Schedule
The following list contains further information on speakers that were invited for Berlin Buzzwords. The call for presentations is still running, so if you would like to give a talk on your favourite topic, do not hesitate to submit a proposal. The final schedule will be published after the submission deadline is over.
Keynote speakers
 | Grant Ingersoll is a founder and member of the technical staff at Lucid Imagination. Grant's programming interests include information retrieval, machine learning, text categorization, and extraction. Grant is the co-founder of the Apache Mahout machine-learning project, as well as a committer and speaker on both the Apache Lucene and Apache Solr projects. He is also the co-author of Taming Text (Manning, forthcoming) covering open source tools for natural-language processing. |
| Pieter Hintjens is the founder of iMatix Corporation. He was principal author of the AMQP middleware standard and main developer of the OpenAMQ middleware server. In 2005, Pieter was elected president of the FFII, the association fighting for a fair and free information infrastructure. He started the CAPSoff campaign as an example of 'wikiturfing'; running a grassroots campaign using only free internet tools. In 2006 Pieter launched the European Patent Conference (EUPACO) to discuss and define a new European patent system. He founded the European Software Market Association to represent the independent software market in Europe in 2007 and is currently General Secretary of Esoma. In 2007 he founded the Digital Standards Association to promote open IT standards. From 2007-2010 Pieter was CEO of Wikidot Inc., a US firm that develops the popular Wikidot.com web platform. |  |
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