LinuxCon | Speakers

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David Ahern, Cisco

David Ahern has a BME and MS from Auburn University and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was introduced to Linux in 1999, and after 5+ years in the aerospace industry, mostly working on launch vehicles, he made the career move to software development on Linux platforms in 2000. After 5-1/2 years with Avaya as a member of the platform team for their Unified Communications product, he transitioned to Cisco in June 2006 where he is currently a Technical Leader on the platform team for the Unified Communications Manager product. David has done a variety of software development for closed-system, appliance-like products running on linux, including some kernel side hacking (custom filesystem, IO tracking and netfilter modules). He has been following the KVM project since September 2007. It has been 15+ years since he last presented at a conference.

Using KVM as a Transparent Hardware Abstraction Layer
Date: 10:45am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 3
Topic: Virtualization

Lance Albertson, OSU

Lance is the Lead Systems Administrator/Architect for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSL) and a Gentoo Linux Developer. He joined the Gentoo Linux project in 2003 and have been involved in managing their infrastructure and maintaining about a dozen or so packages in portage. Lance manages all of the hosting activities that the OSL provides for the open source community including projects such as Kernel.org, Drupal, Apache Software Foundation, and many many more. Lance has been at the OSL since 2007.

Creating a Low-Cost Clustered Virtualization Environment Using Ganeti and KVM
Date: 3:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Caspian
Topic: Virtualization

Chris J. Arges, IBM

LChris J Arges works in the IBM Linux Technology Center in Austin, Texas. He currently is working on Linux userspace software for a new Power processor. When not programming he enjoys playing music.

User-Space Accelerators on Wirespeed Power Processors
Date: 3:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Caspian
Topic: HPC

Matt Asay, Canonical

Matt has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open-source business strategists. He is responsible for aligning and optimising the company's strategic goals and operational activities. Prior to Canonical, Matt managed business operations for open-source application leader Alfresco in the Americas, helping the company to hit 18 straight quarters of growth. Before joining Alfresco, he was a founding member of Novell's Linux Business Office and helped lead the company's shift to open source. In 2003, he co-founded the Open Source Business Conference, the industry's premier open-source strategy event, and has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, focusing on open-source investment opportunities. Before Novell and OSBC, Matt was general manager at Lineo, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Network and Communications business. Matt is an emeritus board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Matt earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School and also holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and Brigham Young University, respectively. He serves on the advisory boards of several leading open-source companies and writes CNET's open-source blog, The Open Road.

What's Next For Linux
Date: 2:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Enterprise

Chris Barclay, Oracle

Chris Barclay is Director of Product Management at Oracle.

Oracle VM: Xen-Based Virtualization in Linux Environments
Date: 2:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Caspian
Topic: Virtualization

Keith Bergelt, Open Invention Network

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.

Patents, Probes and Strength in Unity: Participate in Keeping Open Source Open
Date: 11:45am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Legal

Tim Bird, Sony Corporation

Tim Bird is a Senior Software Engineer for Sony Corporation, where he helps Sony put Linux into their products. Tim is also the Chair of the Architecture Group of the CE Linux Forum, a trade organization that works to improve Linux for use in Consumer Electronics products. Tim has been working with Linux for over 18 years. Tim was formerly the Chair of the CELF bootup time working group, and has given numerous talks about reducing the Linux kernel bootup time.

Improving Android Boot-Up Time
Date: 3:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 3
Topic: Embedded

James Bottomley, Novell

James Bottomley is a Distinguished Engineer at Novell's SUSE Labs and Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, PA-RISC Linux, 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 and memory management. He is currently a Director on the Board of the Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. 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 High Availability project. In 2000 he helped found SteelEye Technology, Inc as Software Architect and later as Vice President and CTO. He joined Novell in 2008.

Linux Kernel Panel
Date: 4:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Kernel

Curing the Azure Mood: Building .Net Appliances on Linux
Date: 11:45am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Cloud Computing

What's Next For Linux
Date: 2:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Enterprise

Amanda Brock, Canonical

Amanda Brock has been General Counsel of Canonical - the commercial sponsor of the Open Source Operating Platform, Ubuntu - since 2008. She is a lawyer with over 15 years experience of commercial and IT law, more than 10 of these years being in house working in various organisations including as European Manager at DSG International (Europe's biggest computer retailer) and UK Legal Director with Aramark. Whilst working for DSGi she was the first lawyer at the ISP, Freeserve and as a member of the management team, dealt with all legal aspects of the set up and operation of the business through to its IPO in 1999. During her time in private practice Amanda was seconded to General Motors where she advised on commercial, marketing and e-commerce matters.

Amanda gained a masters degree (LLM) with merit in Intellectual Property and IT Law at Queen Mary and Westfield college, University of London (1999) and a Masters in Comparative Jurisprudence (MCJ) from New York University (1992- Rotary International Scholarship). Having studied for her first degree, LLB (Hons) at the University of Glasgow, Amanda is admitted in both England and Scotland as a solicitor.

She has lectured extensively internationally in businesses, conferences and universities, has published many articles relating to, commercial, e-commerce and IP law and is the author of the book “E-business — the practical guide to the laws” 2nd edition,2008 (Spiramus). She was a member of the editorial Board of Butterworth Tolley’s journal, “Electronic Business Law” from 2000–2007 and is a founding editor of the International Free and Open Source Law Review in 2009. She is an active participant in the FSFE's European Legal Network, is one of the co-authors of its Contract Risk Grid and is leading the FOSS Contribution Agreement Standardisation Project Harmony.

BoFs: Project Harmony
Date: 5:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Caspian
Topic: Legal

Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier is a freelance writer and editor with more than 10 years covering IT. Formerly the openSUSE Community Manager for Novell, Brockmeier has written for Linux Magazine, Sys Admin, Linux Pro Magazine, IBM developerWorks, Linux.com, CIO.com, Linux Weekly News, ZDNet, and many other publications. Brockmeier is also a FLOSS advocate and participates in several projects, including GNOME as the PR team lead. You can reach Zonker at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and follow him on Twitter.

Hype vs. Reality: Today's Linux Story from the Media's Perspective
Date: 3:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Community

Jason Brooks, eWeek

As eWEEK Labs Executive Editor, Brooks provides editorial direction to eWEEK Labs analysts and editors, aligning reviews, tech analysis and features with eWEEK readers’ most pressing concerns, both in print and online. Brooks joined eWEEK in 1999, and has covered wireless networking, office productivity software, mobile devices, and desktop and notebooks. Jason currently leads eWEEK Labs coverage of client and server operating systems, server virtualization and open source software and licensing.

