Speakers

Before joining IDA, Dr Tan worked in Motorola developing pagers and walkietalkies for the US and global market. After Motorola, he took up a scholarship to pursue a PhD in Digital Communications at Cambridge University, UK and subsequently worked for Scientific Generics, a Cambridge-based technology consulting company working in area of communications. On his return to Singapore, Dr Tan was involved in several technology start-ups that provided consultancy, wireless communications product development and product miniaturization using advanced packaging technologies.

He holds a B.Sc in Electronics and Communications from Birmingham University and a Ph.D in Digital Communications from Cambridge University, UK. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Prior to coming to Sun, Kevin worked at BEA Systems for four years and his most recent role was the Vice President of North American partners which included sales responsibility for all SI’s, ISV’s (both co-sell and OEM), resellers, and distributors.

Prior to this appointment, Mr. Owenby was Regional Manager, South East Asia (ASEAN) for Red Hat Asia Pacific where he successfully grew the business more than 100% year-on-year. Before joining the Red Hat Asia Pacific management team, he was the Asia Pacific sales engineering manager based in Sydney, Australia.

Prior to Red Hat, Shane held the role of International Technical Operations Manager for CollabNet, an open source collaboration software company, and Linux Technical advisor for IBM as a founding member of the IBM Linux Technology Center.

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He holds a MS in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Adkins helped create India’s first open source business conference LinuxAsia, to serve as a platform for global industry leaders to interact with India’s open source players from industry, government, academia and community. He has published in technology magazines and journals including Linux Journal, Linux For You, the ACM and Government Computer News. His articles can be found at www.technetra.com/author/radkins

Nelson has previously held positions in organizations such as Hewlett-Packard and Singapore Telecom, and successfully architected leading-edge solutions brought to market worldwide for companies such as Trans World International Interactive and Telstra.

Nelson holds a M.A. Economics degree from the University of Toronto, graduated with top honours in Economics from the National University of Singapore, and is currently working on a dissertation “Knowledge flows and social capital in wiki communities” in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University.

Additionally, he has been responsible for many open source tools roll-outs within the Infineon Enterprise (e.g. Operating Systems, VoIP, Wiki’s etc)

She is co-founder of Technetra and has over 15 years in the industry. She has held engineering and management positions at IBM, MCI Worldcom, Intelsat and SWIFT. She is also a member of the board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). She received her MS in Computer Science from George Washington University, Washington DC where she also pursued doctoral studies.

She co-created India’s first open source business conference LinuxAsia, to serve as a platform for global industry leaders to interact with India’s open source players from industry, government, academia and community. She has published widely and spoken at international conferences on open source trends and technologies. Publications include a chapter on open source in India in Open Sources 2.0, a regular column on trends in Linux For You magazine and open source technology reviews in Linux Journal. Her blog can be found at opensourcebuzz.technetra.com.

A keen observer of the open source realm, he has given talks regionally, and trained users on Open Source in the region via the Asia Open Source Training platform. He is also a less than active gentoo developer.

Today, he is happy to be home playing with his son, and will be delighted to share his experiences with his son.

He has been actively involved in Ark Linux development as on of the core developers.

He has involved in various stages (planning, designing and deployment) of several Virtualization Projects (mostly Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) using VMware and Virtual Irons.

One of the New Media pioneers of the early 1990s, Turk led the development
of all printed and online training materials for the Multimedia Windows effort,
authoring “The Multimedia Authoring and Tools Guide” published by Microsoft