Mr. Jayakumar Balasubramanian who will be talking about “ Tracing The Evolution – Open Source & Embedded Systems”.

He is a Director at Emertxe Information Technologies, an IT finishing school and creator of innovative self learning kits. Prior to Emertxe, he worked for 12+ years with Ishoni Networks, Hewlett Packard and Huawei Technologies, where he associated with building Embedded products for consumer, enterprise and Telecom segments. He also writes a personal journal on www.jwritings.com.

Our speaker plans to take a “meta-technical” approach where he will touch upon tech/business aspects of Open Source – case studies of use, the business & working models, the intersection between Open Source and Embedded and how individuals can build embedded products using open source from scratch.

The last session traced the evolution of Open Source and its relevance to Embedded systems. It highlighted the most popular tools used by the Open Source community and shared some tips on how to build embedded devices through leveraging the power of this paradigm. The discussions also dealt with Intellectual property issues.