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Following successful public offerings in 1999 and 2000, Red Hat has developed global partnerships with Oracle, IBM, Dell, Intel, and HP to deliver technology based on open source technology. Today, Red Hat is the leading provider of Linux and open source technology to the enterprise and is positioned to be the defining technology company of the 21st century.
Szulik is passionate about improving the educational opportunities for students worldwide through open source, and he is a spokesperson to industry, government, and education leaders on open source computing.
Szulik is the Chairman of the Science and Technology Board for State of North Carolina's Economic Development Board. He is past Chairman and an Executive Director of the North Carolina Electronics and Information Technologies Association.
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a Fellow for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He works extensively at the United Nations and various technical standards bodies. He is also an award-winning science fiction novelist whose books are published by Tor Books and simultaneously released as free downloads under licenses from Creative Commons (creativecommons.org). He is the co-editor of the very popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and is a contributor to many magazines and newspapers, including Wired and Popular Science. He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, sold to OpenText, Inc in 2003.
His JD and PhD in history were earned during what he sometimes refers to as his long dark period in New Haven. He served as law clerk to Judge Edward Weinfeld of the Southern District of New York and Justice Thurgood Marshall. Before and during law school he was a designer and implementer of advanced computer programming languages at IBM's Santa Teresa Laboratory and Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Since 1993 he has served pro bono publico as General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. He was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation 2003 Pioneer Award for contribution to freedom in the electronic society.
Professor Negroponte founded MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank responsible for many radically new approaches to the human-computer interface. In 1995, he published The New York Times bestseller Being Digital, which has been translated into over 40 languages. In the private sector, Professor Negroponte serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc., and as a special general partner in a venture capital firm focusing on technologies for information and entertainment. He was a founder of WiReD magazine and has been an "angel investor" for over 40 start-ups, including three in China. Professor Negroponte is currently chairman of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization created by faculty members from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education.
Dr. Alfred Z. Spector is the chief technology officer and vice president of Strategy and Technology for IBM's Software Group (SWG), the second largest software business in the world. He oversees the strategic direction for SWG, focusing on a diverse array of activities including open standards and open source software, advanced software development methodologies, and innovative technology engagements. Spector is leading the integration and transformation of IBM's middleware across all IBM software brands, including WebSphere, DB2, Lotus, Tivoli and Rational. IBM Software Group has over 40 locations and 25,000 developers worldwide.
Spector received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and his A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering recognized for his contributions to the design, implementation, and commercialization of reliable, scalable architectures for distributed file systems, transaction systems, and other applications. Spector is also an IEEE Fellow and the Recipient of the IEEE Kanai Award in distributed computing.
Nathan Wilson is a Research & Development project manager at DreamWorks Animation. He recently finished work on the upcoming animated comedy "Over the Hedge." Nathan also worked on the animated blockbuster, "Madagascar" and the 2004 Academy Award-nominated hit comedy, "Shark Tale."
Nathan came to DreamWorks in 1997 and was the technical lead for DreamWorks' transition to Linux. His additional film credits at the studio include, "Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas," "Prince of Egypt," "The Road to El Dorado," and "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron."
Prior to working at DreamWorks, Nathan established Digital Domain's New Media department, worked on a multimedia development environment at Apple, was a founder of Teleos Research and did robotics and AI research at SRI International. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Master's degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Nathan is also an avid mycologist.
John Williams is the Director of the Server/Workstation Product Planning organization of AMD. His group is responsible for establishing long term silicon, software, and platform roadmaps for the AMD Opteron™ Processor. John has been with AMD since 2003.
Prior to AMD, John was with Marvell Technology for 5 years responsible for Strategic Marketing in the System Controller product line of the Datacom Business Unit defining roadmaps and strategies for products targeting enterprise networking, communications and storage markets. In addition to AMD and Marvell, he has worked for Intel Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and Advanced Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) focusing on various embedded and consumer markets.
John graduated from Vanderbilt university with a bachelors degree in electrical engineering.
Richard Wirt is vice president, Intel Senior Fellow and general manager of Intel Corporation's Software and Solutions Group. The Software and Solutions group is responsible for enabling Intel Architecture products through ISV enabling, solutions enabling, core system software enabling, and providing leading-edge products such as compilers, libraries, and tools that allow customers to get the full performance benefit of Intel architectures.
Wirt serves on the Open Source Development Lab board that helps set the Linux roadmap for the industry. He also serves on the Board of Advisors in Computer Science and Engineering for both John Hopkins University and University of Illinois.
Timothy Yeaton is responsible for all worldwide marketing functions including Partner, Product and Programs Marketing and Communications. Yeaton, who most recently held the position of President and CEO of Avaki Corporation (acquired by Sybase), has over 20 years of experience as part of the management team at companies such as Macromedia and Compaq.
Prior to leading the team at Avaki, Yeaton held the position of Senior Vice President & General Manager, Server Products at Macromedia where he was responsible for complete general management and P&L for all of Macromedia's server-side products. At Compaq Yeaton was Vice President & General Manager, UNIX/Linux Systems Division with responsibility for the general management for Compaq's UNIX systems business, including all UNIX and Linux-related activities across Compaq divisions.
Yeaton holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration with Concentrations in Marketing and Finance from Babson College and a Bachelors of Science Degree in management from Roger Williams University.
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