Spark Party - 5 minute Lightning sessions...

We will be live-streaming in Vancouver.. (Burnaby)..

IBM is hosting a Spark Community event in San Francisco, California: IBM | Spark - The Start of Something Big in Data and Design. There will be a Town Hall discussion featuring some of the most trail-blazing data scientists in today's Spark Community, including:

• Edd Dumbill, VP Strategy, Silicon Valley Data Science
• Mike Tamir, Chief Science Officer & VP of Data Science & Education at Galvanize
• Fernando Perez, Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & Founding Investigator of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science
• Haoyuan Li, CEO and Founder of Tachyon Nexus
• Shankar Venkataraman, Distinguished Engineer & CTO, IBM Analytics Platform at IBM
• Paco Nathan, Director, Community Evangelism, Databricks

Spark Community members will also deliver 5-minute lightning talks to describe exciting projects they're working on.

We will provide a livestream presentation of what these Spark leaders have to say.

Agenda:

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Refreshments & Intro to Spark
7:00 pm - 8:15 pm - LiveStream From San Francisco
8:15 pm - Q&A

Don't miss the opportunity to see this major announcement "live". (location is tentative and subject to change)