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GigaOM's Structure:Data 2013 Conference Schedule
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2. DAY 1, Wednesday, March 20, 2013
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
8:30 - Opening Remarks
Moderated by:
Chris Albrecht, Creative Director, GigaOM
Speakers:
Om Malik, Founder and Senior Writer, GigaOM
Derrick Harris, Senior Writer, GigaOM
Jo Maitland, Director, GigaOM Research
3. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
8:40 AM - The golden needle in the haystack: why your next product is already out
there
In this fireside chat we talk with two businesses that are making the most of big
data to create disruptive products that improve people's lives and improve the
access to operating capital for America's small businesses.
Moderated by:
Stacey Higginbotham, Senior Writer, GigaOM
Speakers:
Robert Frohwein, CEO, Kabbage
Douglas Merrill, Founder and CEO, ZestFinance
4. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
9:00 AM - Fail Whale to investing: emerging application patterns
After successful runs with both Microsoft and Palm and after being an
entrepreneur, Michael Abbott joined Twitter with the task of killing the infamous
Fail Whale. He managed to do just that, while simultaneously scaling from 55
million tweets per day to 230 million tweets at his departure. Abbott is an
engineering leader who now has taken a seat at the other side of the table and is
investing with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Find out application and
infrastructure trends that Abbott is seeing as an investor, given his unique and
high-profile background.
Moderated by:
Om Malik, Founder and Senior Writer, GigaOM
Speakers:
Michael Abbott, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
5. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
9:20 AM - Hyperconnected big data: How SDN will shape sharing ecosystems
SDN and big data are two big themes in technology. In this talk we discuss what a
mature approach to using SDN will look like in the context of enabling an
ecosystem of participants to work with data that would normally be too prohibitive
to move around.
Speaker:
Jennifer Lin, Product Management Lead, Juniper Networks
6. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
9:30 AM - Augmenting algorithms with human input
Eric Berlow is a leading researcher in the field of complex systems in ecology. In
this talk he covers how he is innovating new ways to combine human intelligence
with computer algorithms to attack complex problems in a shorter time frame.
Speakers:
Eric Berlow, Founder, Vibrant Data Labs
7. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
9:50 AM - What does collaboration among humans and machines really look like?
Recent trends indicate that the most effective way forward for the next few years
will be for machines to augment human thinking and cognition. We talk to two
leading machine-learning experts and explore what the impacts will be for the
workplace and those implementing systems to aid human decision making.
Moderated by:
Derrick Harris, Senior Writer, GigaOM
Speakers:
Scott Brave, Founder and CTO, Baynote
Timothy Estes, Founder and CEO, Digital Reasoning
Jan Puzicha, Co-Founder and CTO, Recommind
8. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
10:10 AM - Where is the big data industry going?
In this talk, industry thought leader Sean Gourley discusses the future of big data,
the major trends that will shape it and the products supplied to you and your
company.
Speakers:
Sean Gourley, CTO, Quid
10. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOPS
10:45 AM - Microsoft Sponsor Workshop - Oceanic Suite
Tools to turn emergencies into knowledge: turning 911 into 411
It is expected to be the worst flu outbreak in years, but this type of epidemic can
be recognized and tracked earlier with the right tools. Ascribe, a leading supplier
of clinically focused IT solutions and Microsoft partner, is using Microsoft‘s big
data solutions to turn emergencies into actionable data.
Speaker:
Stephen Critchlow, CEO, Ascribe
11. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOPS
10:45 AM - SnapLogic Sponsor Workshop - Aquitania West Suite
Top 10 challenges of making big data real – and tips to overcome them
Everyone‘s trying to build actionable big data solutions, but most get mired in the
complexity of big data technologies. Learn practical do‘s and don‘ts from cloud
integration leader SnapLogic so you can reach the holy grail of big insights by
stitching together the right data from cloud and on-prem apps.
12. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOPS
10:45 AM - Platfora Sponsor Workshop - Aquitania East Suite
Exploring the Hadoop data reservoir, lessons from practitioners
The world is going through a data awakening and enterprises are looking for ways
to get the most out of their data. Hadoop has emerged as an inexpensive,
efficient, and scalable central repository, or ―data reservoir." Learn how
organizations enact this vision to access and explore all data, without limitation.
Moderated by:
Mike Dauber, Principal, Battery Ventures
Speaker:
Ben Werther, Founder and CEO, Platfora
14. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
11:50 AM - Improving your primary product with big data insights
Aetna is a model company for its pioneering work using big data, from analyzing
insights to improving its patient care and lower operational costs, to creating the
first foundations of innovations such as individual medicine. This is a must-attend
talk to learn the technologies, practices and strategies that could be applied to
your business, too.
