Keynote Speakers

The following keynote speakers have confirmed our invitation to date.

	Brian Behlendorf Founder and CTO CollabNet
Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates, in July 1999. The company provides tools and services based on open source methods. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites. Behlendorf is President of the Apache Software Foundation. He also serves as a Technical Advisor to Critical Path (CPTH) and Topica.
	Danese Cooper Chief Open Source Evangelist Sun Microsystems
Danese Cooper is Sun's Chief Open Source Evangelist and a leading advocate for the Free and Open Source Software movement. For 5 years she has been involved in the management of all of Sun's award-winning open source projects, including the landmark OpenOffice.org project (which has enabled the Linux Desktop revolution and many of the recent announcements by world governments that are switching from single-vendor lock-in systems). She is also a board member of the Open Source Initiative (www.opensource.org). She speaks and consults extensively throughout the world on Free and Open Source software issues.
	Mary Ann Fisher Linux Program Executive, Public Sector IBM Corporation
Mary Ann Fisher currently serves as IBM's world-wide program director for Linux in the Public Sector. In this position, Mary Ann is responsible for setting and enabling IBM's Open Source and Linux business strategies for the Government, Healthcare, Life Sciences and Higher Education Industries. She consults with Clients, builds partnerships with business partners and develops IBM's investment strategy and facilitates communications on Linux with organizations around the world. Mary Ann has extensive experience working with governments and organizations all over the world, including: USA, China, Germany, Australia, India, the Nordic Countries, Brazil, and Canada. Previous to her involvement in the Open Source marketplace, Mary Ann spent 10 years managing various business units in IBM's US Federal organization, including Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Education. Mary Ann holds a Masters in Business Administration from Loyola University and serves on the Board of her local Hospice organization.
	Dr. Jamshed Patel Senior Director, Linux Program Office Oracle Corporation
Jamshed Patel is Senior Director of the Linux Program Office at Oracle Corporation. He leads a cross-division and cross-company team responsible for delivering an enterprise enabled Linux distribution supporting all Oracle products. As part of this role, Dr. Patel is responsible for driving the value-added engineering, product management, partnering and marketing of Oracle products and technologies in the Linux market. In 1998, he led the team that developed and released Oracle's first database product on Linux. Dr. Patel also leads the team in charge of performance characterization of database and application workloads across multiple server and storage architectures on the Linux platform. Dr. Patel holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
	Dr. Sunil Saxena Senior Principal Engineer, Software Solutions Group Enterprise Product Group Intel Corporation
Sunil Saxena is Senior Principal Engineer in Software Solutions Group, Enterprise Product Group for Intel Corporation. The Software and Solutions group is responsible for enabling the Intel Architecture products through Operating System Enabling, ISV enabling, solutions enabling, core system software enabling, and providing leading-edge products such as compilers, libraries, and tools that allow customers to get the full performance benefit of Intel architectures. Dr. Saxena received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Waterloo and received his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1975. He started working for Intel in 1995 and contributed to SVR4-MP, first multi-processor UNIX for the PC. He has been instrumental in creating and enhancing the value of Intel's silicon and platforms through innovations in software technology. Dr. Saxena made extensive contributions in the success of multiple generations Intel processors (x86, i860, and Itanium) and has spearheaded Linux and UNIX kernel development for the past 23 years. He has been directing engineering efforts at Intel for the past ten years. He consults with Linux distributors, industry and community for enhancement of Linux for Itanium and IA-32 processors architectures and platforms.
	Dr. Inder Singh CEO and Chairman LynuxWorks
Dr. Inder M. Singh is the CEO and Chairman of LynuxWorks. He founded Excelan, an early leader in local area networks in 1982 and served as its chairman, CEO and president until 1985. Excelan later merged with Novell. Dr. Singh was a co-founder of Kalpana, which pioneered Ethernet switching technology, and was one of Cisco's early acquisitions. Dr. Singh is a director of PacketStream and PocketPass, and has served on the boards of Mylex, Kalpana, Omnitel, Integrated Media Systems, Univation, Vivix, and Eon Systems. Dr. Singh is Board Chairman and ELC President for the Embedded Linux Consortium. In addition to his experience with high technology start up companies, Dr. Singh has prior management and technical experience with Zilog, where he headed the Networking and Advanced Systems Development Group. At Zilog, he was the architect of the Z8000 UNIX-based product line. Dr. Singh has also held positions at Amdahl, where he was a Senior Computer Architect, Gartner Research, the Yale Computer Center, and Ontel. He holds Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in computer science from Yale University, and an MSEE from Polytechnic Institute of New York.
	Louis Suárez-Potts Community Manager, OpenOffice.org Senior Manager, Community Development, CollabNet
Louis Suárez-Potts is the Community Manager of OpenOffice.org since its inception and chair of the OpenOffice.org Communty Council, as well as the senior manager for community development at CollabNet, Louis Suárez-Potts holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently working on an in-depth examination of the difference corporate-sponsored open source projects have made to the logic and practice of open source.