Austin
April 25-29, 2016
Panel: Building a Business with Open Source
So how do companies make money from open source? Is it yet another unicorn in the startup world?
In this panel, we'll have veterans of startups and large established companies who have built businesses on top of open source. We'll cover success and very amusing failure stories from key members of companies in the space.
What can I expect to learn?
After this panel, you'll leave with a good idea as to what to do, and what *not* to do when building business of off open source software.
Tuesday, April 26, 3:40pm-4:20pm (8:40pm - 9:20pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Midokura
Adam is a founding member of Midokura, and long time startup guy. His background is in software development, but he has always worn many hats. Adam was one of the influential people behind open sourcing MidoNet, a distributed SDN for OpenStack. He has hands on experience deploying MidoNet and OpenStack for numerous public and private clouds. Adam is primarily responsible... FULL PROFILE
Founding Managing Director, Storm Ventures
Ryan is a founding Managing Director of Storm Ventures. At Storm Ventures, Ryan focuses on enterprise IT and has primarily invested in SaaS (Crowd Factory/ Acquired by Marketo, Digital Shadows, Guidespark), mobile (Appcelerator, Splashtop) and cloud/infrastructure related companies (Hubpages, Kidaro/Acquired by Microsoft, Nubeliu, MetaCloud / Acquired by Cisco, Sandforce/Acquired by... FULL PROFILE
Red Hat
Ben Cherian is the Director of Partnerships, Alliances, and Channel in the Storage Business Unit at Red Hat. He came over to Red Hat as part of the Inktank acquisition where he served as Vice President of Strategic Development and was responsible for partnerships, strategic alliances, and corporate development. Previously, he served as Chief Strategy Officer of Midokura, a network... FULL PROFILE
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.
Christopher was the Founder and CTO of Piston which was acquired by Cisco in June 2015. At Piston he was responsible for building and managing the R&D team that built Piston CloudOS™ which grew out of the development of Piston OpenStack. Prior to Piston, he helped lead the development of a seismic risk analysis engine for the Global Earthquake Model, helped launch OpenStack in... FULL PROFILE
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