Hype vs. Reality: Today's Linux Story from the Media's Perspective
Date: 3:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Community

Len Brown, Intel Corporation

Len maintains the Linux Kernel ACPI and SFI subsystems, co-maintains Suspend, and contributes to a number of other power management features. He is a Principal Engineer with Intel's Open Source Technology Center. Working at Intel for over 15-years, he has previously focused on operating systems, performance tuning, and new hardware bring-up on supercomputers, servers, and network processors. Earlier, Len worked for 5-years at Sun Microsystems porting kernels, bringing up new systems, and tuning performance. Len earned an MSEE in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a BSEE from Tufts University. He works from his home near Boston.

Saving Energy with the intel_idle cpuidle Driver
Date: 3:00pm, Wednesday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 3
Topic: Green Linux

Rob Chandhok, Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC)

Rob Chandhok is the President of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC).

Mobile Linux: Adapting Practices, Driving Innovation, Collaboration, and Scalability
Date: 9:45am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Keynote

Nguyen Tam Chinh, National University of Singapore

Chinh is a senior systems engineer at Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore. He started with Linux/FreeBSD in 2002 when he was studying at Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov and immediately found his true love with the OpenSource world. He has been developing software, administrating HPC/web systems and providing consultation since graduation in 2007. His latest major projects includes Tsunami Warning System for Singapore and the Flood Early Warning System.

Building Scalable and Cost-Effective Clusters with Linux
Date: 11:45am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Caspian
Topic: HPC

Scott Chacon, GitHub

Scott Chacon is a Git evangelist and developer working at GitHub.com. He is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress (progit.org) and the Git Internals Peepcode PDF as well as the maintainer of the Git homepage (git-scm.com) and the Git Community Book (book.git-scm.com). Scott has presented at conferences such as LinuxConf.au, OSCON, RuPy, Symfony Live, Ruby Kaigi, RailsConf, RubyConf, Scotland on Rails and a number of local groups and has done corporate training on Git across the country

Tutorial: Git Wrangling Advanced Tips and Tricks
Date: 2:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Spectacle (4th Floor)
Topic: Kernel

Kristina Chodorow, 10gen

Kristina Chodorow is a software engineer at 10gen, the company that provides commercial support and training for MongoDB. Kristina maintains the MongoDB Perl and PHP drivers. She also gives talks on MongoDB at conferences and meetups around the world.

MongoDB: A New Genie in the LAMP
Date: 5:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Application Development

Wim Coekaerts, Oracle

Wim Coekaerts is the Senior Vice President of Linux and Virtualization Engineering for Oracle Corporation, where he leads the team responsible for Sun Ray thin clients, Oracle VDI, Oracle VM Virtualbox, Oracle VM Server and Oracle Unbreakable Linux support. Mr. Coekaerts joined Oracle Belgium in 1995.

A Technical Look at Linux at Oracle
Date: 9:15am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Keynote

Marty Connor, Etherboot Project

Marty Connor is Project Leader of the Etherboot Project (http://etherboot.org), a globally distributed team of developers and users of innovative network booting technology. He is the creator and maintainer of the rom-o-matic.net website which dynamically generates custom gPXE and Etherboot network boot images. Mr. Connor is also CEO of Entity Cyber, Inc., a technology consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has advised clients on technology matters for over 20 years.

Tutorial: Recent Advances in Network Booting
Date: 10:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Brewster
Topic: Networking

Karen Copenhaver, The Linux Foundation

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.

Open Development of Medical Devices
Date: 11:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Legal

Jonathan Corbet, Linux Weekly News

Jonathan Corbet is a Linux kernel contributor, co-founder of LWN.net (and the author of its Kernel Page), and the lead author of Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Linux Kernel Panel
Date: 4:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Kernel

How to Work with the Kernel Development Community
Date: 2:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Spectacle (4th Floor)
Topic: Kernel

The Kernel Report
Date: 2:00pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Kernel

Cole Crawford

Cole is a cloud consultant and strategist. He runs dinthecloud.net and 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 Open Source Strategist at Dell where he oversaw the technical direction of Dell's internal open source direction. He serves on several industry customer advisory boards and was the creator of the open source project Statix.

Service Measurements in the Kernel
Date: 11:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: Kernel

Mathieu Desnoyers, EfficiOS

Mathieu Desnoyers works at EfficiOS Inc., an operating system efficiency R&D consultancy. He is the author and maintainer of the Linux Trace Toolkit next generation (LTTng) project started in November 2005, and 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, initiated 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. He created the "Userspace RCU" library in 2009. He completed his Ph.D. in December 2009 on the topic of "Low-Impact Operating System Tracing".

Efficient Trace Format for System-Wide Tracing
Date: 3:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: Kernel

Matt Domsch, Dell

Matt is a Technology Strategist in Dell's Office of the CTO, focusing on operating systems and virtualization. He has been an active Linux developer since 1999, and lead Dell's Linux Engineering teams for over a decade. Dell develops and sells Linux on a wide range of Server, Workstation, Desktop, Notebook, and Netbook products.

Network Device Naming
Date: 10:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Caspian
Topic: Kernel

What's Next For Linux
Date: 2:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Enterprise

John Ellis, Motorola

John is the Director of Software & Services for the Americas, at Motorola.

Negotiation in Progress
Date: 2:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Legal

Richard Fontana, Red Hat

Richard Fontana is Red Hat's Open Source Licensing Counsel. At Red Hat he advises developers, executives and salespeople on FOSS licensing, copyright and patent issues, educates lawyers about FOSS culture, and promotes open standards and intellectual property legal reform. He recently joined the editorial committee of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review and is a member of the legal advisory board of the Open Source Initiative. Before joining Red Hat, Fontana was Counsel at the Software Freedom Law Center, where his principal client was the Free Software Foundation. He was co-author, with Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen, of the GNU GPL, version 3. Fontana has given numerous talks on free software/open source legal issues to audiences made up of developers, lawyers, and businesspeople.

Contribution Policies for Open Source Projects
Date: 11:30am, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Legal

Dawn Foster, Intel Corporation

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: Where Are We Now
Date: 10:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: Embedded

Adam Gandelman, LINBIT

Adam is an expert in open-source clustering and high availability. Originally from New England, Adam lives in Portland, OR where he has been working at LINBIT, developers of DRBD and maintainers of Heartbeat. Aside from providing top-level Linux High-Availability and Disaster Recovery consulting for customers in the Americas, he also leads LINBIT training courses in the US, doubles as a technical writer and regularly contributes to related open-source projects. Adam enjoys his R&D work creating new and exciting methods for DRBD integration into the fastest growing arenas; cloud, virtualization, HPC and distributed computing environments.

