I am a community builder with 4 years of experience in community building, outreach and mentoring. I helped build diverse communities across India. I'm mentoring around 25 community leaders as Brave India Liaison. . I designed a Program for Students along with Brave Team called "Brave Youth Program"

I work for brand360 as a Head of Creative Services. Brand360 have the power to add revenues to a brand with one-touch.Brand Marketers constantly need help to reach out to their target audience.

Alessandro joins open-source projects combining biology skills with hardware-software programming. He integrates bio-protocols on flexibility-drawn microfluidics devices.

Open-source fanatic, wandering geek, and jittering caffeine addict. I head up SpaceGAMBIT open source space program and am working closely with the Open Source Village team to think of new ways to apply open source to everyday life.

Alexander is a software engineer and PMC of Apache Zeppelin

I am working with the MySQL RDBMS Product Team in Oracle Bangalore. My main responsibilities are* Technically lead a team of test engineers to verify and validate the new features and performance of MySQL Optimizer.* Developing and maintaining the test suites.* Development of automation frameworks and enhancing existing frameworks as and when required.* Benchmarking the optimizer performance.* Developing new tools for testing the database as and when required.Our test tools and frameworks are developed using PERL and Java.My previous experience includes working on RDBMS like DB2-UDB for LUW, Sybase-IQ and Microsoft SQL Server. Before joining Oracle I have worked with IBM India Software Labs, Microsoft and Sybase Inc.

Andrew Lee (Hualian, Taiwan) – an active Open Source Liaison focusing on the Debian and LXDE Projects. He worked on localization efforts of various kinds of local dialects and aborigines languages in Taiwan. He acreated various localization related packages in Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian distros, and also creates and maintains packages in Debian for LXDE project.

Andrew Lee works as a software developer in the Build and Infrastructure team at Collabora and has 5 years of experience working with the Open Build Service(OBS) building both rpm and deb format packages and distribution creations for many different projects and clients. He is now making an efforts on packaging OBS in Debian distro.

I am a computer science graduate, currently working as software developer in Zomato. I am a keen learner and opportunity seeker. I have been contributing in open source organisation since 2014 as a student developer in KDE community. I have worked on Kalzium under Season of KDE programme and on LabPlot under google summer of code.

Currently leading Business Development efforts focused on Google Search, Chrome and Developer products.

Anwesha Das, an Advocate practicing law for 6 years. She blogs for Python Software Foundation. One of her major goal is to help the FOSS developers with the legal aspect of the software industry

Currently I teach Android Application Development at CodingBlocks, a programming bootcamp startup.I have been a Developer and Device Maintainer at CyanogenMod and AOKP, building latest Android images for Sony Xperia devices, adding awesome usability features that make users fall in love. I have also been a contributor to the Dialer and Phone projects under AOSP.I have been a Open Source community partner with Sony Mobile for the last two years.I was part of the team that made many contextually smart UI/UX enhacements for the Micromax Canvas A290, A310, A315 series of phones.I am also an open source enthusiast with contributions to Linux, GNOME, Arduino, Android and other open source projects, and a Google Summer of Code alumnus.Have been a speaker at Mobile Developer Summit 2014, and DroidCon 2014, 2015.

I'm front-end and server side developer and hifive evangelist. I run my business in Japan, and I'm Administrator of MOONGIFT that introduces oss everyday for Japanese since Jan 2004. I have introduced 10,000 or more oss. http://www.moongift.jp

I am a Software Engineer in the Virtualization group at Red Hat.

Ben Sadeghi is the Big Data & Advanced Analytics Specialist at Microsoft (SE Asia & Korea), providing consulting and implementation services on the cloud-based Azure Cortana Analytics Platform.Prior to Microsoft, Ben worked as a data scientist at MapR Technologies, applying data-driven, machine learning solutions on Hadoop. He has developed internal and external data products at Wego.com, a travel meta-search site, and worked in the Internet of Things domain at Jawbone, where he implemented predictive applications for the UP Band self-quantification platform. Before moving to the private sector, Ben contributed to several NASA and JAXA space missions.Ben is an active member of the open-source Julia language community. He holds an M.Sc. in computational physics, with an astrophysics emphasis.

