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Young Global Leaders are visionaries under the age of 40 that commit to workingtogether on what is known as the 2020 Initiative, an endeavor to understand currentand future trends, risks and opportunities both at global and regional levels. Theyare focused on formulating a positive vision for the world in 2020 and puttingforward concrete strategies to translate their vision into action.
Each year, the Forum of Young Global Leaders, an affiliate of the World EconomicForum, selects approximately 200 individuals for a five year membership, ultimatelyforming a community of 1,111 by 2009. Drawn from every region in the world and fromvarious disciplines, the Forum of Young Global Leaders volunteer their time andprovide insight and ideas for how to make positive changes in the global society.Members include the co-founders of Google and Yahoo!, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies,activists, media leaders and personalities from academia and cultural life, as wellas U.S. senators and international presidents.
"CollabNet exists today because Brian had a vision for global collaboration andengineered his vision into reality by creating an online distributed softwaredevelopment platform that is now used by more than 700,000 people around the world,"said Bill Portelli, president and CEO of CollabNet. "This company is just oneexample of Brian's progressive thinking in the area of globally connecting people onthe Internet to drive community and innovation and helps make him a true YoungGlobal Leader. All of us at CollabNet are extremely proud of all he has achievedthus far and look forward to his continued positive impact not only at CollabNet buton our global future."
Behlendorf will participate in a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum AnnualMeeting. The panel, entitled "Moving Up the Technology Value Chain," will explorethe impact that Open Source methods of production will have on the software economyas well as the broader economy. Panelists will discuss the drivers of successfultechnology innovation, where new models for technology development are emerging andwhy, and implications for business strategies. Keith Krach, co-founder of Ariba anda member of the CollabNet Board of Directors was a previous participant in thissoftware track at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
Behlendorf founded CollabNet with O'Reilly & Associates in July 1999. Beforelaunching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Webdesign and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five yearsat Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache WebServer Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality ModelingLanguage) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTPstandardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first chiefengineer at Wired Magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scalepublishing Web sites. Behlendorf is currently a director of the Mozilla Foundationand a retired director and president of the Apache Software Foundation.
For more information and a detailed list of all Young Global Leaders, please visitwww.younggloballeaders.o rg.
