Speakers -> NoSQL Applications Panel

QCon San Francisco 2011 Speakers Schedule Tutorials Tracks Sponsors Volunteers Venue Travel Hotels Video Calendar Follow Us About QCon Contact QCon	Presentation: "NoSQL Applications Panel" Track: Big Data and NoSQL Time: Friday 14:05 - 15:05 Location: Franciscan I & II Abstract: NoSQL databases are rapidly emerging as a technology for a variety of problems. What areas are they being used in? How do they fit into the enterprise? What are the differences in focus among them? This panel brings together experts in leading NoSQL databases including MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, Riak, and Couchbase. Alexandru Popescu will be moderating the panel.		Alexandru Popescu, Co-founder: TestNG, InfoQ Alexandru Popescu is Chief-Architect of InfoQ.com. Alexandru is involved in many open source initiatives and bleeding-edge technologies (AOP, testing, web, etc.), being co-founder of the TestNG Framework and a committer on the WebWork and Magnolia projects. Alexandru formerly was one of three committers on the AspectWerkz project before it merged with AspectJ. Alexandru also publishes a blog on tech topics at themindstorms.blogspot.com Andy Gross, VP of Engineering at Basho Technologies Andy is a distributed systems nerd and VP of Engineering at Basho Technologies, the company behind the Riak distributed data store. Before Riak, Andy hacked on various distributed systems at Mochi Media, Apple Computer, and Akamai Technologies. Links: Twitter: @argv0 Blog: http://blog.basho.com Frank Weigel, Director of Product Management, Couchbase Frank Weigel is director of product management at Couchbase, the company formed by the recent merger of Membase and CouchOne. He is responsible for the company’s core NoSQL database products, and works with customers and users around the world to understand emerging requirements for low-latency, scalable data stores. He started his career 10 years ago in software engineering, primarily focused on dynamic binary translators, before crossing to the dark side and telling others what their code should do. Twitter: @FrankWeigel Jonathan Gray Matt Pfeil, VP Customer Solutions & Co-founder, DataStax VP of Customer Solutions and co-founder Matt is VP of Customer Solutions and co-founder at DataStax, the commercial leader in Apache Cassandra™. Prior to DataStax, Matt built and managed the Email and Apps infrastructure development group at Rackspace. Prior to Rackspace, Matt was at Webmail.us where he worked in various management roles in infrastructure and scalability. Matt holds a BS from Virginia Tech in Computer Science.