Machine Learning with Big Data using Apache Spark

Presenter::
Mukundan Agaram and Amit Singh

Mukundan Agaram is the Chief Enterprise Architect at Delta Dental. Prior to this he was a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. Mukundan has over 20 years of diverse, international IT experience architecting and developing large scale distributed systems spanning several industry verticals. He is deeply passionate about bringing technology, elegant architecture, innovation and lasting value to bear on the systems he builds. He is a strong believer in developing knowledge capital on emerging technologies and paradigms. He is a recognized and published practitioner in the arena of Business Rules and Decision Management. His current interests revolve around technologies that can make systems smart and differentiating. Mukundan has a Bachelors in Mathematics and Statistics and a Masters in Computer Applications.

Amit Singh is the co-founder and Managing Partner of InSemble. Amit is a Enterprise Architect with a passion for technology and delivering innovative solutions to customers. Prior to InSemble, Amit served as a Technical Account Manager for BEA Systems, Inc within their sales and consulting divisions. Amit has a Bachelors in Computer Science from Michigan State University.

Agenda -
Introduction to Machine Learning techniques
• Why is Machine Learning relevant to our Enterprise and its relationship with Big Data ?

• High level Concepts and mathematical foundation

• Introduction to Tools and Techniques

• Common Use cases
• Demo of a Spark Use case using a publicly available dataset.

Schedule:

6:00 - 6:30 PM - Pizza and networking.

Cloudera is sponsoring the Pizza and Drinks.

6:30 - 8:30 PM - Presentation and Demo