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Presentation: Doing statistics backwards: Structural Equation Modeling Using R Quantitative Psychologist RAND Corporation Jeremy Miles is a quantitative psychologist at the RAND Corporation, where he works in areas such as drug policy, post-traumatic stress disorder and the health benefits of dogs and cats. Ryan Coleman Presentation: PuppetCamp Keynote Product Manager Puppet Labs Rob Ryan Presentation: Hadoop 101 Account Executive Cloudera Rob Ryan first worked in open source in the Linux world with a software called Arkeia for storage and backup on Linux (since sold to Western Digital). Maxime Dumas

Presentation: Hadoop 101 Sales Engineer Cloudera Maxime is a Sales Engineer at Cloudera, the Open Source leader of Apache Hadoop. Lawrence Lessig

Presentation: Opening Keynote: Only You Can Get This, So Where Are You? Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership Harvard Law School Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, director of the Edmond J. Spencer Seebald

Presentation: Puppet Demo Solutions Engineer Puppet Labs Spencer is a Solutions Engineer at Puppet Labs, a company which makes software for configuration management and system automation based out of Portland, Oregon. Mike Cohen

Presentation: Managing infrastructure with Application Policy Director of Product Management Cisco Mike Cohen is Director of Product Management at Cisco Systems focused on open source after joining through the acquisition of Insieme Networks. David Guttman

Presentation: Big Data Visualization CTO Interlincx David Guttman is currently the CTO at Interlincx. He has worked and led teams at Disney Interactive Media Group, DigiSynd, and AT&T Interactive. Amber Graner

Presentation: Are you down with OCP Community Manager OCP Amber began her personal journey into open source in 2009, when she began blogging about her experiences with Ubuntu, filing bugs, organizing and speaking at various Linux events, and more. Frank Flynn Presentation: Full text search in MySQL or MariaDB using Sphinx DBA Ooyala.com Frank has been working with databases for 30 years. Designing and building applications, DBA and Operations work for Apple, Wired.com, Spock and others. Gregory Farnum Presentation: Fundamentals of Ceph by Greg Farnum Software Engineer Ceph Greg Farnum is a long-standing member of the core Ceph development team, Yolanda Kol Presentation: Securing Your System 101 Educator Roosevelt High School Yolanda Kol is an educator based in Los Angeles, CA. Her mission is focused on ensuring academic opportunities to overcome the achievement gap by bridging the digital divide. Alexander Cosio Presentation: Securing Your System 101 Student Roosevelt High School Alexander Cosio, 12th grade Elizabeth Garcia Presentation: Securing Your System 101 Student Roosevelt High School Elizabeth Garcia, 11th grade Alejandra Corona Presentation: Securing Your System 101 Student Roosevelt High School Alejandra Corona, 11th grade Koda Kol Presentation: Securing Your System 101 Educator Roosevelt High School Koda Kol, Educator Oscar Herrera Presentation: Optimizing EMC Storage for Postgres:: Is FAST slowing you down. Principal Consultant KnowledgeSource Solutions Inc Oscar is a founding principal of KnowledgeSource Solutions, Inc. Erik Johnson

Presentation: If you give a programmer a cookie... Python Engineer SaltStack, Inc. Erik is a core developer for the SaltStack project. He began contributing to SaltStack in January 2012, and became a core developer in October of that year. Gabrielle Roth Presentation: Autovacuum and You Systems Engineer EnterpriseDB Gabrielle Roth is a consultant with EnterpriseDB. She specializes in network, database, and system monitoring, as well as abusing SQL. Jody Mulkey

Presentation: Legacy is not an excuse: DevOps success in the enterprise EVP, Platform Engineering & Technical Operations Ticketmaster Jody Mulkey is EVP of Platform Engineering and Global Technical Operations at Ticketmaster. Michael Stahnke