Benet started programming at the age of 10 creating simple quizzes for his primary school in BASIC. From there, his interests in computers and technology has continue to grow; learning about web programming, dabbling in PC assemblies and troubleshooting and in 2007, graduated from Curtin University of Technology with a Bachelor of Technology majoring in Computer Systems and Networking. Since then, he's worked in Japan for 8 years on network and security solutions development for telcos and large enterprises. Currently, he resides in Singapore and still dabbles in programing during his free time but also works for an industry leader in network test and measurement solutions.

Blair Layton is a business development manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is responsible for helping customers adopt the AWS platform across Asia Pacific, allowing them to save money, accelerate their time to market, and focus on their core business. He also listens to customer requirements, consolidating the feedback to the product teams to ensure development roadmaps are customer focused. Blair is a database specialist beginning his career as a research assistant at the University of Queensland on a research project for Oracle Corporation. Subsequently, Blair joined Oracle for 13 years, performing various roles across Australia, Europe and Asia. He is based in Singapore where he has been living for over 10 years. Blair earned his Bachelor's degree in information technology from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Brady is Vice President at Highway1, PCH's incubator program. A prolific speaker and maker on the geek scene, Brady can be found at speaking engagements around the world, inventing new forms of transportation at Burning Man, or creating in the Highway1 San Francisco workshop. Additionally, Brady writes for O’Reilly Radar, tracking changes in technology. Brady is the founder of Ignite, a geek event which has spread to over a hundred cities worldwide.

bunnie is best known for his work hacking the Microsoft Xbox, as well as for his efforts in designing and manufacturing open source hardware, including the chumby (app-playing alarm clock), chibitronics (teaching electronics through arts and crafts), and Novena (DIY laptop). He received his PhD in EE from MIT in 2002. He currently lives in Singapore where he runs a private product design studio, Kosagi, and he actively mentors several startups and students of the MIT Media Lab.

Carol Chen is the Community Development Manager for ManageIQ, the open source project that powers Red Hat® CloudForms. She has been actively involved in open source communities while working for Jolla and Nokia previously. In addition, she also has experiences in software development/integration in her 12 years in the mobile industry. On a personal note, Carol plays the Timpani in an orchestra in Tampere, Finland, where she now calls home.

Linux and Open source developers having contributed to various open source projects, founder of Enlightenment, working as Master Engineer for Samsung Electronics Korea working on Tizen Gadgets and the OS. Have used and written software for Linux since 1996 and still do professionally to this day.

Cendekia Pramana Putra is a digital developer at online.sequis.co.id (life insurance company), a freelancer in the weekend and mobile app dev in free time using Js. Previously, Cendekia worked as a web developer for several digital agencies in Jakarta. He wrote some tutorials about how to build a web and mobile application on his blog, http://blog.cendekiapp.com

Chan Cheow Hoe is the Government Chief Information Officer (CIO)/DCE of GovTech. As the Government CIO, Cheow Hoe oversees Singapore Government’s central information technology systems and infrastructure, and drives the development and delivery of innovative public services for citizens and businesses.

I am a student at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. I got to know more about the FOSS related course when I was sophomore, and finally I served as the course assistant in my senior year now . During the last two years, I have promoted FOSS and founded a community, Edu.FOSS, in college.

Christian Couder is an independent software developer working on Git for GitLab and Booking.com. He started contributing to Git more than 10 years ago, and he is now among the top 15 Git developers. He has given presentations about Git at many conferences, like LinuxCon North America and Europe, since 2009.

