Vincent Gijsen is essentially a people's person, and he is passionate about any stuff related to technology. His background and area of interest broadly lies in Embedded Systems Engineering and Information Science. He started his career at a marketing -research company as an IT Manager. After that, he started his own company, and specialized in VOIP communications. Currently, he works at ScienceRockstars, a start-up, which is all about persuasive profiling and large data. In his spare time, he likes to get his hands dirty with lasers, quad-copters, eBay purchases, hacking stuff, and beers.

Sonal Raj is a geek, a "Pythonista", and a technology enthusiast. He is the founder and Executive Head at Enfoss. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur. He was a Research Fellow at SERC, IISc Bangalore, and he pursued projects on distributed computing and real-time operations. He also worked as an intern at HCL Infosystems, Delhi.

He has given talks at PyCon India on Storm and Neo4J and has published articles and research papers in leading magazines and international journals.

James Xu is a committer of Apache Storm and a Java/Clojure programmer working in e-commerce. He is passionate about new technologies such as Storm and Clojure. He works in Alibaba Group, which is the leading e-ecommerce platform in China.