Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems Global CTO for Open Source will be in
Wellington for one day only on Monday, 26 January 2009. This proposed open
forum will provide the opportunity for interested parties to discuss the role
of Open Source in today's increasingly demanding working environment.
When:
Monday, 26th January
Where:
Holiday Inn, 75 Featherston Street
Time:
4.30pm Registration and afternoon tea
5pm Session commences
7pm Finish
Technology futurist Simon Phipps is a well-known computer industry insider and
commentator and as well as having a widely-read weblog he speaks frequently
at industry events on technology trends and futures. At various times he has
programmed mainframes, Windows and on the Web. Currently the Chief Open
Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., he was previously involved in OSI
standards in the 80s, in the earliest commercial collaborative conferencing
software in the early 90s, in introducing Java and XML to IBM and most
recently with Sun's launching Sun's blogging site, blogs.sun.com. He lives in
the UK, is based at Sun's Menlo Park campus in California and can be
contacted via http://www.webmink.net
This event is being sponsored by Sun Microsystems.