Programme
Bossa Conference 2009 - Speakers! (Confirmed)
Aaron Seigo
Aaron Seigo is a Free software developer with over 15 years experience in industry who has been with the KDE project for the last 7 years. Aaron serves as both a software developer and architect within KDE, working primarily on core libraries and the Plasma user interface framework. Aaron is a member of the Board of Directors and President of KDE e.V., the project's global non-profit foundation. As a project ambassador, he speaks at technical, academic and social events around the world on issues related to Free software and KDE.
Andreas Aardal Hanssen
Andreas Aardal Hanssen (bibr) is a Qt Developer since 2003, working in the Nokia Qt Software R&D headquarters in Oslo. He comes from a demo scene and Open Source background, and has spent the last years working on Qt's canvas API, Graphics View. Recently his focus has been on innovations for embedded GUI development. He works on a research project spanning across three continents, including Openbossa developers, to find an ideal approach to writing stateful, animated UIs for embedded and desktop systems.
Gustavo Barbieri
Gustavo is the graphical user interfaces software architect at ProFUSION, where he designed and leads the development of Guarana Framework. He's also know for his work on Canola, iPhone-like virtual keyboard for Maemo, LighMediaScanner, Eagle-Py and also for being one of the maintainers of Enlightenment Foundation Libraries and its Python bindings.
Hadi Nahari
Hadi Nahari is a software security professional with over 17 years of experience in all aspects of software development lifecycle, including extensive work in design and architecture, verification, prof-of-concept , and implementation of secure software systems. Hadi has worked on large scale, high-end enterprise solutions, as well as resource-constrained embedded systems, with primary focus on security, cryptography, complex systems design, and Vulnerability Assessment & Threat Analysis. Hadi is a frequent speaker in U.S. and international security-related events and has led and contributed to various security projects for Netscape Communications, Sun Microsystems, United States Government, Motorola, Montavista, etc. Hadi is currently Principal Security Architect at eBay, Inc.
Karen Sandler
Karen M. Sandler is an attorney with the Software Freedom Law Center and serves as an officer of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Prior to joining SFLC, she worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Sandler received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Sandler received her bachelor’s degree in engineering from The Cooper Union.
Sebastian Kügler
Sebastian Kügler has been a KDE hacker since 2004. He's currently working in KDE's Plasma team on powermanagement related issue and exploring using Plasma on small formfactor devices such as the N810 and various netbooks. Sebastian has spearheaded KDE's marketing efforts and joined the KDE e.V.'s Board of Directors in 2006. Sebastian is also involved with KDE's release team where he coordinates the promotion and thinks about higher-level development issues. In his free time, sebas, as he's called on IRC, likes photography and programming, not surprisingly on KDE and Plasma.
Zack Rusin
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