Presentation: DevOps Isn't Just for WebOps: The Guerrilla's Guide to Cultural Change Engineering Director Puppet Labs Michael Stahnke is Director of Engineering Services at Puppet Labs, where he was previously the Community Manager and where he built out the Release Engineering team as Release Manager. Michael Stahnke

Presentation: Getting Started with Puppet Engineering Director Puppet Labs Michael Stahnke is Director of Engineering Services at Puppet Labs, where he was previously the Community Manager and where he built out the Release Engineering team as Release Manager. George Robinson

Presentation: Magical SysAdmin Incantations for New Freedom Fighters Systems Administrator Â George Robinsonâs first bitter taste of UNIX was in 1987 with Xenix 2.1.1.Â He finally went pro in 1998 and has been trying to automate himself out of a job ever since.Â He has Craig Zeller

Presentation: User Authentication and Management Sr. Unix Admin St. Jude Medical, Inc. Linux administrator for 20+ years. 10 years with Digital Equipment Corp (DEC), 7 with NBC, last 5 years with St. Jude Medical admin'ing 1000+ critical medical systems. Ron Evans

Presentation: Cylon.js: The JavaScript Evolution Of Open Source Robotics Ringleader The Hybrid Group Ron Evans is a software developer who has been active in the free and open source community for over 20 years. Ron Evans

Presentation: KidsRuby Workshop Ringleader The Hybrid Group Ron Evans is a software developer who has been active in the free and open source community for over 20 years. Leslie Hawthorn

Presentation: Why Checking Your Privilege is Good For *You* Community Manager Elasticsearch Inc An internationally known community manager, speaker and author, Leslie Hawthorn has spent the past decade creating, cultivating and enabling Lee Vodra Presentation: Building Droplabs: a Business Model for the Open Source Community Co-Founder Droplabs Shauna Gordon-McKeon Presentation: Diversity, outreach, and teaching free software to college students OpenHatch Shauna Gordon-McKeon is an organizer, writer, programmer, and teacher. Dain Sundstrom Presentation: Presto - SQL Engine for Big Data Software Engineer Facebook Dain Sundstrom a software engineer at Facebook and a founding member of Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries. Braddock Gaskill

Presentation: Internet-in-a-Box: Resources for the unconnected world Braddock Gaskill founded the Internet-in-a-Box project in 2012 to bring open source internet resources to developing world schools without internet connectivity. Curt Thompson Presentation: Unleashing Kids and Teachers IT Consultant Unleash Kids I've spent the past 10 years or so doing technical consulting and support in the corporate environment. JosÃ© Antonio Rey

Presentation: Youth Contributing 17-year old guy who is currently an Ubuntu Member and a member of the Ubuntu LoCo (Local Communities) Council. Actively participating on the Ubuntu Project, loves photography and food. Tim Mackey

Presentation: Hypervisor Selection and Decisions in CloudStack Virtualization and Cloud Evangelist Citrix Tim Mackey is a technology evangelist for XenServer and CloudPlatform within the Citrix Open Source Business Office and focused on server virtualization and cloud orchestration technical competenci Lars Lehtonen

Presentation: Burnout and Ops Lars Lehtonen has worked as an engineer for the smallest and largest companies in Los Angeles. He is one year shy of having 20 years of Linux experience. Cody Lee

Presentation: Django-style Flask Conference Chairman Texas Linux Festival Senior Network Engineer for WellAware, an Oil and Gas communications, software and data as a service company that I helped co-found. Andrew Vandever

Presentation: Shell Programming Production Engineer Facebook A SoCal native, Andrew now lives with his wife and daughters near San Jose, CA, and has worked in Facebook's Infrastructure organization for over three years, spending time with the general we Matt Ray

Presentation: Chef for OpenStack Cloud Integrations Lead Chef Matt Ray is a Cloud Integrations Lead for the company and open source systems integration platform Chef. Matt Ray

Presentation: Chef: The Swiss Army Knife of Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Integrations Lead Chef Matt Ray is a Cloud Integrations Lead for the company and open source systems integration platform Chef. Miguel Hernandez

