgroup Session Lead
9:00 am, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura A Room

Margie Foster, Intel Localization Project Manager

Margie Foster is the localization project manager for MeeGo, an open source Linux-based operating system with an exciting new user interface designed for Intel's hottest new processor, the Atom. Margie has a love of localization going back many years, including working on video-conferencing software and help files, the Intel Year 2000 support website, and Intel's developer support website. She thoroughly enjoys working with people around the world, and has had opportunities to visit many of the countries of her L10N colleagues. She is an avid supporter of Transifex and other open source tools that make internationalization and localization a reality in open source software development.

Localization BoFs
5:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura A Room (MeeGo Workgroup)

Dan Frye, IBM Vice President, Open Systems Development and Linux Foundation Board Member

Daniel D. Frye, Vice President - IBM Open Systems Development, is responsible for the IBM Linux development team – the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) - for cloud computing technology in Systems & Technology Group, and for server and storage platform management development for IBM systems. Dr. Frye is a member of the IBM Open Source Steering Committee. Overall, Dr. Frye leads a worldwide software development team of over 1500 software professionals in IBM. Dr. Frye joined IBM as a research scientist in 1987 and has worked a variety of positions since then.

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 clients, 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 both Linux and open source software. 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 is a founding Board member of The Linux Foundation, a non-profit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Dr. Frye was also a board member of the Open Source Development Laboratory before the establishment of The Linux Foundation.

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 (1986).

Keynote: 10+ Years of Linux at IBM
9:30 am, Wednesday, April 14th

Bdale Garbee, Hewlett-Packard Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist

As HP’s Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist, Bdale Garbee advises the lead technologists in other HP business units and other HP decision makers on technology and community aspects of Linux and Open Source applications. He mentors internal communities on how to productively participate in the Open Source development process, and encourages the adoption of Open Source software and principles across the company. A contributor to the Free Software community since 1979, Bdale’s background also includes many years of hardware design, Unix internals, and embedded systems work. He was an early participant in the Debian project, helped port Debian GNU/Linux to 5 architectures, served as Debian Project Leader, is chairman of the Debian Technical Committee, represents Debian on the Ubuntu Technical Board, and remains active in the Debian community. Bdale serves as President of Software in the Public Interest, is on the boards of directors of the Linux Foundation, the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, and Open Media Now, and is a member of the Linux Journal Editorial Advisory Board. He is a frequent speaker at Linux and Open Source conferences, and works closely with various projects in the Open Source community. In 2008, Bdale became the first individual recipient of a Lutece d’Or award from the Federation Nationale de l’Industrie du Logiciel Libre in France. Beyond his work at HP, Bdale engages in a wide variety of personal activities. His most significant hobbies are high-powered model rocketry and amateur radio, where he is widely known for his contributions to packet radio, weak-signal communications, software defined radio, and building amateur satellites.

How Platform-Based Power Management Interacts With Linux
10:45 am, Friday, April 16th, Spring C Room (Green Linux)

Quim Gil, Nokia Open Source Advocate, Maemo Devices at Nokia

After many years working as a journalist in a Catalan newspaper, Quim moved his career towards web development and online communities. His interest in technology and freedom lead him to the free software community around 2000. He got increasingly involved in the GNOME project, coordinating GUADEC 2006 and joining the GNOME Foundation board. Quim has worked with Nokia since 2007 when he joined the Maemo team in Helsinki. Since then he has been working on the collaboration channels between Nokia, the Maemo community and the related free software projects. Now Quim is involved in the bootstrapping of the MeeGo community.

A Working Day in the MeeGo Project
1:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura A Room (MeeGo Workgroup)

Mark Gisi, Wind River Systems Senior Manager of Intellectual Property

Mark Gisi is Senior Manager of Intellectual Property at Wind River Systems where he is responsible for managing IP policies, processes and IP compliance. His responsibilities include conducting due diligence IP reviews, IP training and managing the company’s open source contribution program. Mark currently oversees the IP compliance of thousands of open source packages used in dozens of product releases consisting of over 50 million lines of code (including Wind River’s embedded Linux offering). Mark served on the Eclipse IP advisory committee and currently serves on Wind River’s Corporate Open Source Review Board. Prior to Wind River, Mark founded Quality Instincts, an Intellectual Property business consulting firm and served as a Member of Technical Staff at HP Labs in the Software Technology lab. Mark holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the State University of New York.

