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December 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)

A few open sessions at OSBC

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I just received great news today. Eben Moglen has agreed to keynote the conference. He joins Matthew Szulik (CEO, Red Hat), Marc West (CIO, H&R Block), Marten Mickos (CEO, MySQL), and one other IT executive (that I can't name just yet) as our distinguished keynotes for the conference. If you haven't heard Eben speak, you're in for a treat. He is masterful, and will seriously challenge a lot of conventional thinking about what "open source" means, and how freedom contributes to capital.

This complements a speaking faculty that also includes senior IT executives from Activision, AIG, Bank of America, Davis Polk Wardwell LLP, US Department of Defense, E*Trade, H&R Block, and others, as well as senior executives from leading industry players like MySQL, Alfresco, SugarCRM, Oracle, Microsoft, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray & Cary, Intel, Olliance Group, Red Hat, Matrix Partners, Mayfield Fund, and a range of others.

This is, hands down, the best line-up and best content we've ever had for OSBC. Importantly, it will have a strong IT component, which is something we've failed to deliver in the past.

On that note, and the purpose of this posting, is to solicit input for the 2-3 remaining sessions. I'm looking for sessions that are focused on the real-world of open source implementations, from the CIO/IT executive's perspective. Vendors can come up with the session ideas, but they have to include a panel of IT buyers. I'm not interested in any additional vendor panels.

I'm also looking for three brave entrepreneurs to volunteer to be on the CIO hot seat. This is a session where we give three entrepreneuers 20 minutes each to pitch a panel of IT executives from big-name enterprises, to see if the ideas stick, or stink. It's a lot of fun, but requires a thick skin (and a strong business/product plan.)

If you have any ideas, please send them along to me at masay _ AT_ osbc.com.

Posted by Matt Asay on December 20, 2006 12:13 PM

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