Events

June 4, 2013Join us for a Webinar: Unlicensed Open Source, Best Practices for Managing

The amount of open source software published without a license is increasing significantly. For legal professionals responsible for compliance with software licensing terms, this represents a problem. Should we use it? How can we determine the author’s intent? What if we can’t?

Join Palamida Founder and VP of Professional Services, Jeff Luszcz, In this webcast as he discusses the background of this increase in unlicensed open source software and suggests strategies to identify it and potential policy actions to take.

REGISTER HERE

April 29, 2013 -
April 30, 2013
Join us at OSBC April 29th & 30th!

Hyatt Regency San Francisco

Join us April 29-30th for Open Business Conference 2013 in San Francisco!

Be sure to see our founder and VP of Professional Services, Jeff Luszcz, for a legal-track panel discussion "The Changing Compliance Landscape: Advanced Open Source Issues for Large Enterprises" on Monday, April 29th, 2013 11:40am - 12:30pm.

Speakers:
Clifford Allen, Senior Attorney, Open Source Legal Group, Microsoft
Andrew Hall, Associate, Fenwick & West LLP
Jeff Luszcz, Founder & VP, Professional Services, Palamida
Moderator: Stephen Gillespie, Partner, Fenwick & West LLP

Description
Open source software presents unique opportunities and challenges for larger enterprises. Big companies must assess and manage the impact of open source use and licensing on their patent portfolios, address complex open source issues in their distributed and cloud based products and services, manage open source related issues and communications across broad constituencies of customers, shareholders, open source developers, and internal engineers, address open source issues in strategic transactions and acquisitions, and develop and adopt policies and processes to ensure compliance with open source licenses.

Please join our panel of experts as they examine the open source compliance landscape from the perspective of large enterprises. The panelists will provide examples of real world compliance issues and describe best practices for addressing the challenges faced by large enterprises in open source licensing and compliance.

February 27, 2013Join us for a Webinar: Open-Source Software Diligence in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Investments

The presentation will provide a landscape analysis of current and best diligence practices in mergers, acquisitions, and investments, to assist companies and attorneys expecting to engage in such transactions. The presentation will discuss the open-source diligence process, the information that is typically requested by acquirers and investors, and the concerns and perceived risks that give rise to such diligence and requests. The presentation will also include recommendations and best practices for avoiding open-source complications to such transactions.

WATCH HERE
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST

About our Presenter:
Andrew J. Hall
Associate, Intellectual Property
Fenwick & West, LLP

Andrew Hall's practice focuses on intellectual property, licensing, technical transactions, and free and open-source software counseling. Mr. Hall leverages his technical background to assist customers in protecting their valuable intellectual property and technical assets, avoiding infringement, and developing effective intellectual property and open-source software strategies, policies, and procedures.

Mr. Hall has unique expertise and experience advising a wide range of technology clients on free and open-source software auditing, use, management, compliance, and governance. He regularly guides clients on implementation of effective free and open-source business models and the contribution of client assets to the free and open-source software communities.

January 23, 2013Join us for a Webinar: Software Compliance Best Practices for Embedded Linux and Android Solutions: When Hope is Not a Strategy

A decade ago embedded device software was considered more of a hardware enabler then a product itself. Today however, embedded software has evolved to become a product differentiator and revenue generator. Furthermore, the dependency on open source software is growing rapidly. The risk associated with the increased distribution of embedded software products is typically greater compared to more traditional software solutions. Therefore, distributors of embedded software need to raise the bar by deploying additional compliance review measures. We present eight software compliance best practices every device distributor should consider when hope is not part of the strategy.

WATCH HERE
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST

About our Presenter:
Mark Gisi is Senior Manager of Intellectual Property at Wind River Systems where he is responsible for managing IP policies, processes and compliance. His responsibilities include conducting product IP due diligence reviews, IP training and managing the company’s open source contribution program. Mark currently oversees the IP compliance of thousands of open source packages used in dozens of products consisting of over 100 million lines of code (including Wind River’s embedded Linux offering). Mark served on the Eclipse IP advisory committee and is currently a contributor to the SPDX project, the Linux Foundation’s license format standard. Mark holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the State University of New York.

October 1, 2012 -
October 3, 2012
Join us at JavaOne Oct. 1st - 3rd! Booth #5018

San Francisco

Please Join us for JavaOne 10/1 - 10/3 at Booth#5018!

