Breakfast Event, Oct 27th 8:00 to 9:00 am
Location: Hubtech21, Cambridge Innovation Center,One Broadway, 14th floor, room: Charles, Cambridge, MA 02142
This event is free of charge.
In France, high-tech market actors, corporations and government administrations have been early proponents of open source technology, and can provide insight on what the future of open source holds.
- Large and local government agencies (Finance Dpt., Police, Parliament, Regional and local bodies such as the Paris Region and the city of Paris) have massively deployed their next generation IT infrastructure on free and open source software,
- Large industrial groups as well as high-tech SMEs have leveraged open source to optimise growth and cost: Priceminister.com, SNCF (the national railway company), Peugeot
- New markets have emerged for services and have defined new categories such as the SSLL (Sociétés de Services en Logiciels Libres - Free Software Services Companies): Linagora, Alterway, Smile.
- Many new software start-ups have elected to build and to market their software products as open source: Talend, Nuxeo, ExoPlatform, Wallix.
in France, open source is becoming the backbone of IT infrastructure and a driver that is reshaping the IT industry. With uncertain times ahead, the trend of open source as an engine of new growth and value creation is likely to gain even more momentum.
Who should attend?
Anyone interested in learning about:
- Business Opportunities in France
- Best practices from current players there (French & American)
- Local support for companies developing in France
Speakers:
- Marie Buhot-Launay, Business Software Director, Paris Region Economic Development Agency
- Alan Facey, Executive Vice President, International, Black Duck
- David Cloyd, General Manager - Americas, Nuxeo Corp
Participation by RSVP only: mbuhotlaunay@paris-region.com or Hubtech21@hubtech21.com
About the Speakers
Marie Buhot-Launay
Marie Buhot-Launay has been Business Software Director at the Paris Region Development Agency since September 2006. She is responsible for the identification and support of foreign investors in business software and IT services. She has assisted in the location in the Paris region of such successful ventures as the Canadian company Smart Technologies, the world's leading manufacturer of interactive whiteboards. Marie is also VP International relation of the Open World Forum, the davos of the open source taking place in Paris every year. She also works on the development of an open source cluster in the Paris Region.
Marie graduated from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, (Paris Business School). In 2000 she founded Istation, a company dedicated to the installation of internet access points. Between 2003 and 2006 she was an independent consultant specialising in marketing consultancy for SMEs and entrepreneurs.
Alan Facey
Alan brings more than 25 years of experience building high-performance sales teams in start-ups and established software companies. Most recently, he was Vice President of Global Sales and Services at database auditing specialist Lumigent Technologies.
Prior to Lumigent, Alan was Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Services for content management systems vendor ClearStory Systems and interim Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at compliance solutions provider Obian. His successful career at application development and database leader Progress Software spanned nine years as Vice President, Europe, Middle East & Africa Operations, and later as Vice President, North American operations and global channels. Facey's background also includes international sales and general management roles at Cleanwise, Holistic Systems, Lucas Engineering & Systems and Metier Management Systems.
David Cloyd
Over the past 20 years Mr. Cloyd has built a significant track record of success in managing the sales and marketing efforts within software companies, large and small, with a particular focus on startup ventures for European based technology companies.
In this capacity he has been directly responsible for building ground sales organizations that have grown to over $20M in revenue. Most recently he launched and served as President of North American operations for Fabasoft, a publicly traded software company based in Austria.
Prior to joining Fabasoft he served in senior management roles leading the sales and marketing efforts for Cimage, and Staffware Corporation, both headquartered in the U.K. and both acquired as strategic assets in large part due to the success of their North America operations which were led by Mr. Cloyd.
While Mr. Cloyd is a seasoned startup veteran, he has had the very fortunate experience of working for two of the most highly respected sales organizations in the world, General Electric and Xerox. The experiences and education that he has taken away from these first class organizations have been the cornerstones of his success.