Dave Dyer is a disrupter, an innovative thinker, and a deconstructor of assumptions. He vigorously evangelizes the benefits of applying scientific principles to difficult-to-solve problems (for instance, modern cybersecurity). He is a security veteran and became devoted to the power of data analysis while doing plasma physics research in the CU Boulder astrophysics program. Dave is currently a use case developer/Splunk engineer/security data nerd for a large healthcare organization. In his off time, he enjoys kiteboarding, long walks on the beach, talking about his feelings, and attempting to raise a decent human being (okay, only two of those are true).
Dr. Rudy Deca, is a resourceful goal-oriented problem-solver and technology user. He obtained a master's degree in computer science from Concordia University and a Ph D degree from the University of Montreal, Canada. He works as a network engineer at Morgan Stanley. He was employed by Nokia, Cisco, Miranda Technologies, General DataComm, and so on. His interests include network management, monitoring, automation, tools, development, instrumentation, scripting and object-oriented programming. He published a book and a dozen review and conference articles on network management.
Dr. Benoit Hudzia is a Cloud/system architect working on designing the next generation Cloud technology as well as running the Irish operations for Stratoscale.
Previously, he worked as a senior researcher-architect for SAP on HANA Enterprise Cloud.
Benoit has authored more than 20 academic publications and is also the holder of numerous patents in the domain of virtualization, OS, Cloud, distributed system, and so on. His code and ideas are included in various SAP commercial solutions as well as open source solutions, such as Qemu/KVM Hypervisor, Linux Kernel, Openstack.
His research currently focuses on bringing together the flexibility of virtualization, Cloud, and high-performance computing (also known as the "Lego Cloud"). This framework aims at providing memory, I/O, and CPU resource disaggregation of the physical server while enabling dynamic management and aggregation capabilities to Linux native applications as well as to Linux/KVM VMs using commodity hardware.
H Robert King is an engineer who has written software for a variety of hardware in about a dozen languages and has been building human-computer interfaces longer than he cares to admit—as he says, he has "a very particular set of skills, skills [he's] acquired over a very long career"—and at this point in his career, he tries to keep his more creative activities confined to his Github account and his blog.