Accelerate Open Source Adoption by Embedded Device Vendors through Mitigating IP Integrity Concerns
3:30 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Osaka Room (Legal For Non-Lawyers)

Bernard Golden, HyperStratus Chief Executive Officer

Bernard has held senior executive positions in corporate IT, enterprise software, global consultancies, and venture capital firms. He was most recently CEO of Navica, a well-known open source management consulting firm. Previously he served as Engineering Director and Vice President for a number of companies, including Deploy Solutions, Uniplex Software, and Informix Software. He also founded and ran the Internet and New Media Laboratory for Arthur Andersen Business Consulting. A highly-regarded author and speaker, he frequently presents at conferences on virtualization, cloud computing, and next generation applications and infrastructures. He is the Virtualization and Cloud Computing Advisor for CIO Magazine. In addition, he is the author of Virtualization for Dummies, the best-selling book on the subject ever published.

Open Source Powers the Cloud, the Cloud Powers Open Source
11:30 am, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura B Room (Cloud Computing)

Ibrahim Haddad, Palm Director of Open Source

Dr. Haddad is the Director of Palm's Open Source charted with managing and executing company-wide Linux and Open Source strategy and ensuring Open Source compliance. Prior to Palm, Dr. Haddad was Director of Technology at Motorola's CTO Office. Before joining Motorola, Dr. Haddad managed the Carrier Grade Linux and Mobile Linux Initiatives at the OSDL and promoted the development and adoption of Linux and Open Source software in the communications industry. Prior to joining OSDL, Dr. Haddad was a Senior Researcher at Ericsson Research where he was involved with the server system architecture for 3G wireless IP networks and contributed to Ericsson's open platform efforts. Dr. Haddad is the author of “Practical Guide to Open Source Compliance” to be published early 2010. He is a Contributing Editor of the Linux Journal.

A Practical Guide to Ensuring Open Source Compliance
2:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Osaka Room (Legal For Non-Lawyers)

Henrik Hartz, Qt Product Manager

Henrik Hartz is a soon-to-be father, would-be mountain-biker and prospective carpenter -  and has been a Product Manager with Qt for more than three years. Prior to that he worked as a Sales Engineer and Product Specialist for Qt and knows his way around the API’s. Henrik has been deeply involved in building the roadmap and strategy of Qt for the last few years, and has intimate knowledge of Qt across multiple domains. He spends his day working to improve Qt, and trying to avoid writing presentations while finding excuses for spending time writing code.

Rapid Development on MeeGo Using Qt-Quick
3:30 pm, Thursday, April 14th, Sakura A Room (MeeGo)

Christoph Hellwig, Kernel Developer

Christoph Hellwig has been working with Linux for more than 10 years, soon focussing on kernel-related issues. He has also been involved in various other Free Software projects. After a number of smaller network administration and programming contracts he worked for Caldera's German development subsidiary on various kernel and userlevel aspects of the OpenLinux distribution and later joined the filesystem and storage group at SGI and is focussing on XFS for Linux now. Since 2004 he has been self-employed doing contracting, consulting and training in the Linux Kernel and Storage world

Panel: The Linux Kernel: What's Next
2:00 pm, Wednesday, April 14th

Linux Virtualization and Storage
2:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura B Room (Virtualization Track)

Masami Hiramatsu, Hitachi  

Masami Hiramatsu works at Hitachi, and is a Linux kernel and SystemTap developer, and a maintainer of kprobes. He has been working in the kernel tracing area since he joined Hitachi from 2002. He is now developing dynamic event tracing on ftrace and perf tools by re-implementing basic dwarf technology of SystemTap on the linux kernel tree.

Dynamic Event Tracing in Linux Kernel
10:45 am, Thursday, April 15th, Spring C Room (Tracing)

Marcel Holtmann, Intel  

Marcel Holtmann works for the Open Source Technology Center at Intel. He maintains open source projects like BlueZ, OpenOBEX, ConnMan and oFono.

