Moderator : François Letellier, Open source and Innovation consultant

Through the exemple of the two European Competitiveness clusters Cap Digital & System@tic, this roundtable will discuss the differenciation of the Floss approach in innovation, as the historical US patents level is showing economical limits :
- Driving innovation with FLOSS: vision and examples from the System@tic Open Source Working Group roadmap (Stefane Fermigier, System@tic Open Source WG)
- Floss in collaborative models and Web2.0 technologies through Cap Digital example (Louis Montagne, CapDigital Collibri)
- The VC perspective on Open Source: Jean-Marie Chauvet (LC Capital)

6 minutes Pitches of the 20 most promising Floss startups selected by our Jury of investors and Floss personalities in 3 sessions of 6/7 companies separated by networking breaks.

Activeeon (France), Agiletec (Italy), Avalpa (Italy), Bonitasoft (France), Ecocube (France), Kaltura (USA), Kerlabs (France), Maarch (France), ManyDesigns (Italy), Mindtouch (USA), OS Networks (Netherlands), Prestashop (France), Scaledb (USA), Sociatom (France), SonarSource (France), TLM (UK), Ulteo (France), Univention (Germany), Weelya (France), Xwiki (France)

Moderator : Eric Mahé, OpenGPU Director, IF Research

The « JBoss success story » with Sacha Labourey, CTO of JBoss
- Open Source as an accelerator of innovation, the “VectorWise” project by Roger Burckard, CEO Ingres
- Analysis of the economic performance and speculation about the future of software patents in the US, including the effects of recent and upcoming court decisions, by James Bessen.