Conferenţiari şi program

Thursday, the 29^th of May: The Welcome Dinner

From 6pm on Thursday evening - at Les Oliviades (Hotel Sofitel), the eLiberatica experience kicks off a little early with a casual reunion where the speakers are going to meet with the eLiberatica Committee, sponsors, partners and conference attendees. We will get to know each other and prepare the details for the conference speeches.

Participating on it, you'll have a great opportunity to establish contacts, socialize and discuss hot topics, while enjoying the friendly atmosphere in one of the most exciting restaurants in beautiful Bucharest.

eLiberatica 2008 Keynote Speakers

We have the pleasure to announce you the eLiberatica 2008 keynote speakers!
In alphabethical, we introduce you:

Adam Jollans

Worldwide Open Source Strategy Manager IBM

Adam Jollans is currently leading the worldwide Open Source & Linux strategy for IBM Software Group. This role covers a wide spectrum of activities, from understanding the market and working with customers, to developing IBM's Open Source & Linux software strategy, to briefing analysts and press. He is based in Hursley, England, and has been involved with Linux since 1998. He joined IBM in 1984, and since then has worked in a range of technical, sales and marketing roles - most of them associated with PC and small systems hardware and software. He graduated from the University of Cambridge, England in 1980 with a degree in Computer Science, and is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the British Computer Society.

Plenary speech: Integrating Open Source into Your Business - Part I On: Friday at 12:40 Lenght: 30 min.

Plenary speech: Integrating Open Source into Your Business - Part II On: Friday at 16:40 Lenght: 30 min.

Aleksander Farstad

Co-founder and CEO, eZ Systems AS

Aleksander Farstad is the co-founder and CEO of eZ Systems AS, a Norwegian Enterprise Open Source company. Aleksander presented eZ and Open Source at eLiberatica last year. We are very pleased to have Aleksander back again bringing us this time the current trends in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market. Aleksander has a unique perspective on FLOSS shaped by a background uncommon for an Open Source entrepreneur: mathematical finance and his early career as a derivatives trader at Oslo's Den norske Bank. eZ system's major software is eZ Publish, an Open Source CSM that is used by thousands of companies worldwide, including prominent clients such as the United Nations, MIT, Vogue Australia, National Geographic, ELLE UK and Tribune De Geneve. eZ Systems employs nearly 100 people spread across 8 offices in Europe and North America (including one Romanian in the Norwegian headquarters office), being a perfect example of an Open Source based business model.

Plenary speech: The Future of Enterprise Content Management On: Saturday at 12:50 Lenght: 30 min.

Alexandru Balan

Innovation Product Manager, BitDefender

Alexandru Balan from BitDefender is a repeat offender at Eliberatica. He just switched from the position of Product Manager for UNIX/Linux based solutions to that of Product Manger for Innovation and he's here to continue on last year's topic: what's next to be done in the security industry.

Plenary speech: What's next On: Saturday at 13:20 Lenght: 20 min.

Barbara Held

Seconded National Expert, European Commission, Brussels

Barbara Held presently works as Detached National Expert at the European Commission Programme for "Interoperable Delivery of pan-European eGovernment Services (IDABC)". She is responsible for the IDABC projects promoting on Open Source Software (OSS) in public administration - including a project for a European OSS Repository (OSOR). She also coordinates the programme's activities on Open Document Exchange Formats. Being a Desk Officer at the German Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin, Barbara Held formerly served at the German Government's Coordination and Advisory Board for IT in the Administration (KBSt), responsible for software strategy and OSS policy. She holds a PhD in mass communication sciences from Free University Berlin.

Plenary speech: Open Source Software in Public Administrations - A Short Report from the European Level On: Friday at 11:30 Lenght: 40 min.

Bill Dobie

Founder and Head of Business Development, Navarik Corp.

Bill Dobie founded Navarik Corp with his business partners in 2000, and received the Business in Vancouver magazine's "40 Under 40" award, recognizing important young entrepreneurs in British Columbia, in 2005. Since the early '80's, Bill has been programming and using computers to drive his passion for technology that has continued throughout his business career. He has a particular interest in how companies use structured information and how to reduce dependence on email and information overload. Bill is a major supporter of Open Source technology and constantly drives Navarik and it's customers to support and embrace these technologies.

Plenary speech: Enterprise Information Networks Using FLOSS Technologies - The Navarik Story On: Saturday at 11:30 Lenght: 40 min.