MeeGo Connectivity Framework
2:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura A Room (MeeGo)

Ari Jaaksi, Nokia Vice President, Maemo Devices and MeeGo Operations

Ari Jaaksi, a strategist and implementer in mobile communications industry with more than 15 years experience, currently serves as the VP of Maemo Devices and MeeGo Operations for Nokia. Jaaksi is responsible for the strategy and implementation of Nokia's mobile open source software platform and software products. He heads the development of Nokia's Linux based software and Nokia's open source developer operations on www.maemo.org. Jaaksi joined Nokia in 1998, and held various positions including the head of Nokia's mobile browser development and the head of Nokia's software research lab. At Nokia, Jaaksi was instrumental in creating Nokia's open source software strategy, the Linux based software platform running on Nokia 770 and N800 Internet Tablets, and Nokia's mobile browsers and related tools running on all Nokia products. Prior to joining Nokia, Jaaksi was a professor of software engineering at the University of Tampere and worked as a software developer and engineering manager at various software companies. Jaaksi is an adjunct professor at the Tampere University of Technology. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences including Linux World, Open Source in Mobile, and Guadec. Jaaksi earned a PhD of Software Engineering at the Tampere University of Technology and MSc of Education at the University of Tampere. He has published several articles and books on mobile technologies and software development.

Keynote: MeeGo: A Free & Standard Linux OS for the Mobile Industry
1:15 pm, Wednesday, April 14th

AJ Johnson  

AJ Johnson is a development manager for Real Time Linux, Power Virtualization, and iSCSI SoNAS technology in IBM's Linux Technology Center (LTC). Previously, AJ was development manager for the LTC's Power Toolchain and System x Enablement teams. Before entering management, AJ was a SW Engineer in the LTC.

High Performance Computing Session Lead
9:00 am, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura C Room (High Performance Computing)

Till Kamppeter  

Till Kamppeter holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics and works with printing under Linux and Unix already since mid 2000 when he got invited to work as a developer at MandrakeSoft in Paris. There he did the packaging of the printing-related software for the distribution and since 2001 he was the leader of the linuxprinting.org project. He was also participating in the work of the OpenPrinting workgroup. Mid 2006 he got invited to work for the Free Standards Group (now The Linux Foundation) merging linuxprinting.org into OpenPrinting and leading the OpenPrinting project full-time. During all the time from mid 2000 to now Kamppeter has given several printing-related talks and tutorials on conferences, organized booths on Linux shows, and wrote articles in magazines about Linux. From 2006 on he is organizing an annual three-day OpenPrinting Summit, currently together with the annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. With OpenPrinting he leads the development of new printing architectures and technologies and printing infrastructure and interface standards for Linux and Unix-style operating systems. For this he is in contact with the leading printer manufacturers, all relevant free software projects, and the distribution vendors.

Open Printing Session Lead
9:00 am, Wednesday, April 14th - Friday, April 16th, Garden A Room (Open Printing)

Jim Keniston, IBM  

Jim Keniston, co-author of uprobes, is a software engineer in the RAS group of IBM's Linux Technology Center.  He has 15 years' experience in developing software for systems management and OS instrumentation. Previous experience focused on scientific applications and compilers. He has spoken on uprobes, utrace, and SystemTap at the 2007 Linux Symposium, the 2008 Linux Plumbers' conference, and the 2009 LF Collaboration Summit.

Uprobes: User-Space Probes
3:30 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Spring C Room (Tracing)

Kirill Kolyshkin, Parallels OpenVZ Project Manager

Kirill Kolyshkin was named leader and project manager for the OpenVZ project in 2005 to further the adoption of containers virtualization for Linux. He spearheads the overall development and manages all key architecture, updates and feature upgrades for OpenVZ. Kolyshkin has more than 10 years Linux experience and has long been an active open source advocate. He is a frequent speaker about virtualization technology and his 15-years career experience includes positions in information technology at Deutsche Bank and telecommunications company, Severtelecom. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the Ukhta State Technical University.

Containers and Namespaces in the Linux Kernel
3:30 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura B Room (Virtualization Track)

Greg Kroah-Hartman, Novell Fellow & Maintainer of the -stable Branch, Staging Subsystem, USB Driver Core, and the Sysfs Kernel Subsystem 

Greg is the maintainer of the Linux kernel USB and driver core subsystems, as well as many individual drivers. He started the Linux Driver project and is one half of the -stable kernel release group. He currently works for Novell, doing various kernel related things for them.

