www.zaizi.com
@apillaiz
Aingaran Pillai – CEO & Founder of Zaizi, previous Tech Lead for APLAWS
Aingaran Pillai is the CEO and founder of Zaizi Ltd (the Open Gov Summit host & sponsor). He has been working with open source within public sector since 2000. He was the technical lead for the APLAWS (Accessible and Personalised Local Authority Website System) National eGov project. London Borough of Camden’s intranet implementation based on APLAWS was nominated by Google for the BCS Information Management Awards 2006 and was short listed.
He actively promoted the use of open source within the public sector at international conferences and has published papers on sustainability of open source technologies within the public sector. He was also sponsored by Department for Communities and Local Government for the Future Leadership Development Programme (2007).
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www.openforumeurope.org/
Graham Taylor – Chief Executive & Co-Founder of OpenForum Europe
Graham Taylor is Chief Executive of OpenForum Europe, and a co-founder of the organisation. A regular speaker at international conferences, he was invited by the European Commission and Portuguese Presidency to respond to the Declaration made at the Ministerial eGovernment Conference in Lisbon in 2007, and succeeded in getting 27 other European organisations from the ‘Open Community’ to be co-signatories to that Statement.
With some 30 years of experience in the ICT industry, prior to OFE Graham Taylor was a Director at ICL, most recently as Managing Director of the Smart Card business, but with spells as its Software Business Development Manager, and Director of The Solution Centre, ICL’s centre for the management of complex integration projects.
www.alfresco.com
@JohnPowell996
John Powell – Alfresco CEO & President
Alfresco Presentation Summary
John Powell will be talking about Alfresco’s government customer case studies from the UK, US and France, who have successfully implemented open source document management systems, enterprise content management systems (ECM), records management systems and/or web content management systems (WCMS).
John Powell Profile Summary
John Powell is President and CEO of Alfresco and has 25 years of enterprise software sales and operations experience.
Prior to Alfresco, John was responsible for running worldwide operations at Business Objects®. During his tenure, Business Objects grew at 50% per annum to $415m and a market capitalization in excess of $6B. Business Objects was subsequently acquired by SAP for $6.8B. Powell founded Business Objects UK in 1991, and built the UK organization and then the global organization into the most successful Business Intelligence player worldwide.
Prior to joining Business Objects, Powell worked in sales management positions at Oracle® and Comshare®. He has a BS First Class from Birmingham University.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/
Graham Mallin – Head of IT Infrastructure at the Met Office
What Graham will be presenting
In this presentation Graham will talk about experience that Met Office has in using Open Standards and Open Source as they apply to the weather and climate domain. The Met Office routinely handle very large and volatile data sets and have been exchanging these with hundreds of international collaborating organisations via the World Meteorological Organisation for many years.
The challenge is now on to make these accessible in more generic open standards for wider re-use. In looking at open standards, Graham will also talk about how the Met Office increasingly uses open source to develop parts of its operational platform.
Graham Mallin’s Profile
Graham is Head of IT Infrastructure at the Met Office which is a Trading Fund of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS). Synonymous with weather and climate, it’s the only organisation that provides world-leading science in both disciplines, often in parallel, to customers across the globe. The Met Office provides an extensive range of services to the public, government departments and the private sector, constantly aiming to improve and innovate.
Graham and his team are actively engaged in the provision and support of underpinning IT infrastructure required to deliver open standards and open source technologies that play a key role in enabling the Met Office to collaborate with, and provide services to, a large and diverse range of partners and customers.
blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/
@GlynMoody
Glyn Moody (Writer, ComputerWorldUK Blogger & Speaker)
Glyn Moody is a writer, blogger and speaker. His journalism appears in national newspapers, magazines and online; he writes about the use of open source in the enterprise at blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/, and his blog about open source, open content and open culture is at opendotdotdot.blogspot.com .
After gaining two degrees in mathematics from Cambridge University, Moody entered business journalism before specialising in the field of computers in 1983. He started writing, lecturing and consulting about business use of the Internet in early 1994, and about open source in 1995. In 1997 he wrote the first mainstream feature about GNU/Linux and free software, which appeared in Wired magazine (www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.08/linux_pr.html).
His book, “Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution” - the only detailed history of free software written so far – was published in 2001. “Digital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionising Science, Medicine and Business” appeared in 2004, and explores the rise and importance of the digital genomics.
He is active on Twitter and identi.ca, and can be followed at glynmoody@twitter.com and glynmoody@identi.ca.
redmonk.com/
@monkchips
James Governor – Co-Founder of RedMonk (Open Source Analyst Firm)
James Governor Presentation Summary
James Governor (Co-Founder of RedMonk) will talk about what change is happening in the IT industry with the cloud, the principles of the use of open source within software companies, how companies are using the open technologies to build better quality software and how government could leverage from open source best practices.
James Govern0r Profile Summary
James Governor is co-founder of RedMonk, the open source analyst firm, which specialises in developer advocacy. He advises enterprises, early stage startups and major companies such as IBM and Microsoft on developer-led innovation, community and technology strategy. He is particularly proud to have open source organisations such as the ASF and the Eclipse Foundation as clients. James is co-author of the O’Reilly book Web 2.0 Design Patterns: what architects and entrepreneurs need to know.
RedMonk makes extensive of social media tools in its business operations - James, aka @monkchips, has more than 11k followers on twitter. Chairman of SAP’s external panel for stakeholder assurance in Sustainability Strategy and Reporting for 2009 he led the creation of the Greenmonk sustainability.
digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
@marxculture
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