Moderated by:
Ki Mae Heussner, Staff Writer, GigaOM
Speakers:
Michael Palmer, Head of Innovation, Aetna
15. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
12:10 PM - Pivotal moments in technology
Paul Maritz is one of the smartest executives and truly a legend in the technology
industry. We are thrilled to welcome him in this exclusive fireside chat about the
most important initiatives he sees taking place in the software-infrastructure
industry and how he's helping to make customers with growing big data demands
happy.
Moderated by:
Om Malik, Founder and Senior Writer, GigaOM
Speakers:
Paul Maritz, Chief Strategist, EMC
16. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
12:30 PM - The CIA's "grand challenges" with big data
Sensors, agents and an Internet of Things are all producing data, all of the time. It
would be a vast understatement to say that the CIA has experience in acquiring,
handling and analyzing big quantities of data. In this talk, the CTO of the CIA will
talk about the scale of the problems his team deals with now, the coming inflection
point in the increase in data, the grand challenges we face and why an emphasis
on analytics is critical for the future. This is a talk not to be missed.
Speakers:
Ira ―Gus‖ Hunt, CTO, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
18. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOP
1:05 PM - IBM Sponsor Workshop - Oceanic Suite
The big deal about big data: how to boost your analytics IQ
IBM has worked with hundreds of clients to identify the highest impact big data
analytics use cases. Learn from the author of ―Harnessing the Power of Big Data‖
about these use cases and the technologies needed to turn big data into a
competitive advantage.
Speakers:
Paul Zikopoulos, Director, Information Management WW Technical
Professionals, IBM
19. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOP
1:05 PM - Oracle Sponsor Workshop - Aquitania West Suite
Delivering actionable business insight through comprehensive big data analysis
Without deep integrated analytics, big data is just a collection of bytes. But
analyzing big data fully to extract maximum actionable business insight is
complex. Learn how Oracle‘s big data analytics platform enables comprehensive
analytics both on Hadoop and in database with support for both SQL and R.
Speakers:
Gokula Mishra, VP, Advanced Analytics and Big Data, Oracle
20. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOP
1:05 PM - Mu Sigma Sponsor Workshop - Aquitania East Suite
Leveraging big data to drive customer acquisition and loyalty
Analytics based on actual purchase trends trumps methods using simple
demographic data. This session will focus on MasterCard's anonymous and
aggregated consumer purchase data and Mu Sigma‘s analytics aptitude to show
how data enrichment is being incorporated into business decisions such as
location expansion, benchmarking to competitors, and defining "best" customers.
Speakers:
Zubin Dowlaty, VP, Head of Innovation and Development, Mu Sigma
Gary Kearns, Group Executive, Information Services, MasterCard
Advisors
21. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
1:50 PM - GigaOM Research Mapping Session - Aquitania West Suite
Cloud databases
The cloud database-as-a-service market has exploded with new entrants as well
as offerings from the industry giants. This session will explore different options
and use cases, how the market is segmenting, and who will be around five years
from now. Who are the key players today, and who are the biggest targets for
acquisition?
Speakers:
Andrew Brust, Analyst, GigaOM Research
David Linthicum, Analyst, GigaOM Research
22. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
1:50 PM - Innovating algorithms through human competition
Cracking the clever algorithm is an unbeatable business advantage, the new
secret recipe of the IT age. Competitions have shown to be powerful mechanisms
for enterprises to employ to create rapid innovations in a solution space at a fast
rate and very low cost. In this session we talk to a leading data scientist and a
leading business school academic about their innovations for groups like NASA
and Fortune 500 companies.
Moderated by:
Mathew Ingram, Senior Writer, GigaOM
Speakers:
Karim Lakhani, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Mike Lydon, CTO, TopCoder
23. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
2:10 PM - Turning your data into an executive on your team
At the end of the day, big data insights are delivered by applications to people,
systems and groups to be of any use. One of the most important strategies is to
treat data as one of the core decision makers in the organization. In this talk, we
bring together a leader of big data at IBM and the head of enterprise data
architecture at NYSE Euronext to explain their successes in big data analytics,
giving them the ability to ensure the integrity and fairness of its exchange.