Panel: The Linux Kernel: What's Next
2:00 pm, Wednesday, April 14th

Bradley M. Kuhn, Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) FLOSS Community Liaison and Technology Director

Kuhn began volunteering in the Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) Movement in 1992, as an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and contributor to various FLOSS projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught high school Computer Science (using FLOSS). In 2000, he joined the Free Software Foundation (FSF). From 2001 until 2005, he was FSF's Executive Director, where he led FSF's GPL enforcement efforts, launched the Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. In 2005, he left FSF to join the founding team of the Software Freedom Law Center, where he works as a Policy Analyst and Technology Director. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. Kuhn is also president of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

GPLv3: Better Copyleft for Developers and Users
1:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Osaka Room (Legal For Non-Lawyers)

Vinod Kutty, CME Group

HVinod Kutty helps architect the server infrastructure that handles electronic trading for the largest, most diverse derivatives exchange in the world -- CME Group. Scalability, reliability, openness and cost effectiveness are extremely important in this environment. His responsibilities include leading the Distributed Computing/Open Systems Research and Development initiatives as well as internal Linux Support and High Density Computing. He works closely with vendors on new technology evaluations, and helps voice performance and functionality requirements with Linux distro vendors and hardware OEMs. Vinod is also Chair of the Linux Foundation’s End User Council.

Panel: Ask the Experts: Choosing a Linux File System For Your Needs
10:45 am, Friday, April 16th, Sakura B Room (File Systems)

Christoph Lameter

Christoph Lameter maintains the slab allocators in the Linux kernel and has been involved in enhancing the Linux operating system to be able to scale Linux for high performance uses (HPC, NUMA, multicore processors) and low latency operations (financial application). Christoph has a long history in the Linux movement since he started contributing to the Linux kernel in 1993. Later he contributed to various open source projects as a Debian developer before he was hired by companies in Silicon Valley to enhance Linux for various uses. Christoph is currently working in the financial industry optimizing Linux for low latency trading.

Multicast issues in Infiniband and Fast Ethernet Technology Applications
10:45  am, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura C Room (High Performance Computing)

Jeff Licquia

Jeff Licquia has been a software developer for 20 years. Exposed to Linux for the first time before it could boot multi-user, he has advocated for its adoption for nearly his entire professional career. He is a member of the Debian project, and has contributed code to a number of open-source projects. He is currently the project lead for the Linux Standard Base, a project to ensure binary compatibility between Linux distributions. Jeff lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, with his wife and two teenage children.

Linux Standard Base (LSB) Session Lead
9:00 am, Thursday, April 15th, Spring A Room (LSB)

David Lutterkort, Red HatSoftware Engineer

David is an engineer in Red Hat’s cloud group, focused on Deltacloud. Previously, he worked on a variety of tools for configuration and virtualization management, and is the main author of Augeas. David holds a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Panel: Does Open Source Mean Open Cloud
10:45 am, Wednesday, April 14th,

DeltaCloud - Many Clouds, One API
9:30 am, Wednesday, April 14th, Sakura B Room (Cloud Computing)

Jon Masters, Red Hat

Jon Masters is a Linux kernel engineer, embedded systems specialist, and author. Originally from the UK, Jon lives and works in the United States for Red Hat. He is the tech lead on Red Hat’s Driver Update Program.

Driver Backport Session Lead
9:00 am, Friday, April 16th, Sakura A Room (Driver Backport)

Mark Mitchell, CodeSourcery Chief Sourcerer

Mark Mitchell is the founder and Chief Sourcerer of CodeSourcery, Inc. He has worked on C/C++ software development tools since 1994. Mr. Mitchell has been the FSF's GCC Release Manager and a member of the GCC Steering Committee since 2001. He holds degrees in computer science from Harvard and Stanford.

GCC's New Frontiers: Performance and Plug-ins
9:00 am , Friday, April 16th (Toolchain Track)

Andrew Morton, Google Co-Maintainer of the Ext3 Filesystem and the Journalling Layer for Block Devices (JBD)

Andrew Morton maintains a patchset known as the mm tree, which contains not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted into the official Linux tree maintained by Linus Torvalds. In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in Sydney, Australia that produced a kit computer called the Applix 1616, as well as a hardware engineer for the (now-defunct) Australian gaming equipment manufacturer Keno Computer Systems. He holds an honours degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales in Australia. In 2001, Andrew Morton and his family moved from Wollongong, New South Wales to Palo Alto, California. Since August 2006, Morton has been employed by Google but continues his work in maintaining the kernel.