Christina Leigh Geros is an architect, landscape architect, and urban designer currently conducting and designing research about the intricate relationships between urbanism, ecology, and politics. Based in Jakarta, she is the Design Director of Anexact Office for Design Research and the Design Research Strategist with the MIT Urban Risk Lab’s PetaBencana.id field team in Indonesia. She is also a co-founder and co-investigator in the multidisciplinary collaborative SHO—a design practice working across a variety of scales, materials, technologies, processes, and mediums. Focusing on urban and ecological issues in Indonesia, Christina’s work as a Fulbright National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow has used written, photographic, and videographic methodologies to communicate complex urban issues to a global public audience. Having been awarded several other competitive research fellowships and design competitions, including the Penny White Prize at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, the Rajawali Research Grant from Harvard University's Kennedy School Indonesia Program, and Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute Public Art Competition, Christina’s work aims to merge design and research practices through multi-media publication, exhibitions, and spacial installations. Christina holds a Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Tennessee and two graduate degrees from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design: a Masters of Architecture and Urban Design and a Masters of Landscape Architecture. As a research and design contributor, her work has been featured in several publications, including WIRED: Japan and Harvard GSD Platform [6,7, &8]. She has also taught architecture and urban design studios at the University of Tennessee College of Architecture + Design and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design Career Discovery Program.

Christopher Lek has more than 15 years of IT experience. He graduated from Singapore Polytechnic (Electrical Engineering) and Nanyang Technological University (Computer Engineering) and holds several certifications including GCIH, GCFE, GCFA, GREM, CISSP and ISO 27001 Auditor, PMP and ITIL.Christopher works in the Global Security Incident Response team for a Fortune 500 Company. He has previously worked for a financial institution and Internet Service Provider. Being active in the IT Security community, Christopher was the workshop committee member for Global HoneyNet Workshop held in Warsaw (2014) and past SIG2 member. He is currently involved in the honeeepi project, which is a customized Raspbian OS running on raspberry pi.

Colin Charles is the Chief Evangelist at Percona. He was previously on the founding team of MariaDB Server in 2009, and had worked at MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known within open source communities in APAC, and has spoken at many conferences.

My name is Darin Kris Lobo and I am a 16 year old student. I enjoy building gadgets and doing projects as a hobby. I am interested in Quantum mechanics, Genetics and Neuroscience and recently I am currently learning about electronics and programming. I am an advocate for citizen science and I am trying to encourage the public to gain interest in science.

Dietrich Ayala works for internet freedom at Mozilla, the non-profit makers of Firefox.

Diky Arga is a Mozilla Tech Speaker, formerly Firefox Student Ambassador. He also lead an open source community at his campus, called Dinus Open Source Community / Doscom.org , Doscom was remastered an OS to help porgrammer, this OS named TeaLinuxOS.org . Those both community is non-profit, for make money, He work as part-time Front-en Web Programmer at MailTarget.co . Last his presentation is at MozFest in London. When He tried combine his two hobbies : Coding + Cycling = http://gph.is/2jDjPhY :D

Dr. Graham Williams is Microsoft's Director of Data Science for the Asia and Pacific region. He recently joined Microsoft bringing with him over 30 years of research and deployment in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Analytics and Data Science. Graham has authored a number of books introducing Data Mining and Machine Learning using the R Statistical Open Source Software. Until recently he was principal data scientist with the Australian Taxation Office and was the lead data scientist with the Australian Government's Center of Excellence in Analytics. Through these roles he assisted government departments in building their Data Science capabilities and worked on projects that focused on delivering cost effective data science solutions using open source platforms.

Ecaterina Moraru is a core committer, designing and developing for the open source XWiki.org project since 2008. From the beginning of 2015 she has also been involved with the Open Source Design community (opensourcedesign.net) trying to spread out the benefits of integrating design processes inside open source roadmaps.

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Dr. Emin Akşehirli is working as a full stack data wrangler at DataSpark. He is preparing data, developing algorithms, productionize them using DevOps techniques, and support them. He is a data scientist, an experienced Java developer, a former Java trainer, and most importantly an open/free culture advocate.

Estu Fardani is currently working as DevOps in Indonesian local startup, have 3 (three) years experience in system support as system administrator, 6 (six) years experience as GNU/Linux technical support, helpdesk and trainer. He has extensive experience in all aspects of managing event for local, national and international. Last year He success manage GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 at Universitas Indonesia, Depok, West Java. Indonesia. This year will manage similar event, openSUSE.Asia Summit 2016 at UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta.

