Graduated and received a Dr. Eng. degree from Info. Eng. Course, Univ. of Tokyo Grad. School, 1983 Professor at Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo.
Professor at Earth Observation Data Integration & Fusion Research Initiative, the University of Tokyo.Director General of National Institute of Informatics (2013-).
Researcher of database engineering, and the main researcher of Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology:Development of the Fastest Database Engine for the Era of Very Large Database and Experiment and Evaluation of Strategic Social Services Enabled by the Database Engine.
President of Information Processing Society of Japan(2013-).
IPSJ Contribution Award, ACM SIGMOD E.F Codd Innovations Award, Medal with Purple Ribbon, IEICE Fellow, IPSJ Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and ACM Fellow.

After working on scalability in computing at international particle physics experiments like ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider, Tom led the creation of a cloud designed for the publicly-funded research sector in Australia. It currently serves thousands of researchers directly, using many data centres over a broad geographical area. Following working as a cloud architecture consultant and team lead for several years, Tom is currently harnessing his passion for large scale distributed systems by focusing on their most important part: people. As Community Manager at the OpenStack Foundation it's his job to make the users and developers of OpenStack happy.

Patrick started in technology as a UNIX systems engineer, working the night shift alone in an operations center, to keep current with technologies he used he started attending the BSD Users Group in Sydney, and discuss technology with peers from other companies. He now works for Puppet Labs covering the entire Asian region as a technical engineer assisting with implementing Puppet Labs technologies, and still finds the time to organise or attend 8 or more community events every month to share, learn, network and of course, to improve himself.

Takashi Kambayashi brought his passion for business to Kasumi Co., Ltd., a leading grocery retailer, in 1998. After establishing himself professionally, he joined UL Systems, Inc. in October 2002 as a board member. This led him to Nautilus Technologies, Inc. in October 2011 where he filled the position of representative vice president. Kambayashi-San has been CEO of Nautilus since April 2012. As lead architect, he has currently been developing the “Asakusa Framework” which aims to improve enterprise-level batch systems using “Hadoop”, a major open source distributed computation framework. Always on the forefront of new ideas, he is working on creating an OSS business enterprise market. This is unique in Japan as Nautilus prides itself on focusing on a direct sales model without using subcontractors.

Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto is a programmer, and the creator of the Ruby language. He started development of Ruby in 1993, so it's actually as old as Java. Now he works as a fellow of Network Applied Communication Laboratory Inc. (NaCl, also known as netlab.jp) which has sponsored Ruby development since 1997, and Rakuten Institute of Technology. He also serves as a chairman at Ruby Association, non-profit organization for supporting Ruby. Since his real name is too long to remember and is difficult for non-Japanese speakers to pronounce right, he uses the nickname Matz on the Net.

Michael Ducy (@mfdii) currently works as an Global Evangelist for Chef focusing on helping companies understand Chef, DevOps, and IT transformation. Previously, Michael focused on designing and implementing automation solutions for customer's Cloud, IT Automation, and Continuous Delivery needs. Michael has also worked in a variety of roles in his career including Cloud Architecture, Systems Engineering , Performance Engineering, and IT Instructor.

Sometimes a software developer, sometimes a trouble- shooting field engineer , working from A to Z for software products. Also working as a translator for O'Reilly Japan. Translated over 20 titles, mostly on big data, cloud computing, software development.

HEARTBEATS Corporation
Founder and CEO

Walti, Inc.
Founder and CEO

After running own private business for two years, I founded HEARTBEATS Corporation in 2005 while studying at university, taking the position of founder and CEO. Worked as an infrastructure engineer for a variety of web systems. Established new company, Walti, Inc. in July 2014, taking the position of founder and CEO. Graduated from the University of Electro-Communications.

Storage Solution Architect, Haruka Iwao (@Yuryu) works as a storage solution architect to advocate software defined storage at Red Hat, namely GlusterFS and Ceph, both of which aim to be a multiple-petabyte scale storage. She also has an experience in running large scale web infrastructure at a social gaming company and a web advertisement company.

2004 Joined Rakuten as a Producer.
2005-2009 Business Unit, QA manager, Marketing Dept, CWD dept etc.
2009 Joined Ichiba Service Development.
2011 Executive Officer of Rakuten.
2014 Dept Mgr of Ichiba Service Development.

Executive Officer of data science in Rakuten. Before Rakuten, he was a theoretical physicist in condensed matter physics where he pioneered the field of non-equilibrium quantum physics especially with ultracold atoms and topological insulators. He has published more than 20 papers in international journals including Science and Nature Physics.

