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2010
Second Middle East and Africa Open Source Software Technology Forum
22-23 November, 2011
Information Technology Institute - Smart Village
Under the kind auspices and attendance of HE Dr. Mohamed Salem
, MCIT Minister, co-operation of Loghat El Asr Magazine, Concord for Exhibitions and Conferences
in cooperation with Phoenix Egypt are pleased to announce The Second Afro-Arab Open Source Forum; 22 - 23 November, 2011 in Information Technology Institute, ITI at the Smart Village – Cairo, Egypt.
The first MEAOSS Forum was attended by 120 specialists from manufacturing, banking, academia, CIT industry and government officials, 24 presentations on various topics were given by experts, delegates and speakers from USA, Morocco, Kenya, India and Bahrain joined us as well. Information Technology Industry Development Agency – ITIDA gave an official sponsorship while HE Dr. Ahmed Darwish, State Minister of Administrative Development honored the event with his kind auspices.
Vendors of tools, applications and those with remarkable experiences are welcome to present their products, technologies, services and to discuss their success stories as well. The event strives to develop and support the usage of the open source technology in the ICT, enhance the low cost - innovative environment, in addition to spreading the sectored awareness.
The event strives to :
1 – Opening Session.
» Welcome Remarks.
» Keynote Speech.
» Guest of Honor Speech.
2 – Free & Open Source Software as a Social Movement and Adoption.
» Challenges for OS implementation, obstacles, barriers and recognition.
» OS Government Adoption experiments: Brazil and South Africa .
» Roadmap for the Government to adopt OS: Policies and Procedures, Bahrain.
» Government adoption of OS, citizen empowerment and freedom of speech.
» Economics of Free & Open Source.
3 – Law and Politics of Free & Open Source.
» Copyright and intellectual property issues, licensing and legalization.
» Contract issues in the development and sharing of software.
» Access to Knowledge - A2K (Creative Commons).
» Regulatory issues of facilitating competition in the market for computer software.
4 – Security.
» Managing the Balance Between Privacy and National Security.
» How Open are Governments Documents to Communities.
» Free & Open Source Security Relation to National Security.
» Network Management, Monitoring and Security: A conceptual approach
5 – Cloud computing.
» Future of the Free & Open source in the cloud computing era.
» OS Software as a service in cloud computing.
» Infrastructure as a service in cloud computing.
» Cloud Computing services providers.
» OS virtualization performance on the cloud computing
6 – Business Models and solutions.
» Linux Providers.
» VOIP, CRM, Mobile Applications.
» Database (MY SQL, ODB, POS+GRE, SQL..)
» Development Language JAVA, PHP, Python, QT,..
» Free & Open Standards and Openness
7 – Closure and Recommendations.
Forum Booklet
An A5 size - 4 colors printed booklet will be handed to all forum delegates where the topics, presentations and speaker biographies are briefed and sponsors are advertised. The final conference schedule as well shall be inserted.
Presentations
To guarantee the relevance and coherence of the addressed topics, a special committee will review the proposed presentations for approval to be enrolled in the forum schedule. A brief bio of the speaker and a 5 lines short summary about the presentation together with name of the company, title and position of the speaker will appear in the forum booklet.
H.E. Dr. Mohamed Salem : Minister Of Communications and Information Technology
is an Egyptian academic and politician. He is minister of Communications and Information Technology in the cabinet of Dr. Essam Sharaf from 21 July 2011.Starting from 2002, he was the chairman of the Information Technology Institute (ITI), and a member of the institute’s board of trustees.
Dr. Mohamed Salem holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in electrical engineering – computers and systems engineering from Ain Shams University, and a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Military Technical College. Dr.Salem also serves as a board member of the Center of Computers and Information Systems of Cairo University’s Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences; a board member of the Faculty of Computers and Information Technology of Sixth of October University; and chairman of the International Conference of Information and Communication Technology (ICICT), the International Conference of Multimedia (Digimedia), and the Arabic Conference for Geographic Information Systems (ArabMap)
Sherin F. Elrayes : Chairman of Concord for Exhibitions and Conferences
He is CEO and Chairman of Concord for Exhibitions and Conferences, Entrepreneur with an engineering background, experienced in all aspects of corporate shows and events planning and organization, and with a successful track record in marketing and business development.
