The economics of innovation in mobile technologies
The mobile landscape has changed quite dramatically over the past few years, with the emergence of new mobile platforms and a significant shift toward open source in mobile technologies. What are the key economic drivers for this shift, and what are the lessons that can be learnt from the mobile industry's adoption of open source?
 
This talk will draw on Andrew's experiences as Open Source Manager for the LiMo Foundation. It will look at how and why open source has become commonplace in mobile platform development, and the advantages and pitfalls of using open source.

Session time: Friday, June 25, 2010 - 2:00pm - 2:40pm

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About the Speaker

Andrew Savory
Open Source Guru, Independent
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Until recently Andrew was the Open Source Manager for LiMo Foundation, where he worked to ensure understanding of and compliance to open source principles and to facilitate contributions back to open source communities. 

Andrew has over a decade of firsthand insight of working with industry leaders using and engaging with open source. He has worked with open source software, starting with Linux in 1994 and founding the Linux user group ALUG (Anglian Linux User Group) shortly afterwards.

He was the founder of one of the earliest open source software solutions providers in the UK, Sourcesense, and instrumental in the creation of the Association For Free Software, a UK offshoot of the Free Software Foundation.

In 2003 he was a founder of the first open source business alliance, Orixo.

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