A panel discussion consisting of some of the worlds leading NoSQL providers and creators to meet and enter the ring for a “NoSQL Knockout” session. Here from the best in the industry on which databases fits your business.
If you don't know which is the right database to choose at the end of this session you never will!
Chris Anderson is a co-founder of Couchbase and an Apache CouchDB committer. At Couchbase he leads the mobile strategy, and designs and implements developer facing APIs. Outside of computing, Chris plays bass and dances “Ring Around the Rosie” with his 1 year old daughter.
Peter is the Chief Technology Officer of Starcounter. Peter has more than 20 years of experience in software development and management of IT companies. In the 1990ies, he founded two IT companies, SITE and Konsultmarknaden. He served as a Chief Technology Officer of both these companies before he joined Starcounter. Peter has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stockholm University, where he also taught as a Professor of Computer Science for ten years.
Peter has even been a founding member of the Digital Meta Product Library (DPML), where he even heavily contributed.
Born in Eastern Germany, moved to Sweden 1998. Right now, Peter is focusing on turning Open Source Projects into profitable companies. Also, Peter is helping technology and mobile startups and organizing events like ThoughtMade and TEDx Öresund.
Peter is Interested in creating products with a sustainable community process and Open Participation especially. Trying to formulate the arguments of why industrial companies (i.e. non-IT companies) should invest money into OSS projects by actively participating, instead of paying consultants inhouse, and in the process create a better value proposition for their and ensure sustainable development and support for the externally managed OSS parts.
Sergey started his IT journey with a master's degree in computer science, and during 7+ years of hands-on development practice he advanced in Web-oriented applications, Web services, data mining and data processing. A new position of Senior R&D Engineer opened new perspectives for Sergey and enabled him to explore new technologies and tools and share his findings with worldwide community. The first acquaintance with NoSQL solutions and distributed computing turned into a true passion.
Regularly participates in international conferences presenting interesting approaches. In June 2011, he offered to “Open a Fabulous World of Cassandra” at a conference that featured guest speakers from Engine Yard. On December 22, 2011 Sergey presented the results of his research on various types of NoSQL databases at Big Data Meetup in Sunnyvale, CA. On February 8, 2012 he made a session “Anatomy of distributed computing with Hadoop” at Hadoop Evening in Belarus (Eastern Europe).
Getting new challenging experience in international projects, he confirms his expertise with several Oracle certificates in Java.