CV - Keynote Speakers

Jan Stedehouder writer, columnist and journalist on Linux and open source software, author of 'Open Source Jaarboek', 'Basiscursus Ubuntu' and 'Probleemloos overstappen op Linux'.

Jan Stedehouder studied Societal History at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam with a strong focus on the crossroads of communication and policy-issues. This focus led to a career encompassing educational innovation on the Netherlands Antilles and developing projects and methodologies targeted at promoting the development of groups at the low end of the Dutch society.
Apart from this Jan is a writer, columnist and journalist, primarily dealing with Linux, open source en open standards from the perspective of end-users, or -as he calls them – 'W2L migrators'. He wrote or contributed to various books in this domain, with four upcoming books being released between now and early 2011. His articles have been published in BSD Magazine, LinuxBizz magazine, SoftwareBus and on the Digiplace website.
Jan is an outspoken critic of the Dutch open source policy, which -in his opinion- is based on a highly ambitious plan, but flawed in its execution.


Simon Phipps, well-known and respected leader in the free software community, former Chief Open Source Officer at SUN
A well-known and respected leader in the Free software community, computer industry veteran Simon Phipps has been involved at a strategic level in some of the world's leading technology companies. He has worked in such hands-on roles as field engineer, programmer and systems analyst, as well as run a software publishing company. He worked with OSI standards in the eighties, on the first commercial collaborative conferencing software in the nineties, and helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM. Today he takes an active interest in Free and Open Source software organisations, including the advisory boards of OpenSolaris, OpenJDK, OpenSPARC and GNOME, and is a widely read thought-leader.
In mid-2000 he joined Sun Microsystems where he helped pioneer Sun's employee blogging, social media and community engagement programmes. In 2005 he was appointed Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, co-ordinating Sun's extensive participation in Free and Open Source software communities. In that role he has overseen the conversion to Free software of the full Java platform, the Solaris UNIX operating system, the SPARC architecture and the rest of Sun's broad portfolio, all under OSI-approved Free licenses. He has also been an outspoken advocate of the value of Open Document Format (ODF) for businesses and governments. Most recently he has been an advisor to local and national government agencies across Europe, the Pacific Rim and Latin America as they have devised and implemented strategies around Free and Open Source software.
He holds a degree in electronic engineering and is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society. His personal home page and blog is www.webmink.net

Michiel Leenaars, Director of Internet Society Netherlands and Strategy Director at NLnet Foundation

In addition he works for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) within its subsidiary Netherlands National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF). He studied Physics at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at Tilburg University. After his studies he worked shortly as a project manager and consultant for the largest Netherlands telecom Royal KPN, in the field of New Media and Electronic Billing. He joined ISOC.nl in 2000, and became its director in 2002. He is member of the board of OpenDoc Society (vice-chair), Gridforum Netherlands (secretary of the board) and the Strategic Committee of the European domain name registry EURId. He is member and former chair of NEN-normcommissie (NC) 381034 'Behandeling en uitwisseling van tekst', the Netherlands' mirror committee of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 'Document description languages and processing languages'.

Ineke Schop, Program Manager, NOiV

Born in Wageningen( 1953), the eastern part of the Netherlands, as eldest daughter in a large family of 6 children, she knows how to plead a cause. Ineke has succesfully finished her law studies at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She has broad experience in the area of government, especially in municipalities(16 years in policy development and management) and as a programme manager in ICTU (7 years) on a broad variety of subjects, including information management. At ICTU she started in 2003 as programme manager of EGEM, which is the platform for process development for and by means of municipal authorities. Among other things the programme aims at standardisation, coöperation and dissemination of 'best practices'. EGEM supported municipalities to improve performance with the help of ICT, especially by means of standardisation. EGEM is accomplished bij ICTU by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Royal Relationships and the Confederation of Municipalities (VNG) and lasted until 2010 to be continued in KING. June 2008 Ineke was asked to become the programme manager NOiV ( the Netherlands Open in Connection). An actionplan of the Dutch Government by this name( url) is the base of the programme. The programme is instructed and sponsored bij Ministry of Economic Affairs and Ministry of Internal affairs and Royal Relationships. She is responsible for encouraging the Dutch central and decentral governmental bodies, the sectors public health care and educational organisation to think and act interoperable through the use of open standards (OS) and if possible open source software (OSS).To disseminate this goal she has contributed to many international congresses to exchange kwowledge in the field of Open Standards and Open Source Software.