Hilton San Francisco Union Square
JavaOne Exhibition Hall Hours

Monday, October 1
9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. (Dedicated hours)

Tuesday, October 2
9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. (Dedicated hours)

Wednesday, October 3
9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. (Dedicated hours)

September 20, 2012 -
December 31, 1969
October 4, 2012 Webinar Cancelled - Publishing Open Source Projects, the Rationale

Webinar Cancelled - Publishing Open Source Projects, the Rationale

We apologize for any inconvenience, but our previously scheduled Webinar for October 4, 2012 has unfortunately been cancelled. We will keep you informed when we have our next webinar scheduled.

Thank you for your understanding,
Palamida

August 14, 2012Webinar "Open Source Compliance: Creating the Right Process"

Webinar: Open Source Compliance: Creating the Right Process

Presented by Karna Nisewaner, Senior Corporate Counsel at Cadence Design Systems

Tue, Aug 14, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

WATCH HERE

Have you been tasked with establishing an Open Source Compliance program and don’t know where to start? Do you need Industry Experts guidance on what process approach works and the potential pitfalls?

Karna Nisewaner, Senior Corporate Counsel, draws from her IP management experiences at Cadence Design Systems, Intuit and IBM to speak on leveraging proven processes and establishing an Open Source Compliance Program in your company.

 

More About our Presenter:

Karna J. Nisewaner has responsibilities across all areas of Cadence's intellectual property practice, with emphasis on management of the patent portfolio, running the open source registration system and conducting a company wide open source audit, and counseling the anti-piracy program, along with sitting on the staff of two of the business units as a legal business partner.

Prior to joining Cadence she was a member of the Intellectual Property and Litigation team at Intuit, where she provided intellectual property law advice and counsel to developers and management in several business units. She also led the legal team’s third party license review process and developed a comprehensive open source use and contribution structure.

Previous to her position at Intuit, she spent four years with IBM software group, supporting various business units, updating the internal open source process, and supporting over

15 acquisitions, with a particular focus on the open source code review. Karna is experienced in patent preparation and prosecution before the USPTO as well as experienced in the drafting and negotiation of confidentiality agreements, complex patent, copyright (including open source), and technology agreements.

She began her career at Finnegan, Henderson, Farbow, Garrett, and Dunner, LLP in Palo Alto,CA, where she managed complex patent portfolios and wrote and prosecuted many applications.

WATCH HERE

www.cadence.com | www.palamida.com

July 17, 2012 -
July 19, 2012
Stop by our Booth (525) at OSCON 2012 this week!

Portland, OR

We are excited to have a booth (#525) again at OSCON this year. Stop by our booth and drop off your business card for a chance to win a daily giveaway for an Arduino Starter Kit!  We look forward to seeing you there!

What do you do once you change the world?
Do it again.

Once considered a radical upstart, open source has moved from disruption to default. Its methods and culture commoditized the technologies that drove the Internet revolution, and transformed the practice of software development. Collaborative and transparent, open source has become modus operandi, powering the next wave of innovation in cloud, data, and mobile technologies.

OSCON is where all of the pieces come together: developers, innovators, businesspeople, and investors. In the early days, this trailblazing O'Reilly event was focused on changing mainstream business thinking and practices; today OSCON is about how the close partnership between business and the open source community is building the future. That future is everywhere you look.

Now in its 14th year, OSCON is the best place on the planet to prepare for what comes next, from learning new skills to understanding how new and emerging open source technologies are going to impact how we live, work, and do business. In keeping with its O'Reilly heritage, OSCON is a unique gathering of all things open source, where participants find inspiration, confront new challenges, share their expertise, renew bonds to community, make significant connections, and find ways to give back to the open source movement. The event has also become one of the most important venues to unveil ground-breaking open source projects and products.

 

"For those who have not been to OSCON, it's a great technical conference covering the whole spectrum of open source, including Linux, MySQL, the LAMP stack, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, middleware, applications, cloud computing, and more. OSCON always has great keynotes, tutorials, and evening Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. As with many conferences, a lot of the meat takes place in hallway conversations and impromptu sessions." — Zack Urlocker, InfoWorld

 

June 5, 2012Join us for a Webinar June 5th at 11am

Webinar: The Changing Compliance Needs for Open Source Software

Tuesday, June 5, 2012 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT

To Register click here

Recently the software development world has seen the popularization of certain technologies that have added complexities in managing a company’s software compliance process.
These technologies include:
  • Cloud Computing
  • Platform as a Service
  • Software as a Service
  • Distributed version control systems such as Git and Mercurial
  • Increased build time dependencies such as Maven and Ruby Gems

In this webinar Palamida founder Jeff Luszcz will discuss how the compliance landscape is changing as these open source and commercial options multiply. We will discuss terminology, common pitfalls, open source and commercial license issues, as well as ways to mitigate these issues.