Bogdan Manolea

Executive Director, APTI Romania (The Association for Internet and Technology) Founder and manager, www.legi-internet.ro

Bogdan has a legal background and extensive experience in Law and ITC as APTI Executive Director and owner of the only Romanian site dedicated to the Law and ITC (www.legi-internet.ro). He is also a Creative Commons Romania Co- Legal Project Leader and a very active member of the Romanian IT community with insights into the burgeoning Romanian IT sector . He is also the author of many articles on ITC and the Law, an ardent supporter of Open Source and Free Software and a presenter in national and international conferences. Bogdan's presentation at eLiberatica 2007 was a huge success and many people asked for a return engagement. And returning he is!

Plenary speech: Legal Aspects Related to a FLOSS-based Business Model On: Friday at 10:20 Lenght: 40 min.

Brian King

Board of Directors, Mozdev Community Organization Founder and manager, Briks

Brian has been involved in the FLOSS community since 1999 working on both Open Source and proprietary software built on the Mozilla Application Platform. He is on the Board of Directors of the Mozdev Community Organization. Brian runs Briks, a software company dedicated to helping clients develop and deploy Mozilla-based web applications. Briks' headquarters are in Slovenia with a global client base. Briks also provides opportunities to push Open Source in the business world. As part of a distributed development model, he uses various OSS tools to collaborate with teams he works with. These includes bug tracking systems, mailing list software, and revision control systems. Brian is a guest speaker at numerous conferences, including the XML Conference, LinuxWorld, and the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM).

Plenary speech: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants On: Saturday at 10:00 Lenght: 30 min.

Constantin Teodorescu

Secretary of State, Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

Constantin Teodorescu is Secretary of State, Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Mr. Teodorescu also holds management positions in several private sector companies and is involved in major IT projects. He is a noted guest speaker at many conferences on the applicability and advantages of open software and Linux OS. A dedicated Open Source supporter, Mr. Teodorescu was involved in the development of PostgreSQL. His articles on the implementation of new technologies and alternative FLOSS solutions have been published in PC Magazine, BYTE Romania, PC Report and eWeek Romania.

Plenary speech: For the first time in Europe: Digital ID Providers and OpenID Services for Romania On: Friday at 12:10 Lenght: 30 min.

David Ascher

CEO, Mozilla Messaging (the latest Mozilla Foundation subsidiary) Board of directors, Python Software Foundation

David Ascher is CEO of Mozilla Messaging, the new organization focused on email and Internet communications, and a strategic advisor to ActiveState. David has been an active member of the Mozilla community since 2000, initially as the lead of Komodo, a Mozilla-based integrated development environment (IDE). He is an established leader in the open source community, including his role as a director of the Python Software Foundation. He has taught courses about Python to corporations, in universities, and at conferences and co-wrote the two editions of Learning Python. Before joining Mozilla, he was managing director and chief technologist of the ActiveState unit during its ownership by Sophos, and most recently CTO and VP Engineering. Or as David puts it: "I work for Mozilla on email. Before that I was the CTO and VP Engineering for ActiveState. Before that, I ran the ActiveState division of Sophos. Before that, I wrote code. Before that, I did science."

Plenary speech: Mozilla Messaging and Thunderbird: Why and How On: Saturday at 12:10 Lenght: 40 min.

Dragos Manac

Lead Operations, System & Network Solutions

Dragos Manac is Lead Operations at System & Network Solutions (SNS), a Romanian company representing Red Hat as a business partner and one of the first companies in Romania to offer dedicated services in the Linux/UNIX area. In the 6 years of activity SNS has done various projects, from video streaming and VoIP to web applications and HA/HPC clusters. Dragos Manac is a Linux/OSS promoter, writes the Fiat Linux column in Academia Catavencu, and his blog, manac.ro, was chosen as the best Romanian business and technology blog in 2008.

Plenary speech: RedHat and the Open Source Business Model On: Saturday at 15:30 Lenght: 20 min.

Eugen Rotariu

CEO, IntegraSoft SRL

Eugen Rotariu is the CEO for IntegraSoft SRL, the company that is developing the Hermix Conferencing Framework. He is also CEO in Intelligent Building Solutions, a company dedicated to development of hardware and software solutions for intelligent houses. In the past, Eugen Rotariu was lecturer at the Faculty of Informatics in the University Petru Maior Targu Mures and wrote articles for computers magazines like PC Report, Open IT and Byte.

Plenary speech: An Open Source client application for the Hermix Conferencing Framework On: Friday at 16:20 Lenght: 20 min.