Panel: The Linux Kernel: What's Next
2:00 pm, Wednesday, April 14th

Sakari Poussa, Nokia Linux Software Architect

Sakari Poussa has been working for Nokia over 16 years focusing on projects around open source software. During the past three years, Sakari has been leading Maemo kernel and system software teams developing Nokia N800, N810 and N900 products. Recently, Sakari has assumed a role in the MeeGo project and work on the software architecture. Prior to Maemo, Sakari worked in various software developer positions in product creation for networking, security and telecom area by utilizing Linux, FreeBSD, and several RTOS's.

Panel: MeeGo Technical Panel
4:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura A Room (MeeGo Workgroup)

Salmon Qazi, Google Software Engineer

Salman Qazi is a software engineer in the Linux Kernel team at Google.  He received his Bachelors in Computer Science from University of Toronto in 2006.

Power Capping through Idle Cycle Injection
9:45 am, Friday, April 16th, Spring C Room (Green Linux)

Chris Richardson, SpringSource Linux Software Architect

Chris Richardson is an experienced Java architect, a Java Champion and author of POJOs in Action. He heads up cloud development at SpringSource and was previously CEO and Founder of Cloud Foundry, which SpringSource acquired in August 2009. Cloud Foundry is built on the innovative open-source Cloud Tools project and extends SpringSource’s solutions for building, deploying and managing Java applications to take full advantage of the power of elastic cloud computing.

How Open Source Frameworks can Improve Cloud Applications
9:00 am, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura B Room (Cloud Computing)

Pierre Salkazanov, Bull Director for Innovation (Product & System)

Pierre Salkazanov is curently working at Bull as Director for Innovation in the Product & System division. He has a very large experience of R&D management at Bull for Servers and Clusters, including mainframe, Operating Systems, System Software for Open Servers, Java middleware, High Performance Computing Software stack. He spent some years at ACRI to lead the development of a supercomputer and at CSTI to lead the development of a High Performance video cluster. He has been working with Open Source communities for many years, to leverage the use of Open Source in the development of complex system software.

High Performance Computing Session Lead
9:00 am, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura C Room (Cloud Computing)

Steven Rostedt, Red Hat  

Steven Rostedt started hacking the Linux kernel while working on his masters in 1998. He left Lockheed Martin to work with TimeSys simply because it offered him a way to work in the Linux kernel. Since then, he worked in his own company and eventually was hired by Red Hat. His main focus has been in the Real-Time Linux development, but has also been working tirelessly on other cool features he could add to Ftrace.

Kernelshark
9:15 am, Thursday, April 15th, Spring C Room (Tracing)

Sam Ramji, Sonoa Systems Vice President Product Strategy and Business Development

Sam brings over 15 years of industry experience in enterprise software, product development, and open source strategy. Prior to Sonoa, Ramji led open source strategy across Microsoft. He was a founding member of the AquaLogic product team and has built large-scale enterprise and Web-scale applications, leading the Ofoto engineering team through its acquisition by Kodak. Other experience includes hands-on development of client, client-server and distributed applications on Unix, Windows and Macintosh at companies ranging from Broderbund to Fair Isaac. Sam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California at San Diego, and is a member of the Institute for Generative Leadership

Panel: Does Open Source Mean Open Cloud
10:45 am, Wednesday, April 14th

Ken Rozendal, IBM Chief Architect, Linux Technology Center

Ken Rozendal is the chief architect for IBM's Linux Technology Center (LTC). Previously, Ken was chief architect of Linux for IBM's Power Systems and lead architect for IBM's Linux kernel development team. Before joining the Linux Technology Center, he was lead architect for IBM's AIX kernel development team.

Approaches to Application Programming with Modern, High Performance Systems
9:15 am, Thursday, April 15th (High Performance Computing)

Vladimir Rubanov, ISPRAS Head of Department For Operating Systems

Vladimir Rubanov is the Head of Department For Operating Systems at the Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPRAS). He holds an MSc degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Phystech) and PhD in Computer Science from ISPRAS. Since 2001, Vladimir has been leading the biggest industrial projects of ISPRAS in the field of operating systems, software verification and tools for embedded systems. Currently, Vladimir is Director of the Russian Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) at ISPRAS, one of the biggest activities of which is the LSB Infrastructure Program run jointly with the Linux Foundation since 2006.

