Rasmus' talk will cover various performance-related topics with a focus on Drupal.
Rasmus Lerdorf is known for creating the PHP project in 1995 and he has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. Rasmus was most recently an infrastructure architect at Yahoo! for over 7 years before joining WePay in 2010. He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo. You can follow @rasmus on Twitter.
Vilas Dhar is a co-founder and partner at Dhar Law, LLP. Vilas represents clients in a wide variety of corporate transactions, including representing buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies, as well as investors and issuers in early stage investments. Vilas is very active in the technology entrepreneurship community, advising startups on matters related to formation, seed financing, and intellectual property protection.
since 2008 working at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs - yes, there IS an Office for Outer Space Affairs! at UN-SPIDER, yep, another nice acronym you never would imagine what's behind, so I'm telling you: United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response, ...and since noone could remember or rather vocalise UN-PfSbIfDMaER, and UN-SPIDER did sound a lot cooler, we're all Spidermen since then.