Moderated by:
Barb Darrow, Senior Writer, GigaOM
Speakers:
Phil Francisco, VP, Big Data Product Management, IBM
Emile Werr, Head of Enterprise Data Architecture, NYSE Euronext
24. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
2:30 PM - Big data bottlenecks: what we need to be aware of
We discuss technology limits, processes and the decision legacies of the past. We
sit down with the two leading scientists who coined the phrase "data science" and
pioneered the field at Facebook and LinkedIn to get a survey of the issues they
see impeding the progress of data science in the near term. Don't miss it!
Moderated by:
Derrick Harris, Senior Writer, GigaOM
Speakers:
Jeff Hammerbacher, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Cloudera
DJ Patil, Data Scientist In Residence, Greylock Ventures
25. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
2:50 PM - The missing manual for data science: remix. reuse. reproduce
As computational models and statistical methods catch up with the sizable data
sources available to today‘s data science teams, this talk will introduce the
importance of capturing, sharing and remixing data-intensive pipelines. From
reproducing old workflows, to prototyping new machine learning against disparate
data, the ability to combine executable environments with utility computing
platforms has the opportunity to greatly accelerate the pace of innovation in ‗big
data‘ applications. This talk will outline some real world examples and benefits of
remixing, reusing and programming for reproducibility.
Speakers:
Matt Wood, Principal Data Scientist, Amazon Web Services
26. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
3:10 PM - Active networks: thinking beyond just advertising for machine learning
Machine learning over large data stores to serve up ads inside social networks is
hardly new. But what if those systems instead focused on creating high-value
human networks to coordinate action and solve problems? Hear from industry
experts who are building a new generation of big data learning for purposeful,
active networks.
Moderated by:
Jo Maitland, Director, GigaOM Research
Speakers:
Jeffrey Davitz, CEO, Solariat
David Gutelius, Chief Social Scientist, Jive Software
28. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOPS
3:45 PM - Basho Technologies Sponsor Workshop - Oceanic Suite
Volume, velocity and variety of data in the wild
Every organization has unique requirements, and selecting the right technologies
is critical to turning the "volume, velocity and variety" of data into revenue. Hear
stories, knowledge, and insight from an expert panel on what storage and
analytics systems they are running in production, and how their decisions impact
company success.
Moderated by:
Tom Santero, Technical Evangelist, Basho Technologies
29. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOPS
3:45 PM - Recommind Sponsor Workshop - Aquitania West Suite
Rise of the machines: Recommind‘s technology understands unstructured data using machine
learning
Recommind‘s technology was built from the ground up and provides organizations with a
strategic advantage by intuitively and proactively extracting highly valuable knowledge and
insights from vast amounts of disjointed, heterogeneous data using machine learning. Listen
to how industry leaders take on large volume, compliance and information governance
challenges using Recommind‘s CORE platform to both manage and analyze all data types.
Speakers:
Craig Carpenter, VP Marketing and Business Development, Recommind
Dianne Kelley, Director, Records Management, Viacom
Truman Prewitt, Sr. Product Manager, Recommind
Bob Tenant, CEO, Recommind
Martin Tuip, Product Marketing Manager, Recommind
30. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOPS
3:45 PM - Splunk Sponsor Workshop - Aquitania East Suite
How ADP turns big data into real-time operational insights
Machine data contains a critical record of activity, from customer transactions to
device usage. In this talk, Automatic Data Processing (ADP), one of the world‘s
leading human resources and payroll outsourcing solutions, describes how it uses
big data to drive superior customer experience and a 360 degree view of mobile
services.
Speakers:
Rahul Deshmukh, Director Product Marketing, Splunk
Jigesh Saheba, Enterprise Architect, ADP
31. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
4:30 PM - Addressing the tension between personalization and privacy
Every day you give your data willingly. There is no oversight, no ethics and little
regard for guidelines. So what gives? Money or ethics? And what will be the
impact on all the business models out there?
Moderated by:
Phil Hendrix, Director, immr and Analyst, GigaOM Research
Speakers:
Ken Chahine, SVP and GM, DNA, Ancestry.com
Naveen Jain, Founder and CEO, inome
David Shim, Founder and CEO, Placed
32. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
5:00 PM - Creating data sharing ecosystems
The technology industry continues to innovate ways to store and secure your
masses of data. But what about sharing with your customers and suppliers? What
are the principles and practices that you can employ to create successful data-
sharing ecosystems that make the data more useful and improve the business
context all around? We'll examine the current problems and where the future
areas of opportunity lie.