Presentation: How To Contribute to Open Source Projects 101 Founder & CEO the OpenMindz Group Miguel Hernandez is a Web Developer and an Open Source Software and Linux Evangelist who promotes the use of open source software for community-building and in bridging the Digital Divide. Arbind Thakur Presentation: Introduction to CoffeeScript Developer Carbon Five Arbind has been developing software professionally for 20 years. He's a Senior Developer at Carbon Five in Santa Monica where he works with CoffeeScript and Ruby every day. Shawn Anderson Presentation: Whirlwind Tour of Writing Games in Ruby. Software Developer Atomic Object Nathan Willis Presentation: The Free Ride Development editor LWN Rikki Endsley

Presentation: You know, for kids! 7 tips for improving tech education in our schools Community Manager USENIX Rikki Endsley is a technology journalist and the USENIX Associationâs community manager. Randal Schwartz

Presentation: My half-life with Perl General Manager Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. Randal L. Schwartz is a renowned expert on the Perl and Smalltalk programming languages, having contributed to a dozen top-selling books on the subject, and over 250 magazine articles. Sean Omeara Presentation: Configuration Management 101 Software Engineer at Chef Chef Sean OMeara has been a systems administrator since he was old enough to type. He's gave up his pager a few years ago and has been mostly consulting ever since. Albert Tobey

Presentation: Managing Cassandra Open Source Mechanic Datastax Al is a father, technologist, musician, and open source advocate working for Datastax. Dmitri Zimine

Presentation: OpenStack vs. VMware - A Systems Administrator Perspective Chief Technology Officer StackStorm Dmitri has led engineering at a number of organizations, most recently leading the vSphere client team at VMware where he also worked on a variety of related projects. Scott Williams

Presentation: CAS and Shibboleth : Open Source Your Identity Programmer Claremont McKenna College Scott Williams is a programmer at Claremont McKenna College on the web development team and maintains the LAMP stack. Dan Yoder

Presentation: Introduction to CoffeeScript Chief Panda Panda Strike Dan Yoder brings over thirty years of experience in all aspects of the software business. Lance Lakey

Presentation: Introduction to CoffeeScript Operations Engineer PandaStrike.com Operations engineer at PandaStrike.com, a consultancy focused on rich client, high-performance Web and mobile experiences and lightweight solutions for big data, focused on CoffeeScript, Node.js, a Jayneil Dalal

Presentation: Open Source Video Editing using OpenShot Technical Writer Intel Jayneil Dalal is an Embedded Linux Engineer/Technical Writer who loves to explore different open source technologies and is currently part of the MinnowBoard.org project. Peter Zaitsev

Presentation: MySQL Indexing: Best Practices CEO Percona Peter is arguably the world's foremost expert in MySQL performance and scaling, with a special expertise in hardware and database internals. Jason Hibbets

Presentation: Open Source ALL The Cities opensource.com project manager Red Hat Jason Hibbets is a project manager in Corporate Marketing at Red Hat where he is the lead administrator, content curator, and community manager for opensource.com. Nate DAmico

Presentation: Increase Configuration Re-use with Service Oriented Design & TDD Nate has been working in the enterprise and mobile software industry for 13 years in various capacities as a developer and product management. Kelley Nielsen

Presentation: Hacking the Kernel, Hacking Myself Developer intern Gnome Foundation/Linux Foundation Kelley is a relatively new kernel developer, who is learning under the excellent guidance of mentors through the Gnome Outreach Program for Women. Jason Sirota

Presentation: Migrating The Knot organization from .NET to Open Source Chief Architect XO Group Inc. (The Knot) Jason Sirota is the Director of Software Architecture for XO Group Inc. (The Knot), a premier media company devoted to weddings, pregnancy and everything in between. Abs Pathak Presentation: High volume metric collection, visualization and analysis Sr Systems Engineer Ticketmaster Abs holds a degree in Computer Science & Engineering from UCLA. Mickey Lyle

