[lca-announce] LCA 2015 keynote speaker - Bob Young

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The LCA 2015 team are honoured to announce our third Keynote speaker - Bob
Young, founder and chairman of Lulu.com, co-founder of Red Hat and the
Center for Public Domain.

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Bob Young is the founder and chairman of Lulu.com, a premiere international
marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 300,000
recently published titles and more than 15,000 new creators from 80
different countries joining each week

Lulu.com, founded in 2002, is Young's most recent endeavour. The success of
this company has earned Young notable recognition; he was named one of the
"Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006" and was ranked
as the fourth "Top Entrepreneur for 2006," both by Silicon.com.

In 1993, Young co-founded Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the open-source software
company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on
which to certify their technology. Red Hat is a Fortune 500 company and
chief rival to Microsoft. His success at Red Hat won him industry
accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week's "Top
Entrepreneurs" in 1999.

Before founding Red Hat, Young spent 20 years at the helm of two
computer-leasing companies that he founded. His experiences as a high tech
entrepreneur combined with his innate marketing savvy led to Red Hat's
success. His book, "Under the Radar", chronicles how Red Hat's open source
strategy successfully won wide industry acceptance in a market previously
dominated by proprietary binary-only systems. Young has also imparted the
lessons learned from his entrepreneurial experiences through his
contributions to the books to "You've GOT to Read This Book!" and "Chicken
Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul."

In 2000, Young co-founded the Center for Public Domain, a non-profit
foundation created to bolster healthy conversation of intellectual
property, patent and copyright law, and the management of the public domain
for the common good. Grant recipients included the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, the Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, and the
Future of Music Coalition.

In addition to enjoying fly fishing, Young collects calculators and antique
typewriters, a nod to his beginnings as a typewriter salesman and can
usually be found sporting a pair of red socks. However, instead of red on
his head, Young now tips his orange hat.


The LCA 2015 Auckland Team
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