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08/15/2006,
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
In this talk, Professor Lessig will describe the Free Culture movement, and the support it needs from Free Software. The struggles and the threats are largely parallel. The solutions need to be parallel as well.
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08/15/2006,
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
 | Greg BesioCorporate Vice President, Software, Motorola.
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Consumers may buy phones because of the way they look, but they keep phones because of their software-driven user experience. And with the wireless value chain increasingly embracing Linux for mobile applications, the opportunities for Linux developers are extensive and steadily becoming more so.
In this keynote presentation, Motorola Mobile Devices Corporate VP of Software Greg Besio will offer a vision for how Linux developers can participate in driving continued next-generation mobile offerings. He will describe the advantages of developing mobile applications for Linux, including the promise of reduced development cycles and address ways in which the mobile industry can most effectively â€" and productively - work with the development community to encourage widespread adoption and development of mobile applications for Linux.
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08/16/2006,
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
 | Richard WirtSenior Fellow, VP, GM, Software and Solutions Group, Intel Corporation.
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Richard Wirt, General Manager, Software and Solutions Group, Intel
As grid technology becomes more pervasive in everyday IT, this
topic becomes a higher priority for all IT managers, CIO’s, and staff.
Richard will address current challenges and business solutions for
grid computing with an eye towards current and future trends.
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08/16/2006,
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
 | Guru VasudevaAVP & Enterprise Chief Architect, Enterprise OCTO, Nationwide.
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Guru Vasudeva, AVP & Enterprise Chief Architect, Nationwide
During 2005 Nationwide, a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company, embarked on a journey to aggressively exploit virtualization and Linux to address the growing software and data center costs, to simplify the environment, and to significantly improve the provisioning process. Today www.nationwide.com and 10 other mission critical applications run on virtualized Linux environment contributing more than $15 million of savings over the next three years. Guru Vasudeva, AVP and Chief Architect of Nationwide will share the approach, architecture, and lessons learned from this successful deployment.
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08/17/2006,
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Peter Levine, CEO of XenSource, an innovative new software vendor in the virtualization technology market, will describe where the market is now, and where he sees it going. XenSource is taking an open source approach in attempting to meet market demand. Hear their story as Peter describes the challenges of the once and future virtualization marketplace.
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