Presentation: OpenMW Mickey Lyle is an Ubuntu user, gamer, and open source advocate. Carol Huang Presentation: What's the Value of a Pull Request? Community Marketing Manager MongoDB Carol is a Community Marketing Manager at MongoDB, where she oversees technical webinars and helps engineers with conference proposals. John Hixson

Presentation: Introduction to FreeNAS development Senior software engineer iXsystems, Inc. BSD geek that does geeky BSD things John Willis

Presentation: Alice In Wonderland - Is the Network the Next Frontier for Devops? VP of Customer Enablement StatelessNetworks John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 30 years. Marco Ceppi

Presentation: Getting answers to your questions with Ask Ubuntu DevOps Engineer Canonical, Ltd. Marco Ceppi has been an Ubuntu community member since 2011, an Ask Ubuntu moderator since 2010, and currently works on the Juju Solutions team as an Engineer for Canonical Ltd. Â Tony Anderson Presentation: BERNIE (Basic Educational Resources Needed for Innovative Education) Retired Unaffiliated Retired computer professional with 30 years experience. Working as a volunteer in support of one laptop per child deployments since 2008. Aaron Guzman

Presentation: ZAPping Your Applications Application Security Engineer Fonality, Inc Aaron Guzman is a open source evangelist for Zed Attack proxy otherwise known as ZAP. Much of his free time is taken by participating in Los Angeles information security events. Michael Frysinger

Presentation: A Tale of Two Sims Gentoo A long time Gentoo developer and current GNU Sim maintainer, he currently works at Google on the Chrome OS project. Clint Byrum

Presentation: OpenStack, Deploy thyself - TripleO Senior Cloud/Server Software Engineer HP Cloud After installing Linux on his old i386 from a CD in the back of a Linux book he was given in 1995, Clint went on to be a Linux and open source power user. Kevin Kluge Presentation: Introduction to Elasticsearch VP Engineering Elasticsearch Kevin Kluge is currently VP Engineering at Elasticsearch, the provider of the leading open source search and analytics product of the same name. Lindsey Smith

Presentation: What to Un-Break Next? New Opportunities for IT Automation Product Owner Puppet Labs Nathan Chan Presentation: Introduction to Kali tools: nmap and OpenVAS Project Manager, Security and Audit Services Canaudit, Inc Nathan Chan, CISSP, C|EH, CPT joined Canaudit, Inc this past June. His security experience is in the application security and access control domains. Stephen Frost Presentation: PostgreSQL (System) Administration Principal Database Engineer Resonate Stephen Frost is a PostgreSQL Major Contributor and Committer who implemented the PostgreSQL role system and column-level privileges, and who has made contributions to PL/PgSQL, PostGIS, the Linux Jeffrey Papen

Presentation: If Cloud Scaling Techniques Were Correct, We Would Cut Down Trees With Bags of Termites CEO/Founder Peak Hosting Prior to establishing Peak Hosting, Jeffrey amassed over 20 years experience implementing BGP load-balancing and multihoming policies at both at Y! Jess Males Presentation: What Hollywood Has To Say About SSH Sr Systems Engineer Taos Having had his parents murdered before his eyes, as the family was going to the theatre, young Jess dedicated his life to fight crime. He now works as a systems administrator. James Murdza

Presentation: Unleashing Kids and Teachers James Murdza is a student at Loyola Marymount University and a volunteer with the Unleash Kids Campaign. Justin Garrison Presentation: Really Simple Orchestration with Ansible Systems Administrator Azusa Pacific University Justin is a systems administrator with a passion for automation, security, and scale. He strives to automate himself out of a job and loves taking on hard problems. Joshua Miller

Presentation: Where'd all my memory go? System Administrator Edmunds.com Joshua Miller is a linux system administrator at Edmunds.com, where he pursues infrastructure as code and automation utopia. Rich Bowen

