Blueprints for business friendly open source ecosystems in the industry – talk at the automatica IT2Industry Forum

Speaker:

Gaël Blondelle (Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH)

Timing:

Thursday, 21.06.2018 12:00 – 12:20 h

Location:

IT2I Forum (B4.216), automatica 2018, hall B4, Munich trade fair

Brief summary of lecture:

Since 2004, the Eclipse Foundation has successfully developed business friendly open source ecosystems. This talk will present how the Eclipse Foundation legal and organisational framework, initially designed to foster both collaboration and commercial exploitation of the Eclipse Platform, has been used to develop open source ecosystems in new domains like IoT, tools for safety critical systems, management of geospatial data or automotive for the past five years. Finally, it will describe the current RobMoSys initiative to develop such an open source ecosystem in the domains of robotics and Industry 4.0.

Topic of the lecture:

Business Track, Software and Systems for the Smart Factory

The lecture is especially interesting to companies from the following sectors:

Automotive – Service providers, system integrators – Research, science – Information and communication industry

The lecture addresses the following target groups:

Managers from divisions, departments, project groups: Electronics development hardware and software – Information and communication technology

Speaker’s biography:

Gaël Blondelle is Director of European Ecosystem Development at the Eclipse Foundation. Gaël Blondelle has accumulated specialized experience with Open Source communities since 2002. Since 2010, he has been the manager of OPEES, a European project whose key result is the creation of PolarSys, the Eclipse Working Group dedicated to Open Source tools for Embedded Systems and Systems Engineering, with companies like Airbus, Thales, and Ericsson. Since 2013 he has managed the PolarSys working group and contributes to the Eclipse ecosystem development in Europe.

PLEASE NOTE: the talk is only accessible with a ticket to automatica 2018 trade fair.

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