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Tuesday Feb 17, 2009
8:30am - 5:00pm
Depaul Center
8th floor
1 East Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604

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Conference Schedule

The Symposium will consist of three panels in the morning, a lunch break, and three panels in the afternoon. An after-party is also being organized. Please see detailed conference schedule below.

  • 8:30 am to 9:00 am
    Registration
    DePaul Center, 8th Floor
    1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago

  • 9:00 am to 9:30 am

    Opening Remarks

    • Daliah Saper, Saper Law Offices, LLC

  • 9:30 am to 10:00 am

    Panel 1: Using and Developing Open Source Software for Education and Research

    • Dr. Xiaping Jia, Professor and Director of the Institute for Software Engineering at the School of Computing, DePaul University
    • Dr. Konstantin Läufer, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Loyola University
    • Dave Angulo, President, Angulo Consulting

  • 10:15 am to 11:15 am

    Panel 2: Leveraging Open Source and Commercial Software to Build Software Products.

    • Harper Reed, CTO Skinnycorp, Threadless, Inc.
    • Brian Gorbett, Architect, Microsoft
    • Sumit Nijhawan, Group Leader of Product Development, Infogix
    • Scott VanDenPlas, Engineer - skinnyCorp/Threadless
    • Phil Gomes, Senior Vice President with Edelman Digital

  • 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

    Panel 3: Open Source Business Models for the 21st century.

    • Andy Angelos, Digital Influence Group, Zocalo Group
    • Kevin P. Taylor, President, Obtiva
    • Chris Cleveland, CEO and Founder of Dieselpoint, Inc
    • Todd Pombert, SVP of IT Financial Services, NET(net), Inc.
    • Michael Beumer, Director of Corporate Communications, Nextpoint.com

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Lunch Break

  • 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm

    Panel 4: Legal implications of using open source software.

    Open Source Litigation, a discussion of recent court decisions and pending cases
    • Daliah Saper, Intellectual Property and Business Attorney, Saper Law Offices
    How using Open Source Impacts Patent Rights and Startup Acquisition Opportunities
    • Eric Waltmire, Patent Attorney, Erickson Law Group

  • 2:45 pm to 3:45 pm

    Panel 5: Open source licensing and implementation, a developer’s perspective.

    • T.J. Alumbaugh, Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • Josh, Elithorpe, Intra Arts
    • David Cuka, Vice President, Bank of America
    • David Schach, President, X-Squared On Demand

  • 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

    Panel 6: OSSCheck.com, Open Source Compliance Software, a demonstration.

    • Christopher Lee, Partner, Kenetica
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