Demonstration of Writing Conformance Tests with the T2C Framework
3:30 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Spring A Room (LSB)

Michael Rubin, GoogleEngineer

Michael Rubin is an Engineer at Google. He worked at the video game company Turbine on a MMORPG called Asheron’s Call before graduating from Brown University in 1998. Since then he has worked at Silicon Graphics, Network Appliance and is currently at Google. Michael has worked on and delivered products ranging from firmware, operating systems, real time networking, file systems, large scale distributed systems, video games. Today he is focusing on Linux file systems and Google data centers.

Panel: Ask the Experts: Choosing a Linux File System For Your Needs
10:45 am, Friday, April 16th, Sakura B Room (File Systems)

Alexander Schanz, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (German Air Navigation Services) Head of Data Centre

Alexander Schanz is an Air Traffic Control domain expert and Computer specialist. He is the responsible Manager for the operation of the DFS Datacenters in Germany and the Linux Competence and Service Center atDFS. He started his professional career as operation specialist in a Air Traffic Control Center and continued as Project manager and ATC Simulation expert to finally find himself responsible for the usage of Linux in ATC Systems. He has presented the DFS efforts on making Linux the operating System of Choice for ATC at numerous international Linux and ATC events. (Internationally he is known as the Linux evangelist in Air Traffic Control).

Keynote: Why Your Life Might Depend on Your Code
3:45 pm, Wednesday, April 14th

Nivedita Singhvi, IBM Engineer, Linux Technology Center at IBM

Nivedita Singhvi is an engineer in IBM's Linux Technology Center, where she currently does work in Real-Time Linux, primarily focussing on helping customers use Real-Time Linux. Having previously worked in virtualization and networking areas, she is happiest moving technologies from buzzword status to usefully solving solutions for customers. She lives and works in the vicinity of the Portland, Oregon metro area (scenic wonderland and open-source capital of the world).

Open MPI and Real-Time Linux - A Deep Dive Case Study
4:15 pm, Thursday, April 15th (High Performance Computing)

Imad Sousou, Intel Director, Open Source Technology Center

Imad Sousou is the Director of Intel's Open Source Technology Center (OTC), which is chartered with driving Linux and Open Source strategy and execution across Intel platforms and technologies. Imad manages the technology aspects of Linux and Open Source software, including leading Intel's presence in the Linux and open source communities, driving engineering enabling programs, products and relationships, leading industry standards and initiatives, and owning Linux architectural influence with core silicon teams. Under Imad, the OTC is responsible for Intel's major open source initiatives like Moblin.Org, LessWatts.Org, and Linux enabling for Intel platforms, as well as enabling for a number of other major software projects, including Linux graphics, Open Solaris, Mac OS, Xen, KVM, and VMware.

Keynote: The Secret to Open Source Success at Intel
2:45 pm, Wednesday, April 14th

Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, IBM

Vaidyanathan Srinivasan is a Linux kernel developer at IBM India Linux Technology Center and works on improving energy efficiency of Linux on enterprise servers. He has been involved in power aware scheduler and other platform enablements for effective cpu power management.

Linux on POWER for Green Datacenter
9:00 am, Thursday, April 15th, Spring C Room (Green Linux)

Kate Stewart, Freescale Manager of Open Source

Kate Stewart is the manager of Open Source at Freescale Semiconductor Inc. Prior to Motorola/Freescale, she was part of the Toronto Optimizing Back End compiler project at IBM, and worked on performance optimizations for the Power Architecture. Kate has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.

Software Package Data Exchange Specification: Sharing Copyright and License Data Effectively
9:30 am, Thursday, April 15th

Ian Lance Taylor, Google  

Ian Lance Taylor has been working with free software since 1990. He wrote the gold linker and Taylor UUCP. He has made major contributions to the GNU linker, gcc, gas, autoconf, automake, CVS, and others. He currently works at Google on the Go programming language, for which he wrote the gcc port.

The GNU Gold Linker
10:45 am, Friday, April 16th (Toolchain Track)

Doug Tidwell, IBM Senior Software Engineer

Doug Tidwell is a senior programmer at IBM. He has more than a fifth of a century of programming experience, and has been working with markup languages for more than 15 years. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has taught XML classes around the world. His job as a Technology Evangelist is to look busy and to help people use new technologies to solve problems. The main technologies he currently works with are Cloud Computing and Service Component Architecture. Using a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers, he holds a master's degree in computer science from Vanderbilt University and a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Georgia. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife, cooking teacher Sheri Castle, their daughter Lily and their dog, Domino the Hound of Renown.

