Speakers

Grant Ingersoll is a founder and member of the technical staff at Lucid Imagination. Grant's programming interests include information retrieval, machine learning, text categorization, and extraction. Grant is the co-founder of the Apache Mahout machine-learning project, as well as a committer and speaker on both the Apache Lucene and Apache Solr projects. He is also the co-author of Taming Text (Manning, forthcoming) covering open source tools for natural-language processing.

Peter is co-founder of the www.neo4j.org project. Peter has been deeply involved in programming for 10 years and is co-founder of a number of Open Source projects like Neo4j, Tinkerpop, OPS4J and Qi4j. Peter loves connecting things, writing crappy prototypes and throwing together new ideas and projects around web, mobile and graphs. If you want brainstorming- feed him a Latte and you are in business.

Sarah is currently an employee at Cloudera where she provides training on Hadoop (HDFS, MapReduce), Hive, HBase and more. Before joining Cloudera, she was working for MySQL for many years, specializing in tuning SQL queries and scaling backend systems.

Uwe is committer and PMC member of Apache Lucene and Solr. His main focus is on development of Lucene Java. He implemented fast numerical search and is maintaining the new attribute-based text analysis API. He studied Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He works as software architect and consultant for PANGAEA (Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data) in Bremen, Germany. Uwe had talks about Lucene at various international conferences and meetups.

Andrzej Bialecki, Apache Lucene PMC Member, also serves as the project lead for Nutch, and as committer in the Lucene-java, Nutch and Hadoop projects. He has broad expertise, across domains as diverse as information retrieval, systems architecture, embedded systems, networking and business process/e-commerce modeling. He's also the author of the popular Luke index inspection utility. Andrzej holds a master's degree in Electronics from Warsaw Technical University, speaks four languages and programs in many, many more.

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.

Julien is the founder of DigitalPebble Ltd, a consultancy based in Bristol
UK. He specialises in Information Retrieval, Text Analysis, Information
Extraction, Opinion Mining and Text Classification with a strong expertise
on Open Source solutions. Julien is a committer on Apache Nutch and
contributes to several other open source projects.

Founder of ElasticSearch, an Open Source, distributed, RESTful, Search Engine. Director of Technology at GigaSpaces Technologies, a leading provider of a new generation of application platforms for Java and .Net environments. Shay started working on mission critical real time C/C++ systems, later moving to Java (and never looked back). Within the Java world, Shay has worked on a propriety implementation of a distributed rule engine(RETE) server, your typical Java based web projects, and messaging based projects
within the financial industry.

Nick is passionate about open source and open development, and has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation since 2003. Nick is chair of the Apache POI project, and as a member of the ASF helps out with mentoring of new projects, and with community development. Nick currently works for Alfresco, and is one of the lead developers on Activiti, the new open source BPMN 2.0 process and workflow engine. When not coding, Nick can often be found helping to run and speak at BarCamps, Geek Nights and technology conferences.

Fabian Hüske is a research associate at the Database Systems and Information Management (DIMA) group at the Technische Universität Berlin since June 2008. In 2003 he started his studies with the international study course „Applied Computer Science“ at the University of Cooperative Education Stuttgart, Germany and finished it in 2006. During this study course, he was fully employed by IBM Germany and did two summer internships at the IBM
Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, USA where he wrote his diploma thesis. Fabian Hüske proceeded his studies at the University Ulm, Germany.

Mathias Meyer (@roidrage) works for Peritor, a Rails and Amazon Web Services consultancy in Berlin. Apart from playing with new technologies, especially from the glamorous world of post-relational databases, his urge to automate just about anything has become nothing short of an obsession. It ultimately lead to the development of Scalarium (http://scalarium.com), an awesome cloud management and deployment platform

Aaron Kimball is a software engineer at Cloudera, Inc., the Commercial Hadoop company. Aaron is the principle developer of Sqoop, the SQL-to-Hadoop database import/export tool. Aaron has been working with Hadoop since early 2007, and contributes actively to its development. Through Cloudera, he additionally provides training to developers and system administrators working with Hadoop. Aaron holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and an M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington.

Doug is co-founder and CEO of Hypertable, Inc, a company that provides commercial support for Hypertable, a massively scalable, open source database. Doug started the Hypertable open source project in 2007, while working as an Architect at Zvents, and has been actively building the technology ever since. Doug has over a decade of software engineering experience in the area of distributed computing and information retrieval.

Simon is a committer of Apache Lucene Java (Contrib), OpenRelevance and Connectors. During the last couple of years he worked on design and implementation of scalable software systems and search infrastructure. He studied Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciene Berlin. Currently, he work as a consultant for Apache Solr, Lucene Java and Hadoop and is a co-organizer of the "BerlinBuzzwords" conference on Scalability June
2010 in Berlin.

Tim is deeply in love with technology -- especially shiny new technology. Luckily, he has ample opportunity to follow this passion at his day job at social gaming startup wooga in Berlin, where he gets to play with Ruby, Redis, Cassandra, Hadoop etc.

In his free time, he also likes to tinker with hardware, and recently has started an open source hardware project. The aim is store more than a petabyte of data in a single rack, and to do this as cheaply and energyefficiently as possible.

Isabel Drost is member of the Apache Software Foundation. She is organiser of the Apache Hadoop Get Together in Berlin, was co-organiser of the NoSQL meetup as well as the Berlin Buzzwords conference. She co-founded Apache Mahout and is active Mahout committer. Isabel is actively engaged with communities of various Apache projects, e.g. Lucene and Hadoop. Isabel is moderating the introductory and closing sessions - Apache Mahout talks this time are given by Sean Owen.