Open innovators: are software developers important?

If you value open discussion around the true worth of software application development in the enterprise, then the Transfer Summit 2011's "top-level immersion into the world of open source and open innovation in software," could be just what you need.

Staged this September 5-8 in Keble College Oxford, this event kicks off with a keynote entitled: Open Business and The Open Society: The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance, which will be delivered in his normal ebullient and engaging style by co-founder of analyst house RedMonk, James Governor.

Governor's introductory notes state, "After a flowering of open standards and open source, driving new business models and economies, we're now seeing a closing down of 'intellectual property' and associated opportunity by non-state actors with no clear mandate for the change - see the EU's 'kowtowing' to ACTA, for example, or the absurdly named Digital Economy Act."

With an 'Open Innovation' track aimed at executive and project management-level attendees, this event also features an 'Open Development' track aimed at project managers and technologists.