These are the speakers who spoke at Flourish 2008. Speakers are listed in the order they presented.

• Bruce Perens from Open Source Labs (Video of talk)
• Jon "maddog" Hall from Linux International (Videos of talks)
• Stephanie Watson from rPath
• Dr. John Waclawsky, the Chief Architect of Global Software Group at Motorola (Video of talk)
• Scott Wintermute and Lucas Ward from Accenture's Spring Batch project
• James Gray from IBM (Video of talk)
• Jon Solworth, UIC Professor specializing in Computer Security
• Bobby Moore from Microsoft (Video of talk)
• James Bottomley, Linux Foundation - TAB Member and Linux SCSI Subsystem Maintainer (Video of talk)
• Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman from Google (Video of talk)
• Richard "nixternal" Johnson from Kubuntu
• Dru Lavigne from Open Source Business Resource and BSD Certification Group Inc.
• Louis Suárez-Potts from Sun Microsystems (Video of talk)
• Duncan Murdoch from The R Project: Open Source Statistical Computing (Video of talk)
• Kevin Harriss from Foresight Linux (Video of talk)