May 21, 2012 -
May 22, 2012
Join us at OSBC May 21-22 in San Francsico

Palamida is proud to be a silver sponsor of the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC)

Cloud, Data, Mobile and Open Source: It Stars Here

Even as Open Source has gone mainstream, its influence on cloud computing, mobile technology, and Big Data is still in its infancy.  Businesses are increasingly data-driven, as the Internet, cloud strategies, social media and mobile technologies have made it possible and imperative to collect massive quantities of data on customers, competitors, and more.  Making sense of all that data, analyzing it in real time and using it wisely, all while deploying data-rich applications -- leans heavily on both open-source software--like Cassandra, Hadoop, OpenStack, jQuery, and more—as well as the very principles of open-source development. 

OSBC 2012 offers the chance to connect with the developers, users and companies behind the most significant open-source, mobile and cloud technologies, including HTML5 frameworks like jQuery and SproutCore, NoSQL databases like Mongo, Big Data technologies like Hadoop and Cassandra, and cloud platforms like OpenStack and Cloud Foundry.  You'll also learn key strategies so that you can make your business more effectively data-driven. Nowhere else will you hear such a comprehensive perspective on the open source industry. The conference program features content-rich sessions from visionary thought-leaders and industry executives on how open source technology is being used and what the implications are from a business perspective.

May 10, 2012Open Source Software Legal, Security & IP Challenges Seminar

London

Palamida and Morrison & Foerster invite you to an evening of presentations, panel discussion, drinks, food and networking!

Open Source Software Legal, Security & IP Challenges

Guest Speakers:

  • Mark Tolliver, CEO of Palamida, former Chief Strategy Officer of Sun Microsystems
  • Chris Coulter, Technology Transactions Partner, Morrison & Foerster
  • Kim Hartlev, CTO, Synchronica
  • Johannes Richard Römann, Head of Open Source Compliance, Software AG
  • Amanda Brock, General Counsel, Canonical - lead commercial sponsor of the open source operating system Ubuntu

Open source software has been widely adopted by businesses from all sectors alike. The potential for innovation and efficiencies was immediately seized. However, understanding the full implications of using open source software is only emerging.

Palamida, the leading provider of application security for open source software and Morrison & Foerster, one of the world’s leading technology law firms, would like to invite you to join a discussion and networking event highlighting:

  • Current trends in open source software adoption
  • Impact of open source on IP valuation, security and M&A

 

Details of the event

Date: Thursday 10th May 2012

Time: 5.00pm

Location: Morrison & Foerster, CityPoint, One Ropemaker Street, London, EC2Y 9AW

Agenda:

5.00 pm: Registration

5.30 pm: Presentations followed by Panel Discussion and Networking

  • The Rate and Impact of Open Source Adoption. Who, What and Why?
    Mark Tolliver, CEO of Palamida, former Chief Strategy Officer of Sun Microsystems
  • IP Assets: How Open Source Affects the Way Businesses Protect their Technology Assets
    Chris Coulter, Technology Transactions Partner, Morrison & Foerster
  • Lifecycle of Open Source Management at Software AG – Workflow and Business Benefits
    Johannes Richard Römann, Technology Alliances, Software AG
  • Contracting with Open Source Software Companies
    Amanda Brock, General Counsel, Canonical
  • Panel & Audience Q&A Discussion
    Moderated by: Mark Tolliver, CEO Palamida

 7:00 – 9 pm: Drinks, hors d’ oeuvres  and networking

 

To Register

Please click here, you will be redirected to our registration page and guided through the registration process.  Audience seating is limited.

Attendees: This event is addressed to stake holders responsible for optimal management and valuation of IP and audiences interested in networking with colleagues on the topic of open source IP management and security.  Titles include: IP Manager, CEO, CTO, Chief Security Officer (CSO), General Counsel, Legal Counsel, and Software Development Managers.

 

You may also contact Morrison & Foerster or Palamida if you have any queries.

Morrison & Foerster Contact Info:
Duncan Robertson
DRobertson@mofo.com
+44 207 920 4023
www.mofo.com

Palamida Contact Info:
Greg Kelton
+44 7789 56 4446
gkelton@palamida.com
www.palamida.com

 

December 8, 2011Palamida Sponsoring TechAmerica IP Event: You Have Open Source. Now What?

Portland, OR

Palamida is proud to sponsor TechAmerica Technology & IP Event: You Have Open Source. Now What?

Dec 08, 2011 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM PT | Oregon Zoo Portland, OR

A few years ago, the conventional wisdom among companies was either to ride the open source wave or to avoid open source software at all costs. Now, the choice to avoid open source software is gone. Whether you are a hardware company or a software company, you have open source. It’s in your servers, it’s in your phone system, and it is almost certainly in your products whether they are hardware or software. The open source in your phone system is probably a great idea. The open source in your products, on the other hand, may not be. What should you do?