Pacemaker, DRBD, and KVM: Private Clouds for Everyone!
Date: 2:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Caspian
Topic: High Performance Computing (HPC)

Bdale Garbee, Hewlett-Packard

As HP's Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist, Bdale Garbee advises decision makers across HP 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 was an early participant in the Debian project, and chairs the Debian Technical Committee. Bdale is President of Software in the Public Interest, and serves on the boards of the Linux Foundation, the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, and Open Media Now. A frequent speaker at Linux and Open Source conferences, Bdale received a Lutece d'Or in 2008 as FOSS personality of the year. Beyond his work at HP, Bdale engages in a wide variety of personal activities, including high-powered model rocketry and amateur radio.

Flying Rockets with Free Hardware and Free Software
Date: 10:30am, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Embedded

Matthew Garrett, Red Hat

Matthew Garrett works at Red Hat on reducing the average power consumption of Linux systems. He has presented on the topic at conferences over the world, being described variously as "entertaining" and "extremely handsome" but also "informative" and "insightful". He would prefer you not to bring up the topic of fruitflies.

Android/Linux Kernel: Lessons Learned
Date: 11:45am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 3
Topic: Embedded

Juergen Geck, Open-Xchange

Geck is responsible for continued development and communication of the company’s technology strategies. He brings a distinguished background in open source and technology management to Open-Xchange. Before Geck joined Open-Xchange, he spent 10 years with Suse Linux as Vice president Technology Partners and CTO. He built strong alliances with AMD, Fujitsu-Siemens-Computers, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Oracle and SAP and introduced in 2002 Suse's Technology Partner Program to provide a scalable offering for all Suse partners. As CTO, Geck was instrumental in designing Suse's flagship product, Suse Linux Enterprise Server and its maintenance model, enabling the first enterprise Linux offering in the market. Geck is also one of the founders of Eclipse.org. Geck holds a masters degree in production engineering from the University of Erlangen, Germany.

Commanding Your Data
Date: 3:00pm, Thursday, August 12th

Al Gillen, IDC

Al Gillen is a research vice president in IDC's worldwide system software research practice. His primary area of coverage is tracking client and server operating systems, with a particular focus on Linux, Windows and Unix. Mr. Gillen has been involved in IT for 25 years, including 10 years as a software developer and 8 years running trade publications focused on Windows and IBM's System i platform. Since joining IDC in 1999, he has helped run a variety of research projects ranging from studying Linux adoption, migration from Unix and Windows to Linux, total cost of ownership for Linux, Windows and Unix systems, as well as assisting in IDC's recurring demand-side research covering the growth and evolution of the Linux market. In addition, he has tracked the changing licensing programs used by Microsoft and by the major Linux vendors. Mr. Gillen is a frequent speaker at trade shows, industry events and at customer-focused events.

Linux Server Adoption: Where Are We Now?
Date: 3:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Enterprise

Florian Haas, LINBIT

Florian is a senior consultant, tech writer, blogger, and developer at LINBIT. Working for a 100% Linux High Availability company, he blogs about, and contributes to, Linux clustering development and storage replication. He is the principal author of the DRBD User's Guide and the Linux-HA User's Guide, and a frequent conference speaker. He has previously tutored and presented at the MySQL Users Conference and Expo, the Open Source Data Center Conference, the Tokyo Open Source Conference, and others.

Pacemaker, DRBD, and KVM: Private Clouds for Everyone!
Date: 2:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Caspian
Topic: High Performance Computing (HPC)

Ibrahim Haddad, The Linux Foundation

Dr. Ibrahim Haddad manages The Linux Foundation's Mobile Linux initiatives and works with the community to facilitate a vendor-neutral environment for advancing the Linux platform for next-generation mobile computing devices. Dr. Haddad has held positions at Ericsson, Palm, Motorola and The Linux Foundation’s predecessor organization, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). Most recently, Dr. Haddad was Director of Open Source at Palm where he was responsible for implementing company-wide, cross-functional Open Source strategy. Prior to Palm, he was Director of Technology at Motorola’s Open Source and Linux Technology Group and the winner of the Big Idea Innovation Award in Recognition of Leadership and Vision. At OSDL, Dr. Haddad managed the Carrier Grade Linux workgroup. As a Senior Researcher at Ericsson, he was involved with advanced research on server system architecture for 3G wireless IP networks and contributed to Ericsson's open platform efforts. Dr. Haddad is co-author of two books on Red Hat Linux and Fedora and Technical Editor for four books on Linux System Administration, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu Linux. He is a Contributing Editor of the Linux Journal. Haddad received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Lebanese American University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Concordia University.

Practical Guide to Implementing Open Source Compliance Program
Date: 10:45am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Legal

Jeffrey S. Hammond, Forrester Research

Jeffrey serves Application Development & Delivery professionals. He is a leading expert on software modeling techniques, integrated development environments, and the emergence of new rich Internet application development practices and tools. Jeffrey joined Forrester from IBM, where he was part of the Rational brand strategy and planning team and was responsible for launching the IBM Rational Software Development Platform. Prior to IBM's acquisition of Rational, Jeffrey led teams that created award-winning application development tools, including Rational Rose/J Edition, Rose/CORBA, and Rose/PowerBuilder. Jeffrey's extended tenure at Rational included a wide variety of software industry roles, such as product management, product marketing, business development, strategy and planning, and project management. Jeffrey has worked in the IT industry since 1989 and has experience with a variety of application development technologies that include modeling, SCM, requirements management, 4GL, and 3GL tools and languages. Prior to joining Rational Software, Jeffrey was part of Accenture's Advanced Systems Group, where he led application development projects at Fortune 500 clients in the pharmaceutical and insurance industries.

Open Source Software Adoption Patterns in Enterprise IT
Date: 9:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Keynote

Toshiharu Harada, NTT

Toshiharu Harada is an experienced (or aged) UNIX/Linux user and works for NTT DATA CORPORATION, one of the largest SI companies in Japan. His role at the company is senior technical project manager and he has been conducting Open Source projects since 2003. He is known as project manager of TOMOYO Linux, a security enhancement feature which was merged into the mainline recently. He traveled around the world to promote his project and has had talks at FOSDEM, FreedomHEC Taipei, ELC, OLS and the LinuxCon2009.

