To provide you with a 360 degree perspective on Open Source we’ve lined up speakers from the major players:

• Vendors that have created successful Open Source products;
• System integrators that use Open Source to make it work for business users; and
• Customers that have successfully deployed Open Source within their organisation.

Here’s the agenda, speakers and topics for BIZcon 2010:

Day One - Vendors Perspective

Time	Speaker	Topic
8:30	Registration
9:00	Claudio Grech	Welcome
		Speech summary to follow Claudio, Chairman of the Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA)
9:45	Ross Mason	Keynote: Open Source and the Future of your Business
		In his keynote presentation Ross, chief architect of Mule ESB and founder of MuleSoft, will take you through the rise of open source, the reasons it has made such an impact in the business world and how to navigate this new landscape. Businesses benefit from deploying best-of-breed solutions and Ross will explore how open source products can be used together with closed source products coming from the vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle and IBM.
10:45	Coffee break
11:30	Karsten Königstein	From BPMS to Cloud Computing –Evolution or Revolution?
		Speech summary to follow Karsten holds the position of EMEA Managing Director at Intalio.
12:30	Break for lunch
13:45	Bryan Cheung	Enterprise 2.0 Business Models: Using Social and Collaboration Technologies to Drive New Revenue
		Speech summary to follow Bryan, one of the founders of Liferay.
14:45	Coffee break
15:15	Suneet Shah	Topic title
		Speech summary to follow Suneet, CTO of OpenIam
16:15	Speaker Panel
17:30	Happy hour / networking

Day Two - Users Perspective

Time	Speaker	Topic
9:00	Morning Coffee and meet
9:30	Neville Bradbury	Enterprise and Beyond
		Neville, the Technology Architect & Consultant for OpenSoft Australia, will draw on his extensive experience in delivering major projects to enterprises in a variety of market sectors to demonstrate how the internationally accepted standards embraced by open source make it easy to integrate new solutions utilising open source products and technologies with anything a large business needs or already uses, that is based on legacy and commercial software.
10:30	Coffee Break
11:15	Shashank Tiwari	Business in the Cloud – Powered by Open Source Now and In Future
		Businesses around the globe are under immense pressure to provide their products and services over the internet – in the Cloud – and Shashank, Managing Partner & CTO at Treasury of Ideas, will show how open source tools and technologies are enabling businesses to leverage and to create compelling and effective cloud applications free of the lock-in and costs imposed by the proprietary technologies typical of the traditional, closed source world.
12:15	Break for lunch
13:45	Eugene Ciurana	The best use of Open Source for traditional companies
		Eugene, CTO of CIME Software Labs, will do a presentation for management that addresses the introduction and use of Open Source to traditional companies, touching on technical, legal, and business process issues.
14:45	Coffee Break
15:15	Speaker Panel
17:00	Break
20:00	Gala Dinner