Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include spearheading the licensing team that elevated Open Invention Network into the largest patent non-aggression community in history, establishing the leading professional network of Open Source legal experts and aligning stakeholders to launch both the first law journal and the first law book dedicated to Open Source.
Shane has extensive knowledge of Open Source governance, internal process development, supply chain management and community building. His experience includes engagement with the enterprise, embedded, mobile and automotive industries.
Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, presented at Open Source Summit North America on the topic of how OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 and ISO/IEC 18974:2023 will impact procurement, M&A and supply chain management in 2024. This talk was targeted towards legal professionals, but accessible to all parties.
This talk was part of the new Operations Management Summit track developed in collaboration with LF Research. This new track compliments the recently launched LF Management & Best Practices portal. The goal is to make it easier for all parties working on open source management in organizations to find the resources they need.
This webinar had Marcel Kurzmann from Robert Bosch GmbH present the Eclipse Apoapsis project in general with its process level idea of an abstraction layer concept and the ORT-server on a technical level. In the second part of the webinar, he gave an introduction of the abstraction layer concept with a generic process description, the generic architecture and templates.
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This event is part of the overarching OpenChain Project Webinar Series. Our series highlights knowledge from throughout the global OpenChain eco-system. Participants are discussing approaches, processes and activities from their experience, providing a free service to increase shared knowledge in the supply chain. Our goal, as always, is to increase trust and therefore efficiency. No registration or costs involved. This is user companies producing great informative content for their peers.
Volvo Cars has announced an OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 conformant program.
“Volvo Cars is committed to a sustainable, meaningful approach to open source engagement,” says Mary Wang, Director of Open Source at Volvo Cars. “Our adoption of ISO/IEC 5230 for helping to manage open source license compliance is part of this strategy. We look forward for working with the OpenChain Project and community as we expand the scope of our program over time, and contribute knowledge and experience to our peers and suppliers.”
“We are delighted to welcome Volvo Cars to our community of conformance,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “We are also grateful for their choice to publicly announce this program, and allow us to add their logo alongside contemporaries such as Toyota on our website. The positive momentum in the automotive industry around using ISO standards for open source supply chain management serves as an inspiration to all industries, and is an example of how open source has become not only core to software development, but also aligns with professional, sustainable management practices.”
About Volvo Cars
Volvo Cars was founded in 1927. Today, it is one of the most well-known and respected car brands in the world with sales to customers in more than 100 countries. Volvo Cars is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange, where it is traded under the ticker “VOLCAR B”.
“For life. To give people the freedom to move in a personal, sustainable and safe way.” This purpose is reflected in Volvo Cars’ ambition to become a fully electric car maker by 2030 and in its commitment to an ongoing reduction of its carbon footprint, with the ambition to be a climate-neutral company by 2040.
As of December 2023, Volvo Cars employed approximately 43,400 full-time employees. Volvo Cars’ head office, product development, marketing and administration functions are mainly located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Cars’ production plants are located in Gothenburg, Ghent (Belgium), South Carolina (US), Chengdu, Daqing and Taizhou (China). The company also has R&D and design centres in Gothenburg and Shanghai (China).
On the 2nd of April, the OpenChain AI Study Group continued its monthly AI workshop series to deep dive into the topic of AI compliance. On this call we narrowed down the focus area with a concluding decision to refine the discussion by taking the content of ISO 5230 and seeing what level of overlap there is with AI supply chain compliance. You can check out the full recording for a precise recap.
On the 11th of April, the OpenChain AI Study Group held its new regular recap meeting for Europe / Asia participants. This is not intended to push forward “the state of the art” in the discussion, but rather ensure Asian participants sync with the North America / Europe discussion, and to provide a platform for further input ahead of the next monthly workshop.
You can follow and contribute to the work of the OpenChain AI Study Group through its dedicated mailing list. This is open to everyone regardless of industry vertical or speciality. You will find it here:
As the chairpersonship batten passes from Nathan to Andrew, Andrew lead a full assessment and discussion on next steps. A ton is happening, with the last year of work including updates to the reference training slides and supplier education leaflet pending release, the Telco SBOM Quality Guide now approved for final review and release as an official OpenChain resources, and new ideas on the table.
The Telco Work Group is continuing to focus on matters related to SBOM Quality. Learn more about how their new guide on that topic – currently in final approval with the Steering Committee – is shaping up in these recordings.
Morning Meeting
Afternoon Meeting
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On the 2nd of April the OpenChain AI Study Group continued its monthly AI workshop series to deep dive into the topic of AI compliance in the supply chain with experts from Qualcomm and Arm, and a chance for all parties who dial-in to ask questions or share ideas. On this call we narrowed down the focus area with a concluding decision to refine the discussion by taking the content of ISO 5230 and seeing what level of overlap there is with AI supply chain compliance. This is being done to potentially develop a proposal to the Governing Board to:
Turn into a work group;
Write a reference guide on the topic to explain the identified shared areas of concern.
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