Has successfully started and operated several businesses and as a result, he has considerable experience in management skills including decision-making, tactical and strategic planning, administration, human relations, budgeting, implementing marketing campaigns.
Gamal Ghietas : IT Editor in Al Ahram
Editor in Chief (Loghat El Asr Magazine)
He is the first prize of the World Federation of the Business Software Alliance in 1998 as the best editor in Egypt and the Arab region, who wrote in the field of intellectual property protection of computer software piracy.
In February 2001, received the tribute of the Center for Information and Decision Support Council of Ministers of Egypt, for his efforts in spreading the culture of information technology in Egypt, and received the honorary shield from Dr. Fathi Sorour, Speaker of the Egyptian people.
Holds a prize for the best newspaper articles on total quality journalism from Arab Dubai School of TQM for the year 2004, about an article on quality assurance in the software industry.
Jury member in the national competition for online content in Egypt during the 2006 and 2007.
Won the State Incentive Award for 2009 in the social sciences branch of scientific culture for his book "Information Security and National Security".
Dominique Loucougain : CEO Of Mandriva S.A
He recently joined Mandriva S.A. as CEO , Mr Dominique have a long Information Technology history.
Coming from several fields such as ( Telecommunication , Manufacturing. Consultation and R&D Labs makes him qualified to move Mandriva in a total new world areas.
Currently his work is focused on technological innovation and opening Mandriva research labs over the globe.
Fabio Cunha : Fabio Cunha is the Technology Director with Microsoft's Open Solutions Group team.
He's responsible for sales and technical evangelism for Microsoft's partnership with open source companies.
Fabio is a native of Brazil and joined Microsoft three years ago after an extensive career in technical consulting across a breadth of Microsoft and Linux-based technologies for the enterprise.
Jan Wildeboer : RedHat EMEA EVANGELIST.
As the Red Hat EMEA Evangelist, Jan is responsible for high-level customer relations
and for strengthening the Red Hat brand and ecosystem. This includes CxO level customer
meetings, delivering keynote speeches at events across EMEA.
Wildeboer community involvement and continuous championing of open source has
resulted in the growing awareness and adoption of open standards in the Netherlands
and across Europe. A well-known lobbyist for open source in Brussels, Wildeboer has
led the successful movement to abolish the Software Patents directive in the European
Parliament. He also initiated global construction technology manufacturer Hilti’s
migration of mission-critical systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Previously working as a Systems Administrator at Seijsener in the Netherlands
and Backend Systems Software Engineer at DomainFactory in Germany, Wildeboer
continued his career as Core Developer at osCommerce, the leading open source
e-Commerce platform. He then moved to Red Hat Germany to become a Solution
Architect. Wildeboer is a member of the Open Forum Europe, Open Source Business
Foundation (OSBF) and European Committee on Interoperable Systems (ECIS).
Jean Parpaillon : is a FLOSS enthusiast at Mandriva.
He is currently
leading infrastructure management and cloud related projects in the company.
He has joined the company one year ago after 6 years in HPC field.
He has various experiences in industrialization of research projects, in public research, start-up and now Mandriva.
Prof. Nagla Rizk : is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research and Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Business, the American University in Cairo (AUC).
She is founding Director of the Access to Knowledge for Development Center at AUC and an affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Her area of research is the economics of knowledge, information technology and development, with focus on business models in the digital economy, intellectual property and human development.
She is coeditor and contributor to: Access to Knowledge in Egypt, New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development (Bloomsbury Academic 2010; available online under creative commons license).
Professor Rizk has taught at Yale Law School and at the University of Toronto.
Mohamed Hegazy : Manager of Intellectual Property Office at Information TechnologyIndustry Development Agency
He is General Secretary at Egyptian Center for Intellectual Property & Information Technology.
