Open Source – A Strategic Tool for Organizations

Together with HH Partners, Attorneys-at-law, and several guest speakers, IPR University Center launches a series of webinars on open source competence and management in organizations. Today, dealing with open source is no longer just about risk management or quality improvement, it is also a core competence for any organization providing and distributing software-empowered solutions, whether embedded systems, apps or standalone software. This series will give you an overview of (1) how you can assess your own organization’s maturity in leveraging open source, (2) what the usual competences are for an organization at different maturity levels, (3) what best practices there are for open source guidelines and policies, (4) how OpenChain, an ISO standard, can be used as a reference for open source programs at organizations, and (5) how tooling can be used to help different stakeholders in handling open source compliance and management efficiently.

All the seminars are hosted by Martin von Willebrand, Partner, HH Partners, Attorneys-at-law.

First part of the seminar is: Open Source – A Strategic Tool for Organizations

At the seminar you’ll get the answers to the questions:

1. Why is open source competence strategic for organizations?
2. How can you assess your organization’s maturity in open source?
3. What will you lose if your open source maturity is below that of your competitors?
4. What will you gain by maturity in leveraging open source?
5. How is the landscape developing and what should we expect in 3-5 years?

Speakers

Partner Martin von Willebrand, HH Partners

Comment from Open Source Program Director, Jonne Soininen, Nokia

Jonne Soininen is currently serving as Head of Open Source and Technology Vision at Nokia based in Espoo, Finland. Prior to this position, he worked in different positions with Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Renesas Mobile and Broadcom and has an extensive history in telecommunications and software engineering ranging over 25 years. He has served in different external roles such as in the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) and Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV). Currently, he is serving as a board member of Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) and Linux Foundation AI & Data (LFDL).

Jonne has a Doctor of Science (Technology) from the Aalto University, Finland from the school of electrical engineering on networking and Masters degree on computer science from University of Helsinki.

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