Apache Spark in the Cloud, Fighting World Hunger

17:30 - 18:00 - Mingling

18:00 - 18:45 - Vadim Solovey (Google Developer Expert and Authorized Trainer @ DoIT) - “Google Dataproc - the new way of running Spark on Google Cloud”

Google's new managed Hadoop MapReduce, Spark, Pig, and Hive service designed to process large datasets at extreme scale and unprecedented price.

18:45 - 19:00 - Break

19:00 - 19:45 - Noam Barkai (Software developer @ NRGene) - "Using Spark to fight world hunger"

Spark can assist in breeding better crops to help feed a growing world population.