Lecturer at the National Center for Judicial Studies ,Helwan Univ. at IPR expert in center.
Lecturer at Egyptian Police Research Center.
Eng. Mahmoud Sennara General Manager - BIT
Engaged in the Information Technology, Computer & communications engineering for the last 30 years. Mr. Sennara also was actively involved in management consulting and business development. He is currently the General Manager of B.I.T. (Business Information Technology) a company he founded in 1983 to work in the different fields of IT and its applications in the management development. The company has 40 experts in different disciplines of information technologies The company conducts its business in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Dubai, Oman and other middle Eastern countries out of its headquarters in Giza Egypt.
Dr. Sami Sultan:Managing Director, Peak Management
He is the founder and MD of an Egyptian Consulting firm specializing in Innovation Cultures & Process Excellence. Dr. Sami holds an MBA & a Ph.D. degree in Management Science. His career spans more than 25 years of international experience mainly in the US, Latin America, South-East Asia, and recently Egypt.
Dr. Sami has held various executive positions and through his firm have participated in developing leadership cadre in various sectors.
Through his firm, Peak Management, he was credited with introducing “Culture of Excellence” methodology which has been adopted by many European soccer leagues including English Premiere League (EPL). Peak was the first company in Egypt to introduce & implement the technology behind process automation (BPM) through various partnerships with leading vendors.
Dia Radwan : First RHCDS in Egypt, and the First RHCA in 2011..
has worked with large enterprises almost the entirety of his career, and has been using and working with Free/Open Source for around 9 years, 7 of which as a professional system engineer with focus on rapid deployment and configuration management.
He is involved with the Open Source community since 2004.
Mr. Ahmed El Ezabi : currently heads the Egypt Security Engineering activities in Orange
Ahmed El Ezabi was introduced to the use of FLOSS technology in the late 90's, he has been exclusively advocating FLOSS and knowledge freedom since the early 2000's.
He has been actively contributing with FLOSS community activities of EGLUG (The Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group).
he holds CISSP and CISM credentials and is currently working towards ITIL expert certifications.
Day 1 :Tuesday, November 22
10:30 – 11:00 SESSION 1: OPENING
» Welcome Remarks.
Dr. Sherin Elrayes, Head, Organizing Committee
» Open Source and the Egyptian Revolution.
Mr. Gamal Ghietas Editor in Chief, Loghat AlAsr magazine
» Open Source World Status from Industry Perspective.
Mr. Dominique Loucougain : CEO Of Mandriva S.A (France)
» Guest of Honor Speech.
H.E. Dr. Mohamed Salem MCIT Minister
11:00 – 13:00 SESSION 2:OSS Government Adoption and Policy Implications .
» Chair: Dr. Naser Fouad.
» Open Source-The Past The Now and The Future.
Mr. Jan Wildeboer.Red Hat, Germany
» OS Government Adoption experiments.
Mr.Jean Parpaillon Mandariva, France .
» Microsoft Openness.
Mr. Fabio Cunha Microsoft, Brazil
13:30 15:30 SESSION 3: Open Source a National Issues.
» Chair: Mr. Sayed Ismail.
» Managing the Balance Between Privacy and National Security.
Mr. Gamal Ghietas.Editor in Chief, Loghat AlAsr magazine
» Improving Information Security Posture in Post-revolution.
Mr. Ahmed El Ezaby
» Macro And Micro Economics of Open Source .
Eng . Mahmoued Sennara President, BIT
Day 2 :Wednesday, November 23
10:00 11:30 SESSION 4:Issues Around Open Source Software.
» Chair: Chair: Dr. Sherin Elrayes.
» Copyright & Intellectual Property Issues.
Mr. Mohamed Hegazi Chief, MCIT IPR Office
» Access to Knowledge – A2K (Creative Commons).
Prof. Naglaa Rizk,American University in Cairo
» R&D in Open Source and Training.
Dr. Ashraf Farghaly & Sherin Bahader, Open Source Program, ITI
12:00 13:30 SESSION 5 :Cloud computing.
