Agregando desenvolvedores -- tanto profissionais como amadores -- em comunidades que se reunem ao redor de software distribuido sob licencas que promovem a liberdade ao inves do controle, a transparencia ao inves do segredo, e o compartilhamento de conhecimento ao inves de patentes, o desenvolvimento de software open source ganhou o mundo. Seja chamando de software livre, open source ou ainda FLOSS, o desenvolvimento de software colaborativo e compartilhaado eh hoje a principal forma de criacao de software. Quais serao os proximos passos? O que podemos esperar -- empresas, governos e desenvolvedores -- da mais importante tendencia da industria de software dos tempos atuais? Venha conversar com os diretores mundiais da Open Source Initiative, em uma discussao interativa onde voce podera tirar suas duvidas e oferecer sua opiniao sobre o futuro do software no mundo.

Veterano da tecnologia Java e um dos líderes do movimento Java no Brasil. Diretor mundial de Open Source da Sun Microsystems, e Diretor da Open Source Initiative, Bruno é fundador da Sociedade de Usuários Java (SouJava), coordenador da comunidade mundial de Grupos de Usuários Java, representante brasileiro no Java Community Process (JCP) e, na horas vagas, participa da criação do novo mundo conectado e distribuído.

Danese Cooper has a 15-year history in the software industry and has long been an advocate for transparent development methodologies. Danese worked for six years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. on the inception and growth of the various open source projects sponsored by Sun (including OpenOffice.org, java.net and blogs.sun.com). She was Sun\'s Chief Open Source Evangelist and founded Sun\'s Open Source Programs Office. She has unique experience implementing open source projects from within a large proprietary company. She joined the OSI Board in December 2001 and currently serves as Treasurer. As of March 2005 Danese has joined Intel to advise on open source projects, investment and support. She speaks internationally on Open Source and Licensing issues.

Michael Tiemann has been involved with Free Software and Open Source Software since 1987, when he downloaded the GNU C compiler, made some hacks, and released the GNU C++ compiler later that year. He founded the world\\\\\\\'s first company to commercialize free software (in 1989) and sold that company to Red Hat (in 2000).

In addition to writing over 100,000 lines of code for the GNU project, he has submitted patches to dozens of other free and open source software, advised open source projects, companies, and consortia, co-authored new free and open source licenses, has advised national governments on free and open source software licensing, technology, and policy issues, and has given testimony in court about the negative effects of abusive software monopolies.