Evgeny Potemkin is Principal Software Engineer in MySQL's Optimizer team, where he works since 2005.

Finished with a master in Microelectronic Systems in Germany three years ago. In my Master thesis I developed a visual Odmetry System on my own for a drone company called Aibotix. Then I worked two years for Echoes as an Android developer. The last three months i spent on getting a better understanding of Computer Vision and especially self localization of drones via a camera.

* I have 8 years embedded Linux software development experiences and familiar with many desktop Linux distributions (Ubuntu,Debian, Arch, Gentoo),OpenWrt and cross toolchains. * I love open source projects, include hardware and software.* I have done a lot of works on embedded Linux about GUI and driver porting.* I have development experiences on ARM,MIPS,LatticeMico32,Z80 embedded systems

Floyd DCosta is the co-founder of Blockchain Foundry. A management consultant by background, Floyd helps enterprises harness the potential of Cloud and Blockchain technology for competitive advantage.

President, Board of Directors, Software Liberty Association Taiwan (SLAT);Member, KDE e.V.Member, the Document FoundationLibreOffice Certified Migration Professional

I am a research fellow at the Translational Molecular Imaging Lab within Stanford’s Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection, and I am working on developing machine learning algorithms to detect pancreatic and breast cancer molecular imaging markers. I am also an avid open source contributor to CancerBase.org. When I’m not working at the lab, I am a 15 year old high school junior at Stanford University Online High School.

Gary Lin is a SUSE engineer and long time linux user. He participated openSUSE gnome development and mainly focuses on UEFI related issues now.

Gaurang Torvekar CTO/Co-Founder Attores. Gaurang will be speaking about Attores' latest offering, Open Certificates. 

Quality Assurance Architect at VMware.Formerly at MySQL AB, and then through acquisitions at Sun Microsystems and Oracle.Then at Continuent, Inc and currently at VMware through a merge. I am active member of the MySQL community and long timer open source enthusiast. During the past 25 years I have worked in various IT related fields, with focus on databases, object oriented programming, system administration. Fluent in Italian, English, Perl, Spanish, Ruby, SQL, Bash, and good speaker of C, French, and Java. I work in cyberspace, with a virtual team.

I am working with MySQL Database team since 2012. Currently employed at Oracle, based in India, Bangalore working as Principal Software Developer for the Runtime Team of the MySQL Database. My experience is in the database industry. I have worked for Alcatel Lucent's DataBlitz main memory database in past. Completed my Master in Computer Science degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL in 2014.

This is Guruswamy Revana working as Associate Professor at BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for women. I totally have 14 years of teaching experience in the field of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. I completed my Master of Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur and Bachelor of Engineering from Andhra University. My areas of interest are Assistive Technologies, Open Source Software, Renewable energy sources and Robotics.

Graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Dr. Haggen So, has experiences in commercial software development and developed software products for renowned companies such as Kodak. Dr. So also taught in Hong Kong Baptist University as lecturer in the department of Computer Science. Dr. So was the former Project Manager for Creative Commons Hong Kong and currently the president of the Hong Kong Creative Open Technology Association.

Haoyi is a software engineer who used to work at Dropbox in San Francisco and is deeply involved in the open-source Scala community.

I have been associated with MySQL since May 2012. I am working as developer in MySQL's SrvGen team with focus to features enhancing security of MySQL database.

Herr Flupke explains machines to humans and humans to machines. His work deals with security and privacy, society and ethics.

I'm a gentoo linux developer in the Hardened and SELinux projects. I maintain the SELinux policies and userland integration on gentoo.

I am jayaditya gupta . I mostly deal with web development , application development and online secuity , I have participated in GSOC 2016 as student for KDE . I worked on a project named "wikitolearn Desktop client" . It is written in Qt(c++) and QML .Other than that i play lots of warchalls ( security challenges ) and online CTF's !!

Jens Petersen has been involved in the Haskell community since 1998. He maintains many Haskell packages for Fedora and EPEL, and no longer writes Bash shell scripts! He works for Red Hat as a software engineering manager.