Your First Guide to Secure Linux
Date: 10:30am, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Enterprise

John Hawley, The Linux Foundation

John “Warthog9” Hawley is a jack of all trades, programmer, sysadmin, crazy man and rabble rouser. Currently working for the Linux Foundation on assignment to kernel.org as their Chief Systems Administrator. He's worked on kernel.org as a primary sysadmin for numerous years, created PXE Knife a network & cd bootable cd of useful utilities, maintains a set of GeoIP based patches for the Bind name server, and probably more random things than he is going to remember. He has presented papers at the Linux Symposium on "Issues in Linux Mirroring: Or, BitTorrent Considered Harmful" in 2008 and on "GeoDNS - Geographically-aware, protocol agnostic, load-balancing at the DNS level" in 2009. Along with his commentary on BitTorrent as a distribution mechanism, and geographic dns queries he cooks extravagant meals for his friends and then subjects them to b-rate movies.

State of Kernel.org Address
Date: 10:45am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Systems Administration

Mark Hinkle, Zenoss

Mark is the VP of Community at Zenoss, an open source software company that provides tools for managing the entire data center but specifically, virtual and cloud computing technologies. Zenoss Core is the award-winning open source project sponsored by Zenoss. Mark has also been the editor in chief of LinuxWorld magazine and is the author of Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration (Charles River Media, 2006). He also has served as an advisory board member to open source companies MindTouch and SourceForge (now Geek.net). Mark blogs at SocializedSoftware.com.

Open Source Tool Chains For Managing the Cloud
Date: 11:30am, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Caspian
Topic: Systems Administration

Darren Hoch, StrongMail

Darren Hoch has been teaching and consulting on Linux in government, academic and corporate settings since 1999. He currently works for StrongMail Systems in Redwood City, CA as the Director of Professional Services. His primary role at StrongMail is to build products and service offerings based off the Linux platform. Prior to StrongMail, Darren worked for both Sun Microsystems and Accenture as a Linux consultant with a foucs on performance and security. His tutorials on Linux system administration topics have been accepted every year since 2007 at both OSCON and Open Source World.

Tutorial: Linux System Performance Monitoring
Date: 10:45am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Spectacle (4th Floor)
Topic: Systems Administration

Simon Horman, VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.

Simon works in the Enterprise Operating Systems Unit at VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. and works on network-related projects, as he think the way that this brings people together is really interesting. He also have an interest in high-availability and have worked on and off in that area for many years. More recently the main focus of Simon's work has been on Linux Kernel and virtualization using the Xen hypervisor. Particularly in the areas of crash dump analysis, PCI virtualisation and various aspects of networking.

Network Bandwidth Control in Virtualized Environments
Date: 3:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Caspian
Topic: Virtualization

Shyam Iyer, Dell

Shyam is a senior software engineer in Dell's Enterprise Linux Engineering group enabling Dell PowerEdge Servers and storage for the Enterprise Linux Operating Systems. Most recently, he lead RHEL6 engineering efforts on Dell's PowerEdge Server's in the development phase. His interests encompass Linux Kernel Debugging, Server Platform bringup, iSCSI, Virtualization technologies architectural development, performance tuning and white papers.

Storage Provisioning with iSCSI for Virtualized Environments
Date: 11:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Caspian
Topic: Virtualization

Hank Janssen, Microsoft

Hank Janssen is a Principal Software Development Engineer in the Open Source Technology Center at Microsoft. He now primarily focuses on the Linux Hyper-V drivers for Microsoft’s Hyper-V Server. He started his career writing parts of the System-V Unix kernel in the (very) late 80’s. Most of his career was spend as a programmer and systems architect in large and small telecommunications companies. He has extensive background in Open Source and has spoken in the last 4 years at many events such as OSCON, Linux, Developer, PHP and Drupal Conferences. And he has had several articles published in the PHP Architect magazine. He now has one of the oddest and coolest jobs at Microsoft; Being the primary Linux Kernel Programmer responsible for the Linux Hyper-V drivers.

The Physics Behind the Microsoft Hyper-V Drivers For Linux
Date: 11:30am, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 3
Topic: Virtualization

Dave Jones, Red Hat

Dave is the Fedora kernel maintainer at Red Hat.

Linux Kernel Panel
Date: 4:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Kernel

Chris Kenyon, Canonical

Chris Kenyon joined Canonical in 2006. He leads the global team that handles Canonical's relationships with companies including Intel, Dell, HP and ARM.His expertise lies in understanding the marketing, retail, business model and engineering challenges facing Linux-based devices in the consumer market. His leadership has been instrumental in driving Ubuntu adoption in the hardware and PC industry.Based in London, Chris is a graduate of the United World College of the Atlantic and Edinburgh University.Chris says: "We are here to give good counsel on when to use Ubuntu and to make it easy for industry partners to ship it. Ultimately, we want to make it faster, cheaper and more profitable to ship Ubuntu than any other platform in the world."

Where Is the Linux Desktop Succeeding?
Date: 2:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Enterprise

Sean Michael Kerner, InternetNews

Sean Michael Kerner writes about Linux (distros the kernel and the community), Open Source (licenses, applications, management and legal), Security (tools, attack vectors, vendors and exploits) Application Development (tools, vendors, dynamic languages and code) as well as Networking (core equipment, carrier, enterprise, Ethernet, IPv6 and access control). Kerner takes a deep technical view on everything he writes and has years of hands-on experience with many of the core technologies he writes about. When not writing, Kerner can be found experimenting with the latest Open Source technologies, looking for software and security defects and fixing network configuration issues. He has also been known to spend inordinate amounts of time looking at satellite images of Roswell, New Mexico and is a student of the Klingon language. Kerner has been contributing to InternetNews.com since 2003.

Hype vs. Reality: Today's Linux Story from the Media's Perspective
Date: 3:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Community

Jaesoo Lee, Samsung Electronics

Jaesoo Lee is a senior engineer at Samsung. He obtained his Ph.D. and B.S. in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science both from Seoul National University in 2009 and 2001, respectively. Since he joined Flash Solution team at Samsung in 2007, he has been working on the development of commercial SSD products based on SLC and MLC types of NAND flash memory. Primary role in the team is to architect and develop the core of NAND flash memory management software including FTL (Flash Translation Layer), real-time operating systems, and a multi-core communications middleware. Recently, he is working on designing and developing the ANSI OSD-based SSD. He has several experiences in publishing papers and giving presentations at the international conferences including WPDRTS, RTAS, RTCSA, ICURAI, and ISOCC. Also he has an experience to give a talk at the ROBOTICS working group in an OMG standardization meeting.

