The CXOSummit

"Get The Best Of All Worlds"
Open source software. Proprietary tools. Or a combination of both?

Date:    1st February, 2007
Venue: Hotel Taj Mahal, ManSingh Road, New Delhi, India
Time:   9:30 am to 6 pm

PROGRAMME

0930                Registration

1000 - 1030   
   Open Source Luminary Keynote:
                       "How Open Source Is Flattening The World"
                       Brian Behlendorf, Co-Founder, Apache
                       and CTO - CollabNet

1030 - 1100       Customer Keynote:
                             "Challenges in deploying Open Source
                             Software at a large scale."

                       Ms Aruna Sundararajan
                       ex-IT secretary, Kerala

1100 - 1130        India. Innovation. Enterprise
                       Dr. Deepak Phatak
                       Chair Professor, KreSIT
                       IIT Bombay


1130 - 1230       Panel Discussion:
                             "Getting The Best of All Worlds"

                       Chairperson: Dr. Anthony Wasserman,
                      
Carnegie Mellon University West
                       Discuss and share experiences of customers who've
                       been successful in deploying the best of all worlds.

1230 - 1315       Panel Discussion:
                             "TCO - The Customers' Perspective"
                       Chairperson: Dr. Deepak Phatak, IIT Bombay
                       Analysing the TCO of open source software often
                       seems complex. Gain insights from customers
                       who've already figured out the calculation.

1315 - 1400       Networking Lunch

1400 - 1530       Panel Discussion:
                             "Desktops, Servers and Virtualization"
                       Chairperson: Dr. Louis Suarez-Potts, OpenOffice.org
                       Panelists: HP, Ingres, Novell, Microsoft,
                                     TurboLinux, InfoAxon, CollabNet
                       Get the latest buzz on advancements
                       in open source desktops, servers and
                       virtualization.

1530 - 1600       Customer Keynote
                            
Vibhore Sharma
                       Vice President - IT
                       Naukri.com

1600 - 1615         Tea Break

1615 - 1645       Star Customer Talk
                            
Topic and speaker
                       yet to be finalised

1645 - 1800       Lightening Talks
                       Short talks by customers sharing
                       their best practices and experiences
                       of OSS deployments.

1800                     Vote of Thanks

1900                     Penguin Party at India Habitat
                             Centre, Lodhi Road

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Silver Sponsor
 
Enterprise Computing Sponsor
 
Penguin Party Sponsors
 
 
 
Associate Sponsors
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
  Organised By : Forum For Open Source Initiatives In India (FOSII)