Panel: Does Open Source Mean Open Cloud
10:45 am, Wednesday, April 14th

Dominique Toupin, Ericsson  

Developer Tool Manager at Ericsson where he works on software engineering improvements with the open source community, researchers and commercial companies. Areas include debug, trace, edit/compile/build, static analysis, profiling. He previously developed systems to manage cellular network and was a software developer in research groups. He holds a bachelor and a master's degree in Software engineering.

Tracing System Wide: A User Perspective
2:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Spring C Room (Tracing)

Tom Tromey, Red Hat  

Tom Tromey is a software engineer at Red Hat. He has worked on many free software projects, starting in the early 90s.

GDB Challenges
11:15 am, Friday, April 16th (Toolchain Track)

Srivatsa Vaddagiri, IBM  

Srivatsa Vaddagiri has been with IBM India since over 13 years where he has focused mainly on Unix systems. Some of his significant contributions are CPU Hotplug for Linux kernel and group-scheduling extensions to Linux CPU scheduler. Currently he is looking to optimize Linux guest performance on KVM.

Making Linux Guests Efficient
1:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura B Room (Virtualization Track

Arjan Van de Ven, Intel Senior Staff Engineer

Arjan is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Software and Solutions Group at Intel Corporation.

MeeGo Technical Overview
9:15 am, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura A Room (MeeGo)

John Mark Walker, Community Root LLCP Founder and Chief Community Architect

John Mark Walker is a longtime open-source advocate. He is also a dad, a crazed American soccer fan, and a Belgian beer lover.

Panel: Does Open Source Mean Open Cloud
10:45 am, Wednesday, April 14th

Andy Wilson, Intel Open Source Strategist

Andy has worked with free/open source software at Intel since 1989. He wrote the C library for GCC960, the first Intel software product released under GPL (version one). In 1999, Andy was business development manager for Intel's first Linux-based products, the Intel Dot.Station web terminal and "Rio Vista" settop box. Andy was chair of the Carrier Grade Linux initiative 2002-2004, and is currently in a strategic role for MeeGo(tm). Andy also runs Intel's internal open source approval process. When not arguing the finer points of open source licensing, Andy enjoys photography, wine tasting, and hitting golf balls into the weeds. Andy is married and has two adult children, one a writer, one a video game developer.

Panel: MeeGo Technical Panel
4:00 pm, Thursday, April 15th, Sakura A Room (MeeGo Workgroup)

Elena Zannoni, Oracle Linux Engineering Tools Manager

Elena Zannoni is the manager of the Linux Engineering Tools team at Oracle. Her group works on toolchain and language development and contributes to GCC, binutils, libstdc++, Systemtap.

Tracing Session Lead
9:00 am, Thursday, April 15th

Jim Zemlin, The Linux Foundation Executive Director

Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, SaaS and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate the adoption of Linux and support the future of computing. Zemlin’s career took root at Western Wireless, which had a successful IPO and was later acquired by Deutsche Telekom and renamed T-Mobile USA. He was also a member of the founding management team of Corio, a leading enterprise application service provider that had a successful IPO in July 2000. Other posts have included vice president of marketing at Covalent Technologies and executive director at Free Standards Group (FSG). In his leadership role today at The Linux Foundation, Zemlin works with the world’s largest technology companies, including IBM, Intel, Google, HP, Nokia, and others to help define the future of computing on the server, in the cloud and on a variety of new mobile computing devices. His work at the vendor-neutral Linux Foundation gives him a unique and aggregate perspective on the global technology industry. Zemlin has been recognized as one of the top 12 Linux and open source bloggers and is widely quoted in the press on Linux and the changing economics of the PC industry. He is a regular keynote speaker at industry events such as COMPUTEX, LinuxCon, Gartner’s Open Source Conference and Open Mobile Summit, among others. Zemlin advises a variety of startups, including DeviceVM, and sits on the boards of the Global Economic Symposium, Open Source For America and Chinese Open Source Promotion Union. Zemlin’s blog can be accessed at: http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/.

Keynote: State of the Linux Union
9:00 am, Wednesday, April 14th