As a keynote speaker for Cephalocon 2020, I would
like to recommend
Professor Yeom in Seoul National University(SNU) for two reasons.
(
https://dblp.org/pers/hd/y/Yeom:Heon_Young)
First of all, Prof. Yum is one of the few distributed storage system experts
in Korea who has published a number of outstanding research papers that have
been recognized by major academic conferences such as ATC, FAST etc. In
addition, he is interested in Open Source, and many of his students,
including myself, are now working for the related industries. Therefore, it
is helpful for Professor Yeom's presence to raise Ceph's status.
Secondly, as the Ceph conference will be held in here, Korea, it is
necessary to select a keynote speaker considering the sentiments of Koreans.
The attendance of academic experts as keynote speakers is better for
attracting Koreans' attention and participation than focusing on related
industry speakers. Moreover, considering the status of Seoul National
University in Korea, Professor Yeom will be the best option.
I think this sounds like a great option... what does everyone else think?
(Note that Myoungwon is conflicted has he is a student there and has
published papers with these professors.)