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.
The OpenChain Automotive Work Group held its half-year assessment meeting to discuss future market strategy on the 14th of June 2023. We had excellent presentations from OSS Consultants, Volvo Cars and Hyundai Motor Corporation. A big thank you Endo San from Toyota, our chair, for organizing this event.
Our Agenda
Complexities of Managing Open Source in Automotive – Russ Eling, Founder at OSS Consultants
Lessons learnt in Industry – Christopher Wood, Fellow at Lockheed Martin
Volvo Cars’ OSPO – Mary Wang, Director of Open Source Ecosystem at Volvo Cars
Hyundai Motor Group Open Source Compliance – SongHa Back at Hyundai Motors IP team 2
Check out the recording of our latest monthly meeting for North America / Asia. As always, we are working on the next generation of the license compliance and security assurance standards.
This webinar highlights a new open source tool for open source compliance and security that originates in China. This tool was created by a company called XMIRROR. The open source CLI offers SPDX support, so is immediate interest to tooling communities around the world, particularly from the perspective of integration with open source tooling frontend solutions.
OpenChain was invited to talk about our process management standards and relevance to SBOM at an O-RAN next Generation Research Group (nGRG) meeting. Check out our speech below by Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager.
About O-RAN ALLIANCE
O-RAN ALLIANCE is a world-wide community of mobile operators, vendors, and research & academic institutions with the mission to re-shape Radio Access Networks to be more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully interoperable.
About nGRG
The next Generation Research Group (nGRG) is a research task force founded by the O-RAN ALLIANCE in June 2022.
Formed by members from major mobile operators, vendors from telecom, IT and DT industries, and well-known research institutes and universities around the world, nGRG takes the mission to leverage industry and academic 6G research efforts and determine how O-RAN will evolve to support 6G and beyond, considering regional research efforts, ITU-R, and 3GPP development.
nGRG defines O-RAN ALLIANCE’s 6G research agenda and key priorities, with the focuses to achieve O-RAN sustainability from 4G/5G to 6G and beyond and unify the 6G technology path to avoid incompatibility with other SDOs.
Through nGRG’s white papers, it will recommend appropriate actions to the development of next generation O-RAN.
The next OpenChain Japan Work Group meeting will take place on the 11th of July from 13:30 at the Ridgelinez TRANSFORMATION BASE CAMP (X Design Studio). As always, everyone is welcome. Also as always, most of the meeting will be in Japanese. However, non-speakers can attend for the keynote and can ask questions, or just network.
xFusion, a global leader in digital infrastructure and services, is the 100th organization to announce an OpenChain Conformant Program through our website. Certified by CAICT, an official OpenChain Partner based in China, the development underlines a strong commitment to excellence in process management.
“The OpenChain Project is delighted to welcome xFusion to our community of conformance,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “It cannot be overstated how important companies like xFusion are to the future of the open source supply chain, and their collaboration with CAICT alongside their future work in this market, provides significant encouragement for the larger community.”
About xFusion
xFusion Digital Technologies Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “xFusion”) is dedicated to providing global leading digital infrastructure and services. xFusion continuously creates value for customers and partners and accelerates the digital transformation of the industry. xFusion has 11 research institutes, 7 regional offices, and 5 major supply centers totally around the world (some still under preparation). Currently, xFusion is serving customers in 130 countries and regions, including 211 Fortune Global 500 companies and covering telecoms, finance, Internet, governments, and other industries.
The automotive industry has one of the most complex and interwoven supply chains. OpenChain Partner, Russ Eling from OSS Consultants speaks about the intricacies of open source management, as well as some of the challenges faced by the automotive industry. This presentation will also highlight some of the takeaways and keys to managing risk. Before starting OSS Consultants, Russ pioneered GM’s global open source initiative during his tenure as the Open Source Compliance Officer. He is perfectly positioned to help provide insight in this matter.
Our 53rd Webinar will highlight a new open source tool for open source compliance and security that originates in China. This tool has been created by a company called XMIRROR. The open source CLI offers SPDX support, so may be of immediate interest to tooling communities around the world, particularly from the perspective of integration with open source tooling frontend solutions.
As always, everyone is invited to attend. No registration necessary. Join via this link:
OpenSCA is an Open Source project that could steadily and flexibly offer SCA (Software Composition Analysis) ability and aware users of all open source component assets and risks introduced. The community aims at constructing a low-cost, compatible and extensible solution to open source security in joint efforts.
Deloitte, a global leader in providing audit and assurance, tax and legal, consulting, financial advisory, and risk advisory services to companies, is the latest official OpenChain Partner.
“Open source license and security compliance has become an essential part of our clients’ supply chains. The OpenChain project has done an excellent job in providing best practices and governance guidelines that are reflected in ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC 18974,” says Sascha Pudenz, Senior Manager at Deloitte. “We are very pleased to become a contributing member of the OpenChain community and a third-party certifier. The opportunity to support the project and spread the principles throughout our internal and external network will also help drive maturity and awareness of the importance of these standards.” adds Robert Härtwig, Director at Deloitte.
“We are delighted to welcome Deloitte to our support ecosystem,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “The provision of services like third-party certification is a vital pillar of our standardization work, and helps to ensure open source process management is effective, coherent and builds trust in the supply chain. We look forward to working closely with their team in the months and years ahead to ensure the complexity of managing technology is reduced for companies of all sizes and in all markets.”
About Deloitte
Deloitte provides industry-leading audit and assurance, tax and legal, consulting, financial advisory, and risk advisory services to nearly 90% of the Fortune Global 500® and thousands of private companies. Our professionals deliver measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in capital markets, enable clients to transform and thrive, and lead the way toward a stronger economy, a more equitable society and a sustainable world. Building on its 175-plus year history, Deloitte spans more than 150 countries and territories. Learn how Deloitte’s approximately 415,000 people worldwide make an impact that matters at www.deloitte.com.
