Theodore S. "Ted" Hills
Architecture Executive & Director, Enterprise Information Architecture, Bank of America

Ralph Hughes
Chief Systems Architect, Ceregenics

Bradley P. Allen
Vice President, Elsevier Labs

Bradley P. Allen is Vice President of Elsevier Labs. As head of Elsevier Labs, Brad leads Elsevier Technology Services' research and development efforts, helping plan, design, and build advanced technologies into Elsevier's online products. Prior to his joining Elsevier in 2009, Brad was a serial entrepreneur working at the nexus of information retrieval, linked data and machine learning technologies.

Brad began his career as a member of the research staff at Carnegie-Mellon's Robotics Institute, working on some of the earliest expert systems applications. As a senior member of the technical team at Inference Corporation he created CBR Express, one of the first case-based reasoning solutions for customer relationship management. He was a founder of three startups: Limbex Corporation, acquired by Quarterdeck in 1996, where he created WebCompass, an Internet search assistant that won Best Of Show at COMDEX Fall '95; TriVida Corporation, a Web site personalization application services
provider, acquired by ValueClick in 2000; and Siderean Software, a pioneer of Semantic Web solutions for information access and discovery, acquired by Open Text in 2011.

Brad earned a BS in applied mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1982, and has been awarded five U.S. patents.

Vladimir Bacvanski
Founder, SciSpike

Dr. Vladimir Bacvanski has two decades of engineering experience with software and data technologies in areas such as architecture and design of mission critical and distributed enterprise systems, rule-based systems and languages, modeling tools, real-time systems, agent systems, and database technologies. Vladimir has helped a number of companies including US Treasury, Federal Reserve Bank, US Navy, IBM, Dell, Hewlett Packard, JP Morgan Chase, Nokia, Lucent, Nortel Networks, General Electric, BAE Systems, AMD, and others to select, transition, and apply new software technologies. Vladimir is published worldwide and is a frequent speaker, session chair, and workshop organizer at leading industry events.

Tim Berglund,
Owner and Principal Software Developer, August Technology Group

Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. His firm, the August Technology Group, helps clients with product development, technology consulting, and NoSQL adoption projects in the JVM ecosystem. He is a speaker internationally and on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour in the United States, and is co-president of the Denver Open Source User Group, co-presenter of the best-selling O'Reilly Git Master Class, co-author of Building and Testing with Gradle and a member of the O'Reilly Expert Network.

Adrian Cockcroft,
Cloud Architect, Netflix

Over the last three years Adrian Cockcroft has managed and architected development of personalization algorithms for the Netflix web site and TV based devices, refactoring code into middle tier services, and development of a new personalization platform optimized for the cloud. He recently moved to the Cloud Systems group, with a focus on performance monitoring and analysis tools.

Adrian is probably best known as the author of several books while a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems: Sun Performance and Tuning; Resource Management; and Capacity Planning for Web Services. He was also a founding member of eBay Research Labs, where he contributed to the Skype Java API and built mobile application prototypes.

Taylor Cowan
Architect Evangelist, Microsoft

Taylor Cowan is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX, where he focuses on the early adoption of Microsoft technologies for customers in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.  He received his Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of North Texas, as well as a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Arranging.  He is a founder and committer to the open source project jenabean, a Java to RDF binding framework.  Taylor also has a special interest in other non-relational persistence and has written object bindings for both the neo4j graph database and Windows Azure storage.

Brian Crook
Nfuse Partners

Brian is a co-founder of nFuse Partners, a private equity company based in San Diego, and currently sits on the board of directors for Anonymous Media, JP Communications and Cerebra Inc. He is a pioneer in the online advertising industry, developing scalable ad-serving architectures for Starwave, an early web company acquired by Disney on-line, and aQuantive (now Microsoft Advertising). Brian was previously at Vulcan Inc, responsible for the development of life sciences, home media, and scalable data processing initiatives. He served as VP of Engineering for Network Inference/Cerebra and subsequently as VP of Product Development at webMethods Inc/SoftwareAG.

Daniela Florescu
Software Architect, Oracle

Daniela Florescu is one of the leading figures in the technology and software field. She is currently a software architect at industry titan Oracle, where she is responsible for designing and developing software application and databases. In addition to her position with Oracle, Dr. Florescu is a major figure in the XML & SGML community, and the president of the FLWOR Foundation. She is also one of the lead developers of the XQuery project, an initiative that attempts to manipulate the XML format with Web services architecture. Dr. Florescu has served as a researcher and software engineer for companies such as IBM, AT&T, INRIA, and Propel, and has lectured at Stanford University. She has also served as a member of key industry organizations such as World Wide Web Consortium.
 

Nicholas Goodman
CEO and Founder, DynamoBI Corporation

Nicholas is a Business Intelligence geek, consultant, hacker, blogger, speaker and entrepreneur. Currently Founder and CEO of DynamoBI he spends his day racing analytic databases, connecting to NoSQL systems, and making data locked in NoSQL available for adhoc reports, OLAP, and dashboards. Nicholas has held various executive and technical roles with companies such as Pentaho, Bayon Technologies, and Sephora. He’s worked on more than 50 Open Source BI customer implementations, regularly making additions and enhancements to open source frameworks. He is currently the lead developer and maintainer for LucidDB, the most advanced open source database for BI and Analytics.