Object-Based SSD: Practice and Experience
Date: 2:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: HPC

Mark Lee, DeviceVM

Mark is Co-Founder and CEO of DeviceVM, thecreator of Splashtop, the leading Linux-based instant-on platform shipping on millions of PCs from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, LG, Sony, and others. DeviceVM contributes to various open source projects, and is leading the push to bring Linux to hundreds of millions of users around the world. Prior to DeviceVM, Mark was a co-founder and CEO of OSA Technologies. Founded in 2000, OSA raised a total of $20M from Intel, Dell, Quanta, Foxconn, UMC, Storm Ventures, Sycamore Ventures, and others. OSA was acquired by Avocent in 2004 for $100M. Mark continued to serve as Senior VP of Avocent until June of 2006. Prior to OSA, Mark spent over 7 years at Intel. Mark received his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and executive MBA from ASU.

Where Is the Linux Desktop Succeeding?
Date: 2:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Enterprise

Christoph Lameter, Graphe

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.

PGM: A Reliable General Multicast implementation for the Linux Kernel
Date: 3:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: Networking

David Lutterkort, Red Hat

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.

Deltacloud - Many Clouds, One API
Date: 10:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 3
Topic: Cloud Computing

Federico Lucifredi, Novell

Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a recently graduate student at Harvard University, and a software engineer-turned-manager at Novell corporation. Previously, Federico has been a CTO and a network software architect at ’.com’ and embedded Linux startups, and he has spent two years teaching in Boston University’s graduate and undergraduate programs, while simultaneously consulting for MIT. He is a frequent speaker at user group and conference events, notably the OSCON, LinuxWorld, and IMPlanet conferences, where he was a panelist representing the jabber community. Federico is a recognized expert in computing performance issues, and consults pro-bono with Standard and Poor’s clients interested in Free/Open Source Software technical and strategic issues. He participated in the GPL v3 drafting process in the large-corporation panel.

Creating Packages for Users Running Various Distributions
Date: 10:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 3
Topic: Cloud Computing

Cathy Malmrose, ZaReason

Cathy Malmrose is CEO of ZaReason, Inc, a Linux-only hardware builder in Berkeley, California. After growing up in Redmond and experiencing a variety of careers, Cathy is now working on building a space where Linux only hardware R&D can thrive.

Linux in 10 Years: How the Neuropsych of the Next Generation is Responding to Linux Development
Date: 10:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Future

Chris Mason, Oracle

Chris works in the Oracle Linux Kernel Engineering team, and is the lead developer in the Btrfs filesystem project.

Btrfs File System: Status and Future
Date: 2:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 3
Topic: Kernel

Linux Kernel Panel
Date: 4:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Kernel

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.

Golden Penguin Bowl
Date: 4:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Pacific E

Cheryl McKinnon, Nuxeo

With more than 16 years experience in Enterprise Content Management, Cheryl has a keen interest in the challenges facing information workers in the increasingly electronic and online work environment. She joined open source ECM company Nuxeo in September 2009 as its first Chief Marketing Officer, with a mission to educate business buyers on why open source is a safe, secure, sensible option for their corporate content management. While a relative newcomer to open source, Cheryl was named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Voices in Open Source and recently spoke at Ontario Linux Fest, and is widely published in topics of Enterprise Content Management, information governance, records management and corporate memory preservation. She holds a BA (Hons.) from the University of Winnipeg, Master of Arts from Carleton University, and has completed the required coursework towards a PH.D in History at the University of Ottawa (though regrettably she remains “ABD...”) http://blogs.nuxeo.com/cmckinnon/

Enterprise Content Management Meets Open Source
Date: 5:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 3
Topic: Enterprise

Bill McQuaide, Black Duck Software

Bill has 20 years of technology experience and executive leadership spanning engineering, product management, marketing and business development. He comes to Black Duck after spending 10 years with RSA Security during which time the company experienced rapid growth. RSA Security was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2006. He most recently served as a Senior Vice President of the Enterprise Solutions Group and Corporate Development. Bill’s previous experience includes four years at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the Product Management and Channel Development teams for the company’s Technical Systems Division. In prior positions, Bill worked for Data General, Stardent Computer and Apollo Computer, where he was instrumental in defining and launching successful hardware and software products.

Distributed Multi-Source Development with Open Source
Date: 3:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Enterprise

Marc Merlin, Google

Marc has been using linux since 0.99pl15f (slackware 1.1.2, 1994), both as a sysadmin and userland contributor. He has worked for various tech companies in the Silicon Valley, including Network Appliance, SGI, VA Linux, Sourceforge.net, and now Google where he is both a sysadmin and engineer. He has done hacking in various areas like mail with exim, mailman, SpamAssassin and SA-Exim, as well as maintained various linux distributions. For fun, when he's not trying to beat his mythtv into submission, or hacking misterhouse so that a motion sensor and video camera can trigger a blender to scare the cat off the kitchen counter :)

Subversion Scaling at Google, gvn and our Hook Development Infrastructure
Date: 2:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Caspian
Topic: Systems Administration

Thomas Miller, Nokia

As head of MeeGo Ecosystem Development in Nokia, Tom oversees Nokia's efforts to promote the use of MeeGo to network operators, application developers, device makers and other partners. Tom has been involved in mobile platforms for nearly 12 years, first at Unwired Planet which became Phone.com then Openwave, then SavaJe Technologies, and Trolltech. Before that, he was in sales with Oracle and Informix. Tom has an A.B. In Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.

Freedom to Innovate: Can MeeGo's Openness Change the Mobile Industry?
Date: 4:30pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Keynote

Eben Moglen, Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)

Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School. Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's leading free software developers. Professor Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his “long, dark period” in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School – and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia – since 1987. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society. Professor Moglen is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States Supreme Court. He is also a director of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

Doing What it Takes: Current Legal Issues in Defending FOSS
Date: 4:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Legal

James Morris, Red Hat

James Morris is a the Linux kernel security subsystem maintainer; author of the kernel cryptographic API; and a leading contributor to the SELinux, Linux Security Module, Netfilter and IPsec projects. He works for Red Hat in Sydney, Australia.

Linux Kernel Security: Adapting 1960's Technology to Meet 21st Century Threats
Date: 2:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 3
Topic: Security

Terri Oda, Carleton University

Terri is a web security researcher working on her PhD in computer security at Carleton University. In her not so copious spare time, she makes up a significant fraction of the GNU Mailman steering committee, volunteers as a photographer, a writer, a teacher, a system administrator as well as a developer for various other organizations, and still tries to find time to read a good book and bake cupcakes.

