Ben Lorica, was formerly Chief Data Scientist at O’Reilly Media, and the former Program Chair of the Strata Data Conference, the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, and TensorFlow World. Ben is also an advisor to a few exciting startups and organizations: Databricks, Alluxio, Matroid, Anodot, Determined AI, Anyscale, Faculty (formerly ASI Data Science), Graphistry, Yakit, and The Center for Data Intensive Science + Open Commons Consortium (University of Chicago).

Dave Fisher is Member and Board of Directors at The Apache Software Foundation. He is the mentor of the Daffodil, DataSketches, Doris, ECharts, and Heron projects; and PMC Member of the Incubator, Olingo, OpenOffice, POI, and Pulsar projects.

Boyang Jerry Peng is currently a Principal Software Engineer at Splunk working on streaming/messaging projects. Jerry is a committer and PMC member of Apache Pulsar, Apache Storm, and Apache Heron projects. Before Splunk, he worked at Streamlio (acquired by Splunk), Citadel, and Yahoo on distributed systems and stream processing. Jerry has been working in the area of distributed systems and stream processing since his days in grad school at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Jesse Anderson is a Data Engineer, Creative Engineer and Managing Director of Big Data Institute. He works with companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies on Big Data. This includes training on cutting edge technologies like Apache Kafka, Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. He has taught over 30,000 people the skills to become data engineers. He is widely regarded as an expert in the field and for his novel teaching practices. Jesse is published on O’Reilly and Pragmatic Programmers. He has been covered in prestigious publications such as The Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, NPR, Engadget, and Wired.

Jia Zhai is the founding engineer of StreamNative, as well as a PMC member of Apache BookKeeper and Apache Pulsar. He contributes to Apache BookKeeper, Apache Pulsar continually. Before his work at StreamNative, Jia worked as Principal Engineer and technical leader at EMC Beijing. He mainly focused on distributed storage service, and big data infrastructure.

Joe is an experienced manager in building and running high-performing engineering teams. He has a track record of developing large scale cloud services from scratch, deploying them to production and scaling them up to Internet level traffic at Yahoo. He is technically strong in large scale distributed systems. He also had a startup career at Asempra (acquired by Dell) in CDP for SQL server databases, and worked on distributed database, transactions & recovery at Sybase.

Matteo Merli is the PMC Chair of Apache Pulsar and CTO at StreamNative. He is co-creator of Pulsar while at Yahoo!, co-founder of Streamlio, Committer and PMC of Apache Pulsar and Apache BookKeeper. He works for The Apache Software Foundation for 4+ years, and has rich experience in distributed pub-sub messaging platforms.

Nozomi Kurihara is the Manager of the Messaging Platform team in Yahoo Japan Corporation, responsible for creating a centralized pub-sub messaging platform. It is based on Apache Pulsar and deals with a vast number of service/application traffics. He is also a committer of the Apache Pulsar project.

Sijie Guo has worked on messaging and streaming data technologies for more than a decade. Sijie was the tech lead at Twitter for the messaging infrastructure group, where he co-created DistributedLog and Twitter EventBus. Prior to that, he worked on the push notification infrastructure at Yahoo!, where he was one of the original developers of BookKeeper and Pulsar. He is also the VP of Apache BookKeeper and PMC member of Apache Pulsar.

Yuvaraj Loganathan is passionate about building scalable, antifragile and highly available systems with simplicity. He has 9+ years of Software Design & Development Experience. As an expertise in Architecting HA & Scalable applications for Amazon Web Services(AWS), he designed and built B2B SaaS product from scratch using Go, Python, Java,Play, Redis, Elasticsearch & Druid. He is an architect and built B2C SaaS product from scratch using Python, Django, Rest framework, Redis, etc, leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) and evolved it over a period of time.