Alexander Dean, Valentin Crettaz

Alexander Dean  is co-founder and technical lead of Snowplow Analytics, an open source event processing and analytics platform. Valentin Crettaz  is an independent IT consultant who's been working for the past 25 years on many different challenging projects across the globe. His expertise ranges from software engineering and architecture to data science and business intelligence. His daily job boils down to leveraging the latest and most cutting-edge web, data, and streaming technologies to implement IT solutions that will help reduce the cultural gap between IT and business people.