Amr is Co-Founder and CTO of Cloudera where he is responsible for all engineering efforts from product development to release, for both the open source projects and Cloudera’s proprietary software. Prior to Cloudera Amr served as Vice President of Engineering at Yahoo!, and led a team that used Hadoop extensively for data analysis and business intelligence across the Yahoo! online services. Amr holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Twitter: @awadallah

Guy Bayes leads the Big Data Warehousing group at CBS Interactive.  He is a 15 year expert in Data Warehousing with a specialty in integrating the emerging Big Data tools and concepts such as Hadoop with traditional BI technologies and best practices. Over the past fifteen years Guy has built  advanced analytical systems for NBC and CBS, in addition to Morgan Stanley, Charles Schwab and The US Department of Energy at Lawrence Livermore National Labs

CBS Interactive (formerly c|net) is a top ten global web property with 235 million unique users. The CBSi Enterprise Data Warehouse is a hybrid near real time Teradata/Hadoop environment, processes over 500 million events a day, and is approaching 1 pedabyte in size.

Peter Sirota is the General Manager of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a managed Hadoop web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Before starting Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Peter served as Sr. Manager of Software Development at Amazon Web Services leading billing, authentication, and portal teams and was responsible for launching the Amazon DevPay service. Peter holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Northeastern University.

Twitter: @petersirota

Ron founded Think Big Analytics to help customers leverage new data processing technologies like Hadoop and NoSQL databases and R for statistical analysis. Ron leads a team of experts in flexible data processing and analytics, helping customers rapidly develop analytic solutions that integrate unstructured and structured data.
Previously, Ron was the VP of Engineering for Quantcast where he led the data science and product development teams which processed two petabytes of data daily using Hadoop. Prior to that Ron was a founder of enterprise consulting companies C-bridge and New Aspects. Ron was CTO of C-bridge as it delivered B2B applications to the enterprise, growing to 900 consultants and a successful IPO.

Sanjay is an Apache Hadoop committer and member of the Apache Hadoop PMC.
Prior to co-founding Hortonworks, Sanjay was the architect of core-Hadoop at Yahoo focusing mostly on HDFS, and MapReduce schedulers.
He has also held senior engineering positions at Sun Microsystems and INRIA, where he developed software for distributed systems and grid/utility computing infrastructures.
Sanjay has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Ted has held Chief Scientist positions at Veoh Networks, ID Analytics and at MusicMatch, (now Yahoo Music). Ted is responsible for building the most advanced identity theft detection system on the planet, as well as one of the largest peer-assisted video distribution systems and ground-breaking music and video recommendations systems. Ted has 15 issued and 15 pending patents and contributes to several Apache open source projects including Hadoop, Zookeeper and Hbase. He is also a committer for Apache Mahout. Ted earned a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado; a MS degree in computer science from New Mexico State University; and a Ph.D. in computing science from Sheffield University in the United Kingdom. Ted also bought the drinks at one of the very first Hadoop User Group meetings.