Open World Forum
OPEN WORLD FORUM WILL BRING TOGETHER ALL THE KEY PLAYERS FROM THE WORLD OF FREE, LIBRE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN PARIS ON 1 AND 2 OCTOBER 2009
The aim? To bring together developer communities, businesses and policy-makers to ensure that open software plays an active role in the Digital Recovery.
Paris, 26 May 2009. As the leading global forum for free, libre and open source software worldwide, the second Open World Forum will welcome all the key players from the sector to Paris on 1 and 2 October 2009, in partnership with the Open Source Think Tank. The challenge? To cross-fertilize initiatives around the issue of ‘Free, Libre and Open Source Software at the heart of the Digital Recovery’.
”Computing – along with green technologies – is the key driver for the growth of our economy. Free, Libre and Open Source Software is now its essential foundation and source of innovation,” commented Jean-Noël de Galzain, Chairman of the Program Committee for the Open World Forum 2009 and CEO of Wallix. ”Since early 2008, the founders of the Open World Forum felt that it was necessary to create an event on a global scale where the decision-makers in innovation, community leaders, political leaders, CIOs, and other players from the world of open software could get together. Last year, over 1,200 delegates came to take part in the 17 associated seminars, and hear 160 speakers from 20 different countries. This year, in partnership with the Open Source Think Tank, the Open World Forum will make its mark as the essential global event for Open Source decision-makers. Our aim for 2009? To ensure that Free, Libre and Open Source Software is one of the key drivers of the Digital Recovery.”
« We are very excited to partner with the Open World Forum, as the industry’s only by-invitation event for global open source business leaders to gather and discuss the opportunities and challenges facing commercial open source; the Think Tank is a perfect complimentary event to the OWF. » said Andrew Aitken, Managing Partner of Olliance Group and the founder of the Open Source Think Tank now in it’s 5th year.
A unique meeting point featuring plenary sessions, associated seminars, workshops and individual business meetings.
The aim of the Open World Forum is to bring together players from information technology and Open Source, to share ideas and initiatives, to stimulate competitiveness and innovation, and finally to build business relationships within and through open software.
In particular, the Open World Forum 2009 will offer:
A summit meeting for Open Source communities, bringing together the major players (Apache, Eclipse, Linux Foundation, OW2…) to further enhance their synergies and initiatives.
A summit meeting bringing together the main international centers dedicated to building expertise in and promoting FLOSS, from Africa, Brazil, China, Europe, India, Japan, the USA…
The FLOSS Politics Summit designed to highlight the advances made and the opportunities in Open Software in the wider geo-strategic context. The 2009 Summit will be dedicated to the regions of Europe.
An IT Directors/CIOs summit dedicated to open technologies, enabling IT Directors from the public and private sectors to define best practice in governance, in order to make the most of open technologies.
An open innovation forum and emerging technologies radar, bringing together R&D centers, competitiveness clusters, start-ups and investors. A number of Innovation Awards will be presented, in recognition of the most innovative open technologies.
The Open World Forum will also play host to a large number of related seminars and workshops, bringing together Open Source experts, architects, developers, IT Directors, decision-makers and investors from every continent.
The forum is an open event, and welcomes new conferences proposals.
A unique, forward-looking document with a global perspective: the 2020 FLOSS RoadMap
The Forum will also continue to develop the forward-thinking that began in 2008 with the initial development of the 2020 FLOSS RoadMap. For several months, international experts from all the key players in the Open Source world (businesses, academic institutions and communities…) have been setting out their visions of the future, with the aim of developing scenarios focused on the evolution of FLOSS in information technology, and formulating their recommendations, which will be published during the Forum.
”In the first edition of the RoadMap, we identified 2008 as a year of dramatic upheaval, in which FLOSS became a formidable driver for change: acting as a catalyst to accelerate the emergence of new markets such as Cloud Computing, Green computing technologies, the Internet of Things, virtual organizations, heightened reality and mobile robots. We also identified the main challenges, such as the Open Cloud,” explains Jean-Pierre Laisné, Co-ordinator of the 2020 FLOSS RoadMap and Director of Open Source Strategy at Bull. ”Our objective for 2009 is re-examine these ideas in the light of a major challenge: the economic crisis and the contribution that Open Source software could make to the digital recovery.”
The 2020 RoadMap, updated with these new ideas, will be published at the end of the Open World Forum, in 2 October 2009, at the closing session.
For more information on the Open World Forum, visit: http://www.openworldforum.org
For more information on the Open Source Think Tank, visit: http://thinktank.olliancegroup.com
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