On Monday, February 28, the NCSU Center for Information Society Studies presented the third in the Distinguished Lecture Series, and second on "Antitrust, Competition, and Innovation in the Software Industry," sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology, & Science; the NC State College of Management, and the NC State Office of the Provost.

Matthew Szulik
CEO, Red Hat, Inc.

"Opening Up the Software Market:
Red Hat, Open Source and the Future of Computing"

Matthew Szulik has nearly 20 years of experience in the technology industry. After a successful career with Interleaf in the 1980s, he went on to help build leading-edge technology companies, including MapInfo, the Troy, N.Y.-based mapping software company. Matthew moved to North Carolina's Research Triangle Park in 1996 to work for Sapiens International. Most recently, Matthew was president of Relativity Software, based in Cary, N.C. He built Relativity into a successful and fast-growing enterprise software company. Now with Red Hat, Inc., Matthew is building a world-class software company, dedicated to supporting and expanding the acceptance of open source software."

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