Keynote: Collaborative Project Updates: AGL, SPDX, FOSSology & OpenChain
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2017-02-15

Keynote: Collaborative Project Updates: AGL, SPDX, FOSSology & OpenChain

About Jilayne Lovejoy
Jilayne is principal open source counsel at ARM, where she advises cross-organizationally on open source related issues, including providing training and driving improved processes around the use of open source, license compliance, and participation in open communities. Jilayne is actively engaged in a number of open source communities. She has been a key participant of the Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX) workgroup since its inception, co-leads the legal team, and maintains the SPDX License List. Jilayne is a founding member of the OpenChain initiative and represents ARM on its governing board. She serves on the Council for the FSFE Legal Network and was a former member of the editorial committee of the IFOSS Law Review. Prior to ARM, Jilayne was corporate counsel at OpenLogic,a provider of open source software support, provisioning, and compliance solutions to enterprises. In her spare time, Jilayne can be found riding her bike(s), co-hosting the podcast, "FOSS+beer," or otherwise playing in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

About Dan Cauchy
Dan Cauchy is the General Manager of Automotive at Linux Foundation. He is responsible for the overall management and execution of the Automotive Grade Linux collaborative project, an industry effort to build an open source automotive reference platform backed by leading car manufacturers around the world.

Dan has over 22 years of experience spanning the automotive, telecom, networking and mobile business verticals. Prior to his current position, Dan was the Vice President and General Manager of MontaVista’s Automotive Business Unit (acquired by Mentor), responsible for P&L and worldwide execution of MontaVista’s automotive software strategy, sales, marketing, products and services. During this period, Dan served on the Board of Directors of the GENIVI Alliance and was responsible for the creation of the GENIVI Compliance Program, a group that he chaired for its first three years, which led to the release of the GENIVI Specification, a widely adopted standard in the automotive industry. While at MontaVista, Dan previously held the position of VP of Marketing and BD where he was responsible for the development and execution of MontaVista’s global marketing strategy, which led to an acquisition by Cavium.

Based in Silicon Valley, Dan has extensive startup experience. He was the Director of Product Management at Atrica (acquired by Nokia-Siemens Networks), a carrier Ethernet equipment provider startup. Prior to Atrica, Dan was the Director of Architecture and Strategy at BlueLeaf Networks, a tunable laser optical networking startup (now Picarro). He also previously held senior management positions and engineering leadership positions at Cisco Systems, Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel) and Nortel.

Dan earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (with a Computer Engineering major) from the University of Ottawa. He holds three patents in the areas of routing and networking with several others pending.