Adopting Open Source Software within the corporate ICT strategy

09.30 Welcome and Introduction – Professor Gautam Mitra, UNICOM Seminars & OptiRisk Systems

09.45 Opening Keynote: Building Real-World Systems through Open Source Infrastructure
Mark Taylor, Sirius

10.45 Coffee

11.15  Case Study: Open Source, the Natural Fit for Content Management in the Enterprise
Matt Hamilton, Netsight

• How OSS reduces long term risk for CM
• Integrating with the unknown
• Authentication in heterogeneous environments
• Case study - NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre Intranet

11.45  Why is Creating and Maintaining an Open Source Policy so important?
Andy Knapp, Sales Director, EMEA, Black Duck Software

Given the vital role that software plays in products, services and applications, an open source policy should be an integral part of your organization’s overall OSS program, providing the framework for your governance program and compliance efforts.

• The four steps to create an open source policy
• How to obtain ‘buy-in’ and support from key stakeholders
• Best practices for rolling out an open source policy in your organization

12.15 Commercial Risks and Drivers for Open Source Data
Dai Davis, Solicitor & Engineer, Specialist Technology Lawyer

• What drives companies to use Open Source assets?
• What drives companies to invest in Open Source projects?
• Are all open source software programmers always altruistic?
• What are the corporate risks?

12.45 Lunch

Combined Session with Open Source Conference until Tea break

13.45 Panel Session: Open Source Software and Proprietary Software: Identifying the winning strategy

14.30 Open Source Enterprise search in a World of Big Data 
Charlie Hull, Flax

15.00 Tea

15.30 Case study: What goes around, comes around
Hugo Trippaers, Schuberg Philis

• How and why Schuberg Philis changed its policy regarding Open Source.
• Why we decided to change our stance regarding open source
• The hurdles we encountered along the way, both legal and culture aspects
• Benefits for the company because of our change of this policy

16.00 Case Study: Building secure Collaboration, Document & Records Management cloud platform using Open Source for UK Government
Aingaran Pillai, Zaizi

• How to operate secure collaboration, document and records management platforms for Government 
• How to make them scale to big data and also make them accessible from mobile and desktop devices 
• How open source software and frameworks are used for implementation in organizations needing to deploy solutions for tomorrow. 
• Challenges facing organizations and how open source tools (Alfresco, MongoDB, Elastic Search, MuleESB, OpenStack) are being deployed to meet those challenges.

16.45 Chairman’s summary; close   

17.00 Drinks Reception sponsored by Black Duck.