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Big Data Track

Day -1 ( August 10 7:30AM-7:30PM )

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Registration
8:00 AM - 12:00PM Hadoop Hands-on (Marty Lurie, Senior Systems Engineer, Cloudera)
12:00 PM - 1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00PM - 1:45PM Hadoop Enabled Healthcare (Charles Boicey, CIO, Clearsense)
1:45PM - 2:30PM Big Data for Customer Personalization & Targeting (Frank Lo, Director, Wayfair)
2:30 PM - 6:30PM HBase Workshop (Keys Botzum, Big Data Architect, MapR Technologies)
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Java 8 in the highly distributed world (Oleg Zhurakousky, Principal Architect, Hortonworks)

Day -2 ( August 11 8AM-8:00PM )

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM Introduction to NoSQL
8:15 AM - 12:00 PM Cassandra Workshop (Ben Coverston,  Data Platform Architect, Datastax)
12:00 PM - 1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Finance Use Case: Using Domain Expertise to Shed Light on Unstructured Data (Evan Schnidman, CEO, Prattle)
1:45PM - 2:30PM Data-Driven Hiring of Data Scientists  (Michael Li, Founder, The Data Incubator)  
2:30 PM - 6:30PM Apache NiFi Workshop (Joseph Witt, CTO, Onyara)
6:30 PM - 8:00PM SQL On Hadoop and Use Case in Utilities (Sumit Pal, Big Data Architect)

Day -3 (August 12 8AM-4:15PM )

8:00AM-8:05AM Recap of Day -1 & Day 2 Sessions
8:05 AM - 11:45 AM Social Media Text and Predictive Analytics (Dr. Subrata Das, Founder and President, Machine Analytics)
 
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Using Big Data to Support the Cognitive Hourglass: Moving from Data-Analytics to Data-Applications (Dave King, CEO, Exaptive)
12:30 PM - 1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Data Science and Data Privacy in the Workplace (Michael Gresty, CEO,  Rifiniti)
1:45PM - 2:30PM Agile Data in Seven Shocking Steps (Chris Bergh, CEO, DataKitchen)
2:30PM - 3:15PM US CENSUS BUREAU: API & CitySDK (Alexandra Barker,  Data Scientist, US CENSUS BUREAU)
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Big Data Analytics with Cassandra and Spark (Brian Hess, Sr Product Manager, Datastax)

Big Data Track II

 August 10 8AM-6:00PM

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM Introduction to Storm
8:15 AM - 12:00 PM Workshop: Storm, Kafka & Zookeeper
12:00 PM - 1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM Workshop: Storm, Kafka & Zookeeper

 August 11 8AM-6:00PM

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM Introduction to Spark (Ajay Viswanathan, Software Engineer, Sigmoid)
8:15 AM - 12:00 PM Spark workshop
12:00 PM - 1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM Spark Workshop

 August 12 8AM-6:00PM

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM Introduction to Data Science
8:15 AM - 12:00 PM Data Science with R & Predictive Analytics workshop
12:00 PM - 1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM Data Science with Python & Predictive Analytics workshop

NOTE: Agenda and speakers subject to change without notice