# Program Committee

> The program committee of Flink Forward Virtual 2020 (April 22-24 2020), who review and select the conference talks.

Source: https://www.flink-forward.org/virtual-2020/program-committee

**Virtual 2020 Program committee**

## 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

- Fabian Hueske — Co-founder, Software Engineer, Ververica
- Marton Balassi — Manager, Streaming Analytics, Cloudera
- Julia Bennett — Senior Data Engineer, Netflix
- Sijie Guo — Founder, StreamNative
- Enrico Canzonieri — Tech Lead of Data Infrastructure, Yelp
- Marta Paes Moreira — Developer Advocate, Ververica
- Ryan Nienhuis — Senior Product Manager, AWS
- Jiangjie (Becket) Qin — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba
- Eric Sammer — Distinguished Engineer, Decodable
- Caito Scherr — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Sherin Thomas — Software Engineer, Lyft