Felix Enescu

VP Consulting & EXP for Romania, KPC Group, Gartner, Inc. Representative

Felix Enescu is VP Consulting & EXP with KPC Group, Gartner Representative in Romania. Felix is also the President and founder of CIO Council, the only industry association representing the interests of corporate IT clients. As a former Rompetrol CIO he was in charge with strategic planning and development of Information Systems in a corporation growing from turnover of 100M USD to 1B USD in two years. He has more that 14 years of experience with vendors, clients and big consulting organizations.

Plenary speech: Open Source Adoption Status: What statistics tell us On: Friday at 09:00 Lenght: 30 min.

Humberto Moran

CEO, Open Source Innovation Ltd.

Humberto Moran is CEO of Open Source Innovation Ltd, a British charity devoted to the promotion of public knowledge in the form of Open Source Software. Graduated as Computer Engineer in his home town Caracas, Venezuela, he undertook an MBA in Cambridge, UK (Judge Institute of Management Studies) and a Ph.D. in Business and International Economics in Spain (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Humberto is also founder and director of Friendly Technologies, a British entrepreneurial venture specialised in privacy enhancing technologies; and is an RFID (radio-frequency identification) Expert for the European Commission. Before founding Open Source Innovation, Humberto worked for the University of Cambridge in the Auto-ID Project; and occupied managerial positions in Lafarge Group, Oracle Corporation, Sistemas Abiertos and Unisys Corporation.

Plenary speech: Open Source Software Middleware for "The Internet of Things" - Project ASPIRE On: Friday at 15:40 Lenght: 20 min.

Jani Monoses

Project Lead, Kiwi Linux

Jani has been a volunteer Ubuntu developer since 2005 and an occasional contributor to various projects, notably GNOME, Xfce and the Linux kernel. He started and lead the Xubuntu project, an official Ubuntu derivative aimed at less powerful computers, and later Kiwilinux, an Ubuntu derivative for Romanian and Hungarian users. Recently he has been working on getting the educational software made for the OLPC project's XO laptop packaged and available in Ubuntu. As a member of Romanian Free Software Advocacy Group he has participated in several local events that promote FLOSS. Jani also runs his own business, Startx. Startx does embedded software development on Linux and eCos, plus Ubuntu Linux consultancy and support.

Practical workshop: Kiwi, a Linux Distribution Based on Ubuntu and Made for Romanians On: Friday at 17:30 Lenght: 30 min.

Louis Suarez-Potts

Community Manager, OpenOffice.org / Sun Microsystems, Inc Chair of the Community Council for OpenOffice.org

Louis Suárez-Potts is the longtime Community Manager and Chair of the Community Council for OpenOffice.org; he joined Sun Microsystems in 2007 and has led the OpenOffice.org community since 2000. The lead and co-lead of several projects and the primary spokesperson and representative of OpenOffice.org, Suárez-Potts also represents the project regarding OpenDocument format (ODF) matters, and is on the OASIS ODF Adoption Technical Committee and is a member of the ODF Alliance. He speaks frequently on the ODF, OpenOffice.org, education and open source, and community development throughout the world. Suárez-Potts is currently working on several articles regarding open source development and education. He lives in Toronto and received his PhD from U.C. Berkeley.

Plenary speech: Write the Future: Open Standards, Open Source, OpenOffice.org On: Saturday at 10:30 Lenght: 30 min.

Lucian Savluc

eLiberatica Conference Chair

Lucian is a Vancouver-based IT expert, specialized in user experience, product design and event planning. He is doing his best for promoting freedom, transparency and open culture in the IT community in general and in Romania in particular. Lucian was born in Brasov (Romania) and emigrated to Canada with his family in 2003. In 2005, with the help of Zak Greant, he initiated a plan of setting up an IT conference in Romania promoting Open Source and Free Software technologies in the region. This is how eLiberatica was born. Lucian and Zak share the eLiberatica 2008 Conference chair.

Martin Michlmayr

Open Source Community Expert, Hewlett-Packard Company

Martin has been involved in various free and open source software projects for well over 10 years. He acted as the leader of the Debian project for two years. In this role, he performed important organizational and coordination tasks within Debian. Martin works for HP as an Open Source Community Expert and acts as the community manager of FOSSBazaar. Martin holds Master degrees in Philosophy, Psychology and Software Engineering, and earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Plenary speech: Governing the Use of Open Source On: Saturday at 10:30 Lenght: 30 min.

