Latest vendor views -- Pivotal

A fairly broad session which should appeal to a range of starters and experienced people :
Who are Pivotal?
What is a Data Lake?
What is the Pivotal BigData Suite (BDS)?
What is HAWQ? Les Klein from Pivotal will answer these questions and go a little deeper into HAWQ and the capabilities that it brings if you are interested in running SQL on top of Hadoop/HDFS. Les Klein is the Director of Field Engineering EMEA for Pivotal and has more than 30 years experience in IT.
Les has worked in many different industries including Defence & Intelligence, Financial Services, Pre-Press & Publishing, Internet Service Provision, and also ran his own Systems company for some 12 years. Les got involved with Hadoop back in 2009 and with on-premise Private Cloud in 2011. He joined Pivotal in November 2013. ADDRESS: M15 6JJ seems to be the closest post-code I can find. The insistence by meetup.com for M15 6SE is 2 minute (walk) too far down (south) Pencroft Way !