GNUMailman 3: Mailing List of the Future
Date: 10:30am, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Caspian
Topic: Systems Administration

L. Philip Odence, Black Duck Software

Phil Odence is the Vice President of Business Development at Black Duck Software. He's responsible for all of Black Duck's partnership activity and relationships with the open source community.

BoFs: SDPX
Date: 5:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Legal

Patrick Ohly, Intel Corporation

Patrick is a Senior Software Engineer at Intel.

Patrick is a Senior Software Engineer at Intel. In the past he has worked on performance analysis software for HPC clusters ("Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector") and cluster technology in general (PTP and hardware time stamping, included in Linux since 2.6.30). Since January 2009 he works for Intel's Open Source Technology Center on data synchronization and more specifically SyncEvolution, his spare time project since 2005. In parallel to his work on commercial, closed source software Patrick has often contributed to free and open source software (including Evolution, mkisofs, doxygen, Roundup, gpsbabel, fcron, UAE) before he started is own SyncEvolution project. Patrick started his love/hate relationship with computers in his teens on the Commodore 64 and (more seriously) the Amiga, for which he wrote both public domain programs (DiskProtection) and shareware (MakeCD). Later he studied Computer Science in Karlsruhe and Edinburgh before working for Nero, Pallas and then Intel.

Data Synchronization in Netbooks, Desktops and Mobile Devices
Date: 3:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: Embedded

Jeff Osier-Mixon, MontaVista Software

Jeff Osier-Mixon is a technical writer, developer advocate, community manager, and independent open-source blogger at http://jefro.net. He works at MontaVista Software, LLC, a market leader in embedded Linux. Jeff speaks at conferences regularly, including the Embedded Linux Conference, and Linux Collaboration Summit 2009. He is currently writing a book about the Beagle Board.

Linux Distribution Showdown
Date: 2:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Distributions

Embedded Linux BoFs
Date: 5:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: Distributions

Ryan Paul, Ars Technica

Ryan Paul is the editor of Open Ended, Ars Technica's open source software journal. He has used Linux for over a decade and contributes code and documentation to several open source software projects. Ryan is also the creator and lead developer of Gwibber, an open source microblogging client for the GNOME desktop environment. He lives in California with his pet, a programmable robotic penguin. When he is not creating open source software or writing articles about technology, Ryan spends his time stockpiling ammunition in preparation for the inevitable Roomba insurrection. Ryan likes science fiction novels, humorously captioned felines, anime, and surreal art.

Hype vs. Reality: Today's Linux Story from the Media's Perspective
Date: 3:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Community

Stormy Peters, GNOME Foundation

Stormy Peters joined the GNOME Foundation from OpenLogic where she founded and managed their OpenLogic Expert Community. Previously, Stormy worked at Hewlett-Packard (HP) where she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office where she was responsible for HP's open source strategy, policy and business practices. Stormy joined HP as a software engineer in the Unix Development Lab after graduating from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science. Stormy is a frequent keynote speaker on business aspects of Open Source Software at major conferences such as the Open Source Business Conference and the O'Reilly conferences, as well as government organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union. Stormy is involved in GNOME and free and open source software because it is changing the world and the community is full of smart, passionate people!

Your Desktop is Free But Where's Your Data?
Date: 9:00am, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Keynote

Martin K. Petersen, Oracle

Martin K. Petersen has been involved in Linux development since the early nineties. He has worked on PA-RISC and IA64 Linux kernel ports for Hewlett-Packard as well as the XFS filesystem and the Altix kernel for SGI. Martin works in Oracle's Linux Kernel Engineering group where he focuses on storage and I/O technologies. He is a frequent presenter at conferences around the world.

Linux and Advanced Storage Technologies
Date: 10:30am, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: Enterprise

Bret Piatt, Rackspace

Bret Piatt is the primary technical contact for partners of the Rackspace Cloud division. He is also actively involved in the cloud computing community promoting open standards and helping open source projects gain awareness. Prior to his current role, Bret spent 5 years in product management for both Rackspace and AT&T where he was responsible for launching offerings such as the Rackspace PCI Toolbox and the AT&T Premises-Based Cisco ASA Firewall Service. A self described "lifelong geek", his professional technical experience comes from 5 years at SBC where he designed monitoring and management systems, optimized networks for enterprise customers, and performed lab testing on new products from potential suppliers and partners.

Alternative Database Technologies for the Cloud
Date: 11:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Cloud Computing

Timothy Prestero, Design that Matters

Timothy is a cofounder of Design that Matters and the related ThinkCycle initiative. He is co-inventor on three patents for cholera treatment devices. He is a graduate of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, holding M.S. degrees in Mechanical and Oceanographic Engineering, and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Davis. Timothy was a Peace Corps volunteer in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa in the Urban Environmental Management program, where he worked as a consulting engineer and project manager for a city public works department. He has traveled throughout West Africa, Latin America and Asia. He is fluent in French. He is a Martin Fellow at the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, and was named an Ashoka Affiliate in 2004.

Open Development of Medical Devices
Date: 11:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Legal

Krishna Raj Raja, VMware

Krishna Raj Raja is a Staff Engineer at the VMware R&D organization. He has been with VMware since 2002 working in a variety of roles. He currently works on the performance of next-generation VMware ESX features. Prior to this, he has worked on the performance of VMware VMI para-virtualization and VMware Fault Tolerance technologies.

The Missing VMware Manual for Linux
Date: 11:30am, Thursday, August 12th

Location: Mediterranean

Topic: Enterprise

David Recordon, Facebook

David Recordon is the Senior Open Programs Manager at Facebook, where he leads open source and open standards initiatives. He joined Facebook from Six Apart where he focused on platform strategies, and previously worked at VeriSign in the emerging business group. David has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies, such as OpenID and OAuth. In 2007, he became the youngest recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award.

What's Next For Linux
Date: 2:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Enterprise

Scott James Remnant, Canonical

Scott James Remnant is one of the lead developers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, an employee of Canonical Ltd since its inception six years ago, a member of the Ubuntu Platform Foundations team and a member of the Ubuntu Technical Board. He's the author of the Upstart replacement init daemon, and an active contributor to various projects in the Linux Plumbing layer. Scott has previously given talks on Upstart at Linux.conf.au and FOSDEM, talks on Libtool and Dpkg at Debconf and a talk on distribution/upstream relationships at GUADEC.

