Chad Lung is a Cloud engineer working with the EMC Cloud Services Group. He is also an active OpenStack core contributor and has over 18 years of industry experience in various roles.

Originally born in Canada, he moved to the United States in 1997 and began his software engineering career. He has worked with various technologies and also with large cloud orientated companies, such as Rackspace and EMC.

Chad has three sons and lives with his wife in San Antonio, TX.

Nilesh Pawar has worked in the field of Information Technology since 2008. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in Information Technology he has worked in various positions, such as a developer in .NET, Linux administration, virtualization admin, technical consultant, and so on. He is currently associated with upcoming new technologies in Telecom industries, such as C-SDN, vCPE, and vEPC. He can be reached on <[email protected]>.

Adam Stokes has been an open source evangelist for a long time. Currently, he's working for Canonical Ltd as a technical lead for their Solutions Engineering team and is the lead developer for Ubuntu OpenStack Installer. He's been in a direct relation with all the components that make up OpenStack in order to provide the most streamlined and simple approach to deploy private clouds. He has worked for 7 years at Red Hat in the Cloud Research and Development department, where he worked on service discovery and management applications.