» Chair: Chair: Eng. Mahmoud Sennara.
» The Open Source Cloud.
Mr. Jan Wildeboer Red Hat, Germany
» Open-source BPM along with cloud business models.
Dr. Sami Sultan Managing Director, Peak Management
» Building An Open Source Private Cloud Infrastructe.
Eng. Diaa radwan, TE Data
14:00 15:30 SESSION 6:OSS Business Models and Solutions.
» Chair:Chair: Mr. Ehab Seoudi.
» GIS Open Source Applications.
Dr. Mahmoud Gaber.
» Android Mobile Applications.
Eng. Ahmed Mazen ITI
» Network security Linux and Microsoft
Eng. Ehab Fahmi TE-Data.
SESSION 7: Closure & Recommendations .
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First Middle East and Africa Open Source Software Technology Forum
15-16 June 2010
Ramsis Hilton - Cairo
On the occasion of founding the Egyptian Society for Open Source Technology, Concord for Exhibitions and Conferences is pleased to announce The First MEA Open Source Software Technology Forum; 15-16 June, 2010 at Ramsis Hilton - Cairo. The forum shall encompass a 2 full days conference succeeded with a one day - 2 tracks tutorial on Thursday June 17th. The forum is a technology type of event directed to ICT users, service providers and developers.
Vendors of tools, applications and remarkable experiences are welcome to present their products, technologies, services and to discuss their success stories as well. The event strives to :
1 –Define and introduce the Open Source Technologies and its philosophy.
2 –Discuss the emerged work environment, licensing and copyright.
3 –Study different applications, tools and success stories.
4 –Present nontraditional solutions to network and databases security penetration.
5 –Calculate the cost saving and profit gained through implementing OSS.
6 –Emphasize the importance of adopting a national policy towards OSS.
Tutorials
The one day - 2 track post conference tutorial program covers training on applying OS technology and tools in Customer Relations Management in one track and Security Assessment & Network Testing in the other track. Attending the training program is optional and out of the conference fee.
Forum Booklet
An A5 size - 4 colors printed booklet will be handed to all forum delegates where the topics, presentations and speaker biographies are briefed and sponsors are advertised. The final conference schedule as well shall be inserted.
Presentations
To guarantee the relevance and coherence of the addressed topics, a special committee will review the proposed presentations for approval to be enrolled in the forum schedule. A brief bio of the speaker and a 5 lines short summary about the presentation together with name of the company, title and position of the speaker will appear in the forum booklet.
Minister Of State For Administer Development
Ahmed DarwishHe received the Egyptian National Engineering Award for the year 1999. He is a member of few scientific and professional societies and on the editorial board and a reviewer for a number of publications. He shared in the design and development (and hold 50% of the IP) of 2 wireless simulation tools. He has over 64 publications in journals and scientific conferences, shared in 2 books, 11 invited talks and few sponsored research programs.Dr. Darwish was a consultant to a number of international organizations (UNESCO, FAO, ESCWA, European Union and World Bank), government organizations and companies both in the United States and Egypt. During the last 3 years prior to becoming the Minister of State for Administrative Development he acted as the e-Government Program Director at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. He led the team to prepare the National Project Document on e-government and coordinate the implementation efforts.
State For Administer Development Consultant and Spokesman
Board Member of Cairo University's Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Chairman and Executive Manager (approved from Central Bank of Egypt) of Al Hamd Exchange Company (currently under incorporation) , Founding Member of e-Learning and Business Solutions eLABs (e-Learning and Business Solutions (eLABs) was established, as an Egyptian NGO early 2003, as an initiative of a group of distinguished e-Learning content & system development firms. eLABs’ founders, some of which have more than two-decades of experience in educational and multimedia software development, as well as general IT solutions, shared a unified vision which made it necessary to consolidate efforts).First Vice Chairman of the Union of Arab ICT Associations (IJMAA).Ex-Chairman of the Egyptian Software Association (ESA) an NGO founded in 1996 representing the software industry in Egypt, and the common interests of its 63 member-software companies, individual programmers, software related service companies and related software industry support professionals). Head of the Bylaws Development Committee.Secretary General and Steering Committee Member of Eitesal Association.Member of High I P R Consultancy Committee (ITEDA)
Conference Chair
Sherin F. ElrayesCEO and Chairman of Concord for Exhibitions and Conferences, Entrepreneur with an engineering background, experienced in all aspects of corporate shows and events planning and organization, and with a successful track record in marketing and business development. Has successfully started and operated several businesses and as a result, he has considerable experience in management skills including decision-making, tactical and strategic planning, administration, human relations, budgeting, implementing marketing campaigns.
