Would You Like “Lefty” at Your Conference?
会議には「レフティ」が話すことは欲しいですか？

“Lefty” is an entertaining, engaging and articulate presenter, able to speak with authority, understanding and humor on a variety of subject matter areas, including (but not limited to) open source licensing, mobile devices, the future of the Internet, web browsers and standards, social media, and how organizations can leverage open source software, use it responsibly, and engage in meaningful ways with the community-based development process.

If you would like to have Lefty speak as a representative of ACCESS, please contact Pam Miracle, Senior Director of Public Relations.

If you would like to have Lefty speak on behalf of the LiMo Foundation, please contact Andrew Shikiar of the Foundation Office.

If you would like Lefty to speak strictly as himself, contact him directly.

Some Past Presenter and Panelist Appearances

 


Current Full Speaker's Bio

David "Lefty" Schlesinger is Director of Open Source Technologies and Director of Social Media, at ACCESS Co., Ltd., working principally on open source strategy and community relations, and representing ACCESS in a number of industry and community initiatives. Lefty is responsible for open source licensing compliance practices within ACCESS, and is the author of ACCESS' internal "open source best practices" curriculum. He also specializes in intellectual property issues, including licensing and patent strategy.

Lefty is a key participant in a number of industry initiatives and consortiums: he is a member of the LiMo Foundation's Architectural Steering Committee and Chair of the Open Source Committee. In the past, he has served as vice-chair of the Architectural Working Group of the Linux Phone Standards Forum, Chair of the Linux Foundation's Mobile Linux Working Group, and a member of the GNOME Foundation's Advisory Board. He has also participated in the Linux Desktop Architects' meeting for tthree consecutive years, and has led the mobile computing interest group there.

Lefty's background is in system software programming and networking: before taking on his current position, he was director of the Core Technologies department, where he managed the engineering team responsible for delivery of the kernel, drivers and low-level middleware for the ACCESS Linux Platform. Prior to joining Palm in 2001, Lefty worked for ten years at Apple Computer, where he managed the Mac OS 9 Networking group and was instrumental in the development of technologies such as Open Transport and Bonjour (Apple's standards-based zero-configuration networking technology).

Lefty is well-known in the open source community and is a frequent presenter and panelist at open source-related conferences, and has spoken this year at the Finnish Centre for Open Source Software's Verso Business Series, FOSTEL (the Free and Open Source Telephony Conference), the Ottawa Linux Symposium, the GNOME Users' and Developers' European Conference and a variety of other prestigious open source venues. He was the keynote speaker at the 2007 Northwest Technical Conference for Undergraduates at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Lefty was educated at Bard College and New York University, where he majored in fitst, Drama, and subsequently, Mathematics with a specialization in Computational Math. An avid movie fan, his other hobbies include photography and digital artwork; he speaks both French and Japanese.

(Versions abridged down to 150 words are available)

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