Tsutomu Ogasawara is the leader of the Front-end Technology Team in the Creative and Web Design Department. Since joining Rakuten in 2012, he has led the HTML5 Project aimed to promote HTML5 related technologies throughout Rakuten and developed experimental and production websites and applications such as the Technology Conference site (this site). Since February, he has led the Rakuten Front-end Framework Project. He will explain about the background and future plan of the framework in this session.

Inmar Givoni holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Toronto, Canada. She received her BSc in computer science and computational biology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Prior to working at Kobo, Inmar developed machine learning algorithms for e-commerce applications at Microsoft Research’s Search Labs, computer vision algorithms for the Kinect system, and FPGA place and route optimization algorithms at Altera. In February 2013, Inmar joined Kobo as a Senior Research Scientist in the Big Data team, working on content analysis and web optimization. She has been leading the Big Data team since June 2014. Inmar is the author of numerous publications and patents, including 6 pending Kobo patents.

Koichi Yoshigoe is in charge of Rakuten Cloud Infrastructure (RIaaS) at Rakuten. He joined the company on April 2012 and he is actively working with, and contributing to the OpenStack project.

Ryu Watanabe joined Rakuten in 2009 as an application engineer, since then he has been in charge of Oracle Exalogic evangelization as well as the development and management of OZ, a scratch-build application management tool.

Yosuke Hara is a lead technologist who has been heavily involved in the development of [LeoFS]and NewDB at Rakuten Institute of Technology. His particular interests are the R&D of cloud computing technologies such as distributed computing, distributed database and storage.

Paras Patel is working as Engineer at Rakuten Inc. (DU – Global Operation Department) Actively involved in the open Source project development and support for [LeoFS] and ROMA. His interest area is distributed storage, network and cloud security. He has completed master’s from Mumbai University(India). Currently developing Dropbox like cloud storage for Rakuten Internal use, which is called R-Drive.

Reina Otsuka joined Rakuten in 2010 as a New Graduate.Affiliation: Community Service Development Group
Current job: Application Engineer of Kirei Do Navi
- Developing JAVA web application and so on.

Head of Product Manager of Rakuten Travel. He joined Rakuten last year for the current position. He used to work for Microsoft and be in charge of program manager lead of Windows. Plug and play, Devices&Printers, Devices protocol definition such as USB, Bluetooth, DVD-R/RW,etc and Windows 8 UX for PC settings and charm are his deliverables during that time. He is managing product management team in Rakuten travel.

Takahiro Yamaki joined Rakuten in 2012 as an application engineer. He currently works as an productivity engineer for the Japan RMS Group. He drives the Japan RMS Group Ci-nizaion.

The Rakuten Golden Twins are known for their energetic and entertaining presentations at the Asakai morning meeting. They are looking forward to taking their magic to the Rakuten Tech Conference this year and attendees are surely in for a treat!

Richard Golden is a .NET Web Application Engineer who works with Rakuten eBooks and Kobo. Born in Philadelphia and raised in southern New Jersey, he came to Japan 11 years ago as an English teacher. He then joined a small technology company where he developed a cloud based virtual tour creation system for realtors before finding his way to Rakuten. His hobbies include nutrition and working out and can often be found at the Rakuten Fitness Center with his twin brother Alex in the mornings before work.

Alexander Golden is the lead engineer of the ROOM service. He came to Japan as an English teacher over 10 years ago. He worked as a contract worker at various large companies throughout Tokyo before becoming a regular employee at Rakuten. He enjoys programming, exercising, and spending time with his family.

Ishan works for Viki as a software engineer on the Data team. He works on their Big Data Infrastructure, the real time data processing engine and an internal Experimentation Framework. He graduated in Computer Science from National University of Singapore with a minor in Business from Stanford. Prior to Viki, he developed sound and image processing systems for PayPal, and also worked on the realtime bidding infrastructure for RocketFuel. He has a keen interest in indoor localisation solutions and has developed one himself.

Hiroaki Nakada is an application developer for the Financial Services Department. Since joining Rakuten in 2009, he has developed and operated Rakuten Credit Card Systems. He specializes in Java EE and DevOps architecture, development and operation.

Arshal Ameen is the senior developer of Rakuten Credit Card member service systems. He is leading our development of JEE6 systems for Rakuten Card, Inc. As a development leader he maintains and directs defining and developing of software according to right standards. He speaks often at java user groups and is a prolific blogger. He is specialized in Java, .NET framework and app development for all smartphone platforms. He is a passionate poet and spends most of his free time trekking.