Jeff Markham
Technical Director, APAC Hortonworks, Inc.

Jeff Markham is the Technical Director, APAC for Hortonworks Inc., creators of the only 100% open source Hadoop distribution. Previously, he was with VMware, Red Hat, and IBM helping companies build distributed applications with distributed data.

He's written articles on Java application development and has spoken at several conferences and Hadoop User Groups. Jeff has contributed to Apache Pig, Apache HDFS, and Apache Ambari. He's also a co-author of the book Apache Hadoop YARN: Moving Beyond MapReduce and Batch Processing with Apache Hadoop 2.

Christine Dizon
Information Management Practice Lead, SAS Philippines

Christine's role is to provide support to the Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines across the technology dimension. The technologies addressed by Christine include Data Integration, Intelligence Storage, Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics.

Christine has over 10 years experience in Business Analytics. Her experience includes market research, training, implementation, business consulting and development with project exposures across financial services, telecommunications, retail and manufacturing industries.  Christine is a multi-awarded SAS Pacific Club Excellence recipient, and a trusted advisor to a number of SAS customers."