July HUGUK Meetup

Dear HUGUK members,

We have three exciting talks lined up by Cognizant, Waterline Data and Bigstep. Details below.

We would like to thank our sponsors Cognizant and Bigstep.

Bigstep is presenting Big Data Week and offer a special 30% discount for our members - just use the discount code HUG_BDW.

For more information about the BDW check out the newsletter (http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=9d9f50e985ed344d2a906f5b1&id=2d2636a511&e=5a45304b4a) and the blog post (http://blog.bigdataweek.com/2016/05/26/leading-edge-talks-top-companies-big-data-week-2016-london/) presenting the line up.

Presentation 1 - Building a Data Ingestion Framework for Hadoop

Tackling one of the most critical components for any enterprise-grade Data Lake, this session explores the best practice approaches and lessons learnt from real world implementations in creating a robust and re-usable data ingestion framework for Hadoop.

Speaker: Chris Soza, Big Data Architect

Presentation 2 - Bigstep DataLab sneak peek

This is a behind-the-scenes view of a new Spark-as-a-Service offering, currently in the works at Bigstep.

Speaker: Cristina Grosu, Product Manager

Speaker 3: Building the Successful Enterprise Data Lake

As enterprises create large Hadoop clusters and ingest vast amounts of data they can find that instead of a Data Lake, they end up with a Data Swamp where a large repository of unusable data sets that are impossible to navigate and dangerous to rely on for business-critical decisions.

This presentation explores some of the critical issues in setting up and managing a Data Lake and looks at the challenges and categories of tools that are crucial to success.

Speaker: Rob Anderson, Waterline Data EMEA

We look forward to seeing you there!

The HUGUK team