How We Made Ubuntu Boot Faster
Date: 11:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 3
Topic: Embedded

Markus Rex, Novell

Markus Rex serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Novell Open Platform Solutions business unit. He is responsible for the development of all products that comprise Novell open source and open platform technologies, including SUSE® Linux Enterprise. Mr. Rex is also a member of the Novell Worldwide Management Committee. Most recently, Mr. Rex held the position of Chief Technology Officer for the Linux Foundation, where he led all technical initiatives for the Linux Foundation, including oversight of the Linux Standard Base and other workgroups, such as Open Printing. He was also the primary technical interface to Linux Foundation members and the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board, which represents the kernel community. With 10 years of experience in the Linux industry—first with SUSE Linux, then with Novell—Mr. Rex has been heavily involved in nearly all critical areas of Linux development, including engineering, product development, management and marketing, and executive leadership. Before joining SUSE, Mr. Rex worked in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Erlangen and as an IT consultant at Philips Kommunikations Industrie AG in Prague. Mr. Rex is a graduate of the Harvard Business School General Management Program.

Empowering the Imagination For Tomorrow's Linux Workloads
Date: 9:00am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Keynote

David Rientjes, Google

David earned his B.S. in computer science from the University of Washington in June 2006 where he primarily studied operating systems and machine architecture as an undergraduate.He has been a full-time software engineer at Google for the past 3 1/2 years working solely on Linux kernel development, specializing primarily in VM development but also has made significant contributions to the x86 architecture code. Within the Linux community, David has had hundreds of patches merged, including: extending NUMA emulation on x86 for its use as a method for memory containment, added cpuset support for rebinding mempolicy nodemasks, added fine-grained writeback thresholds, completely rewriting the OOM killer, and developing the SLUB allocator.

When the Kernel Runs Out of Memory
Date: 3:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th

Karlie Robinson, Webpath Technologies

A true entrepreneur who bootstrapped On-Disk.com with a $300 personal investment to over $100,000 in gross sales in less than two years while understanding it's biggest competitor is a server offering free downloads. Karlie merges her background in Not-for-Profit management, Business Management and Technology sales to advocate for Open Source. She is active with many FOSS groups, but most recently has focused on getting the Rochester Institute of Technology up to speed Teaching Open Source development to students which was the topic of her talk at the 2009 Ontario GNU/Linux Fest. When she's not diving into Open Source development projects or taking care of business, family and home, Karlie can be found at SCORE Rochester counseling small business start ups. Her work with SCORE Rochester earned her the Gold Member Award in 200

The Business of Linux - How Individuals Can Get Into the Game
Date: 3:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Economy

Esteban Rockett, Motorola

Esteban Rockett is Senior Counsel; Software, Applications & Digital Content Licensing at Motorola

Negotiation in Progress
Date: 2:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Legal

Karen Sandler, Software Freedom Law Center

Karen M. Sandler comes to the SFLC after working as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Sandler received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Sandler received her bachelor's degree in engineering from The Cooper Union. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York. She is also an officer of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

Open Development of Medical Devices
Date: 11:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Legal

Casey Schaufler, The Smack Project

Casey Schaufler is a leading authority on operating system access controls. He is the founder of the Smack project and the leader of the loyal opposition to SELinux. He has presented papers on network security modeling, access controls, and secure systems design. He has been a major contributor to Linux Security Modules and an advocate for others with alternative models for access control. He was the technical editor for and active contributor to the Posix P1003.1e/2c DRAFT security specification. Mr. Schaufler also served as the architect for the Trusted Irix system from which many of the Linux security facilities, including file system extented attributes and access control lists are derived.

File Content Based Access Control
Date: 11:45am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: Security

Robert Schweikert, Novell

Robert currently works at Novell in the ISV Engineering group, working closely with IBM on joint projects. He also supports ISVs w.r.t. appliance creation. He contributes to Kiwi, the openSUSE project, and is an active member of the LSB work group. Prior to joining Novell Robert worked in HPC on application infrastructure, architecture and application porting to Linux (32 and 64 bit).

Tutorial: Creating Appliances with Kiwi
Date: 2:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Spectacle (4th Floor)
Topic: Systems Administration

Steve Shaw, Intel Corporation

Steve Shaw is the Database Technology Manager for Intel Corporation in EMEA. Steve specialises in helping customers getting the best out of Oracle on Linux on Intel platforms with a focus on enabling the adoption of leading edge technologies. Steve is the co-author of the Pro Oracle RAC on Linux series of books published by Apress for both Oracle 10g and Oracle 11g. Steve is also the author of Hammerora, the leading Open Source Oracle and MySQL Load Test Tool and an acknowledged expert on real-world Oracle benchmarks and performance. Steve is a popular speaker at Oracle corporate and User Group related events worldwide including Oracle Openworld, and both UKOUG and DOAG (German Oracle User Group) conferences. He also speaks regularly at SIGs, seminars and training events and contributes articles to database related publications and web sites.

Oracle Database Performance on Intel Linux Servers
Date: 10:45am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Caspian
Topic: Enterprise

Ravi Simhambhatla, Virgin America

An information technology industry veteran with more than 18 years of experience, Ravi has played a leading role in developing Virgin America’s innovative, guest-friendly and cost-effective technology platforms from prior to the airline’s launch. Ravi joined Virgin America as the Director of Architecture and Integration in early 2006 and most recently served as the Company’s Acting CIO from November 2008 to June 2009. Ravi has and continues to lead Virgin America’s strategic technology initiatives, including the development of Virgin America’s data centers, storage subsystems, core application infrastructure and integration, and the architecture of its award-winning, user-friendly Web site. Ravi’s experience reflects a broad cross-section of disciplines, including software development methodologies, project management, performance management, systems development, data/application architecture, ERP and CRM applications. Prior to joining Virgin America, he served as the Director, Global Applications at Aspect Communications from 2004 to 2006 where his portfolio included systems architecture, application engineering and sustenance in the enterprise financial systems and customer relationship management areas. Prior to Aspect, Ravi was the Senior Manager of ERP and CRM systems at Legato Systems from 1998 to 2003. Ravi graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Richmond College, London in 1991. Simhambhatla has lived in Europe, Africa, and South Asia and resides with his wife and two daughters in Sunnyvale, California.