Matthew "Chewy" Trewhella

Developer Advocate, Google Inc.

Chewy is a Developer Advocate at Google. His job is to make technical things accessible and relevant to non-technical people. He is particularly knowledgeable about Google's APIs and webmaster programmes. He's has a BEng in Software Engineering, and he's been with Google since November 2005. When he's not at work, he likes to play the banjo. One of his latest keynotes (at Google Code Day) can be found here: " Programming Web".

Plenary speech: Google and the Open Web: Using Google APIs to Improve Your Website On: Saturday at 16:00 Lenght: 40 min.

Radu Radulescu

Red Hat Certified Trainer, Red Hat Certified Engineer Romsym Data

Radu Radulescu graduated The Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Computer System Engineering. He has been using Linux Operating System and training the administrating of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System for a long time. He has got multiple international certifications; some of them are: Red Hat Certified Engineer, Red Hat Certified Instructor, Red Hat Certified eXaminer, VMware Certified Professional, Symantec Storage Foundation Technical Specialist.

Plenary speech: Introducing itTraning - Red Hat Training Center On: Saturday at 09:00 Lenght: 20 min.

Remus Cazacu

Genaral manager, BIT Software

In 1991, still a student, Remus Cazacu, together with 2 associates, founded an IT and networking company for hardware, networking and software sales and support. Interested in computers, software development and economic theory, having a solid background in these areas, he starts in 1993 a new company, BIT Softtware, which develops and implements ERP/CRM, IT Service Management and Business Intelligence solutions. Remus is shareholder and CEO of the company. In 2006, the company moves to open source technology and launches in Romania SocrateOpen, an integrated, open source ERP/CRM, powered by Compiere. Remus is an economist, has graduated the Economic Sciences Faculty of Transylvania University Brasov. He taught economics at the Organizations Management Institute Brasov. He has a solid background in software development, organizational management, project management, and is part of various national and international projects.

Plenary speech: SocrateOpen, after two years On: Friday at 16:00 Lenght: 10 min.

Serban Zirnovan

Enterprise Business Manager for Bulgaria and Romania, Dell

Serban Zirnovan is the Enterprise Business Manager for Romania and Bulgaria for local Dell representative office. With more than 14 years experience in IT&C industry, Serban was involved in several large projects as a system consultant and manager for IT system architecture for different Romanian companies. He's focused on server & storage infrastructure solution, but also on the recently launched Dell ProSupport services.

Plenary speech: Dell and Open Source On: Saturday at 14:40 Lenght: 20 min.

Shane Caraveo

Head of Komodo development, ActiveState Software Inc.

Shane is the chief dragon-wrangler for Komodo at ActiveState, an IDE developed in XUL, JavaScript and Python, on top of the Mozilla code base. With one foot in the world of dynamic languages, the other in more obscure efforts like writing debugger protocols or NPAPI plugins, he's always tackling big bad ugly problems. In years past, he worked extensively on PHP, making major contributions such as the port to Windows, the SAPI architecture and early SOAP implementations. If you use or develop PHP applications on IIS, then the name Shane Caraveo is no stranger to you. Shane Caraveo wrote the first Win32 port of PHP back in the late 90's, and was also responsible for writing the first ISAPI and FastCGI modules for IIS, and also getting support for these modules committed to the PHP core. Shane's work has been instrumental in getting PHP to where it is today on the Windows / IIS platform. His legacy in the PHP arena is still talked about at Trekkie conventions.

Plenary speech: Active State and Komodo - Why we chose to make our product open source On: Saturday at 15:00 Lenght: 30 min.

Shane Martin Coughlan

Freedom Task Force Coordinator, Free Software Foundation Europe

Shane is the coordinator of FSFE's Freedom Task Force legal project. He has given numerous talks on Free Software issues and delivered training courses throughout Europe as part of his role at the foundation. Shane was previously involved in lock-in analysis, open standards and practical ICT security as a consultant. He was born in Dublin City, Republic of Ireland and moved to England for higher education. He studied English, Politics, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands and read for his MA at the University of Birmingham. His research during his MA was focused on security, and he produced a thesis on cybernetic warfare.

Plenary speech: Strategic Implementation of Free Software in Business On: Saturday at 09:20 Lenght: 40 min.