Gamal Ghietas IT Editor in Al Ahram
Editor in Chief (Loghat El Asr Magazine)
Won the first prize of the World Federation of the Business Software Alliance in 1998 as the best editor in Egypt and the Arab region, who wrote in the field of intellectual property protection of computer software piracy. In February 2001, received the tribute of the Center for Information and Decision Support Council of Ministers of Egypt, for his efforts in spreading the culture of information technology in Egypt, and received the honorary shield from Dr. Fathi Sorour, Speaker of the Egyptian people. Holds a prize for the best newspaper articles on total quality journalism from Arab Dubai School of TQM for the year 2004, about an article on quality assurance in the software industry. Jury member in the national competition for online content in Egypt during the 2006 and 2007. Won the State Incentive Award for 2009 in the social sciences branch of scientific culture for his book "Information Security and National Security".
Founder and CEO of Arabize.
Manal's passion for the Arabic language and its related culture was nurtured in childhood. Growing up surrounded by millennia of history and distinctly Arab ways of life she developed a great awareness of and appreciation for all aspects of the Arab world. After completing an advanced level Translation Diploma at the American University in Cairo (AUC) in the mid-nineties, she decided to combine her lifelong passion with her professional expertise and so founded Arabize.It is a common misconception that the process of “localization� is nothing more than that of translation. Since the beginning it has been Manal’s vocation to correct this error and awaken awareness about the importance of localization. She has trained her staff in order to give them the tools they need to do the job, and has developed working standards and criteria that encourage successful growth.
Conference Chair
Sherin F. ElrayesCEO and Chairman of Concord for Exhibitions and Conferences, Entrepreneur with an engineering background, experienced in all aspects of corporate shows and events planning and organization, and with a successful track record in marketing and business development. Has successfully started and operated several businesses and as a result, he has considerable experience in management skills including decision-making, tactical and strategic planning, administration, human relations, budgeting, implementing marketing campaigns.
President & CEO Information Technology Incorporation
Ph.D. in Management Nasser Accademy, 1991
M.Sc. in Military Sciences, Signal Accademy in Leningrad, USSR, December 1966
Gamal Ghietas IT Editor in Al Ahram
Editor in Chief (Loghat El Asr Magazine)
Won the first prize of the World Federation of the Business Software Alliance in 1998 as the best editor in Egypt and the Arab region, who wrote in the field of intellectual property protection of computer software piracy. In February 2001, received the tribute of the Center for Information and Decision Support Council of Ministers of Egypt, for his efforts in spreading the culture of information technology in Egypt, and received the honorary shield from Dr. Fathi Sorour, Speaker of the Egyptian people. Holds a prize for the best newspaper articles on total quality journalism from Arab Dubai School of TQM for the year 2004, about an article on quality assurance in the software industry. Jury member in the national competition for online content in Egypt during the 2006 and 2007. Won the State Incentive Award for 2009 in the social sciences branch of scientific culture for his book "Information Security and National Security".
Operations Director - Ladis
Over 30 years of experience in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) both on the supplier and customer sides with varying responsibilities at all levels, inside and outside Egypt, as well as multiple consulting activities especially in the use of ICT to support business and management objectives. Focuses on delivery of objectives and works easily in multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural teams.Directed the activities of the operations division of a major IT software solutions company with responsibilities covering the whole software development life cycle from initiation to deployment.
