# Speakers

> Speakers at Flink Forward Virtual 2020 (April 22-24 2020): the people presenting talks on Apache Flink® and streaming data.

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

**Virtual 2020 Speakers**

## About the speakers

Meet the experts from global companies like Apple, Pinterest, Splunk, Netflix, Shopify, 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

- Abhay Amin — Netflix
- Ahmet Altay — Software Engineer, Google
- Andrew Torson — Principal Data Engineer, Salesforce
- Ankit Jhalaria — Godaddy
- Austin Cawley-Edwards — Senior Software Engineer, FinTech Studios
- Becket Qin — Principal Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
- Bowen Li — Senior Enigneer, Alibaba
- Catlyn Kong — Yelp
- Fabian Hueske — Co-founder, Software Engineer, Ververica
- Fakrudeen Ali Ahmed — Architect, Adobe
- Flavio Paiva Junqueira — Dell
- Gihoon Yeom — Hyperconnect
- Griselda Cuevas — Google
- Gyula Fora — Software Engineer, Cloudera
- Hwanju Kim — AWS
- Jaehyeuk Oh — Azar, Matchmaking, Recommendation, Hyperconnect
- Jagannathrao Mudda — Netflix
- Jesse Anderson — Managing Director, Big Data Institute
- Jincheng Sun — Alibaba Group
- Justin Cunningham — Netflix
- Kenny Gorman — Co-Founder and CEO, Eventador.io
- Konstantin Knauf — Senior Solutions Architect, Ververica
- Markos Sfikas — Ververica
- Micah Wylde — Lyft
- Mike Solomon — Meeshkan
- Neng Lu — StreamNative
- Piotr Nowojski — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Piyush Narang — Staff Development Lead, Criteo
- Praveen Gattu — AWS
- Ramayan Tiwari — Engineering Lead, Netflix
- Reza Rokni — Google
- Robert Crowe — Data Scientist, Google
- Samantha Chan — Cogility
- Scott Kidder — Mux
- Seth Wiesman — Solutions Architect, Ververica
- Teng (Niel) Hu — Uber
- Timo Walther — Principal Software Engineer, Confluent
- Timothy Farkas — Netflix
- Tirtha Chatterjee — AWS
- Tom Kaitchuck — Dell
- Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Weiwei Yang — Cloudera
- Wilfred Spiegelenburg — Cloudera
- Xue Kang — DiDi
- Yang Wang — Alibaba Group
- Ying Xu — Lyft
- Youjun Yuan — Baidu
- Yu Qian — Weibo
- Zili Chen — Tencent
- Marton Balassi — Manager, Streaming Analytics, Cloudera
- Eric Sammer — Distinguished Engineer, Decodable
- Joe Witt — VP Engineering, Cloudera
- Stephan Ewen — CTO, Ververica
- Jeff Zhang — Alibaba
- Kailash Hassan Dayanand — Lyft
- Matyas Orhidi — Software Engineer, Cloudera
- Jark Wu — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Kurt Young — Staff Engineer, Alibaba
- Srikanth Satya — Vice President of Engineering, Dell EMC
- Yuan Mei — Alibaba, Director of Engineering
- Aslam Tajwala — VP of Engineering, Cogility
- Xiaowei Jiang — Senior Director, Alibaba