DR DANIEL VEILLARD
Red Hat France
Software Engineer

Daniel maintains libvirt, the virtualisation library,and works on virtualisation in the Emerging Technologies group in Red Hat. He has been a member of of the open source community for a long time, having co-created the first French Linux Users' Group. He is the author and maintainer of libxml2, the GNOME XML toolkit, and of libxslt. He maintains the rpmfind.net engine and was secretary of the GNOME foundation for four years.

EUGENE TEO
Red Hat Asia Pacific
Linux Enterprise Application Porting (LEAP) Engineer

Eugene Teo is a Linux Enterprise Application Porting (LEAP) Engineer at Red Hat Asia Pacific. Eugene focuses on ISVs going through joint projects with Oracle at the LEAP centre and other porting centres. He provides consultation for migration, porting, and performance tuning issues on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. He works on SystemTap and occasionally help out in the Red Hat Security Response Team. Prior to Red Hat, he was a security researcher at the Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies, focusing on Linux kernel vulnerability research. Eugene is an active member of the Linux and open source community in Singapore for nearly a decade, having held different portfolios within the Linux Users' Group (Singapore). He has spoken at numerous events such as the 5th Asia Open Source Software Symposium in Beijing and SyScAN'05 in Bangkok. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computing from National University of Singapore, and is a Red Hat Certified Engineer.

HARISH PILLAY
Red Hat Asia Pacific
Manager, Partner Development

Harish Pillay has been with Red Hat Asia Pacific since September 2003 and is currently overseeing the company's Independent Software Vendor (ISV) ecosystem initiatives in Asia Pacific. Harish joined Red Hat from Maringo Tree Technologies, an open source consultancy, training and services company he co-founded in 2002. He has held senior management and technical positions at Brokat Asia, Sembawang Media, CSA Automated and CSA Holdings. An avid open source activist and commentator, Harish co-founded the Linux Users' Group Singapore (LUGS) in 1993 and is currently its President. He is a senior member of the Singapore Computer Society and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. In 2005, he was inducted into the Oregon State University's Engineering Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers in recognition of distinction in professional practice and service to the profession and to the society at large. Over the years, he has presented papers and spoken at numerous events such as the IX Asia 2003/2004 in Singapore, Asia Open Source Software Symposium, LinuxWorld Asia in New Delhi, COSGOV in Hanoi and Indian eGov Conference, India.

MICHEAL C. FERNANDEZ
Touch Solutions, Inc.
Technical Head

Michael C. Fernandez is the Technical Head for Touch Solutions, Inc. since 2004. He is responsible for overall project and technical team management. Mike has vast experience in technical deployments and service management, including creation of service lines/products for Touch Solutions, Inc.

A holder of multiple Red Hat certificates, including Red Hat certified Instructor/Examiner in 2004, Michael is well grounded in Red Hat Services. He is also trained in Red Hat Linux System Administration as well as Red Hat Linux Network and Security Administration.

Michael has international experience before returning back to Thailand to aid the growth of Open Source adoption in Thailand.