Join three industry experts who will discuss best practices you can bring to bear in order to reap the benefits of open source while avoiding the pitfalls. They will discuss what open source software is, how it found its way into your products, and what its advantages and disadvantages might be.

You will learn:
- Why you should stay on top of this issue;
- How you can manage your open source user obligations in a way that is mindful of limited resources;
- If that open source you just discovered in your product really means that you have to post your source code on your website.

Panel:

Mark Visnick is a practicing attorney and senior consultant with Johnson-Laird, Inc, where he specializes in forensic software analysis for litigation and software due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and in-bound licensing deals. Marc will explain what open source is, what compliance entails, and where the risks lie.

Chris Perez is a software engineer and former engineering manager at Tektronix. Chris will provide practical advice about how technology companies can manage open source obligations in a way that is consistent with company values and mindful of limited resources.

Jeff Luszcz is the founder and VP of Services and Support at Palamida, where he leads the professional services team responsible for open source compliance audits. Jeff will discuss how Palamida helps companies manage open source software at all stages of their product lifecycles.

Moderator:
Brenna Legaard is an intellectual property attorney at Lane Powell, where she focuses her practice on helping her clients achieve their business goals by securing and enforcing their intellectual property rights.

Who Should Attend:
- Hardware Engineers
- Software Engineers
- Research & Development
- Entrepreneurs
- Information Technology Professionals
- Marketing Professionals

Event Details:
When: Thursday, December 8, 2011
Time: 7:30 – 10:00 AM
Where: Oregon Zoo, Skyline Banquet Room, Portland, OR
Fees: $50 Members, $75 Nonmembers
CLE Credits: Pending Approval

To register contact:
Kari Naone, Events & Program Manager
P. 503.624.5715
E. kari.naone@techamerica.org

November 28, 2011Join us at the Automotive Linux Summit 2011

Yokohama, Japan

Palamida is proud to be a sponsor at The Linux Foundation's first annual Automotive Linux Summit (ALS). ALS is an event specifically for the automotive industry and the growing cross-industry ecosystem for future mobility solutions.

The Automotive Linux Summit is the premier vendor-neutral business and technical conference for companies and developers using or looking to use Linux and open-source technologies in automotive applications ranging from in-vehicle on-board system to cloud solutions for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications.

ALS is the event where automotive expertise meets open-source excellence talking and collaborating on solutions meeting the challenges of tomorrow's vehicular applications, traffic and mobility management solutions. For those who are developing embedded and/or infrastructure systems for the automotive industry and looking how they can leverage the power and flexibility of Linux and open-source to jump-start their product development ALS will be the one-stop source for business-oriented, technical and legal information.

Ultimately, ALS will bring together the key players and industry excellence to create a momentum for new opportunities through open innovation.

November 4, 2011EOLE 2011

MediaTic Building (Barcelona, Spain)

EOLE 2011 (4th edition): FLOSS in Business and Academia

Palamida will be attending and speaking at this year's European OpenSource & Free Software Law Event (EOLE). EOLE is an event that aims to promote the sharing and dissemination of legal knowledge on Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) licenses, as well as the development and promotion of good practices in the field.

For more information about EOLE 2011 please click here

October 11, 2011Heather Meeker Webinar - Both Sides Now: Open Source Inside & Outside the Cloud

Computing in the 21st century is moving to the cloud. Web services, mobile applications, and virtualization have changed how we think about software. What does this mean to open source software licensing -- a model built on conventional notions of distribution?

Heather Meeker, Chair of the IP/IT Licensing and Transactions Group at Greenberg Traurig, and author of "The Open Source Alternative," will explain the issues that have grown from the collision of cloud computing and open source. Will clouds be the death of free software? Or vice versa? Join us for an in-depth, interactive session on these timely and relevant issues.

For more information on Greenberg Traurig click here

September 27, 2011Prepping Yourself for M&A Webinar

Prepping Yourself for M&A Webinar

Jeff Luszcz presents an overview webinar on how to prepare your organization for Mergers & Acquisitions from an Open Source and Intellectual Property perspective.

May 3, 2009 -
May 7, 2009
ISACA North America CACS

Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando - Orlando, FL

The world’s leading conference for IT audit, control, security and governance professionals

Presented by ISACA®, North America CACSSM is well known as the leading conference for IT audit, control, security and governance professionals. Each year it is developed by industry leaders to address the issues and problems faced by today’s professional and provides practical solutions.

January 29, 2009Palamida Hot 25 Webinar

Please join us in this webinar as we discuss 25 proven open source projects you can begin using today to reduce development costs.

 Palamida's Hot 25 Webinar - January 29, 2009
 Palamida's Hot 25 Webinar