# Speakers

> Speakers at Flink Forward Berlin 2024 (October 21-24 2024): the people presenting talks on Apache Flink® and streaming data.

Source: https://www.flink-forward.org/berlin-2024/speakers

Apache Flink® & everything streaming data

**Speakers**

Berlin 2024

### About the speakers

Meet the experts from global companies like Apple, Pinterest, Uber, Netflix, Bloomberg, and more, who have built scalable streaming infrastructure and enterprise-grade applications.

Hear why and how they use Flink as the stream processing engine of choice for large-scale stateful applications, including real-time analytics, real-time search and content ranking, fraud/anomaly/threat detection.

## Speakers

- Zhenqiu Huang — Software Engineeer, Apple
- Mike Gualtieri — VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
- Yang Yang — Sr Staff Software Engineer, Uber
- Lu Niu — Sr Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest
- Ejas Khan — Senior Technical Lead, Mercedes-Benz
- Subham Rakshit — Streaming Solution Architect, AWS
- Stephan Ewen — CTO, Ververica
- Pawel Leszczynski — Openlineage contributor, Astronomer
- Yuan Mei — Alibaba, Director of Engineering
- Xintong Song — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Xingcan Cui — Software Engineer, Promoted.ai
- Tucker Harvey — Software Engineer, Pinterest
- Chen Qin — Sr Manager, Pinterest
- Steffen Hoellinger — CEO, Airy
- Samuel von Baussnern — Consultant, Lead Developer & Tech Lead, D-ONE
- Sai Sharath Dandi — Senior Software Engineer, Uber
- Roee Hasson — Engineering Lead, DockTech
- Pedro Mázala — Principal Engineer, Evoura
- Duy Canh Tran — Senior Data Engineer, Grab
- Ng Shi Kai — Lead Software Engineer, Grab
- Nhat Nguyen — Senior Software Engineer, Grab
- Robin Stephenson — Software Engineer, Marshall Wace
- Mohsin Niazi — Software Engineer, Marshall Wace
- Mayank Juneja — Product Manager, Stream Processing, Confluent
- Hao Li — Staff Software Engineer, Confluent
- Maximilian Michels — Software Engineer, Apple
- Maciej Bryński — Data Architect, Cledar
- Lincoln Lee — Staff Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Leonard Xu — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Karin Landers — Product Marketing Manager, Ververica
- JinYun Soo — Software Engineer, Bloomberg
- Jingsong Li — PMC Chair of Apache Paimon, PMC member of Apache Flink, Head of Alibaba Open-source Data Lake Platform team, Alibaba Group
- Jark Wu — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Ioannis Stavrakantonakis — Staff Software Engineer, Ververica
- Giannis Polyzos — Staff Streaming Architect, Ververica
- Flaviu Cicio — Architect, Acosom
- Robin Fehr — Software Architect / Co-Founder, Acosom
- Sharon Xie — Founding Engineer and Product Lead, Decodable
- Eric Xiao — Senior Software Engineer, Decodable
- Dunith Dhanushka — Senior Developer Advocate, Redpanda
- Dominik Žnidaršič — Lead Developer
- Sijie Guo — Founder, StreamNative
- Christos Anagnostakis — Freelance Enterprise Architect
- Ben Augarten — Software Engineer, Stripe
- Pratyush Sharma — Software Engineer, Stripe
- Aratz Manterola Lasa — Software Engineer, WarpStream
- Ramesh Motaparthy — Principal Software Engineer, New Relic
- Antón Rodríguez — Principal Software Engineer, New Relic
- Medi van Broekhoven — Sr. Product Owner, SALTO
- Alper Basaran — Data Lead, SALTO
- Alireza Moosavi — Data Engineer, SALTO
- Ali Alemi — Streaming Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS
- Alex Balfur — VP Product, Datorios
- Colten Pilgreen — Flink Advisor, Datorios
- Ben Gamble — Field CTO, Ververica
- Gunnar Morling — Senior Staff Software Engineer, Decodable
- David Anderson — Software Practice Lead, Confluent
- Gyula Fora — Software Engineer, Cloudera
- Shai Somekh — Product Manager, Datorios
- Fulvio Pascotto — Data Architect Tech Lead, Intesa SanPaolo
- Raffaele Saggino — Senior IT Infrastructure Architect, Intesa Sanpaolo
- Andrea Fonti — Data Architect, Agile Lab
- Rozarta Caka — Software Engineer, Intesa Sanpaolo
- Oleksii Pominovskyi — IT Project manager, Uniper
- Sudha Ramraj — Senior Technical Consultant, Uniper
- Jing Ge — CTO & Apache Flink PMC, Ververica
- Feng Wang — Senior Director, Alibaba
- Siddhartha Choudhury — Senior Product Manager, Booking.com
- Mark Pybus — Chief Data Officer, Evoura
- Erik Schmiegelow — CEO, Hivemind Technologies
- Filip Yonov — Head of Streaming Data, Aiven
- Hans-Peter Grahsl — Developer Advocate, Decodable