# Program Committee

> The program committee of Flink Forward Seattle 2023 (November 6-8 2023), who review and select the conference talks.

Source: https://www.flink-forward.org/seattle-2023/program-committee

The Apache Flink® Conference

**Program committee**

Seattle 2023

## 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

- Jing Ge — CTO & Apache Flink PMC, Ververica
- Robert Metzger — Co-founder, Engineering Lead, Ververica
- Ramayan Tiwari — Engineering Lead, Netflix
- Matteo Merli — CTO, StreamNative
- Lakshmi Rao — Software Engineer, Lyft
- Jark Wu — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Chen Qin — Sr Manager, Pinterest
- Becket Qin — Principal Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
- Francesco Tisiot — Staff Developer Advocate, Aiven