Jesper Krogh is an Oracle MySQL Senior Principal Support Engineer who has been using MySQL as a developer and database administrator since 2006. The work he was involved in before joining Oracle included online business applications using complex database architectures and logic. Investigating and solving performance issues are among the tasks Jesper finds most interesting. Jesper lives in Sydney, Australia and enjoys visiting the national parks and traveling.

A full stack developer working in a startup called Oizom as a tech lead having 3 years of experience in same area. I am associated with open source contribution in different languages, organize meetups under datameet.org, remote researcher at crowd source platform of Stanford. Die hard comic book/movie fan, so when I am not coding I am in other universe like Marvel or DC.

Julyanto Sutandang is the Director and Practitioner of PostgreSQL Solution Provider in Indonesia. He has using PostgreSQL since version 7 and keep it improving his skill since then. Now he works in Equnix Business Solutions, PT. PostgreSQL has getting more accepted in big Enterprises in Indonesia, it is included Big Banks, Telco Companies, and worth to mention Big Retail System such as: Transretail (it was Carrefour Indonesia). He directs Expertise in Open Source especially in Linux and PostgreSQL implementation for Enterprises. Enabling research and experience as the main tools, He with his team facing great challenges from Clients and anticipated well, almost all of our implementation is using against Oracle and perform better more than expected.

June Zhang, worked in Red Hat as interaction designer for 7years. focused on the interaction design, front-end development, and usability testing.

kathleen azali founded an independent library and co-working space in Surabaya called C2O library & collabtive in 2008. As a researcher in the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), and a practicing designer and programmer, she is interested in the histories and intersections of information, design, (digital) technology, and society. Her writings have been published in Networked Researcher Open Access Week (2012), Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Bulletin (2014), SOJOURN (2015, 2016), and most recently “Cashless in Indonesia: Gelling mobile e-friction?” in Journal of Southeast Asian Economies (2016). 

Keerthana K is a developer based in Cochin, India. She was a participant in GSoC 2016. She's a FOSS enthusiast and contributor who likes to chill out by playing with new technology and writing about her coding escapades. She was also a speaker to DebConf16, the official Debian conference in 2016 held at Cape Town, South Africa.

Kushal Das is a Fedora Contributor for over ten years. He is currently working as Fedora Cloud Engineer at Red Hat. He is a core developer of CPython, and also a director at Python Software Foundation.

Lars is the technical lead for Git at Autodesk, working out of Berlin, Germany. His current work involves migrating large codebases to Git, establishing Git workflows within teams, and maintaining a GitHub Enterprise instance. He is a Git contributor, the author of the ShowInGitHub Xcode plugin, and an avid kiteboarder.

Liling is currently a data scientist as Rakuten Asia. Before that he was working on translation (human and machine) in the Translation Technology Group at the Sprachwissenschaften sowie Übersetzen und Dolmetschen department @ Universität des Saarlandes. Previously, alvas was a linguistics graduate student in Bond lab @ NTU.

