Why should you attend the UK's premier Open Source event

TransferSummit provides a forum for business executives and members of the academic and research community to discuss requirements, challenges, and opportunities in the use, development, licensing, and future of Open Source technology.

This edition of TransferSummit features:

• 2 days of training
• 2-day conference across three tracks
• Mobile focus, virtual track
• Government summit 
• Hands-on learning and break-out sessions 
• Gadget playtime
• Gala dinner
• On-site housing
• Intimate setting, limited to 300 participants

Open Innovation everywhere! 

Why transferSummit?

• Consumption of mobile media will continue to grow due to increased accessibility and convenience of smartphones, tablets, eReaders, portable media devices, and other mobile products. More than 55 million tablets are projected to sell in 2011 and more than 1 billion smartphones are expected by 2013.
• Global mobile application store downloads are forecast to reach 17.7 billion downloads, with revenues surpassing $15 billion – up 190% from 2010. Consumer-aware applications will leverage Cloud-based services and partnerships to optimise navigation, mapping, social networking, search, and other functionality.
• Multiple device, platform, OS versions, and screen sizes require significant resources to develop, port, and maintain to advance performance and reduce the burdens of fragmentation. Interoperability and usability are critical to accessing and scaling enterprise applications, content, services, and utility.
• Leveraging wireless communications technologies such as RFID, Near Field Communication, QR codes, GPS, DASH7, and augmented reality will allow devices to become more efficient collaboration and payment tools across diverse mobile commerce environments.
• Application security will continue to be a key concern in orchestrating mobile commerce. Device-independent solutions will help applications run on a range of devices whilst reducing security risks; additional protection against threats such as spoofing, information disclosure, denial of service, and privacy compromises will require greater attention.

Businesses benefit by meeting core strategic needs through successful collaboration, which improves product quality, streamlines operations, increases market reach, drives sales, and enhances community relations. In turn, academic/research institutions gain the opportunity to connect with those organisations seeking to learn more about emerging innovations and applying them to commercial applications.

Attendee profile

TransferSummit attracts attendees from the administrative, academic, government, and private sectors who are seeking to leverage Open Source software to improve their offerings and services.

• Technically oriented participants include software developers/engineers, research directors, product managers, project managers/leads, technical strategists, software and solution planners/evaluators/architects/designers, and technical community managers/liaisons.
• Business-oriented participants include programme managers, strategic advisors, operations planners, policy/governance overseers, market researchers, business strategists, product marketers, and funders.
• Academic/research-oriented participants include principal investigators, senior researchers, technology transfer officers, strategic planners, technology licensing administrators, industry liaison officers, and funding programme directors.

Unparalleled content, comprehensive industry expertise, and a view into some of the most innovative projects and organisations make TransferSummit a worthwhile investment in your organisation's future.

Participant numbers are limited to 300 to promote dialogue among attendees in an intimate setting.

Previous Events

We've preserved some of the details of our 2010 event, take a look at the programme, speakers and sponsors.

About the organisers

The TransferSummit programme is led by OpenDirective in partnership with key individuals and organisations from the Open Source community. The conference is produced by Stone Circle Productions, whose portfolio of technology events includes ApacheCon, Black Hat Security Conferences, and HadoopWorld.