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14 July 2009, 15:26

2009 Open World Forum: programme announcements

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The organisers have made some programme announcements for the The 2009 Open World Forum (OWF) taking place on the 1st and 2nd of October at the Eurosite George V convention centre in Paris. The detailed programme is expected to be available in August.

Confirmed keynote speakers for the event now include

  • Jacques Attali
  • Michael Tiemann – Chairman of OSI and VP of Red Hat
  • Jim Zemlin – Executive Director of the Linux Foundation
  • Mike Milinkovich – Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation
  • Sander Striker – President of the Apache Software Foundation 2005-2007,
  • Mark Surmann – Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation
  • Cedric Thomas – CEO of the OW2 consortium
  • Mark Shuttleworth – Ubuntu founder
  • Andrew Aitken – Open Source Think Tank founder
  • Matthew Aslett – Analyst at The 451 Group.

Jim Zemlin comments,“We are very excited to be taking part in this global FLOSS event. It provides a great opportunity for us to share ideas and initiatives for making Open Source a decisive lever to foster innovation and competitiveness for the economic recovery.”

The OWF is sponsored by, among others, Bull, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Accenture, Qualcomm, Google, Red Hat and Mandriva. The H is itself a media sponsor of the event.

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