Presenters

David Axmark - MySQL
David Axmark, one of the two active founders of MySQL AB, was involved with the MySQL database well before it had a name. David now writes MySQL code and documentation, and he promotes the database at conferences and other venues throughout the world.

David has worked as a consultant and software developer for nearly 20 years. Interested in free software since the early '80s, David is committed to developing a successful business model through open source software. Before MySQL took over all time David worked as a consultant for over 15 years. The things he did included A State of the art Market research system (CommonLISP+CLOS+MySQL's ISAM) and a Advanced Business graphics package (in 32k RAM). He has written many lines of code in 6502 and Z80 assembler, BASIC, C, CommonLisp, (Bourne)-Shell and Perl.

Hobbies include mountain hiking, discgolf and Ultimate Frisbee.

Jesus Bermejo - Telvent
Jesus Bermejo is R&D Manager at Telvent, member of the ITEA (Information Technology for European Advancement) Steering Committee and Project Manager of OSIRIS (Open Source Infrastructure for Run-time Integration of Services, www.itea-osiris.org) 2005-2008 Project. He was project Manager of OSMOSE 2003-2005 (Open Source Middleware for Open Systems in Europe, www.itea-osmose.org), funding member of OS4OS (Open Software for Open Services, www.os4os.org) and during 2003 he chaired the individual members seat of the Board of directors of Objectweb Open Source Middleware Community. During 2003 and 2004 he was member of the Core Group of experts from ITEA for the elaboration of the ITEA Roadmap and member of the Spanish National R&D Plan 2004-2007. In the past he was individual active member in Open Source initiatives addressing entertainment platforms.

Professionally, he joined Defence Division of Telvent in 1984 after a period of research activities in Turbomachines simulation at Seville Engineer University. He has been working in the defence and civil market for twenty two years as project leader in software intensive applications for multiple domains; Command, Control and Communication Systems for combat ships (frigates and carriers), centralized and distributed simulation, data links networks, national and multinational defense research programmes in distributed synthetic environments, Y2K coordination and lately for Internet advanced developments as R&D manager.

Brian Fitzgerald - University of Limerick
Brian Fitzgerald, who holds the Frederick A Krehbiel II Chair in Innovation in Global Business and Technology at the University of Limerick, is the co-ordinator of CALIBRE.

Professor Fitzgerald has been extremely active in researching the libre software phenomenon. He is a co-author of the early books on the topic, Understanding Open Source Software Development (Addison-Wesley, 2002), and a paper on the topic won a ‘Best Conference Theme Paper’ award at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in 2000. Also, he has been one of guest editors for four international journal special issues which were dedicated to the topic. He has been co-chairs for a series of very successful workshops on the topic at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) for the past few years. He is also co-editing a book, Making Sense of the Bazaar: Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2004), with contributed chapters from the leading researchers in Europe and the US, and from pioneers in the field such as Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, David Parnas, Peter Neumann and Bob Glass.

Frank van der Linden - Philips
Frank van der Linden has been working for more than 20 years within Philips. In this time he worked on many topics in software engineering. Since 1992, his main interest is in software product family engineering. Between July 1999 and June 2005 he was leader of a series of 3 ITEA cooperation projects on this topic: ESAPS, CAFÉ and FAMILIES. As a part of the work in these projects he was programme chair of the five Product Family Engineering Workshops, that where held between 1996 and 2003. He was general chair for the SPLC Europe 2005 conference, which is a successor of this workshop series.

Frank van der Linden is co-author of the book, Software product line engineering, which appeared by Springer Verlag in August 2005.

Presently, Frank van der Linden is project leader of the ITEA project COSI, with as topic software engineering aspects of heterogeneous distributed development. Heterogeneity involves differences in control and agility in processes. An important topic of COSI is to ease the cooperation of embedded software industry and open software communities. Frank van der Linden is also member of Calibration, the industrial forum on open software, related to the Calibre project.

Rob Pumphrey - Certus Technology
Rob Pumphrey is the Techical Director of Certus Technology, a small software development company that he co-founded in 2000. In this role Dr. Pumphrey has lead the effort to build a development environment and applications framework that suits the company's business model and client base. This effort includes the widespread use of open-source products and is focused on enhancing the productivity of a distributed development team. Rob’s development approach focuses on continuous build and model driven development. Current areas of development include extended modelling for testing and continuous improvement through development instrumentation.

Having completed a degree in Civil Engineering, Rob’s PhD studies focused on computer modelling of structural dynamics where he published several papers. Prior to Certus Rob was a senior software developer at nCode, a division of AEA Engineering, where he applied his academic background to the development of advanced finite-element based fatigue analysis software and custom compiler design. During this time Rob was instrumental in addressing distributed development problems that the company faced and he gained hands-on experience of commercial systems development.

In between study, work and starting a company, Rob competed internationally in Canoe racing and was British Champion for 10 consecutive years.

Heikki Saikkonen - Nokia
Heikki Saikkonen, appointed as a professor of Computer Science at Helsinki University of Technology in 1983 has worked at Nokia Research Center from 1998 as Head of Software Technology Laboratory until 2004 and from 2005 onwards as a Research Fellow on Software and Application Technologies. Heikki received his MSc and Lic.Tech. Degrees in Computer Science form Helsinki University of Technology in 1974 and 1978, repectively. The topics of his thesis was the design of a Real-time Operating System Kernel. Prior to joining NRC Heikki was a director of Institute of Telecommunications and Software Engineering at HUT in 1995-1997 and a vice chair and chair of the Department of Computer Science in 1986-1989 and 1994-1998 and the Dean of the School of Information Technology from 1989-1993 at HUT.

Heikki has also a significant international experience. He visited Stanford University as a Research Fellow for the academic year 1993-1994, and in 1977-1978 he worked as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is a member of Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) as well as Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). During his career Heikki has authored and co-authored several journal articles and other publications including two text books in programming.

His main research interest is embedded, concurrent and distributed systems, software architectures, and specification and design methods. In his current role at NRC he is responsible for Nokia EU and Eureka/ITEA R&D co-operation in Software Technologies and Software Intensive Services.