Frank Scholten is a Java developer at JTeam with 3 years of experience. He has a Msc. in Computer Science from University of Twente, with a Software Engineering major. He has worked on e-commerce sites, web-based administrative systems and systems integration projects, mostly working with Spring, JPA/Hibernate and Wicket. Currently he is researching recommendation engines and Apache Mahout / Taste as part of the Enterprise Search group at JTeam.

Eric Evans is a Debian Developer and Apache Cassandra committer. To the disgust of many he once coined the term "NoSQL", but has since apologized and promises to do better. Eric resides in San Antonio Texas where he works on distributed systems for The Rackspace Cloud.

We received more than fifty talk proposals for Berlin Buzzwords as the call for presentations ended. Currently we are busy rating, ranking and selecting talks. Every single submission was of large quality, discussing a topic interesting for Berlin Buzzwords. So we will be well able to fill two days with two tracks each of awesome talks on storing, analysing and searching data.

We are planning to notify speakers and publish the final schedule in May. However, to give you a first impression of what was submitted we are starting to disclose information on speakers and topics now:

One day before the deadline of the CfP I have created a tag cloud of all conference submission abstracts that reached us so far. During last week several more proposals have been sent in for Buzzwords. We have submissions from core developers of relevant open source projects, e.g. HBase, Lucene and Hive. There are talks both from people working themselves on open source projects but also from developers using the software.