Presentation: Demystifying mod_rewrite OpenStack Community Liaison Red Hat Rich has been contributing to Open Source for 15 years or so. He's a member, and the Executive Vice President, of the Apache Software Foundation, and works on the Apache httpd project. Rich Bowen

Presentation: Write a Better FM OpenStack Community Liaison Red Hat Rich has been contributing to Open Source for 15 years or so. He's a member, and the Executive Vice President, of the Apache Software Foundation, and works on the Apache httpd project. Rich Bowen

Presentation: Measuring your OpenStack Cloud with Ceilometer OpenStack Community Liaison Red Hat Rich has been contributing to Open Source for 15 years or so. He's a member, and the Executive Vice President, of the Apache Software Foundation, and works on the Apache httpd project. Russell Pavlicek Presentation: Securing Your Cloud with the Xen Hypervisor Xen Project Evangelist Citrix Systems A Linux user since 1995 and a long-time Open Source advocate, Russ has spoken at over 50 Open Source events. Corey Quinn Presentation: You Are All Idiots Sr. Technical Consultant Taos Corey is a traveling technical consultant and technical interviewer for Taos. Jeremy Sands

Presentation: The Hotrodder's Guide To Maximum Performance LAMP Proprietor Galt's Gulch Industries, LLC Jeremy is the proprietor of Galt's Gulch Industries, LLC, a company best known for large college sports websites like CSNbbs. Roberto Aguilar Presentation: Automated Deployment with Django, Docker, and Salt Baremetal Industries Roberto Aguilar is a full-stack Internet applications developer and has been part of the entire product lifecycle including design, architecture, implementation, and maintenance. Eugene Clement Presentation: Arduino Powered Balloon While not a kernel hacker (yet), Eugene has participated to 10 of the 11 current SCaLE events. He has managed a group of interested volunteers for more than 15 years. Keila Banks

Presentation: Machinima with OpenShot: Turn your video games into movies Keila Banks is an 11 year old web designer, programmer, videographer and publisher of content making use of mostly open source software. Justin King

Presentation: 3D Animation with Blender Student I am 11 years old and live in Santa Barbara. I have participated in the Open Source community for several years. Diane Mueller Presentation: OpenShift PaaS Anywhere Director, Cloud Evangelism ActiveState Software Diane Mueller is the Director, Cloud Evangelism for ActiveState. She has been designing & implementing financial applications at Fortune 500 corporations for over 20 years. Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph

Presentation: Open Source Systems Administration Automation and Tools Engineer HP Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph is an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP working on the OpenStack Infrastructure team. Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph

Presentation: Code Review for Systems Administrators Automation and Tools Engineer HP Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph is an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP working on the OpenStack Infrastructure team. Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph

Presentation: 5 ways to get involved with Ubuntu today Automation and Tools Engineer HP Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph is an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP working on the OpenStack Infrastructure team. Jim Mlodgenski Presentation: Federated PostgreSQL CEO StormDB Jim Mlodgenski is CEO and co-founder of StormDB. Christophe Pettus

Presentation: JSON in PostgreSQL Director PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. Christophe has been working with PostgreSQL since 1997. He consults through PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. Kirill Kolyshkin

Presentation: Seven problems of Linux Containers OpenVZ / Parallels Kirill Kolyshkin was named leader and project manager for the OpenVZ project in 2005 to further the adoption of containers virtualization for Linux. John Kim

Presentation: Exploring the Open Source Movement Student John Marshall High School My name is John Kim, a 17-year old Korean American and a regular contributor to the Ubuntu community. After finishing homework, I usually learn Java, Vim, and bash on my Ubuntu 12.04. Philip Ballew

Presentation: The Ubuntu Community; Why You Should Join Ubuntu California LoCo leader Ubuntu Philip Ballew is anÂ activeÂ Open SourceÂ advocateÂ in the greater Open SourceÂ community. Brendan Gregg