Moderated by:
Barb Darrow, Senior Writer, GigaOM
Speakers:
William Gerhardt, Director, Service Provider Practice Internet Business
Solutions Group, Cisco Systems
Robert Jenkins, Co-Founder and CTO, CloudSigma
33. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
5:20 PM - Big ideas
The GigaOM editorial team has handpicked speakers who embody great ideas
that are shaping our industry.
Speakers:
Rami Branitzky, CEO, Numenta
Doug Daniels, CTO, Mortar Data
Stephen Messer, Vice Chairman, Collective[i]
Arijit Sengupta, CEO, BeyondCore
Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan, Founder and CEO, ClearStory Data
Gurjeet Singh, Co-Founder and CEO, Ayasdi
36. DAY 2, Thursday, March 21, 2013
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
8:50 AM - OPENING REMARKS
Speakers:
Chris Albrecht, Creative Director, GigaOM
37. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
8:55 AM - Machine learning and language — just a hop away from the enterprise evolutionary
leap
A part of a modern enterprise's core data value is codified in stored electronic documents.
Wouldn't it be great if your machines could read, understand and answer natural language
queries on them? Conversational user interfaces and natural language processing are now
possible. By applying a mix of machine learning and the manual task of defining what some of
the information means, business users will be able to ask questions, not just search for
documents.
Moderated by:
George Gilbert, Principal, TechAlpha Partners and Analyst, GigaOM Research
Speakers:
Currie Boyle, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
Vlad Sejnoha, CTO, Nuance Communications
38. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
9:15 AM - The future impacts of big data insights on your organization
If IT and set-based reporting launched the world of business into the stratosphere
in the '80s and '90s, then what will the complex new real-time insights on masses
of data do for the modern business landscape? We believe that each IT revolution
has had an enormous impact on the way that companies operate. This era of
massive data and insights will be no different.
Moderated by:
David Card, VP Research, GigaOM Research
Speakers:
Mohan Namboodiri, VP, Customer Analytics, Williams-Sonoma
John Sotham, VP, Finance, BuildDirect
39. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
9:35 AM - Seeing everything to get ready for anything: capacity planning at scale
Do you have a problem planning for future infrastructure needs? Deciding on what
to buy and what capacity to provision for? Then you should attend this session,
where we examine the stories of four people with some of the most extreme use
cases on the planet. Come listen and learn from those with responsibility for the
biggest purse strings.
Moderated by:
Dave Ohara, Founder, GreenM3 and Analyst, GigaOM Research
Speakers:
Tamara Budec, VP Critical Systems and Engineering, Goldman Sachs & Co
Heather Marquez, Manager, Asset Strategy and Optimization, Facebook
Amaya Souarez, Director, Datacenter Services, Microsoft
40. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
10:15 AM - Solving big data app developers' biggest pains
Todd Papaioannou was the big data guru at Yahoo before most of us knew the
term. He was responsible for Hadoop architecture while there. His experiences
supporting thousands of developers building apps on Hadoop showed him the
clear problems that are faced by developers in the enterprise and how that led him
to launch Continuuity.
Speakers:
Todd Papaioannou, Founder and CEO, Continuuity
41. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
10:25 AM - Motion, context and integrating intelligence
The world is getting more complicated and more integrated. Understanding and
measuring movement — of people, of ideas, of technology, of ideology, of money,
of weapons — is more important than ever. New ways to collect, analyze and
exploit data are key to safeguarding national security.
Speakers:
Samantha Ravich, Co-Chair, National Commission for the Review of R&D
in the Intelligence Community
43. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOP
11:00 AM - Hadapt Sponsor Workshop - Oceanic Suite
'Invisible loading' unifies data sources while optimizing performance
Hadapt enables the productization of interactive applications on Hadoop for the
enterprise. With capabilities such as ―invisible loading‖, whereby data is persisted
into Hadapt with negligible disruption to the cluster's ongoing user workloads,
Hadapt is accelerating Hadoop into production as a mission-critical data
management and analytics platform.
Speakers:
Mingsheng Hong, Chief Data Scientist, Hadapt
44. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOP
11:00 AM - Alteryx Sponsor Workshop - Aquitania West Suite
How big data blending drives better business analytics
Big data presents enormous opportunity but also three challenges: 1) Empowering
business analysts and decision makers to get value from it; 2) Analyzing it in the
context of all relevant data (including social media and market data); and 3)
Performing real-time Hadoop queries. Learn how to address all three in this
session.