General Manager - BIT
Engaged in the Information Technology, Computer & communications engineering for the last 30 years. Mr. Sennara also was actively involved in management consulting and business development. He is currently the General Manager of B.I.T. (Business Information Technology) a company he founded in 1983 to work in the different fields of IT and its applications in the management development. The company has 40 experts in different disciplines of information technologies The company conducts its business in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Dubai, Oman and other middle Eastern countries out of its headquarters in Giza Egypt.
Microsoft
As the Area Lead for the Developer & Platform Group (DPE), Aben is responsible to drive the awareness and value of the Microsoft platform to developers, IT professionals, students and partners across the Middle East & Africa region. Other activities of the group include the Imagine Cup competition for students and managing Microsoft's relationships with key ISV partners.With over 24 years of IT experience, Aben joined Microsoft in 1997 after having managed several strategic projects in India and the Asia Pacific Region. He was a key team member in helping shape Microsoft’s early internet efforts in the region. In 2005, he took up the role of the Specialist Sales Lead for the region, with the charter of building a team of Technical and Sales specialists that could support the sales teams to identify current customer pain points and recommend appropriate solution offerings to them.
Egyptian Java User Group founder and Java Champion
Software consultant and Java developer with about 6 years of experience developing Java/JEE application with passion. Ahmed has been rewarded as Sun Java Champion based on his contributions for Java community and universities. Ahmed is frequent speaker in local events and universities evangelizing Java technologies and Open Source Software, keynote speaker in Java Developer Conference(http://jdc2010.egjug.org). Ahmed has experience in Java, PHP, Perl and Linux. He is working as OSS/BSS principal consultant for Oracle Communications Global Business Unit, EMEA.
Business Development Manager - Convergys
Ahmed have the professional experience that he used to migrate and succeeded in converting one of the top ISP's to use open source software which resulted in almost 90% cost reduction compared to commercial software.Lectured in various events on the advantages of the use of open source software in banking, telecommunication, information security, software development sectors.Lectured on the technology, implementation and operation of a Public Key Infrastructure during the Egyptian eGovernment workshops.
Etisalat Egypt
Software Engineer at Etisalat Egypt. Over 5 years experience in Software Engineering, Amr has been working with different technologies including J2EE, ASP.NET, J2ME, and PHP on both enterprise and mobile environments. Based on deep understanding of web development concepts combined with wide background in social networking and Mobile Applications, Amr is currently working in Telecom field and Enterprise applications for Etisalat. Amr is the founder of Jspx the free open source Java web framework. Amr is an active speaker in local events and universities sessions.
Worked with large enterprises almost the entirety of his career, and has been using and working with Free/Open Source for around 9 years, 7 of which as a professional system administrator with focus on rapid deployment and configuration management. He got involved in the Open Source community since 2004. In 2008 he became the first RHCDS (Redhat Certified Datacenter Specialist) in Egypt.
Senior Systems Engineer
Self-taught hardcore GNU/Linux expert and fanatic with skills including server administration, system engineering, embedded and real time systems, application programming, configuration management, and web programming. Currently holding the position of senior systems engineer at Almasry Alyoum newspaper, handling configuration, integration, deployment and servers for almasryalyoum.com
General Manager - BIT
Engaged in the Information Technology, Computer & communications engineering for the last 30 years. Mr. Sennara also was actively involved in management consulting and business development. He is currently the General Manager of B.I.T. (Business Information Technology) a company he founded in 1983 to work in the different fields of IT and its applications in the management development. The company has 40 experts in different disciplines of information technologies The company conducts its business in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Dubai, Oman and other middle Eastern countries out of its headquarters in Giza Egypt.
Apache Software Foundation
Active in the Web since 1993, Sally Khudairi is the publicist behind some of the industry’s most prominent standards and organizations including W3C and Creative Commons. The former deputy to Sir Tim Berners-Lee and long-time champion of collaborative innovation, she helped launch The Apache Software Foundation in 1999, and was elected its first female and non-technical member. Sally is chief executive of luxury brand communications consultancy HALO Worldwide; she is Vice President of Marketing & Publicity for The Apache Software Foundation, the Program Chair for ApacheCon NA 2010, and planner for TransferSummit Conference + BarCamp in Oxford, UK.
