Maarten Ectors is an executive who is an expert in cloud computing, big data, and disruptive innovations. Maarten's strengths are his combination of deep technical and business skills as well as strategic insights.
Currently, Maarten is responsible for the cloud strategy at Canonical—the company behind Ubuntu—where he is changing the future of cloud, big data, and other disruptive innovations. Previously, Maarten had his own company and was defining and executing the cloud strategy of a global mobile company. Maarten worked for Nokia Siemens Networks in several roles. He was heading cloud and disruptive innovation, founded Startups@NSN, was responsible for implementing offshoring in Europe, and so on. Earlier, he worked as the Director of professional services for Telcordia (now Ericsson) and as a Senior Project / Product Manager for a dotcom. Maarten started his career at Accenture, where he was active in Java developments, portals, mobile applications, content management, ecommerce, security, project management, and so on.
Alexey Kachayev began his development career in a small team creating an open source CMS for social networks. For over 2 years, he had been working as a Software Engineer at CloudMade, developing geo-relative technology for enterprise clients in Python and Scala. Currently, Alexey is the CTO at Attendify and is focused on development of a distributed applications platform in Erlang. He is an active speaker at conferences and an open source contributor (working on projects in Python, Clojure, and Haskell).
His area of professional interests include distributed systems and algorithms, types theory, and functional language compilers.
Paco Nathan is the Chief Scientist at Mesosphere in San Francisco. He is a recognized expert in Hadoop, R, Data Science, and Cloud Computing, and has led innovative data teams building large-scale apps for the past decade. Paco is an evangelist for the Mesos and Cascading open source projects. He is also the author of Enterprise Data Workflows with Cascading, O'Reilly. He has a blog about Data Science at http://liber118.com/pxn/.