Speakers:
George Mathew, President and COO, Alteryx
45. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOP
11:00 AM - Juniper Networks Sponsor Workshop - Aquitania East Suite
Cloud service automation for scale-out architectures
Cloud computing and web applications have fundamentally re-defined networked
platforms. Dynamic software systems are required to orchestrate and automate
real-time converged systems which must collect, analyze and capitalize on new
sources of user and machine data.
Speakers:
Jennifer Lin, Product Management Lead, Juniper Networks
46. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
11:45 AM - GigaOM Research Mapping Session - Aquitania West Suite
Data marketplaces
From U.S. census return information to the location of every Starbucks in Canada,
the demand for data to support decision making is increasing. Fittingly, a category
of companies known as data markets is emerging in this space to provide access
to this data. This session will explore who the leading players are, the differences
among the various services they offer, the business-model challenges of this
category, and where this trend is headed.
Speakers:
Jo Maitland, Director, GigaOM Research
Paul Miller, Founder, Cloud of Data and Analyst, GigaOM Research
47. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
11:45 AM - Why you should never ask, "How is this better than Hadoop?‖
The CTO at Basho will explain why you really don't need a big data strategy. The
talk will discuss typical decision-making approaches for technology acquisition and
what both users and builders of software and systems can do to improve these
approaches so the right technologies and solutions are delivered to solve the right
problems.
Speakers:
Justin Sheehy, CTO, Basho
48. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
12:00 PM - The Hadoop of plenty: What new tech innovations is Hadoop
enabling?
Hadoop is a catalyst, beyond just providing scalable map reduce and a distributed
file system. In this session we consider how it is innovating new types of
databases, processing engines and a new generation of apps built on top of it. We
look at the present innovations and predict what should be coming next.
Moderated by:
Derrick Harris, Senior Writer, GigaOM
Speakers:
Jonathan Gray, Founder and CTO, Continuuity
Bradford Stephens, CEO, Drawn to Scale
Muddu Sudhakar, VP and GM, Cetas Cloud and Big Data Analytics Platform, Pivotal
Omer Trajman, VP Field Operations, WibiData
49. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
12:30 PM - The DB and the index: why our need for search is shaping our
technology
Common thinking says that if you have your data in a database then the need to
create a separate index is nullified. Technology thought leader Grant Ingersoll
explores why the need for Google-style search is affecting our usage cases and
shares his thoughts on the right technologies to explore.
Speakers:
Grant Ingersoll, Chief Scientist, LucidWorks
50. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
12:45 PM - The future of BI and Hadoop
The Hadoop explosion is reshaping many things, including at its core the nature of
BI. We look at the innovations in apps, engines and use cases that will shape the
evolution of the industry and its new products.
Moderated by:
Ravi Murthy, Engineering Manager, Facebook
Speakers:
Justin Borgman, CEO, Hadapt
Tomer Shiran, Director, Product Management, MapR Technologies
Ashish Thusoo, Co-Founder and CEO, Qubole
Ben Werther, Founder and CEO, Platfora
52. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOP
1:30 PM - HP Vertica Sponsor Workshop - Oceanic Suite
New economics of enterprise data warehousing
Enterprises have invested heavily in legacy data warehouses and are today
struggling to adapt them to the Big Data era. This session will explore the many
choices and trade-offs, from open source solutions to cloud services to next-
generation on premise systems and of course Hadoop, supported with customer
examples.
Speakers:
Jeff Healey, Director of Product Marketing, HP Vertica
Chris Selland, VP Marketing, HP Vertica
53. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOP
1:30 PM - MapR Technologies Sponsor Workshop - Aquitania West Suite
Raise the bar with Hadoop
Leading companies have improved profitability, increased revenue and increased
their competitive position by better leveraging untapped data sources. This
presentation details case studies and reference architectures that demonstrate
how companies have generated big data insights with less infrastructure costs
including the integration of Hadoop and NoSQL (HBase) on one platform.
Speakers:
Jack Norris, VP of Marketing, MapR Technologies
54. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOP
1:30 PM - Panzura & Google Sponsor Workshop - Aquitania East Suite
Object storage for the enterprise: breaking the NAS vicious cycle
Providing fast, sufficient storage for global users has meant an endless cycle of
local NAS expansion and refreshes…until now. This session describes how
Panzura + Google provide infinitely scalable, centralized cloud object storage that
provides local NAS performance while tying all users together with a single global
file system.