Selling the Value of Open Source When Cost is Not the Driver
Date: 9:30am, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Virtualization

What's Next For Linux
Date: 2:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Enterprise

Jean Staten Healy, IBM

Jean Staten Healy manages a marketing and business development organization with the responsibility for IBM Linux strategy across all company brands. In this role she coordinates the cross-company strategy for Linux including the achievement of revenue goals, ensures rapid response to changes in the market environment and acts as the IBM spokesperson in the Linux space. Prior to her current position, Ms. Staten Healy was the Director of Marketing Strategy in the IBM Software Group, Director of Business Development and Regulatory Affairs in the IBM Systems and Technology Group, Director of Innovation Initiatives at IBM Corporate Headquarters. and the IBM Customer Advocate in the Office of the Chairman and CEO. In addition, she has held management positions in the IBM Global Services Group. Ms. Staten Healy has lived and worked in Asia. She holds a M.S. degree in theoretical linguistics and a J.D. with a certificate of concentration in International Law. Ms. Staten Healy is licensed to practice law in the States of New York and Connecticut and is a published author on various legal topics.

Efficiency? Lower Cost? Innovation?: What Does Linux Mean to the CIO in 2010?
Date: 10:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Virtualization

Kate Stewart, Freescale Semiconductor

Kate Stewart is a manager of open source development at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. After spending way too much time reviewing package metadata over the last couple of years, she found others at the first LinuxCON who shared the desire to come up with a standardized way of specifying these package facts in such a way that they can be shared in the software supply chain. The SPDX project was set up in FOSSBazaar, and collaboration with others on defining the format started in February of 2010. The initial call for participation was made at a talk given by Kate at LCA 2010. An update was presented at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in April.

SPDX: Collaboration Beyond the Specification
Date: 3:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Legal

BoFs: SDPX
Date: 5:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Legal

Ted Ts'o

Theodore Ts'o was the first North American Linux Kernel Developer, and organizes the Annual Linux Kernel Developer's Summit, which brings together the top 75 Linux Kernel Developers from all over the world for an annual face-to-face meeting. He was a founding board member of the Free Standards Group, and was chair of that organization until it merged with OSDL to form the Linux Foundation. He is one of the core maintainers for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems, and is the primary author and maintainer for e2fsprogs, the userspace utilities for the ext2/3/4 filesystems. At IBM, Theodore served as the architect for the Real-Time Linux development team. Ted currently works on filesystems and storage at Google.

Linux Kernel Panel
Date: 4:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Kernel

Scott Turvey, Qualcomm

Scott Turvey is currently an Engineer, Staff in the IT department of Qualcomm's CDMA Technologies Division (QCT). His group is responsible for the development and integration of Linux-based platforms used in the software development portion of QCT. Scott has been in IT for over 25 years in a variety of industries such as insurance, distribution, and financial services.

Where Is the Linux Desktop Succeeding?
Date: 2:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Enterprise

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ComputerWorld

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge, PC operating system; 300bps was a fast Internet connection; WordStar was the state of the art word processor; and we liked it! He's also been using Linux since its early days.

Hype vs. Reality: Today's Linux Story from the Media's Perspective
Date: 3:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Community

Where Is the Linux Desktop Succeeding?
Date: 2:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Enterprise

Jason Wessel, Wind River

Jason is a long time Linux developer since the early 90’s. He has worked on a wide range of projects over the years spanning from web servers, proxies, and qemu, to kernel drivers and debuggers. Jason currently works at Wind River as a product architect for the WR Linux core runtime. He is also the current kernel.org KGDB maintainer.

The State of Kernel Debugging Technology
Date: 11:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: Kernel

Ric Wheeler, Red Hat

Ric works at Red Hat as the manager and architect of the file system team. He has extensive experience in storage and file systems after spending ten years at EMC in its Symmetrix and Centera groups, four years at The Open Group’s Research Institute and four years at Thinking Machines working on the CM5 operating system. In the distant past, Ric worked on the original MOSIX process migration system at Hebrew University’s distributed systems laboratory. For the past ten years, he has been active in the Linux file system and IO world where he helped organize workshops, inform open source developers about high end storage and helped advance the robustness of the Linux IO & file system stack.

One Billion Files: Scalability Limits in Linux File Systems
Date: 2:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: Kernel

Michael "Monty" Widenius

Monty is the original author of the popular MySQL database and a founder of MySQL Ab. Until MySQL Ab's sale to Sun Microsystems in January 2008, he was the Chief Technical Officer of the company. In 2009 Monty left Sun and formed Monty Program Ab. Since then he has worked on MariaDB, a fork of MySQL with special emphasis on openness and community participation. MariaDB had its first stable release in February 2010, a release that incorporated not only work from Monty Program developers but also many community patches, features, and bugfixes. Like Linus, Monty is a Swedish-Finn. He makes his home near Helsinki, where he lives with his wife and youngest daughter. He is famous (or perhaps infamous) for his 'salmiakkikossu,' Finnish black vodka, which is used to lubricate discussions at conference BOF sessions.

MariaDB: MySQL Corrected
Date: 2:00pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Mediterranean
Topic: Enterprise

John Willis, Opscode

John is the VP of Services for Opscode. Opscode helps developers and systems administrators build and maintain fully automated server infrastructure based on community best practices and expertise. Opscode's first product is Chef, an open source configuration management & integration framework. John is also a prolific cloud computing and systems management blogger at www.johnmwillis.com and co-host of the IT Management podcast.

Open Source Tool Chains For Managing the Cloud
Date: 11:30am, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Caspian
Topic: Systems Administration

Chris Wright, Red Hat

Chris is a Senior Engineer at Red Hat.

KVM: The Latest From the Core Development Team
Date: 10:30am, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 3
Topic: Virtualization

Rafael Wysocki, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics

Rafael is the maintainer of the Linux kernel's core power management subsystem and works at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics, as a Senior Lecturer. He has been working at the university for over 6 years teaching IT and programming and administering computer systems. He also works for SUSE Labs/Novell Inc. as a kernel developer and has been actively working on the Linux kernel since 2005, mostly on the suspend and hibernate subsystem as well as on power management in general. He also developed the set of user space hibernate utilities called uswsusp that nowadays is widely used by Linux distributions. Rafael is the maintainer of it and a few other PM-related utilities, including the suspend utility called s2ram.

Runtime Power Management Framework for I/O Devices in the Linux Kernel
Date: 10:45am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: Kernel

Herbert Xu, Red Hat

Herbert Xu has contributed to Open Source development since the 90s. He is currently employed by Red Hat Inc.. His ongoing interest includes the Linux kernel crypto API, networking, and virtualisation.

Networking and Multicore/NUMA - The Last Mile
Date: 2:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 2
Topic: Networking

Jim Zemlin, The Linux Foundation

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/.

A New Approach to Open Source Compliance
Date: 9:00am, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Linux

Freedom to Innovate: Can MeeGo's Openness Change the Mobile Industry?
Date: 4:30pm, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Pacific E
Topic: Keynote