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Quim Gil
Nokia, Maemo Devices
Open Source Advocate
After many years working as a journalist in a Catalan newspaper, Quim moved his career towards web development and online communities. His interest in technology and freedom lead him to the free software community around 2000. He got increasignly involved in the GNOME project, coordinating GUADEC 2006 and joining the GNOME Foundation board.
Quim has worked with Nokia since 2007 when he joined the Maemo team in Helsinki. In his current role of open source advocate, his job consists of 'connecting people' between Maemo Devices, the Maemo community and related free software upstream projects.
Ignacio Correas
Ignacio started Warp Networks, his first open source-based company, in 2004 after several years of experience in IT industry in France, Finland and Spain. In four years Warp became one of the top open source integrators in Spain, specialized in networks and communication systems.
Currently Ignacio is CEO of eBox Technologies, a spin-off from Warp focused on the development and commercialization of eBox Platform, an open source server for the efficient management of corporate networks. Ignacio is also an active member of the Spanish open source business community, being an advisor for CENATIC (Spain's National Reference Centre for Open Source) and a member of the board of ASOLIF (Association of Open Source Spanish Business), among others.
Peter Cheng
TargetSource Tech Ltd
Community Strategist & Open Source Evangelist
Peter Cheng is a community strategist and open source evangelist, who is based in Beijing, China. Peter was co-founder of Huihoo.org, which is the largest open source community in China since 2001. In 2003, he initiated the Open Source University program to gather industry experts and help spread open source technology and culture to over 25 universities. In 2007, he organized the Open Source Camp in five Chinese cities, with the aim to enable open source community to share and exchange ideas and to promote technology around the world.
Peter is also general speaker at IBM DevelopeWorks, Redhat Conference and China Software Tech Conference. Currently he is running TargetSource Tech Ltd, a company he founded to provide solution and services based on enterprise-ready open source software.
Adriaan de Groot
Free Software Foundation Europe
FTF-Coordinator
Adriaan de Groot is a Canadian by birth and a Dutchman by training. He writes C++ code when necessary, but spends most of his time working for the Free Software Foundation Europe's Freedom Task Force -- the group that provides legal services and support to Free Software projects and helps developers talk to lawyers. The FTF is a group that fosters dialogue and cooperation. As coordinator of the FTF Adriaan oversees licensing discussions, patent questions and general legal queries, although he does not give legal advice.
Martin von Willebrand
HH Partners, Attorneys-at-law
Partner
Martin is a tech lawyer with open source and openness as one of his focus areas. As a law firm partner he strives to find new and innovative service provision methods: he and his firm is the inventor, one of the founders and current service provider of Validos – a collaborative approach of companies to open source compliance.
Martin started advising clients in open source matters 10 years ago and he also has, apart of experience in a wide variety of open source matters, transactions and copyright litigation, hands-on experience from different Linux distros and other open source software.
HH Partners advised MySQL in its preparation for IPO or eventual trade sale, as regards intellectual property and certain other matters. Martin is also recommended for his experience in the technology field by a wide variety of international publications, such as Legal500, Chambers Europe, Best Lawyers and Practical Law Company.
Manu Setälä
Tekes
Senior Technology Advisor
Mr. Manu Setälä acts as a Senior Technology Adviser at Tekes - the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. His work is mainly targetted to applications from companies about funding research and development of new business products and services.
Manu has a M.Sc. degree on software systems and about 25 years of experience in ICT sector of which about 15 years at Tampere University of Technology.
Teppo Sulonen
Teppo Sulonen has worked as the CIO of the city of Tampere since 2005. His experience in IT business covers 39 years. He has worked for companies like Finnish Bank, Nokia Data and Enator Group. In the 90´s Sulonen was the managing director for software house named Avasta Transactions for eight years and after that he worked for Stonesoft. Before his public officer career Sulonen acted as a consultant for eTampere information society program. Sulonen was elected for "The best IT-manager in Finnish public sector" in 2009.
Pirjo Hannikainen
Proactum
CEO
Pirjo Hannikainen (M.Sc.) is the Managing Director on Proactum Ltd. Before Proactum Pirjo has had several responsibilities in Itella Information, Tellabs and Nokia, all in the sector of international ICT.
Ville Lindfors
Bonware
CTO
Mr. Ville Lindfors acts as a CTO at Bonware. He is taking care of technology solutions and bridging the gap with the business and technology. His goal is to provide sound technical foundation for solving real life problems. He believes in working hard to make the software and services easy for the users.
Ville started his career with business focused Intranet and Internet applications in 1997. From 2001 to 2007 he worked with mobile application and service development. Now he is back with business focused applications, but without forgetting the mobile twist.
During the years Ville has been active with several open source projects. Currently he is Finnish localization lead for Openbravo ERP and Openbravo POS projects and also Openbravo ERP developer.
Henri Bergius
Nemein
Entrepreneur
Henri Bergius is a former Viking based in the Nordic country of Finland. When he is not exploring the cave cities of Georgia or running with bulls in Pamplona, Bergie works on web services built on top of the Midgard toolkit. His company Nemein provides web solutions for several major companies in Finland and abroad.
After half decade of regular web development, Henri got involved with free software in 1999 when he coordinated the public release of the Midgard content management system. Since then he has been actively working on integrating standards like RSS and Microformats into the system and traveling the world advocating for interoperation between open source CMSs.
Henri's current passion is combining web services, mobile applications and socially produced geographical data together to build useful tools for travelers and mobile companies. To this end he is working on the GeoClue library that allows mobile Linux applications to easily become geo-aware. When duties allow, Bergie escapes the crunch to explore the hills of Lapland or rides his classic motorcycle. He is also an amateur pilot.
Henry Palonen
eCars.Now!
Activist
During daytime, Henry Palonen acts as a lead developer and partner at Joiner Oy, a medium sized software company developing solutions for woodworking industry. He has over 12 years of experience in designing and implementing ERP and MES-solutions for industry.
During his freetime, Henry makes components for eCars.Now! OS-community. He has been participating in the community since summer of 2008, and has been fascinated at Electric Vechiles since 1999. Previously he has been involved in EMC (OS CNC), GKRellM and X-CDRoast OS-projects as a developer and documentation maintainer.
Timo Väliharju
Timo Väliharju holds a masters degree in education and is currently the CEO of Mediamaisteri Group, an expert company in e-learning that aims to support the processes of web-based learning both for individual learners as well as organizations. Mr. Väliharju has been coordinating a number of EU projects on e-learning and has contributed to the establishment of the Learning Technology Centre at the University of Tampere. In addition to his industrial experience, he has held a lectureship position at the University of Tampere. He is the chairman 2009 of the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions.
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