Collaboration Summit

Seiji Aguchi is a kernel developer at Hitachi Data Systems in the United States. He has focused on RAS enhancement of Linux Kernel since he started his carrier. He developed a memory dump tool and a kernel tracer at Hitachi, Ltd. in Japan. And then, he moved to the United States in 2010 to contribute to communities by applying his development experience. He is currently interested in FFDC (First Failure Data Capture) solution for enterprise use.

Jens Axboe is a Fellow at Fusion-io, and also serves as the Linux block layer maintainer. Jens has worked on all things Linux IO related, such as data writeback, IO scheduling, SATA/SCSI, and others. Most recently his interests have been centered around making super fast flash based devices work and scale well in the kernel.

Cedric Bail is a computer science engineer, long time contributor to the Enlightenment project and now working for Samsung Mobile division.

He worked before for two French operator in their R&D department. He has been involved in several Free or Open Source project in the past 15 years, was involved a lot in the French Enlightenment community and is an experienced C developer. He is behind many refactoring, speed and memory improvement of EFL, making risky change that invariable tend to break something somewhere.

Josh Berkus is a database geek, best known for his work on the
PostgreSQL project, but also does Python, Perl, C, Linux, fundraising, pottery and cooking. He speaks about databases, software development and open source at ten to fifteen conferences a year. Josh works for PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.

Dave Chinner has an advanced case of Filesystem Developer Syndrome (FDS). Symptoms first developed back in 2002 when employed by SGI to work on NFS. After a confusing diagnosis including NFS, gigabit ethernet driver and TCP/IP stack hacking on Irix, he was discovered in a delirious state, not knowing where he was or what he was doing. Editors with open XFS source code files were found on his workstation, and the diagnosis was clear: it was another case of FDS.

Soon after this initial diagnosis was made, he started to regain his sanity while working on XFS on Linux. His symptoms of FDS stabil

"Adrian Cockcroft is the director of architecture for the Cloud Systems team at Netflix. He is focused on availability, resilience, performance, and measurement of the Netflix cloud platform, and is leading the open source NetflixOSS program. He has presented at many conferences, including the Cassandra Summit, QCon/GOTO, Cloud Connect, Velocity, Gluecon and Structure.
Adrian is also well known as the author of several books while a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems: Sun Performance and Tuning; Resource Management; and Capacity Planning for Web Services. From 2004-2007 he was a foundin

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Andrew is a founder of Hall Law, a boutique law firm focused on software, open-source, and IP governance.  Andrew regularly counsels clients on developing business models that include, depend upon, or are exclusively based in free and open-source software. Andrew also has experience counseling clients across a spectrum of circumstances on free and open-source software governance, audits, use, and compliance including hosted and distributed use of software licensed under copyleft (aka hereditary, reciprocal, and viral) licenses such as the GNU General Public License (GPL) and GNU Affero General

MyungJoo Ham, Ph.D. is currently working at S/W R&D Center of Samsung Electronics since 2009. In Samsung Electronics, he has been working on Linux Kernel with personal interest in power management. He has been a maintainer of extcon and devfreq subsystems. He has received a Ph.D. degree in computer science in University of Illinois in 2009. From 2005 to 2009, he worked at Open Systems Laboratory (OSL) with Prof. Gul Agha researching issues of multi-agent

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Matt Jones is the Senior Technical Specialist - Infotainment at Jaguar Land Rover & Vice President at GENIVI

Andreas Olofsson founded Adapteva in 2008 with a mission to create a new class of low power parallel processors. Since its inception, Adapteva as a semiconductor company has achieved three "world firsts": first to build a microprocessor with 50 GFLOPS/Watt processing efficiency, first to release an FOSS OpenCL SDK, and first to successfully crowd fund a project. Prior to starting Adapteva, Andreas worked at Analog Devices for 10 years developing energy efficiency DSPs and mixed signal SOCs. Andreas holds a BS degree in Physics and BS/MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of

Greg Olson has over 30 years of software industry experience in engineering, marketing and business development. As a senior executive at Olliance Consulting he created the Open Source Governance Practice and has led Open Source policy and process engagements at Visteon, Ruckus Wireless, Huawei, Palm and scores of other companies. Greg is currently a member of the GENIVI Alliance license review team.

Muriel Paumier-Moscardini, who has over 15 years of management experience in industrial and IT environments, joined the Fluendo management team in 2008 to build its B2B business with some of the world's top OEMs, including Sony, Toshiba, Hewlett Packard, Logitech, Intel and Wyse.
Prior to joining Fluendo, Muriel Paumier-Moscardini helped smartcard market leader Gemplus (Gemalto) build a multi-site supply chain across the US, UK, Germany, France and China.

Nithya Ruff is the President of Ruff and Associates a marketing and business consulting company based in the SF Bay Area.   Nithya has spent the last 20 plus years in high technology and open source working in strategy, marketing and services.  She believes that good marketing can help technology become problem solving value to customers.

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Bryant Walker Smith is a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a fellow at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS), and a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School who writes, speaks, and teaches on the legal and policy aspects of increasingvehicle automation. He chairs the Emerging Technology Law Committee of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. Bryant is also a member of the New York Bar and a former transportation engineer who has worked on infrastructure issues in the United States and throughout Europe. He holds an LL.M. in

Sang-bum Suh is Vice President in SW Center, Samsung Electronics  and has developed Tizen Platform and led the Xen ARM virtualization project in Xen.org. He graduated with PhD in Computer Science from University of Cambridge, the United Kingdom. 

Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate the adoption of Linux and support the future of computing.

Zemlin’s career took root at Western Wireless, which had a successful IPO and was later acquired by Deutsche Telekom and renamed T-Mobile USA. He was also a member of the founding management team of Corio, a leading enterprise application service provider that had a successful IPO in July 2000