[nylug-talk] TODAY! NYLUG April General Mtg (5/4): Dr. Juan-Antonio Carballo on Open Hardware

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May 4th, 2006 (April Meeting)
Thursday (corrected from first announcement)
6:30PM-8:00PM
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency

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                       Dr. Juan-Antonio Carballo
                                 -on-
                             Open Hardware

    Please join us the first week of May for a special presentation by
    Dr. Juan-Antonio Carballo, of IBM Venture Capital.

             "Spreading to the Edges: Growing a VC Ecosystem
                     in a Multi-layered Open Model"

    The open model for solutions development is quickly extending from
    software to other technology areas, such as hardware and services.
    Specifically, just as open source has spawned a revolution in the
    technical, business, and legal model for software, open hardware will
    provide a swell of collaborative innovation that will create entirely
    new markets and provide significant business benefits to the most
    creative, most reliable, and most adaptable semiconductor, EDA,
    System-On-Chip (SoC), systems, SW, and service houses. The open-source
    software stack with Linux as its cornerstone is increasingly and
    provably the preferred choice for newly venture-funded companies.
    Open hardware will also change the world of hardware venture
    investing. While the degree of openness and the business model may
    vary, hardware and semiconductor products have to be increasingly
    developed through a collaborative model that helps assemble IP blocks
    and services from multiple sources. In this talk he will describe the
    open standards model for hardware, chip, and tool innovation, and will
    argue and quantify how openness and a systematic method to value its
    associated IP will help the success of this environment, in that it
    will allow each member of the value chain - especially small
    VC-backed companies - to capture enough value to desire to
    participate.

About Dr. Juan-Antonio Carballo

    Juan-Antonio Carballo is a partner and Venture Capital Strategy
    Executive at IBM, with responsibility in the semiconductors and
    systems sector, creating and managing strategic projects with
    top-tier Venture Capital firms and their portfolio companies. Prior
    to this assignment, Juan-Antonio has led research in adaptive
    communications chips and design methodologies at IBM Research. He won
    an IBM Research Division award for driving work in this area. He has
    filed more than 20 patents and has near 20 publications in low-power
    design, communications systems, design economics, electronic design
    automation, and collaboration software. He is the Chair of the
    International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) Design
    Chapter, the CTO and R&D Chair of the VSIA IP standards organization,
    and the Chair of the IEEE Committee on Electronic Design Automation.
    He has been on the committee of six symposiums and conferences, and
    was the General Chair for Electronic Design Processes 2004 in
    Monterey, CA. His prior work experience includes stays at Digital
    Equipment (currently HP) and LSI Logic. Juan-Antonio holds a Ph.D.
    in Electrical Engineering (in electronic design) from the University
    of Michigan, an M.B.A. from the College des Ingenieurs (Paris), and
    a M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad
    Politecnica de Madrid.
    (any errors in bio our ours, with apologies - NYLUG)
   
Swag (Give Away) - After the meeting... unusually terrific swag may
    be given away.

Stammtisch
    After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's,
    located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor.
    Northeast corner.

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