Revolutions over Facebook, Dissent on Twitter, crowd sourcing of knowledge, freedom through software. Is the world changing with the ideas of open sourcing of data, software, media and knowledge? Will the closed cathedrals of the dominant be replaced by open bazaars of a new society through open source movement?

In conversation is Roy Singham, the globally recognized leader in open source and agile methods, founder of ThoughtWorks and a globally recognized speaker.

As founder and chairman of ThoughtWorks Inc., Roy Singham is recognized globally as a software development innovator of change. Throughout his 20-year career, Roy has inspired the industry as an influential supporter of emerging technologies, open source programming languages, and agile methods of software development.

He is regularly featured as a keynote speaker and panel presenter to global conferences and organizations including the prestigious Fortune Brainstorm Technology conferences, the Council on Foreign Relations, Techonomy, India’s The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) as well as for Agile conferences in China, Brasil and Australia.

Roy is a true global citizen traveling internationally over 250 days a year, and spending time in some 60 countries – not only in western nations and Silicon Valley, but also in the newly emerging markets and technology hot spots of Asia and Latin America. He represents ThoughtWorks as one of the Global Growth Companies at the World Economic Forum. Roy is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC.

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