Presentation: What Linux can learn from Solaris performance, and vice versa Lead Performance Engineer Joyent Brendan Gregg is the lead performance engineer at Joyent, where he analyzes performance and scalability at any level of the software stack. Mike Maki

Presentation: Samba For Dummies IT Specialist National Park Service IT Specialist for the National Park Service and multi-year volunteer for the SCALE tech team. Been using Linux since about 2001. Jordan Sissel Presentation: fpm: Package Software and Be Happy Engineer; Provider of Hugs Elasticsearch Jordan is a hacker in San Jose who has been doing operations and software engineering for 8 years. He practices hate-driven development and gives out hugs upon request. Carlo Flores

Presentation: smoke Director, Software Infrastructure EdgeCast Networks Carlo Flores loves nerdery and co-founded LA DevOps, js.la, and the Downtown Los Angeles Chess Club. Carlo works for EdgeCast Networks. Florian Drescher Presentation: Quickstart into the Amazon Cloud Cloudtrainings Florian has worked for 10 years for various Fortune 500 companies as a software-architect, trainer and mentor. In 2008 he built the infrastructure for a startup in Los Angeles. Ryan Jarvinen

Presentation: A Tour of OpenShift from the Command Line Open Source Evangelist RedHat / OpenShift Ryan Jarvinen is an Open Source Evangelist working with RedHat's OpenShift team. Ryan Jarvinen

Presentation: OpenShift PaaS Anywhere Open Source Evangelist RedHat / OpenShift Ryan Jarvinen is an Open Source Evangelist working with RedHat's OpenShift team. Mark Hinkle

Presentation: Why Open Source and How We are Shaping the Future Senior Director, Cloud Computing Community Citrix Once upon a time, a lot longer ago then he wished Mark Hinkle was born in a small Pennsylvania town and through the most unlikely sequence of events ended up as a technologist involved in the devel Mark Hinkle

Presentation: Welcome to Build a Cloud Day Senior Director, Cloud Computing Community Citrix Once upon a time, a lot longer ago then he wished Mark Hinkle was born in a small Pennsylvania town and through the most unlikely sequence of events ended up as a technologist involved in the devel Thomas Hatch Presentation: Automating CloudStack configuration and deployment using SaltStack CTO Salt Stack, Inc. Thomas is the creator of the Salt infrastructure management system, one of the largest and fastest growing open source projects today. Thomas Hatch Presentation: SaltStack Training CTO Salt Stack, Inc. Thomas is the creator of the Salt infrastructure management system, one of the largest and fastest growing open source projects today. Jono Bacon

Presentation: The Bacon Ubuntu Briefing Ubuntu Community Manager Canonical Jono Bacon is a leading community manager, engineering manager, consultant and author. Mike Day Presentation: Beyond the Hypervisor - A Technical Roadmap for Open Virtualization, Linux, KVM IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Virtualization Architect IBM Open Systems Group Mike Day is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and is the Chief Virtualization Architect for IBM's Open Systems Group. Alex Perry

Presentation: Devices outside the Enterprise Perimeter SRE Google Alex Perry is a Site Reliability Engineer for Google at the Los Angeles office in Venice, CA. Thomas Cameron

Presentation: Next Generation High Availabilty Linux Clustering Chief Architect, Central US Red Hat Thomas Cameron is the chief architect for the central US region at Red Hat. He has been in the IT industry since 1993, and started using Linux in 1995. Thomas Cameron

Presentation: Introduction to patching for the new sysadmin Chief Architect, Central US Red Hat Thomas Cameron is the chief architect for the central US region at Red Hat. He has been in the IT industry since 1993, and started using Linux in 1995. Karsten Wade

Presentation: CentOS Project Q&A Forum Sr. Community Analyst Red Hat Since 2000 Karsten has been teaching and living the open source way (http://TheOpensourceWay.org). Richard Gaskin

