RICON 2012, the two-day Distributed Systems Conference for developers, has got its speaker list confirmed. Basho Technologies, the organizer, today confirmed the speaker lineup for the event to be held October 10-11 in San Francisco, CA. RICON 2012 is dedicated to Riak, developers and the future of distributed systems, and will bring together all relevant people together to explore the use of distributed architectures in production. Evangelists and experts from all across the industry and developer community will speak at the event, with focus on innovations that enable and support distributed architectures.

The conference will have sessions on wide-ranging topics, but again focused on Distributed Systems and Riak, including:

• Using Chef to Manage Distributed Systems
• Building a Transaction Logs-based Protocol on Riak
• Big Data in the Small
• Migrating from MySQL to Riak
• Rebuilding a Bird in Flight
• Building a Social Application on Riak
• Data Structures in Riak
• Modern Radiology for Distributed Systems
• Keep CALM and Query On

Here’s a quick list of the speaker lineup for RICON 2012:

• Dr. Eric Brewer, VP, Infrastructure at Google and Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley
• Gary Flake, CEO at Clipboard.com
• Joseph Hellerstein, Professor at UC Berkeley
• Michael Brodhead, Programmer at Engine Yard
• Michael Bevilacqua-Linn, Principal Engineer at Comcast
• Dana Contreras, Engineer at Twitter. (A report predicted that Twitter will generate more profit from mobile advertising this year in the U.S. than the largest social network in the world, Facebook.)
• Joel Crabb, Chief Architect at BestBuy.com
• Selena Deckelmann, Major Contributor at PostgreSQL
• Tim Douglas, Engineer at Bump Technologies
• Dietrich Featherston, Engineer at Boundary
• Kevin Kluge, Vice President of Products at Citrix. We recently heard Citrix’s Bill Carovano, Sr. Director of Data Sharing, speaking about the “Dropbox problem”, who told about how IT departments must deal with the influx of these apps.
• Anthony Molinaro, Engineer at OpenX
• Will Moss, Engineer at Bump Technologies
• Matt Ranney, Founder and CTO at Voxer
• George Reese, CTO at enStratus
• Theo Schlossnagle, CEO at OmniTI
• Ines Sombra, Engineer at Engine Yard
• Mandi Walls, Evangelist at Opscode

With this many speakers from across the development and operations paradigm, it should be an amazing event with a great deal to talk about. We’ve seen great deal of industry leaders step up to the plate to deliver DevOps oriented products and services. Especially with Citrix appearing after speaking on the subject of solving “The Dropbox Problem” for enterprise and large file collaboration; OpsCode recently raised $19.5 million in Series C to upkeep their foray into DevOps; and, of course, Google is a surprising industry leader who don’t speak often on the subject, but would certainly have a lot to say.