Big Data Insights from the Trenches

Agenda

Networking: 6pm - 6:45pm

Welcome & Presentations: 6:45pm - 8pm

Networking: 8pm - 9pm

Presenters

Alex Poon | VP Engineering and Co-Founder | Visual Revenue (http://visualrevenue.com)

Overview: Learn how Visual Revenue built a Machine Learning engine to predict the performance of a piece of content in the near future. They process tens of billions of web traffic pings a month and hundreds of web/media organizations leverage this platform to help improve their decision making.

K Young | CEO | Mortar Data (http://www.mortardata.com/)

Overview: Mortar Data noticed that people have a really hard time collaborating on datasets, even when they're public. They decided to build an open source framework for data pipelines—like Rails but for data instead of web apps. They will demo a use case of what this open source framework can accomplish.

Michael Moss | SVP, Engineering | Tapad (http://www.tapad.com/)

Overview: Learn why Tapad chose Hadoop for it's latest big data project as well as exploring a specific use case using Scalding, a Scala library built on top of Cascading.

Food and drinks will be provided by elasticsearch (http://www.elasticsearch.com/)

MapR (http://www.mapr.com/) will be providing door prizes