Turning his back against his Economics, Honours degree back in 1996 - Lionel decided to try out a week of work at the local Television station in Singapore, and has not looked back since.Rising quickly from his beginning position as Assistant Producer to a full-fledged producer in a short span of 4 years, he left Singapore for New York University to take up a specialised Film Directing module after receiving partial scholarship from Singapore Film Commission in 2001. Completing and achieving top of his cohort there, he returned to Singapore and started to path his own niche - writing, producing, directing and even editing: over half a dozen short films that won awards and critical acclaim, feature films, web and mobile content and more. His specialisation for storytelling also led him to write - produce and direct half a dozen full-length theatre plays and a musical that’s staged at The Esplanade in Singapore, in collaboration with the late, renowned Iskander Ismail.During this whole time, Lionel also made significant progress in his career in the television, broadcast industry; executive producing 2 seasons of the highly acclaimed ‘Culture Shock’ for Channel News Asia, which went on to be distributed and sold to markets internationally. The next series that he executive produced: ‘Scene City SIngapore’ - featuring acclaimed photographer and host, Tom Ang - went on to not only secure distribution on Sundance Channel, but also winning the Bronze World Award at the 2010 New York Film and TV Festivals.With that accolade, he joined the pioneering team at Singapore MediaCorp’s Toggle - the National Broadcaster’s first foray into IPTV via the OTT platform, across TV - Web and Mobile! During this 4 years there as Head of Commissioned Content, he commissioned and executive producer over 30 titles across multiple genres - some of which included the highly acclaimed “Letting Go” by Kyanite TV and “What do Men Want” by Bananamana Films, which have gone on to win multiple awards internationally.Despite the somewhat advancing and cosy career path, Lionel decided to trade in his work life to take on a student role yet again, when news of how Oculus was acquired by Facebook back in 2014. Researching deeply about Virtual Reality during that period, Lionel realised this emerging technology could be the game-changer for media and content, and thus - quit his job, packed his bag and uprooted himself and his family to move to London to pursue a Masters degree in Creative Technology; specialising in Augmented and Virtual Reality. There, he produced London’s first ever 360 Virtual Reality Dance staged at Middlesex University and also Singapore Inside out (London) a VR experience (www.sgiolondon.com) for the the touring exhibition by Singapore Tourism Board. After completing and achieving distinction in his postgraduate studies, he returned to Singapore and immediately became a much sought after consultant and speaker in the fields of Virtual Reality. Some of this appearance, presentation and speaking engagement includes:1. Instructor in VR for General Assembly Singapore2. Invited speaker about VR at at Echelon (Regional Tech Conference 2016)3. Invited speaker to the entire creative department at Y & R Singapore about VR4. Invited presenter by Red Dot Innovations at National Design Centre5. Invited presenter by IBM Studios Singapore to introduce VR to their UX/UI team6. Invited presenter by Six Degrees Asia in Singapore to share about VR for the design and arts communities7. Invited Lecturer to Ngee Ann Polytechnic Film and Media Studies on VR Production8. Invited presenter at Content Asia Production Summit 2016 on VR Storytelling9. Invited presenter at Global Sources Trade conference 2016 alongside the Director of HTC Vive and acclaimed director at DIgital Magic Hong Kong10. Distinguished Committee member (VR Showcase) at the 2016 SIGGRAPH in Macau- amongst others upcoming!In his current position as Creative Technologist for his startup, iMMERSiVELY (www.immersively.co) with offices in both Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - he is looking forwards to bring this exciting technology to various industries, and across the rest of Asia.

open source developer for the OpenChrom project, former life science researcher (list of publications: http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=JBBE0c8AAAAJ&hl=en)

I am a researcher in computational linguistics. I have been working under the supervision of Francis Bond at NTU for the past 3 years. Among others, my research focuses mainly on deep semantic and syntactic parsing, lexical semantics and computer assisted language learning.

Lyle graduated from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo (otherwise known as Cal Poly) in 2005 with a degree in Computer Engineering. Upon graduation he spent two years serving in Peace Corps, Benin helping local non-profits and other volunteers with technical projects.Since 2009, Lyle has been managing the technical operations of Asian Hope, a Christian non-profit working in Cambodia. As the MIS Director he works with the leadership team in setting strategy, monitoring and evaluation of programs and oversees internal software development and IT operations.Lyle lives with his family in Phnom Penh. He enjoys learning languages, playing with his children and eating delicious things at one of the city's many excellent restaurants.

I am Madhuri Peri pursuing my bachelors in Information Technology Department. I am by profession a coder and by passion a dancer. I have attended to the hackathon Med4Dev and the one week campaign of Engineering the Eye conducted by LVPEI chain in coordination with MIT media labs! I have an enthusiasm in writing and own a blog! I have achieved a score of 90/100 in the BEC exam conducted by Cambridge university!Iam a board member of our college's newsletter B-SMART!

