OpenExpo 2008 Zurich, is a two-day trade show and conference on Open Source Software. This will run on September 24 - 25, 2008. There’s been a growing number of participant from both open source community members and prominent vendors in every OpenExpo event. The participant could either attend a business or a technology track for the conference. It’s expected that there will be a broad audience from businesses, individuals, and the public sector alike.

Previous OpenExpo have topics like Ubuntu, OpenOffice.org, OpenMoko or OpenStreetMap as well as business applications like SQL-Ledger, SugarCRM, Typo3 or Apache OFBiz. OpenExpo In Zurich will show case topics like Open Source as a Chance and a Challenge for the Telco Industry or Android - an open source platform (not only) for mobile devices and a lot more.

OpenExpo 2008 Zurich Conference First Day Schedule:

Business Track 1: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
09:30 Keynote: Open Source in Space Bruce Perens, Kiloboot
10:00 Keynote: Mozilla – Between Chaos and Order Tristan Nitot, Mozilla Europe
10:30 Open Source as a Chance and a Challenge for the Telco Industry Florian Baumgartner, Swisscom
11:10 OSS vor der Reifeprüfung Stefan Arn, ICTSwitzerland
11:50 ArchivistaBox – Open Source DMS und ERP out of the Box Urs Pfister, Archivista GmbH
12:30 Das freie ERP-System ADempiere Norbert Wessel, metas consult GmbH
13:10 Open Source @ SAP Claus von Riegen, SAP AG
13:50 Erfahrungen mit Open Source Groupware Martin Gafner, Puzzle ITC
14:30 Der «Mythos» Open Source Software Olaf Laber, Ingres Germany GmbH
15:10 Marketing von Open-Source-Software Sandro Groganz, InitMarketing
15:50 Open Source BI Lösungen: Was heute möglich ist Matthias Wilharm, Trivadis
16:30 Preisverleihung OSS-Award
17:15 Vergünstigte LPI-Prüfungen Anmeldung auf lpievent.lpi-german.de
18:00 Social Event Conference Chill Out mit DJ & Lightning Talks
Technology Track 1: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
10:30 Niemand hat Embedded Linux wirklich verstanden Harald Welte, gpl-violations.org
11:10 Debian Diversity Showcase Enrico Zini, Debian
11:50 Community Architecture for Fun and Profit Max Spevack, Red Hat/Fedora Project
12:30 Verteilte Versionskontrolle mit Mercurial Peter Arrenbrecht, codewise.ch
13:10 The (non)organization of PHP Lukas Kahwe Smith, Liip AG
13:50 Die nächste Generation – TYPO3 5.x und FLOW3 Robert Lemke, TYPO3 Association
14:30 KOffice im Produktiveinsatz - Überblick und Einführung Alexandra Leisse, KDE
15:10 Distributed Computing mit Apache Hadoop Bernd Fondermann, brainlounge, Apache Software Foundation
15:50 Semantische Business Intelligence Plattform Interlocks Nicolas Mayencourt, Dreamlab Technologies AG

— source: http://www.openexpo.ch/en/openexpo-2008-zurich/conference/

Switzerland is a beautiful place and if you happen to come from a distant place after attending the conference a tour on the nearby tourist spots of Zurich is highly recommended. You can extend your trip and go for skiing, at the preferred ski areas closer to Geneva. Maybe you could stay on some Geneva Hotels and spend trekking on some real mountains. It would be an opportunity to enjoy the ultimately time touring Switzerland. Some relaxation after the gruelling conference would be a treat for oneself.