Carlyna Bondiombouy
Carlyna Bondiombouy is a big data consultant at Ysance, Paris. Previously, she was a doctoral researcher at Inria in the Zenith Inria team, Montpellier, working on big data integration and polystore systems. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from University of Montpellier in 2017, a Master degree from University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar (Senegal) in 2013, and a BSc degree from IAI, Libreville (Gabon) in 2010. She has published several papers in international journals and conferences on big data, databases and cloud computing. She was awarded the best Ph.D. thesis among fellowship students of the Congolese government in 2017.
Patrick Valduriez
Senior scientist at Inria, expert in data science and information systems, international consultant. Ph.D. in Computer Science (University Paris 6, 1981). He has published more than 400 papers in international journals and conferences and several books, including the standard textbook on Distributed Database Systems. He received the 1993 IBM scientific prize, the best VLDB 2000 paper award and the 2014 Innovation prize from Inria – French Academy of Science – Dassault Systems. He is an ACM Fellow.