Over 10 years of experience in database management, system troubleshooting, performance tuning and query optimization. Co-founder of PostgreSQL Consulting

Marco is an advocate open source developer, specially in the field of robotics. He is currently in the final stage of his PhD in computer vision for robotics. He has participated as developer in several open source projects, mostly related to robots, such as the PointCloud Library, RoboComp or OpenDetection. This year will be his fourth year as a Google Summer of Code organization administrator for the robocomp project and the second year with OpenDetection. 

He is also currently experimenting with OpenWRT and WIFI devices.

Martin has a PhD in Machine Learning, and has been an Open Source developer since 1999. After a career in finance (based in London and New York), he decided to follow his original passion, and now works on Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence full-time. Martin has given several talks and workshops on Deep Learning over the last 12 months, including FOSSIA, PyConSG, DataScienceSG and at the Fifth Elephant conference (in India).

Masakazu Takasu, Catalyst at teamLab, takes us on a journey to his homeland of Japan and their exciting ways of using technology, design and science. teamLab combines these disciplines to create innovative digital solutions often with physical elements of interaction.Through playing and experimentation, connecting prototyping with 3D graphics, art and much more, they're creating a whole new world of gaming, interactive decorations and augmented reality.

I worked on Hadoop around 2015 for my former company, NTT DATA Inc. Now I'm working on PostgreSQL for NTT OSS Center.My current jobs: * PostgreSQL engineering support and consultation. * Extensive quality verification of PostgreSQL releases.

Masayuki Igawa is a software engineer for over 15 years on a wide range of software projects, and developing open source software related to Linux kernel and virtualization. He's been an active technical contributor to OpenStack since the Grizzly release. He is a core member of some OpenStack QA projects such as Tempest, subunit2sql, openstack-health and stackviz. He currently works for HPE to make Upstream OpenStack better for everyone. He has previously been a speaker at OpenStack Summits, LinuxCons Japan and the other open source related conference events.

Matt has worked in the Embedded Linux field in various roles for 10+ years at various companies including Embedded Alley, Mentor Graphics, Intel's Open Source Technology Center, and currently at Konsulko Group

Matthew is currently a member of the OpenStack TC (Technical Committee) and was previously the PTL (project technical lead) of the OpenStack community's QA program from OpenStack's Juno development cycle in 2014 through the Mitaka development cycle in 2016. He is a core contributor on several Openstack projects and a core member of the OpenStack stable maintenance team. He has been working on and contributing to Open Source software for most of his career and has been primarily contributing to OpenStack since 2012. Matthew currently works for HPE's Upstream OpenStack team working to make OpenStack better for everyone. Matthew has previously been a speaker at OpenStack summits, LinuxCons Japan and North America, FOSSASIA, PyConAU's OpenStack miniconf, and linux.conf.au's CI and Testing miniconf.

I am working as a developer in MySQL Server Development Team and is part of MySQL family since last 6 years. Earlier, I was working as developer in IBM-India Software Lab, in DB2 database development team. I have done Masters in Information Technology and has 10.5 years of development experience in Database Servers. I have 2 patents on my name and one of them is in database technology. I also have one invention disclosure published. In research field, I have an ieee research paper in ICIP (International conference of Image Processing), in field of Image processing.Previous talk experience: I have presented MySQL Performance Schema on different conferences and platforms. To name few :FOSSASIA, Singapore (2016, 2015)Asia’s premier open technology conferenceURL: http://fossasia.org/OSI-Days, Bangalore, India (2015, 2013, 2012)Open Source India Conference organized by EFY Group.URL: http://osidays.com/osidays/speaker-lineup/mayank-prasad-2/.Oracle Open World, San Franscisco (2015/2014)The world’s largest international conference for Oracle customers and technologists San Francisco,USURL: https://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html.MySQL User Camp, Bangalore, India (2013)A MySQL User Group Meet organized by Oracle.

Melvin is an avid programmer who enjoys designing and implementing novelalgorithms. As the maintainer of Magarena, an open source card game project, Melvin focuses on improving the AI and releasing an update every month. Melvin received his B. Comp (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees from National University of Singapore, School of Computing.

