Agenda
13.15: Registration
14.15 – 14.45 Simon Phipps, "The Return of the Community: How Business Will
Interact With FOSS"
15.15 – 15.45 Ronan Kirby, "Open Source Solutions People Bank On"
16.00 – 16.30 David Coallier, "Open Source for the Greater Good"
Conference Details
Speaker Profiles
Ronan Kirby: Ronan Kirby is Business Development Director for the Red
Hat software ecosystem in Northern EMEA. During his long tenure at Red
Hat, Ronan has held multiple leadership roles, on both the commercial and
technical side of the organisation. Most recently, Ronan was a core member
of the Boston MA based RHEL Product Marketing Team, which has
business ownership of the flagship Red Hat product. Ronan also acts as a
Senior Adviser in Technology for the European Bank (EBRD), where he
engages directly in economic development work in developing economies
across Siberia, Mongolia, Central Asia and the Balkans. Before joining Red
Hat, Ronan accrued considerable expertise, through a range of leadership
roles in Internet Service Providers and Integrators.
David Coallier: David has been helping startups and enterprises since
2001. As Director of Technology in echolibre, David drives technical
innovation and is responsible for ensuring the high quality production of
our client and internal projects as well as designing system architecture
for our client projects. A well known contributor to the international PHP
community, David has previously contributed to the PHP Core and PHP
Security Groups, and is currently President of the PHP PEAR Group, which
maintains the world's largest repository of reusable PHP modules. He is the
creator of FRAPI and spends most of his free time either hacking on FRAPI,
doing maths or complaining about how things should be done.