Ralph Hughes, MA, chief systems architect for Ceregenics, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), and PMI project management professional (PMP), has been building very large database applictions such as data warehouses and business intelligence front ends since 1982.

Fluent in French, he lectures, teaches, and consults internationally, leading Agile projects for Fortune 500 companies in aerospace, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals. He is a member of the faculty at The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI), the author of the book "Agile Data Warehousing," ISBN 978-0595471676.

Dan McCreary
NoSQL Founder and Program Co-Chair / Principal, Dan McCreary and Associates

Dan McCreary is an enterprise data architecture consultant with over 25 years of experience. He worked for Bell Labs, Steve Jobs (at NeXT Computer) and owned his own consulting company with over 75 employees. He has been active in managing metadata standards in the areas of Criminal Justice, Education, Taxation, Real Estate, Banking, Insurance and health care. He is interested in native XML technologies, metadata management, data governance, the semantic web, and enterprise metadata management strategy development. He has a special fondness for systems built with XForms, REST, and XQuery (the XRX web application architecture).

William McKnight
President, McKnight Consulting Group

William functions as Strategist, Lead Enterprise Information Architect, and Program Manager for complex, high-volume full life-cycle implementations worldwide utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence, data quality and operational business intelligence. Many of his clients have gone public with their success story. William is a Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, a frequent best practices judge, has authored more than 150 articles and white papers and given over 150 international keynotes and public seminars. His team’s implementations from both IT and consultant positions have won Best Practices awards. William is a former IT VP of a Fortune company, a former engineer of DB2 at IBM and holds an MBA. He can be reached at wmcknight@mcknightcg.com.

Ike Nassi
Computer Science Researcher, UC Santa Cruz

Dr. Ike Nassi is a Computer Science Researcher at UC Santa Cruz. Before that, he was an Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist at SAP. He started SAP's Global Business Incubator, and also started the SAP Sponsored Academic Research Program. His most recent area of interest at SAP was in designing and building "Enterprise Supercomputers" for Big Data applications.  Prior to SAP, he co-founded Firetide Inc, a wireless mesh networking company and was with Cisco Systems, and was a Senior Vice President and Corporate Officer at Apple Computer, where he was responsible for all system software.  He is a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Computer History Museum, and serves on several other boards.   

Srini Penchikala

Srini currently works as a Security Architect at a financial services organization in Austin, Texas. He has over 18 years of experience in software development, security architecture and risk management areas. He has presented at conferences like JavaOne, ProjectWorld, NoSQL Now Conference, and AppSec USA on topics like NoSQL Data Security, Agile Architecture, and Security & Risk Management in Agile Organizations. He published numerous articles on NoSQL, Security, Agile and Java topics on websites like InfoQ.com, ServerSide.com, ONJava, DevX Java, java.net and JavaWorld. Srini is a big fan of agile and lean concepts and tries to apply these in non-traditional contexts like security program management, threat modeling, risk analysis and organizational leadership areas. He also works as an editor for InfoQ website.

April Reeve
Senior Practice Consultant, EMC Consulting

April Reeve is an Enterprise Architect and Program Manager currently employed by EMC Consulting. She is a Certified Data Management Professional (DAMA CDM) and certified by ISACA in Enterprise Governance of IT (CEGIT) and Information Systems Audit (CISA). April is an expert in multiple Data Management disciplines including Data Conversion, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, Data Integration, and Data Governance. For more than 25 years she has been working in Financial Services with in-depth experience in Asset Management and Securities Processing, Private Banking and Wealth Management, Financial Risk Management (Market, Credit, Operational), Brokerage, Corporate and Retail Banking.

Tony Shaw
NoSQL Founder and Program Co-Chair / Founder & CEO, Dataversity and Wilshire Conferences

Tony is the founder and CEO of Dataversity and Wilshire Conferences. He is responsible for the overall editorial and business strategy of both organizations, which conduct educational conferences, training and publishing activities focused on the area of enterprise data management. He co-founded the Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech) which was recently sold to WebMediaBrands (Nasdaq: WEBM). Prior to founding Wilshire he also started a dotcom in the identity management space called BigID (which went the way of most dotcoms), and was the president of Technology Transfer Institute (TTI). He still facilitates TTI’s strategic technology forum for CTOs, called TTI/Vanguard.

Tony Tam
CTO and Technical Co-Founder, Wordnik

Tony is the Chief Technical Officer and technical co-founder of Wordnik, where he leads development efforts of the site's innovative word navigation system. He is a member of the MongoDB Masters group and has lead the Swagger API Framework open-source initiative. Prior to joining Wordnik, he was a founder and SVP of Engineering at Think Passenger, a provider of customer collaboration software. Before that, he was lead engineer at Composite Software where he helped develop the company's first- and second-generation query processing engines and led the research and implementation of their patented cost-based federated query optimizer. He also led software development in the bioinformatics group at Galileo Labs, a drug-discovery company based in the Silicon Valley. Tony received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara and his MBA from Santa Clara University. He can be reached at  tony@wordnik.com.

Priscilla Walmsley
Managing Director and Senior Consultant, Datypic, Inc.

Priscilla Walmsley is Managing Director and Senior Consultant at Datypic, Inc. She is an expert in XML core technologies and architectures, XML databases and XQuery, SOA/Web services, electronic publishing and content management. Walmsley is the author of Definitive XML Schema (Prentice Hall PTR, 2001),and XQuery (O'Reilly Media, 2007). In addition, she co-authored Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA.