Program

FREE SOFTWARE:
FOR AN INNOVATIVE BUSINESS

13th November 2009

At the Auditorium of the Centro Formazione Professionale CTS “Luigi Einaudi”
Via S. Geltrude 3, Bolzano

Program (PDF Version)

08.30-09.00
Registration

09.00-09.30
Kick-off: “South Tyrol, a Free Software province”

Barbara Repetto
Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige (Italy)
Provincial Minister for Innovation, Information Technology and Finance

Hubert Hofer
TIS innovation park
General Director

Riccardo Cicolini
Centro Formazione Professionale CTS “Luigi Einaudi” (Italy)
Director

09.30-10.00
Karel de Vriendt
European Commission (Belgium)
Directorate-general of Informatics – Head of Unit
“Open Source activities within the context of the IDABC programme”

10.00-10.30
Simon Phipps
Sun Microsystems (USA)
Chief Open Source Officer
“A Software Freedom Scorecard”

10.30-11.00
Coffee break

11.00-11.20
Annual South Tyrol Free Software Award: SFSaward2009
Linux User Group Bolzano-Bozen-Bulsan

11.20-12.00
Sam Ruby
IBM Corporation (USA)
Senior Technical Staff Member
“What will the WEB look like tomorrow? (HTML 5)”

12.00-12.40
Josep Mitjà
Openbravo (Spain)
Chief Operating Officer
“How to build an Open Source business to compete with SAP?”

12.40-14.00
Lunch – Buffet

14.00-14.30
Carlo Piana
Free Software Foundation Europe (Italy)
External General Counsel, Attorney
“When Cloud Computing Gets Cloudy”

14.30-15.00
Dario Freddi
KDE (Italy)
KDE Team
“The KDE Community: History, Structure and Program”

15.00-15.30
Andrea Bonani
Intendenza Scolastica Italiana [Italian Schools Board] (Italy) - Technical and learning
support group for new technology
“Free software in Italian schools in the Province of Bolzano”

15.30-16.30
Results of a week of community developing in South Tyrol

Federico Mena Quintero
Novell (Mexico)
Co-Founder of Gnome Project and Ximian
“Hacking Gnome”

Walter Bender
Sugar Lab (USA)
Executive Director
“Activity: Sugar Camp”

Moderation
Patrick Ohnewein, TIS innovation park (Italy), Head of Free Software Center South Tyrol

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Partecipazion fee: free!
Online registration: mandatory.
Parking: free at the TIS innovation park (Via Siemens 19, Bolzano) and free shuttle service.
Shuttle service: from 08.00 AM  to 06.30 pm, with the following stops: Bolzano train station (in front of the station), TIS innovation park (Via Siemens 19), Centro Formazione Professionale CTS “Luigi Einaudi” (in front of the venue).