Joint-Meetup with the San Francisco Cloud Mafia: Insightful panel discussion!

Join us for a panel discussion on global trends in cloud computing (in-memory computing, AI & more).

IN-DEPTH PANEL DISCUSSION

• Nikita Ivanov is founder and CTO of GridGain Systems
• Kexue (Kay) Wei is Staff Cloud Architect of Alibaba USA
• Dani (Ravindra Dani), director of software development at Oracle TimesTen Scaleout with focus on an Autonomous Cloud Service
• Dave Nielsen is Head of Ecosystem Programs, Redis Labs
  >> Moderated by Stephen Turner, Cloud Mafia Organizer

The discussion moves from larger trends in Cloud Computing. Introductory remarks by Stephen Turner start with a focus on the big picture, and larger geopolitical dynamics and how they may impact Cloud Computing. He will then moderate a discussion drilling down to more technical trends seen around the Valley and the World: in-memory computing, AI, web services (MSA + SOA), and APIs.

SPONSORED BY GRIDGAIN

AGENDA:

• 6 p.m. — Food, beverages & find your seats!
• 6:15 p.m. — Panel Discussion
• 7:45 p.m. — Raffle drawings (Nintendo Switch! Get an early jump by entering the raffle now: http://bit.ly/2IIFCi9 )
• 8 p.m. — Finish

BIO SKETCHES

Nikita Ivanov is founder and CTO of GridGain Systems, started in 2007 and funded by RTP Ventures and Almaz Capital. Nikita has led GridGain to develop advanced and distributed in-memory data processing technologies. Nikita has over 20 years of experience in software application development, building HPC and middleware platforms, contributing to the efforts of other startups and notable companies including Adaptec, Visa and BEA Systems. Nikita is an active member of Java middleware community, contributor to the Java specification, and holds a Master’s degree in Electro-Mechanics from Baltic State Technical University, in Russia. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nivanov/

Kexue (Kay) Wei is Staff Cloud Architect of Alibaba USA and Chair of CEA China City Org. Alliance with more 20 years architect design and management experience. Prior joining Alibaba, he was head of Huawei US SPO Big data team, Vice President of ID5(A Startup invested by KPCB and Softbank), Principal Enterprise Architect of Microsoft, Chief Architect of Oracle/BEA China and manager of HP/Agilent OSS Team. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaywei/

Doug Hood is Product Manager and refines, designs and builds autonomous database service powered by Oracle Times Scaleout. He works with customers and executes proof of concepts for TimesTen. The proof of concepts usually involves one or more of SQL, PLSQL, ODBC, OCI, JDBC, R, Python, C++ or C#. Doug previously served in a number of roles with Oracle and TimesTen, including QA Engineer, Technical Director, Advanced Technology Services, and Performance Engineer. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglas-hood-5a0815/

Dave Nielsen is Head of Ecosystem Programs, Redis Labs and co-founder of CloudCamp. He specializes in cloud computing, continuous delivery, DevOps, NoSQL, big data, open data, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), free APIs and commercial web services. Previously, he was a Technical Program Manager at Intel for BigDL, a Deep Learning library for Apache Spark. With over 15 years of developer & Ecosystem marketing experience, Dave has helped companies like Intel, Redis Labs, PayPal, Strikeiron, Mode Media and Cloud.com create and run their own developer programs. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dnielsen

Stephen Turner is a Cloud Mafia Meetup organizer, Practice Leader of Enterprise Value Integration (EVI), as well as Sr. Advisor to Yingfluence, Inc. EVI focuses on measuring the value created for customer segments measured down to each individual microservice, through inputs, transformations, and outputs. His expertise revolves around business process management, SOA, MSA, APIs, Resources-Events-Agents (REA) accounting methods and marketing automation. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveturner26/