# Program Committee

> The program committee of Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 (October 13-16 2025), who review and select the conference talks.

Source: https://www.flink-forward.org/barcelona-2025/program-committee

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**Program committee**

Barcelona 2025

### About the Program Committee

Our program committee take responsibility for planning and shaping the program of Flink Forward. They make sure to rate talks in different dimensions to create a balanced program including deeply technical talks and high-level use cases. Diversity is also a crucial aspect for the program committee - they strive to improve and support the presence of underrepresented groups at the conference.

## Program committee

- Ben Gamble — Field CTO, Ververica
- Erik Schmiegelow — CEO, Hivemind Technologies
- Steffen Hoellinger — CEO, Airy
- Sujay Jain — Senior Software Engineer, Netflix
- Lorenzo Affetti — Staff Software Engineer, Ververica
- Yuan Mei — Alibaba, Director of Engineering
- Ted Dunning — Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Fellow and CTO for Data Fabric
- Antón Rodríguez Yuste — New Relic, Principal Software Engineer