Michael is Axelerant’s Chief Revenue Officer overseeing sales and marketing efforts. Being CRO is his third major role with Axelerant since starting as Chief People Officer in 2013 and becoming Chief Operating Officer in 2015.Michael has been involved with software development since 1984; coding snakes every morning before school just to play a computer game. Outside of geekdom, he's lived and worked in six countries and traveled dozens more around the world. Though Portland, Maine is his current address, Taiwan remains his home of heart with wife Peichi and boys, Drusus and Jace.

Michael Christen is a Big Data Engineer working for some of the largest corporate players from Germany. He is the founder of loklak and SUSI AI and, the creator of the Peer-to-Peer Search engine YaCy. He is also architect of large search portals like the German Digital Library. As a Master of Science in Computer Science he studied Artificial Intelligence and uses this knowledge for the creation of the Open Source Personal Assistant asksusi.com. As an IT Professional he does consulting for search technology and digital Transformation strategies.

IT professional with 14 years of experienced and drown with passion on Malware Analysis, Forensics, and Penetration testing who loves to share knowledge to the world.

Google summer of Code student under mifos initiative and Google Code in Mentor, Open Source Enthusiast

I am a 3rd year Engineering student from India and an open source enthusiast. I have been working on open source projects for the past 3 years and I am currently ranked No.1 in India in terms in number of stars and forks on my projects. I have been a speaker in India's largest Android conference for the past 2 years. Our team won the PMO Mobile app contest in India to build the official app for the Indian Prime Minister's office in mentorship with Google and we were were awarded by the Prime Minister of India and were invited by Google to their HQ to meet with Google developers. I also love to participate hackathons and won multiple hackathons over the past years.

• 6 years experience in software developing, focusing in FOSS.
• A strong Linux user and has been contributing code to various FOSS projects.
• A GSoC mentor.
• Want to bridge two look-different fields: IT and agriculture. Co-founder of a startup about agritech.

I am a second year computer science student at IIIT Hyderabad, an opensource enthusiast,has been contributing to FOSSASIA and FreedomBox.

IBM Blockchain Engineer, traveler and researcher

Full-stack developer with experience in PHP, Python & Ember.JS. Plays around with Kubernetes and Containers. Avid open source contributor.

I am working for developer relationship at Mozilla Japan. I love programming languages itself.

Philip Paeps ("trouble") is an independent consultant and contractor based in Belgium. He provides research and development on low-level software and operating systems, particularly in an embedded or real-time context. His main interests are bootloaders, device drivers and high-performance networking. He can also be convinced to teach courses and workshops on a variety of networking-related topics.In his so-called free time, Philip is a FreeBSD committer contributing mainly to the kernel and a member of the FreeBSD security team. He was one of the main organisers of FOSDEM, the largest annual open source software conference in Europe, from the early 2000s until 2015. He denies having any involvement with amateur radio or tabletop role playing games.Philip is a director of the FreeBSD Foundation.

After working for 2 years in electronic as QE, I developed interest in Software Industry and Open Source, so I started with Python and software stuffs 7 months back, and now I am an intern at RedHat. I am also part of PyLadies-Pune group which organize monthly meetup.

Poornima Kannan is a physicist by training and a self taught communications consultant.she devotes her time with various causes and organisations trying to make the world a little better everyday. She is the lead of the Random Hacks of Kindness Bangalore site where she works with technologists to build solutions to civic issues

Masters Student, Software Engineer with specialization in embedded systems. Have worked with multiple hardware systems with applications in the automotive industry and IOT. With a strong academic background have written a thesis based on OpenCL and its performance characteristics on various embedded systems. An ardent maker with a combination of hardware as well as software skills which help me bring about the fine tuned performance from embedded systems.

I am a computer programmer and an undergrad student from New Delhi, India. I currently work as a software developer for a startup in London. I mainly write open source code in Python, JavaScript and C languages. Besides programming, I enjoy reading history books and classic literature. Professionally, I am interested in using Math, Design and Computing as tools to solve complex problems.

Prashanth Pai works as Software Engineer at Red Hat. He is primarily associated with and has contributed to GlusterFS and OpenStack Swift.