Tiberiu Turbureanu

Project Coordinator, Liberty in Schools

Tibi is a free software activist and spends a lot of time enjoying math, algorithms and programming. His commitment to education and free software led Tibi to found and become actively involved in two student associations: in 2007 - ROSEdu, and in 2008 - ASSA. He contributed knowledge and code to the academic project Cobble and enthusiastically promoted the OLPC project in Romania. He initiated and is currently involved in the Liberty in Schools project. Liberty in Schools actively promotes the free software philosophy and teaching Romanian students to effectively use and develop free software under GNU/Linux. Tibi is currently finishing his degree in Computer Science at University "Politehnica" of Bucharest.

Practical workshop: FLOSS Software Alternatives to Everyday Applications On: Friday at 18:00 Lenght: 20 min.

Vassilis Boulogiorgos

Software Architect, Software Practice Leader Greece, Balkans & Adriatic Sea / Sun Microsystems Inc.

Vassilis is a Software Architect at Sun Microsystems Inc., covering 13 countries in the region of South Eastern Europe. He joined Sun Microsystems in 2005 and his role is to help customers craft solutions using Sun's own and other Open Source software. His core expertise is identity management systems for large telecommunication organizations and banks. Before joining Sun, Vassilis worked as a senior Java developer for an independent Greek ISV, focusing on a content management system for the web. During his free time he enjoys riding his motorcycle for long, curvy rides.

Plenary speech: OpenSource and Sun: The OpenSolaris case On: Friday at 15:20 Lenght: 20 min.

Zak Greant

eLiberatica Conference Co-chair Staff, Mozilla Foundation President, eZ Systems AS North America Subsidiary Board Observer, Open Source Initiative License Compliance Lab Volunteer, Free Software Foundation

Zak Greant is an electronic frontier advocate and strategist. In the last decade, he has worked with a variety of well-known Free Software and Open Source organizations, including the Free Software Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, MySQL AB, the Open Source Initiative and the PHP project. Zak is eLiberatica co-chair and one of the key people behind the Romanian Open Source and Free Software Initiative. Zak was a previous keynote speaker at eLiberatica (2007 keynotes: Free Software, Open Source and the Evolution of Communication, Building Careers with Free Software and Open Source, The Past, Present and Future of the Mozilla Foundation) and this year unpacks his well-traveled bags to share the latest on FLOSS, businesses and community participation.

Keynote speech: Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing On: Friday at 09:30 Lenght: 50 min.

Zoli Herczeg

ISV Evangelist, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Romania

Zoli is passionate about business intelligence, security and development processes. With an IT experience of 15 years, he was trainer, consultant and manager of a training & consulting company. Seeking to increase adoption of new technologies and raising the satisfaction of the Romanian architects, developers and IT professionals, Zoli is now one of the evangelists from Microsoft. Blog: http://itboard.ro/blogs/zolis_tool

Plenary speech: Open Source at Microsoft On: Friday at 13:10 Lenght: 30 min.

Michael "Monty" Widenius (Canceled)

CTO and Co-founder MySQL AB

Unfortunately, Monty can not come this year. He booked his tickets for Romania and prepared everything, but because some last family events (My, his daughter - the one who inspired the MySQL name - is having the graduation exactly when eLiberatica is scheduled) he can not participate. He is sending his regards to all eLiberatica friends and he is strongly promising that he will come at eLiberatica2009 instead. For those who don't know yet, Monty was born in Helsinki where he founded TCX DataKonsult in 1978, specialized in data warehousing. Ten years latter, together with his colleague David Axmark, he began writing the first version of the MySQL database. In 2003 Monty was awarded the Software Entrepreneur of The Year by swbusiness.fi. By January 2008, Sun Microsystems announced its intention to purchase MySQL for US $1 billion.

Ivan Krstic (Canceled)

Director of Security Architecture, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project

Ivan Krstic is a software architect and researcher currently on leave from Harvard University, working as director of security architecture at One Laptop per Child, a non-profit organization trying to save the world by fixing education. He is paid to be paranoid, which he imagines some psychiatrists might find funny. Ivan enjoys breaking computers and making them hard to break even more so; at OLPC, he's been developing a security system designed to be both hard to break and easy to use. If this proves successful, a future version will make ice cream fall from the sky. Ivan is deeply involved in open-source and free software, notably as a former administrator of the Ubuntu Server Team and co-author of the best-selling Official Ubuntu Book, and specializes in architecture and security of large distributed systems. He has consulted on both matters for some of the largest websites on the Internet. In 2007, MIT Technology Review named him one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35 for his work on the OLPC security platform, Bitfrost.