Prior to his current position at Databricks at Director of Community Evangelism, Paco Nathan is the former Chief Scientist at Mesosphere. An O'Reilly author, Paco is an expert in distributed systems, machine learning, predictive modeling, and cloud computing. He received his BS Math Sciences and MS Computer Science degrees from Stanford, and has 25+ years experience in the tech industry ranging from Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups since receiving his BS Math Sci and MS Comp Sci degrees from Stanford University

Director of Data Science and Founder at Myrrix Ltd. Sean Owen is a US-born software engineer by training who, having once worked for Google, came to London to work for a venture capital firm.

Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept., Cornell University. Passionate about CS, Distributed Systems, OSes, NoSQL, and Bitcoin. He likes building things, especially systems. HyperDex, OpenReplica and Nexus are some of his current projects, which involve a novel secure operating system and system infrastructure for high-performance cloud computing applications.

Co-Author of the book "Graph Databases ", Jim Webber is Chief Scientist with Neo Technology the company behind the popular open source graph database Neo4j. Jim is intimate with things that can't be practically done without a graph database.

Hacker, system builder and computer scientist, Robert Escriva is Co-founder at Hyperdex. Interested in distributed systems to support large-scale applicatiosn, he's currently working on HyperDex, a new NoSQL system. Along the way, he puts together a few other pieces of code to support HyperDex.Hacker, system builder, computer scientist, HyperDex developer

Raul is a former LinkedIn intern and a 3rd year PhD student at Imperial College London in the Large Scale Distributed Systems research group. He likes exploring the frontiers of distributed systems and databases, in particular at the intersection of these fields. His life goal is to generate value in any form!

A former speaker at BDS12, Jordan is the Back-end tech lead for BigQuery at Google. BigQuery is a IaaS that may be used complementary with MapReduce. BigQuery allows to run SQL-like queries against very large datasets in an interactive way.

Former speaker at BDS13, Felipe Hoffa joined Google in 2011 as a Software Engineer. As a member of the Google Cloud Platform team, he works with external developers to build applications on Google's big data platforms.

Senior Solutions Architect for EMEA at 10gen, Norberto Leite helps MongoDB users overcome implementation and scale challenges, supporting clients with experienced insights over mongodb and NoSQL technologies.

Thomas is a Google software engineer working to put the power of BigQuery and Dremel in the hands of developers worldwide.

Álvaro is a 35 year-old IT entrepreneur, founder of a couple of software tech companies (Wizzbill and 8Kdata). He's a DBA and Java developer at 8Kdata, a company developing products for PostgreSQL, Java and AWS. He is also the founder and CEO of Wizzbill, a startup that offers smartphone/web products and services to help mobile phone users save money on their phone bill. He is a passionate software developer and open source advocate.

Jacek has experience in developing multi source Search Systems as well as Big Data analytics applications. In his carrier he was successfully taking responsibilities for managing the team as system architect, developing web applications and analyzing business requirements. His goal is to gain experience in machine learning and extending his academic knowledge on metaheuristic alghoritms and their usage with Big Data problems. In future Jacek would like to work within agile company with high theoretical and practical experience in solving Big Data problems.

Jarosław works in Allegro Group building big data collecting and processing system. For over three years his daily job is to implement and troubleshoot Pig, Hive and Cascading jobs run on one of the biggest Hadoop clusters in Poland. Lately Jarosław has been spending his spare time exploring Apache Spark possibilites and applications for Allegro use cases.

Formerly the founder of Smergy, Jose Luis Lopez Pino was working as a Business Intelligence consultant before he was awarded with a scholarship to join the Information Technology For Business Intelligence high quality education program. After this academic career, he's bringing the power of big data processing to enterprise, working as Data Engineer at GetYourGuide. His new venture is Smergy, an initiative to revolutionize energy efficiency using Big Data suppported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

ScaleOut Software was founded in 2003 by Dr. William L. Bain, who earned a Ph.D. (1978) in electrical engineering from Rice University and has worked in parallel computing at Bell Labs research, Intel, and Microsoft. Dr. Bain founded and ran three start-up companies prior to joining Microsoft. In the most recent company (Valence Research), he developed a distributed Web load-balancing software solution that was acquired by Microsoft and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Server operating system.

Passionate computer scientist with Data Analytics Skills looking to apply my competence to improve companies' data system processes. Organizer of Open Analytics. A conference held in Madrid to promote Open Source Software in companies' Data Analytics projects . In the first year (Oct 2013) it surpassed attendance goal by 45%. Associate teacher in U-TAD for “Hadoop Processing” subject. Focused on creating ETLs processes with PDI Technology and Teaching best practices on data manipulation, Map-Reduces flows with Cloudera Techonlogy and data processes with NoSQLa

Telecommunication Engineer at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Master in Information Technology at University of Stuttgart and MBA by Edinburgh Business School. With large experience in the Telecommunication sector, Rodrigo works in the development of innovative solutions for telco operators and content providers. Currently, He leads Telco Big Data & Analytics solution area in HP.

