Day 1: Monday 18th February 2013
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Registration Opens | - |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Exhibition and Innovation hub Opening | - |
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Introduction | - |
| 09:05 - 09:15 | SQU speech | H.E. Dr Ali Al-Bemani, VC |
| 09:15 - 09:25 | ITA speech | Dr. Salim Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, CEO |
| 09:25 - 09:45 | The new era of the Linux Professional Institute and its focus on Open Source careers | Jim Lacey, President & CEO Linux Professional Institute |
| 09:45 - 10:05 | Ambitious, comprehensive transformation agenda: The Malaysian Public Sector OSS Initiative | Nor Aliah Mohd Zahri, Deputy Director General of Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) |
| 10:05 - 10:15 | Awarding Oman Open Source Challenge 2012-2013 | - |
| 10:15 - 10: 30 | Coffee Break | - |
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Google Summer of Code | Cat Allman, Program Manager, Open Source Programs, Google |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | FOSS technology in the school environment | Jaco du Toit, Adviser for Communication and Information, UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Sankoré program | Albert-Claude Benhamou, Inter-ministerial Delegate for Digital Education in Africa & a medicine professor at University dé Paris |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Desktop FOSS Applications (e-Gov and e-Learning) | Sara Fernandes, United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Panel Discussion -1 | - |
| 12.10 - 12.20 | Coffee Break | - |
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Migration to FOSS | Italo Vignoli, Director, The Document Foundation |
| 12:40 - 01:00 | OSS in Saudi Arabia and the Region: Challenges and Opportunities | Abdulrahman Al-Alarifi, Director of the Saudi national program for free and open source technologies (Motah) |
| 01:00 - 01:20 | Innovation & Transformation, The Open Source Way | George DeBono, General Manager, Middle East, Turkey & Africa at Red Hat |
| 01:20 - 01:40 | Mission Impossible: Can I Replace My Business Critical IT With Open Source | Michael Meskes, President of the Credative Group |
| 01:40 - 02:00 | Panel Discussion -2 | - |
| 02:00 | Close of Day 1-Lunch | - |
Day 2: Tuesday 19th February 2013
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08:15 - 08:30 | Registration Desk Open | - |
| 08:30 - 08:50 | The Success Factors for a National Open Source Initiative | Erkan Tekman, Founder & CEO, linuxera |
| 08:50 - 09:10 | ITA role in encouraging FOSS deployment through consultation services | Dileesh Suseelan, Consultant, Governance and Advisory Division, ITA |
| 09:10 - 09:20 | PANEL DISCUSSION -3 | - |
| 09:20 - 09:30 | Coffee Break | - |
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:50 | Technology Trends & Open Source Developer Support from Intel | Sam Al Schamma, Director Software and Services Intel-Middle East, Turkey & Africa |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Big Data and Open source | Kit Lloyd, Country General Manager, Gulf Business Machines (GBM) Oman |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Virtualization in the Cloud — featuring Xen and XCP | George Dunlap, Staff Software Engineer, Citrix Systems UK Ltd |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Apache CloudStack and project currently in incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) | Sebastien Goasguen, Open Source Cloud Computing Evangelist, Apache CloudStack Committer |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Panel discussion 4 | - |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | - |
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Open Source Telco for the People | Onno W. Purbo, STKIP Surya, Indonesia |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Complementing Digital Logic Design with Logisim | Samir A. Al-Busaidi, SQU, Oman |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | The Framework of the Smart Learning Infrastructure in South Korea Focus on Agriculture Education System | Hyeog-In Kwon, Dae-Jin Kim, Gui-Jin Ryu , Ji-Hyun Kang, Jong-Seok Park and Hi-yeob Joo, Chung-Ang University, Korea |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Open source software-a study on choice of linux by smb’s | Venkateswaran Radhakrishnan, Salim Ali Salim Al Amri, Salalah College of Technology, Oman |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | FOSS to Enhance Mathematics Education | A Naseer Ahmed and M.Shalini, Nizwa College of Technology Oman, K.T.V.R Knowledge Park College of Engineering and Tech India |
| 12:45 - 01:00 | Coffee Break | - |
| 01:00 - 01:15 | Using FOSS to Manage Resources in a University Language Centre | James Scully, SQU, Oman |
| 01:15 - 01:30 | Software Testing Education, A Required Knowledge for Software Systems’ Developers and Managers | Afaq Ahmad, Dawood Al-Abri and Fahad Bait-Shiginah, SQU, Oman |
| 01:30 - 01:45 | Impact of NS-2 as FOSS Simulation Tool for Research in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks | Osama M. Hussain Rehman, Hadj Bourdoucen and Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, SQU, Oman |
| 01:45 - 02:00 | An Overview of the Technical Challenges of Migration to Open Source Software | Mohamed Sarrab, Mahmoud Elbasir, Laila Elgamel, SQU Oman, De Montfort University UK |
| 02:00 | Close of Conference & Lunch | - |