Damián Avila is a software developer and data scientist (formerly a biochemist) from Córdoba, Argentina.

His main focus of interest is data science, visualization, finance, and IPython/Jupyter-related projects.

In the open source area, he is a core developer for several interesting and popular projects, such as IPython/Jupyter, Bokeh, and Nikola. He has also started his own projects, being RISE, an extension to enable amazing live slides in the Jupyter notebook, the most popular one. He has also written several tutorials about the Scientific Python tools (available at Github) and presented several talks at international conferences.

Currently, he is working at Continuum Analytics.

Nicola Rainiero is a civil geotechnical engineer with a background in the construction industry as a self-employed designer engineer. He is also specialized in the renewable energy field and has collaborated with the Sant'Anna University of Pisa for two European projects, REGEOCITIES and PRISCA, using qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques.

He has an ambition to simplify his work with open software and use and develop new ones; sometimes obtaining good results, at other times, negative. You can reach Nicola on his website at http://rainnic.altervista.org.