Linux Foundation to Bring Together Developers, IT Managers and Business Executives at Premier Linux and Open Source Conferences in Dublin

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 23, 2015) - The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today is announcing keynote speakers and the schedule for LinuxCon, CloudOpen and Embedded Linux Conference Europe, taking place October 5-7, 2015 in Dublin, Ireland.

Keynote announcements include:

• Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network will look back at the history of patent aggression in Linux and OSS on the 10th Anniversary of OIN's founding as well as discuss the growing culture of co-opetition and patent non-aggression which we currently enjoy.
• Jeff Dionne, CEO of Smart Energy Instruments, will talk about 'Building the J-Core CPU as Open Hardware: Disruptive Open Source Principles Applied to Hardware and Software'.
• Martin Fink, CTO of HP will discuss the open source revolution and the intersection of cloud, networking, and telecommunications.
• Sean Gourley, TED fellow and co-founder and CTO of Quid, will present a keynote entitled 'Man vs. Machine', exploring what the brain can and cannot do and how these limits create niches for algorithms to exploit.
• Leigh Honeywell, senior staff security engineer at Slack Technologies will talk about incident response, usability, design thinking, user consent, and the future of information security, drawing on lessons from the proprietary and free software worlds.
• Lorenz Meier from The Dronecode Project and Tully Foote from the Open Robotics Project will discuss the future of drones and the open source platforms that are accelerating their usage.
• David Mohally, chief market product manager, SPO lab at Huawei, will present a keynote about NFV Network Slice as Service.
• Thomas Petazzoni, CTO of Free Electrons, will cover successful Open Source SoC mainline development.
• Mark Skarpness, director of embedded software at Intel, will discuss how open source is fueling the growth of the Internet of Things.
• Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation, will talk about the dominance of open source software in today's infrastructure but also the threats that the community must overcome.
• A panel covering the most recent updates related to container technology, moderated by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, member of Red Hat's Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team.
• A panel discussing the latest trends in the Internet of Things, moderated by James Governor, analyst and co-founder of Red Monk.
• The annual Linux kernel developers panel, moderated by Grant Likely, Linaro Fellow, Linux kernel Device Tree maintainer and Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Chair.

Open source software has the power to affect our lives in ways few imagined even a decade ago, spurring innovation across all manner of industries. This year's LinuxCon + CloudOpen + Embedded Linux Conference Europe will provide in-depth technical sessions covering the topics most critical to advancing this work. These events include more than a dozen keynotes and over 200 sessions demonstrating the wide variety of use cases for open source software including Linux, embedded systems and the cloud. Everything from the basics of the kernel to new technologies such as containers will be covered.