Contact

Berlin Buzzwords is a conference on scalable search, data processing and NoSQL databases. It is co-organised by newthinking communications, Jan Lehnardt , Simon Willnauer and Isabel Drost. 

Program Committee

Press requests

If you would like to know more on Berlin Buzzwords, receive press releases and announcements, please contact us online. If you are interested in attending the conference to learn more on current scalability topics and would later publish on the event, please contact us - we do have a contingent of free tickets available.

M | presse@berlinbuzzwords.de 
T | +49.30.921 0596
F | +49.30.69 20 33 799

A list of articles in various blogs, user groups and IT magazines can be found in our press review blog post.

For general questions on the conference please contact us. You can also reach us online as well as by phone and fax:

M | info@berlinbuzzwords.de 
T | +49.30.921 0596
F | +49.30.69 20 33 799

Connect with Buzzwords

If you would like to connect with Berlin Buzzwords and stay up to date, we are now available on several social networks: Become a fan on Facebook or add us to your circles on google+. Follow us on Twitter to get informed about updates and news. If you like, you can also join our local Xing group or our LinkedIn Group and participate in discussions on scalable data processing, search and NoSQL databases. To shorten the time until June, we will include notifications on a few related events in Berlin that might be of interest to Berlin Buzzwords attendees as well.

 

Program Committee

Jim Webber

Dr. Jim Webber is Chief Scientist with Neo Technology the company behind the popular open sou rce graph database Neo4j, where he works on graph database server technology and writes open source software. Jim is interested in using big graphs like the Web for building distributed systems, which led him to being a co-author on the book REST in Practice, having previously written Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide. Jim is an active speaker, presenting regularly around the world. His blog is located at http://jimwebber.org and he tweets often @jimwebber.

Grant Ingersoll

Grant Ingersoll is the creator of the Lucene Boot Camp training program, a regularly featured speaker at ApacheCon and other industry events. Grant has been an active member of the Lucene community & Lucene and Solr committer, co-founder of the Apache Mahout machine learning project, chairman of the Lucene Project Management Committee (PMC) as well as a Vice President at the Apache Software Foundation. Grant's prior experience includes work at the Center for Natural Language Processing at Syracuse University in natural language processing and information retrieval. Grant earned his B.S. from Amherst College in Math and Computer Science and his M.S. in Computer Science from Syracuse University, NY.

Owen O'Malley

Owen O'Malley is a software architect who has worked exclusively on Hadoop since the project's start. He was the first committer added to Hadoop and was the original chair of the Hadoop Project Management Committee. Owen was the technology lead for both MapReduce and the project to add security to Hadoop. In 2009, he optimized Hadoop to set the record for the Terasort, Gray Sort, and Minute Sort benchmarks. In July 2011, he helped co-found Hortonworks, which is accelerating development and adoption of Hadoop for the enterprise. Before working on Hadoop, he worked on Yahoo Search'sWebMap project, which builds a graph of the known web and applies many heuristics to the entire graph that control search. Prior to Yahoo, he wandered between testing, static analysis, distributed configuration management, and software model checking. He received his PhD in Software Engineering from University of California, Irvine.

Sean Treadway

Sean currently heads the architectural evolution of SoundCloud backed by a diverse history of engineering and operating desktop, server and web applications. He tackles the challenges of scaling to multi-millions of users while maintaining rapid development at SoundCloud - a social sound platform for anyone to record, promote and share their sounds on all devices, including the web.

Simon Willnauer

Simon Willnauer is the Apache Lucene PMC Chair, a Lucene core committer and Apache Software Foundation Member. He has been involved with Lucene and Solr since 2006 and has contributed to several other open source projects within and without the Apache Software Foundation. During the last couple of years he worked on design and implementation of scalable software systems and search infrastructure. His main interests are performance optimizations and concurrency. He studied Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciene Berlin. He is a member of technical staff atSearchWorkings and a co-founder of the BerlinBuzzwords conference on Scalability in June 2012 in Berlin (Germany).

Isabel Drost

Isabel Drost is member of the Apache Software Foundation. She is founder of the Berlin Buzzwords conference and the Apache Hadoop Get Together in Berlin, she also was co-organiser of the first European NoSQL meetup. Isabel co-founded and is an active committer of Apache Mahout. She is actively engaged with communities of several big data and search related Apache projects, e.g. Apache Lucene and Apache Hadoop. She is member of the Apache Community development PMC as well as mentor of the incubating projects Stanbol and OpenNLP. Isabel is regular speaker at renown conferences on topics related to free software development, scalability, Apache Lucene, Apache Hadoop and Apache Mahout. Isabel is working for Nokia Gate 5 GmbH as software developer.

Jan Lehnardt

Jan Lehnardt is a co-founder of Couchbase, Committer and Project Chair of Apache CouchDB, open source developer, conference organiser and speaker. He’s a co-organiser of JSConf EU and a number of Berlin-based user groups. His interests are in distributed systems, databases, user interface design, communication, biking and drumming. He likes Erlang and JavaScript, emacs and telling people about awesome technology.