Presentation: Getting Started with LiveCode Ambassador Fourth World Systems Richard Gaskin is the owner of Fourth World Systems, a software design and development consultancy in Los Angeles. Don Marti Presentation: Git and Make: not just for code Don Marti is a Technical Marketing Manager at Perforce. He has written for Linux Weekly News, Linux Journal, and other publications. Ruth Suehle

Presentation: Raspberry Pi Hacks Community Marketing Manager Red Hat Ruth Suehle manages the Community Leadership team in Red Hat's Open Source and Standards group, which supports upstream open source software communities. Ruth Suehle

Presentation: The Open Source Alphabet Community Marketing Manager Red Hat Ruth Suehle manages the Community Leadership team in Red Hat's Open Source and Standards group, which supports upstream open source software communities. Joe Brockmeier

Presentation: Understanding Software Collections Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst Red Hat Joe Brockmeier is on the Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team at Red Hat. Brockmeier is an Apache CloudStack PMC member and recovering technology journalist. Joe Brockmeier

Presentation: Welcome and Housekeeping Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst Red Hat Joe Brockmeier is on the Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team at Red Hat. Brockmeier is an Apache CloudStack PMC member and recovering technology journalist. Colin Charles Presentation: MariaDB: Viable MySQL replacement Chief Evangelist MariaDB Colin Charles works at Monty Program Ab, on MariaDB. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had worked at MySQL since 2005. Colin Charles Presentation: Automated MySQL failover with MHA: getting started & moving past its quirks Chief Evangelist MariaDB Colin Charles works at Monty Program Ab, on MariaDB. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had worked at MySQL since 2005. David Kaiser

Presentation: Hadoop 2: Enabling the Modern Data Architecture through efficient multi-tenant workload management. Scalable Data Processing Nerd (Solutions Engineer) Hortonworks David is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Hortonworks, specializing in deployment and application of open-source Hadoop, assisting customers with scalable solutions for data processing and analysis. Antony Curtis

Presentation: Supercharging MySQL/MariaDB with plugins Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn Corp. Antony Curtis is an advocate of Open Source software and long-time user of alternative operating systems. ross brunson Presentation: LPI Exam Cram - LPIC-1 Exam 101 Director LPI Ross has over 15 years experience as a Linux trainer and is author of the popular "LPIC-1 Exam Cram" (QUE Publishing). Jason Brooks

Presentation: How to Assemble A Cutting Edge Cloud Stack With Minimal Bleeding Red Hat Jason Brooks is a software analyst with Red Hat, in the company's Open Source and Standards group. Caryl Bigenho

Presentation: BERNIE (Basic Educational Resources Needed for Innovative Education) Volunteer OLPC and Sugar Labs Caryl Bigenho was born 30 years too soon. David Uhlman Presentation: Hack Your Health CEO ClearHealth Inc. David is a long time advocate, entrepreneur, and author of all things open source. For more than a decade he has been involved with health care and technology. Dawn Foster

Presentation: Lessons about community from science fiction Director of Community Puppet Labs Dawn Foster is the Director of Community for the Puppet community at Puppet Labs. Christefano Reyes Presentation: Building Droplabs: a Business Model for the Open Source Community Organizer and Drupal Adventure Guide Greater Los Angeles Drupal Christefano is one of the Larks at Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal design and engineering firm; and is a founder of Droplabs, a ne Lance Albertson

Presentation: Devops for University Students Director OSU Open Source Lab Lance Albertson is the Director for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) (http://osuosl.org) and has been involved with the Gentoo Linux ( Bradley Kuhn

