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Partnership Conference Series Program Coordinator & Host
Dr. Tamas Michel Koplyay

Welcome and Introduction
Tony Bailetti, Director, Technology Innovation Management, Carleton University

Peter Carbone, Chief Architect, Nortel

Value Derived from Open Source is a Function of Maturity Levels
This session focuses on three areas: open source technology and process are tools to appropriate co-created value; a company's behaviour towards open source follows a value stage model - and co- created value is appropriated in more mature stages; and, to move from one stage to the next, the decision power of the people that make open source investment decisions changes from technology to business strategy decisions makers.

Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

The Eclipse Open Innovation Network
Although Eclipse is a well known success in the open source
community, what is less appreciated is that it represents the most
successful model to date for supporting collaborative industrial development of product-ready technologies. Through open governance, transparent development processes and a commercial-friendly licensing model Eclipse supports a new model for companies to share the cost and risk of technology development. By establishing a rich and open innovation network, the many contributors to Eclipse are profitably changing the dynamics of the software industry.

Scott Lake, CEO, Jaded Pixel

What You Should Know About Open Source Businesses
Many companies are hesitant to get involved with open source. Unfortunately for them, they are missing out on one of the greatest tools that a business can use to help it grow. This talk will outline some of the benefits that Jaded Pixel or any business can gain from
being involved with and hosting open source projects and applications. Be it outsourcing development to open source, using open source apps to run your business applications or create a community around your product, open source should be a an integral part of any business.

Douglas Inkster, Architect, Ingres Corporation
Andrew Ross, Senior Software Engineer, Ingres Corporation

Making Money With an OSS
Ingres is an enterprise class open source database which has come a long way since 1974 when it was one of the first relational database systems. Ingres was released under an open source license in 2004 and was spun out of Computer Associates in 2005. Since then, its business has grown and the company has grown at 40% per year. With 10,000 customers, Ingres has become the start-up that is much more than a start-up. This talk will discuss how Ingres makes money with OSS.

Peter Hoddinott, Resident Entrepreneur, Talent First Network

Open Source Software (OSS) Drivers and/or Emerging Commercial Opportunities
Peter will provide a perspective on the drivers behind the emergence of OSS. As well, Peter will discuss several Carleton-based OSS ventures, as well as an emerging opportunities in the area of OSS Intellectual Property Management.

Ali Arya, Assistant Professor, School of Information Technology, Carleton University

OpenMEDIA: An Open-Source Environment for Multimedia Education and Research
OpenMEDIA addresses the need for identifying and developing proper open-source tools, and creating a complete open-source environment for education and research in multimedia systems. The project is supported by the School of Information Technology and the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, and includes faculty members, graduate researchers, and undergraduate students. Our approach is based on defining the tasks to be supported by the educational environment, identifying/developing open-source tools for the tasks, setting up workstations with the open-source tools, asking students and researchers to perform their "real" tasks or similar ones on test workstations, and finally comparing and analyzing the results in terms of cost, efficiency, performance, compatibility and integration.