Michael is a JavaScript and NoSQL enthusiast. In his spare time he is organising colognejs, the JavaScript user group in Cologne Germany scheduled every second month. In his professional life Michael holds a master degree in Computer Science. As Front End and Graph Specialist he is member of the ArangoDB core team, developing the web frontend, graph visualisation and graph database features for this project.

Alex Fernández is a Spanish developer with 15+ years of experience. Shameless tinkerer since forever, he was seduced by node.js a couple of years ago, and now manipulates terabytes of data without blinking.

Enrico Berti, when not traveling, is an Amsterdam based UI engineer with more than 15 years of experience in UI design and development. He has worked across three continents in several IT fields, from very critical banking applications to non-profit organizations. UCD and Agile enthusiast, he's been the main UI engineer behind Cloudera's Hue for the past three years.

Yanpei Chen is a Software Engineer at Cloudera, working on the Performance Engineering team. He regularly participates in competitive performance "bake-offs " that directly drive customer purchasing decisions. His work touches upon Cloudera Search, Impala, Apache Hadoop, Apache HBase, and Apache Hive, because someone has to make sure the entire Hadoop ecosystem performs well together.

Gwen Shapira is a Software Engineer at Cloudera, working on data ingest products. She has 15 years of experience working with customers to design scalable data architectures. She specializes in migrating data warehouses to Hadoop, integrating Hadoop with relational databases, building scalable data processing pipelines, and scaling complex data analysis algorithms.

Specialist in technology and Graduate in Computer Engineering by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Albert manages projects that help companies adapt their business strategy to the new digital data paradigm. Passioned to observe how technology transforms society, he has more than 10 years experience in the technological sector. Albert has worked as a programmer and Project manager in C3PO and as technical supervisor of Fundació Equilibri.

Oscar Méndez is co-founder and CEO of Paradigma Tecnólogico and Stratio. Paradigma is an Internet solutions company with clients, mostly IBEX 35 companies, in Spain and in 14 other countries. Stratio is a spin-off of Paradigma using the best of breed of Big Data technologies to cater for clients world-wide. Stratio is based in Palo Alto, CA.

Toby enthusiastically leads on the business application of enterprise data systems, and has great experience of IBM’s big data platform. This spans the characteristics of Hadoop, real time analytics, and data warehousing technology with full data governance support. He has extensive experience of providing data management, business intelligence and risk platforms, with a background originally in financial and planning systems.

Luis Reina is a computer science engineer by UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) and executive MBA by Henley Business School. He has been working for IBM since more than 19 years as a data specialist. He also has been a teacher in Computer Science college since 1998 (University "Universidad Pontificia de Comillas"http://www.upcomillas.es ). Besides he is a teacher in EOI (http://www.eoi.es) where he teachs classes in different Big Data Master programs.   He is the co-author of 2 database book: "DB2 Cluster Certification Guide " published por Prentice Hall and "Introducción al SQL para Usuarios y Programadores " published by Thomson.
Email:LUIS_REINA@es.ibm.com
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David loves speaking at data conferences and meetups, and have a knack for making data science concepts accessible to a general audience. At Yahoo, he led the project to collect billions of URL clickstreams from Toolbar and record them in Hadoop. At Groupon, David built an elite data science team that trained the first machine-learned models for mobile relevance. He also worked as an individual contributor, querying Hadoop, Vertica, Teradata and MySQL in my daily work. One of my favorite projects was using log data in Hadoop to train a model that predicts customer inactivity ("churn ") for Groupon mobile users

Poul Petersen currently lives in Corvallis, Oregon, has a background in Mathematics and Physics and many years of IT experience. He currently uses python daily to run the infrastructure for BigML as the company’s CIO

Andreas Chatzakis is a Solutions Architect in the UK where he helps companies make the most of the AWS platform. Before joining Amazon, he has worked with enterprise customers as a consultant at Accenture and has experienced the startup journey as a co-founder/CTO of a VC-backed Real Estate portal in Greece (Spitogatos.gr). Andreas holds a BSc in Informatics from the University of Piraeus and an MSc in Secure eCommerce from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Andy Thurai is Program Director – API, IoT and Connected Cloud with IBM, where he is responsible for solutionizing, strategizing, evangelizing, and providing thought leadership for those technologies. Prior to this role, he has held technology architecture leadership and executive positions with Intel, Nortel, BMC, CSC, and L-1 Identity Solutions.

Working as a Big Data Architect at Stratio, David Morales has been involved in the inception and evolution of some modules included the Stratio's platform, specially those related to data visualization, real-time, streaming and complex event proccesing.

Working as a Big Data software engineer at Stratio, Antonio Navarro has been working very close to Spark Streaming, complex event processing and, more widely, with real-time data processing. Antonio is a passionate software developer and open source advocate.

Alvaro Agea joined Stratio as a Big Data Architect. As a member of the Big Data team, he works with other teams to define deployment and architure in big data systems.

Daniel is a great developer and architect in big data solutions. He is expert in the development with new technologies. Currently he is in charge of product design at Stratio.