Presentation: A New Approach to Accounting Software for Non-Profit Organizations Executive Director Software Freedom Conservancy Bradley M. Kuhn is President and Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Deb Nicholson Presentation: Trolls Aren't the Only Threat Under the Bridge Director of Community Outreach Open Invention Network Deb Nicholson works at the intersection of technology and social justice. She has been a free speech advocate, economic justice organizer and civil liberties defender. Deb Nicholson Presentation: Talking to Strangers is Fun Director of Community Outreach Open Invention Network Deb Nicholson works at the intersection of technology and social justice. She has been a free speech advocate, economic justice organizer and civil liberties defender. Howard Chu Presentation: What's New in OpenLDAP CTO, VP R&D Symas Corp. / OpenLDAP Project Howard is the CTO of Symas Corporation and also currently Chief Architect of the OpenLDAP Project and has spoken at conferences across the US and Europe including Usenix/LISA events, UKUUG, Samba X Christopher Webber

Presentation: Puppet Best Practices Infrastructure Engineer Demand Media Christopher Webber has been a systems administrator since 2005. He has worked in academia, supporting California State University, Fresno and the University of California, Riverside. JÃ©rÃ´me Petazzoni

Presentation: How Linux Containers and Docker will change how we develop and deploy apps Docker Tinkerer Extraordinaire Docker Inc. JÃ©rÃ´me Petazzoni works for Docker inc (formerly dotCloud Inc.), where he juggles between evangelist and devops duties. JÃ©rÃ´me Petazzoni

Presentation: Puppet and Docker Docker Tinkerer Extraordinaire Docker Inc. JÃ©rÃ´me Petazzoni works for Docker inc (formerly dotCloud Inc.), where he juggles between evangelist and devops duties. Jorge Castro

Presentation: Service Orchestration in the Cloud with Juju Cloud Community Liason Canonical Ltd./Ubuntu Jorge O. Castro currently works on the Community Team as Cloud Community Liaison for Canonical Ltd, sponsors of the Ubuntu project. Jorge Castro

Presentation: Ubuntu Tips and Tricks for New and Old Cloud Community Liason Canonical Ltd./Ubuntu Jorge O. Castro currently works on the Community Team as Cloud Community Liaison for Canonical Ltd, sponsors of the Ubuntu project. Solomon Chang Presentation: MySQL Security 101 Sr. DBA Oracle ACS Solomon is a MySQL certified DBA and a former director of LAMPSIG. Dave Stokes Presentation: MySQL Scaling -- From 1 to N as easily as possible MySQL Community Manager Oracle Dave Stokes is a MySQL Community Manager for Oracle and previously was the Certification Manager for MySQL AB. Josh Berkus

Presentation: HowToDR CEO PostgreSQL Experts Inc. Josh Berkus is a database geek, best known as a Core Team member of the PostgreSQL Project. Josh Berkus

Presentation: PostgreSQL 9.3 Replication in 10 Minutes CEO PostgreSQL Experts Inc. Josh Berkus is a database geek, best known as a Core Team member of the PostgreSQL Project. Josh Berkus

Presentation: Scale Fail CEO PostgreSQL Experts Inc. Josh Berkus is a database geek, best known as a Core Team member of the PostgreSQL Project. Dru Lavigne Presentation: ZFS 101 (aka ZFS is Cool and Why You Should be Using It) PC-BSD, FreeNAS Dru Lavigne is the lead documentation writer for the PC-BSD and FreeNAS projects. She is author of BSD Hacks, The Best of FreeBSD Basics, and The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD. Kyle Rankin

Presentation: Introduction to DNSSEC Director of Engineering Operations Artemis Internet, Inc. Kyle Rankin is the System Engineering Lead for Artemis Internet, Inc.; the author of DevOps Troubleshooting, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimed Owen DeLong Presentation: Address Planning UPScale IPv6 Evangelist Hurricane Electric Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist at Hurricane Electric and a member of the ARIN Advisory Council. Owen brings more than 25 years of industry experience. Owen DeLong Presentation: IPv6 â Youâve got Questions, Weâve got Answers! IPv6 Evangelist Hurricane Electric Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist at Hurricane Electric and a member of the ARIN Advisory Council. Owen brings more than 25 years of industry experience.