Spark Meetup (July)

Agenda:

1800 - Arrive, mingle, pizza and libation

1820 - Session 1 (40mins)

• Jeffrey Law, Solution Architect at Webranz,
  "The PASS (Prestodb-Airpal-Spark-S3) stack"

1900 - Comfort break (yes I know sounds way too American)

1910 - Session 2 (40 mins)

• Butch Quinto, Snr. Systems Engineer at Cloudera
  "Supervised Machine Learning:
  Classification with Spark Mlib"

1950 - Open Question Time and Close

2000 - Fond farewells and safe travels

Bio Speaker 1:
Jeffrey Law is a technologist, entrepreneur, and deep learning enthusiast. He has over 12 years experience in helping businesses of various sizes in harvesting insights from their data. He currently works as a Solution Architect, focusing on Big Data solutions using open source tools.

Bio Speaker 2:
Butch Quinto has over 20 years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence and software development. Butch has held various management and technical positions in multiple industries such as bioinformatics, retail, e-commerce, manufacturing, advertising and banking and finance in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. He is currently a Sr. Systems Engineer at Cloudera where he helps large organisations across A/NZ successfully use Cloudera Enterprise.