Co-Founder and Vice President, Engineering - ConnectmeTV
Youssef Adnan has over 12 years of experience in system development and deployment for large services and consulting companies. Youssef is ConnectmeTV's V.P, Engineering and the mastermind behind the development of new services and applications. He authored articles for technical magazines as young as 18 years old and co-authored the SuSE Linux Installation and Configuration handbook while he was still an undergraduate at the American University in Cairo. Before Youssef moved back from the states to Egypt, he spent four years consulting with ITWorx for a Fortune 500 firm in Hartford, CT. He then moved to a Technical Lead position with Collaborative Consulting in Atlanta, GA and later on to the headquarters in Boston, MA
Day 1 :Tusday, June 15
10:30 – 11:00 SESSION 1: OPENING
Welcome Remarks, Dr Sherin Elrayes, Organizer and Concord Head.
Address of HE Dr Ahmed Darwish, State Minister of Administrative Development by Dr Naser Fouad.
11:00 – 01:30 SESSION 2: TECHNOLOGY AND TOOLS.
Chair: Gamal Ghitas, Editor in Chief, Loghat El Asr Magazine.
»Towards a National Policy for IT Security Gamal Ghitas, Editor in Cheif, Loghat El Asr
»OSS Tools in Web Development Amr El Adawi, Etisalat
»Linux Operating System & Security Ahmed Ossama, Linux Systems Admin, Phoenix Egypt
»Apache Technology Sally Khudairi Apache Software Foundation, USA
02:00 – 04:30 SESSION 3: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT & OPEN SOURCE APPLICATIONS.
Chair: Mahmoud Sennara, President, BIT.
»Open Source CRM Wael Ali, Equant
»Open Source VOIP Ahmed Ossama, Linux Systems Admin, Phoenix Egypt
»Java Development under Linux Menrit Samir, TE Data
»OS Systems from a Cyber Security Perspective Dr Sherif Kassas, AUC
»Interoperability Nasser Kettani, MEA Regional Standards Officer, Microsoft MEA
Day 2 :Wednesday, June 16
110:00 – 12:00 SESSION 4: OPEN SOURCE AND INNOVATION.
Chair: Dr Youssry Zaki, Chairman & CEO, ITInc.
»OSS and Innovation Mahmoud Sennara, President, BIT
»OSS Security Vs Closed Source Security Abdel Monem ( Raya Corp )
»Creating New OS Projects&Communities Dr.Tarek Nabhan –IT & Dr.Ayman Bahaa –Softlock
»Cloud Computing Aben Kovoor, MEA Developer & Platforms Lead, Microsoft MEA
»OSS & Intellectual Property Innovation & Development Dr Naglaa Rizk, AUC
112:30 – 02:30 SESSION 5: SUCSESS STORIES.
Chair: Dr Yousry Zaki, Board Member, IT Industry Chamber.
»Locally Developed OS Solutions Amr El Adawi, Etisalat
»ISP Case Study Ahmed Hussien, Business Development Manager, Convergys
»Corporate Consumer Case Study Diaa Radwan, TE Data
»Building an A-Z Site with OS Technology Bassem. Hefny, President, Elcinema dotcom
»Almasry Alyoum Islam Amer, Senior System Engineer, Almasry Alyoum News Paper
»An African Government Adoption of OSS Evans Ikua, FOSSFA - Kenya
103:00 – 05:00 SESSION 6: DOING BUSINESS, MAKING PROFIT.
Chair: Eihab Seoudi, Operations Director, LADIS.
»OSS Licensing and Making Profit Youssef Adnan, CTO, ConnectmeTV
»OSS Impact On Community Ahmed Hussien, Business Development Manager, Convergys
»Making Profit Out of the Free Sally Khudairi, Apache Software Foundation, USA
»Total Cost of Ownership, Evans Ikua, FOSSFA - Kenya
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