We are excited to announce about our selection out of the many high quality CFP proposals we received. The decision wasn’t easy, and yet, we believe that our selection reflects our desire to focus on the edge. Our conference for 2021 includes 9 sessions, delivered by the following speakers.
Gajendra uses Python extensively for teaching and research, and is a well known speaker with a rich record, including talks at well known python conferences, such as PyData Global, EuroPython, PyCon India, SciPy India, PyCon FR, and JuliaCon. Gajendra uses Python to develop prototypes in the field of Cyber Security, and he leads the PyData and the OWASP developers communities in Belagavi, India. Gajendra loves to mentor and to volunteer at Free and Open Source events.
Vladimir is the Head of the Crowdsourcing Tools Development Group at Toloka, which is a crowdsourcing platform. Vladimir started as a developer at Yandex and worked with big data: improving ad matching quality and moderation. Working at Toloka, Vladimir focuses on the development of the Toloka-Kit and Crowd-Kit libraries. Vladimir also lectures about algorithms and data structures at the Higher School of Economics.
Motti served as a software developer in the Israeli Air Force, developing post-flight debriefing & training software. Before joining Aspecto, Motti worked in multiple startups and was responsible for building and scaling their infrastructure. Among them, was a Lead Software Engineer at Chorus. Currently, Motti is a software developer at Aspecto, a distributed tracing platform.
Ehsan is an entrepreneur, computer science researcher, and software engineer working on democratization of High-Performance Computing (HPC) for data analytics/AI/ML. Ehsan received his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working on various aspects of HPC and Parallel Computing. He then worked as a research scientist at Intel Labs and Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on programming systems to address the gap between programmer productivity and computing performance.
Haim Michael has started coding when he was 8 years old. During the years 2001 – 2007 Haim lead the development of more than 200 applications and games for mobile telephones, together with their complementary server-side applications. Haim focuses on programming languages, and his rich knowledge and experiences span over more than 25 years. Haim is a PHP Zend Certified Engineer, OMG-Certified UML Professional, Certified Java Professional, and a Certified Java EE Web Components Developer. In addition, Haim Michael holds an MBA (cum-laude) from Tel-Aviv University.
Krishna Lodha is a freelance web GIS developer focusing on Open source technologies. Apart from his freelancing career, he also writes blogs and created videos about GIS on his YouTube channel.