Thursday Evening Keynote Added - Matt Asay - Utah Open Source Conference
Posted by Clint on August 24, 2007 in Conference, Events, Keynotes, News
If you’ve never heard of Matt Asay, you are in for a treat. For those of you who signed up *just* for the free keynote, this one is now included for free as well. Come one come all and enjoy the opening night keynotes.
Matt Asay will present on the following topic.
Open source at home: Making Utah a center for open-source innovation
Date: Thursday, September 6, 2007
Time: 6:00PM - 6:45PM
Overview
Utah has been trying for years to become a technology center that could compete with Austin, Boston, and the Bay Area. We have failed. Abysmally.
In large part, we have failed because we opted for the hardest route: convincing companies to move to Utah or set up significant operations in the state. In so doing, the state has overlooked a wealth of talent that already resides in Utah, but contributes to the software ecosystem in open-source fashion, rather than channeling it through a corporation.
Utah’s best chance at technology relevance is to focus on open source, one individual at a time. In this presentation, I will trace the necessary steps to making Utah the home from open-source innovation, and how this will help our overall technology economy.
About Matt
Matt Asay co-founded Novell’s Linux Business Office in 2002 and was an early agitator and architect for the company’s shift to open source. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, the industry’s premier open source strategy event, and has served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, focusing on open source investment opportunities.
Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two of his three years studying software licensing and innovation, and specifically the GNU General Public License, under Professor Larry Lessig. He also holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and Brigham Young University, respectively.
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