Speakers Session: X-Mas Edition [SAP Labs - Cafe 3]

Please join us for our christmas-themed speakers session! This time, we will have 2 speakers with one talk about how to quickly prototype IoT projects and another about Cassandra & RDB. Use this meet up to learn more about Cassandra, RDB and IoT and chat with like-minded people .. you will leave the meetup with a Christmas spirit!

How does the agenda look like?

• 5:00PM - 6:30PM: Pre-Event Board games/Card games social

• 6:00PM - 6:30PM: Networking

• 6:30PM - 6:45PM: Aaron Williams: Architecting IoT Apps for the Cloud

• 6:45PM - 7:15PM: Q&A on IoT prototyping

• 7:15PM - 7:30PM: Solomon Chang: An Introduction to Cassandra for RDB Folks

• 7:30PM - 8:00PM: Q&A on Cassandra & RDB

• 8:00PM - 9:00PM: Networking / Christmas Party

The Talks

Aaron Williams (SAP): Harnessing the Internet of Things:

Come join us and learn about how SAP is using the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive new insights from the connected world around us. We will give a brief overview of IoT and then show you how you and your company can get started with IoT projects by using inexpensive single board computers such as Beagle Bone Black and Raspberry Pi and open source OS and programming languages.

Solomon Chang (Zen Producer): An Introduction to Cassandra for RDB Folks

To those who have been used to working with SQL-based Relational Databases for their entire career, the idea of NoSQL may seem intimidating, since the name NoSQL implies the absence of any Structured Query Language... but this is not true! This short talk eases the traditional RDB user into the world of NoSQL using traditional RDBMS elements DDL, and covers cases as to why one would choose a NoSQL solution over a SQL one.

Location

The meet up will take place in the beautiful SAP campus in Palo Alto, more specifically in the Cafeteria of Building 3. Feel free to bring your laptops, we will provide seating & tables.