Open Source Summit Japan

Noriaki is the Vice President of Japan Operations for The Linux Foundation. Prior to joining The Linux Foundation, he led the international business for a leading Japanese Linux distributor, Turbolinux, Inc., as Director of International Business. He also served as the CEO of Zend Japan. He has an MA in International Relations from Nagoya University and a BS from Lambuth University.

Dan is the General Manager of Automotive at The Linux Foundation and the Executive Director of Automotive Grade Linux. 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.

Jim’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through the use of open source and Linux.

At The Linux Foundation, Jim works with the world’s largest technology companies, including IBM, Intel, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, and others to help define the future of computing on the server, in the cloud, and on a variety of new mobile computing devices. His work at the vendor-neutral Linux Foundation gives him a unique and aggregate perspective on the global technology industry.

Jim has been recognized for his insights on the changing economics of the technology industry. His writing has appeared in Businessweek, Wired, and other top technology journals, and he is a regular keynote speaker at industry events. He advises a variety of startups, including Splashtop, and sits on the boards of the Global Economic Symposium, Open Source For America, and Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.

Kate Stewart is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs, responsible for the Open Compliance programs encompassing the SPDX, FOSSology, OpenChain, and other compliance-related projects. Kate was one of the founders of SPDX, and is currently the specification lead. Since joining The Linux Foundation, she has also launched Real-Time Linux and Zephyr Project.

With almost 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles and worked as a developer in Canada, Australia, and the US and for the last 20 years has managed software development teams in the US, Canada, UK, India, and China. She received her Master’s in computer science from the University of Waterloo and her Bachelor’s of computer science (co-op program) from the University of Manitoba.

Masashige Mizuyama joined Panasonic in 1988, then known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
He had been engaged in Operating System Development, Software Architecture Development, System Architecture Development.

• 2005-2012 Chief Architect and Director, Mobile phone development
• 2013-2016 CTO, Infotainment Business
• 2017- CTO, Automotive Business

Hatsumi is the Senior Manager of the Future Society and Technology Unit at Fujitsu Ltd. She is currently responsible for leading to create of Edge Domain business architecture and responsible for open source development and strategy.

Her previous roles included director positions in both Product Planning and Business Management of a global photonic business. She was assigned to Texas US for more than 8 years and her main business has been for big Service Operators in the US market.

She has a BS in Mathematical Statistics and resides in Kawasaki city, Japan, with her husband and 21year old Daughter. She and her family are supporters of the Japanese Professional Succor team Frontale.

Dan Lorenc is Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Chainguard, Inc. Previously, he was a Staff Software Engineer at Google, where he’d been working in the PAAS-space for 6 years. He managed s a team focused on building open source tools to improve the container/Kubernetes developer experience. Prior to that, he founded projects such as Minikube, Skaffold and Kaniko.

Shuji Hashimoto received the B.S., M.S. and Dr. Eng. Degrees in Applied Physics from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1970, 1973, and 1977, respectively. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, Toho University from 1979. In 1991 he moved to Waseda University as a Professor of the Department of Applied Physics.
In Waseda University he served as the Director of the Humanoid Robotics Institute for ten years from 2000. During 2006-2010 he was the Dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering. He was appointed and served as the Senior Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the University from 2010 to 2018. He has been one of the leaders of the Gundam Global Challenge since 2014. Currently he is a Professor Emeritus and Research Advisor of Waseda University since his retirement in 2018. He joined XELA Robotics as the CEO in April, 2019.
His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, “KANSEI” Information Processing, Sound and Image Processing and Meta-Algorithm. He is a member of major academic societies including IEEE, IEICE and RSJ.　He has served as Vice President of International Computer Music Association (ICMA), Director of IEEE Tokyo Branch, Director of the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers, Chairman of Human Communication Group of IEICE. Currently, Vice President of the Japanese Facial Society, Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Fellow of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

Takao Indoh has been working for support service of Linux system in Fujitsu since 2001, especially working for crash dump for mission critical server, and has also committed several open source communities relevant to crash dump framework, LKCD(Linux Kernel Crash Dump), diskdump, kdump, and so on. Also working for other OSS, for example OpenStack.