Speakers:
Paul Meller, Regional Manager, Cloud Platform, Google
Ranajit Nevatia, VP of Marketing, Panzura
55. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
2:15 PM - Think different, think signal processing: approaches to real-time network
data
Guavus is undergoing explosive growth with its novel way of network and
infrastructure monitoring. Founder Anukool Lakhina talks about his Ph.D. research
that led to the formation of Guavus and why we should be thinking as differently
as possible to explore the best solutions in the big data space.
Speakers:
Anukool Lakhina, Founder and CEO, Guavus
56. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
2:15 PM - Think different, think signal processing: approaches to real-time network
data
Guavus is undergoing explosive growth with its novel way of network and
infrastructure monitoring. Founder Anukool Lakhina talks about his Ph.D. research
that led to the formation of Guavus and why we should be thinking as differently
as possible to explore the best solutions in the big data space.
Speakers:
Anukool Lakhina, Founder and CEO, Guavus
57. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
2:30 PM - The guru panel: What's in your stack?
In one of our most valuable panels we sit down with some of the leading
practitioners and thought leaders in the data-science space to talk about the
problems they face with big data and their predictions for the future. In this edition
we focus on the different approaches to the hardware and software stack that
some of these giants take for their problems at hand.
Moderated by:
Michael Driscoll, CEO, Metamarkets
Speakers:
Bhaskar Ghosh, BhasSenior Director of Engineering, Data Infrastructure, LinkedIn
Todd Papaioannou, Founder and CEO, Continuuity
Silvius Rus, Director, Big Data Platforms, Quantcast
Ashok Srivastava, Venture Advisor for Trident Capital and Principal Scientist for Data
Sciences, NASA Ames Research Center
58. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
3:05 PM - Complementing Hadoop with real-time data analysis
We are moving toward an era where batch processing of large amounts of data is
no longer sufficient for providing data services. Real-time analytics is a
challenging problem to solve, especially when done at scale. At Eventbrite,
discovery products like event recommendations and search require immediate
data capture. Customers want real-time reports of their events, and internally, the
team has real-time data needs for tracking company metrics. In this talk, Vipul
Sharma, the director of data engineering at Eventbrite, will go through different
techniques he is using to complement Hadoop for more-real-time data processing,
and he will discuss various key innovations in the data industry in this area.
Speakers:
Vipul Sharma, Director of Data Engineering, Eventbrite
59. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOP
3:35 PM - Teradata Sponsor Workshop - Oceanic Suite
Data discovery: finding expected and completely unexpected business value in
data
Do you know what questions to ask of your data? How to discover what your
customers care about or how to identify fraud or prevent customer churn? By
using a hybrid of SQL, MapReduce, R and other analytic techniques in an
integrated data discovery platform, leading companies are getting answers.
Speakers:
Steve Wooledge, Senior Director, Marketing, Teradata
60. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
OPTIONAL SPONSORED WORKSHOP
3:35 PM - SoftLayer Technologies Sponsor Workshop - Aquitania West Suite
High performance, scalable big data solutions in a bare metal cloud
The cloud provides an easy onramp to building and deploying big data solutions.
Transitioning from initial deployment to large-scale, highly performant operations
may not be as easy. Understanding the benefits, weaknesses, and performance
characteristics of public and bare metal cloud deployments can help you make the
right decisions.
Speakers:
Harold Hannon, Sr. Software Architect, SoftLayer Technologies
61. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
4:20 PM - Analytics at NASDAQ scale
In this talk Ann Neidenbach, the SVP of Analytics at NASDAQ OMX, explains her
choices when it comes to infrastructure and her strategies for delivering
customers the insights they seek. Learn how business requirements are shaping
her choices now and what that means for business leaders of the future.
Moderated by:
Barb Darrow, Senior Writer, GigaOM
Speakers:
Ron Bodkin, Founder and CEO, Think Big Analytics
Ann Neidenbach, SVP of Global Technology Products and Services, The
NASDAQ OMX Group
62. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (cont‘d)
4:40 PM - Four for the future: upcoming database technologies that are not
Hadoop
Hadoop is not the only option, at least in the future. In this session we bring four of
the most likely contenders that we think you should be looking at. In this panel run
by GigaOM Research expert David Linthicum, we take apart why they came
about, what domains they service and why they are a better choice than just plain
old Hadoop.
Moderated by:
David Linthicum, Analyst, GigaOM Research
Speakers:
Damian Black, CEO, SQLstream
Andrew Cronk, CEO, TempoDB
Emil Eifrem, Founder and CEO, Neo Technology / Neo4j
Ryan Garrett, VP of Product, MemSQL