Cleveland Big Data and Hadoop User Group

Back to School Mega-Meetup!

The Cleveland Big Data and Hadoop User Group is proud to announce a Mega-Meetup for September 12, 2016 at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History!

Gather by the front door at 5:15pm. We can't get in until 5:30pm.

5:30pm - 6:30pm - Cash bar by the dinosaurs. No joke - by the DINOSAURS! Which is awesome. And pizza.

6:30pm - Recruiting shout outs, general announcements.

Sessions: 20 minute slots

• Dr. Evalyn Gates - Director of Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Dr. Gates wrote the 2009 book "Einstein’s Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe." So she's really smart.

• IBM Fellow Shiv Vaithyanathan - Machine Learning. Shiv was the creator of Apache SystemML

• Yelp - "Pets to Cattle: Semi-Stateful Services on Ephemeral Infrastructure"

• Cloudera - "Apache Kudu: Fast Analytics On Fast Data"

• Holden Karau - Author of "Learning Spark", and "High Performance Spark". Spark is a framework for big data processing and analysis.

• Case Professor Roger French - Data processing for solar farms

Please RSVP so I can get an accurate headcount on pizza... the precious pizza.

As always, free to attend. Open to all. Just RSVP.