What: Cases of Big Data
When: Wed, Jan 16th, 2013 6:00 -- 9:00 PM
Where: Bellevue City Hall

Co-host company: ComputeNext
Event style: Talks, Q&A and interactive discussion
Admission: Registration required
Parking: Free (additional parking available in employee garage)
Food: Light snacks/drink provided
Gifts: Swags from our sponsoring companies are available, including door prize(s).

We are expecting 100+ people from local IT companies, organizations and startups, not necessarily technical people, but maybe marketing, PM, recruiters, investors...

Besides the world-class-expert speakers, there will be VIP guests from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Boeing, Facebook, Zynga, Ebay, Intel, IBM, HP, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, HTC, Hulu, Oracle, SAP, CA, EMC, Expedia, Tableau, Zillow, SEOmoz, Bungie, Nintendo, Disney, Nordstrom, Alaska Airlines, Dice, Salesforce, SGI, VMWare, Citrix, UW, City University, Seattle University...

Come on time and print out the confirmation page to guarantee a seat.

===Tentative Agenda =====

6:00pm - 6:30pm, Snack & social (come early and meet interesting tech guru and investors, besides food)

6:30pm - 7:00pm, Talk and Live Demo

Data Visualization: Tools and Techniques

Avkash Chauhan, Sr. Escalation Engineer, Windows Azure and HDInsight, Microsoft

7:00pm - 7:30pm, Talk

Reserved for a TBD talk.

7:30pm - 8:00pm, Talk

Big Data for Erlang VM and Manycore OS

Ying Li, Chief Scientist, Concurix (Former GM of Microsoft AdCenter)

8:00pm - 8:30pm, Talk

Big Data for the Masses: How We Opened Up the Doors to Google’s Dremel
Jim Caputo, Engineering Manager, BigQuery, Google

8:30pm - 9:00pm, Q&A to all speakers, and interactive free discussion

9:00pm, Door prize draw