BDM 56 - Impala, IA, Spark, TickSmith, Thales, pizza et bien plus!

Big Data Montreal would like to invite you to its 56th meeting!

Join us on Tuesday October 31st 2017 at 6:00PM to attend a conference, as well as to network with other Big Data enthusiasts from Montreal!

All are welcome, no matter if you already have some experience with Big Data technologies or if you're simply curious to learn more.

We have two presentations scheduled:

• Use Impala, Presto or Spark to query data stored on Amazon S3 by Tony Bussieres, SVP Development and Co-founder at TickSmith

“In this presentation we will show how to query data stored as parquet on Amazon S3. We will present 3 popular Big Data SQL engines and kick the tires of what they can do when they run on EC2 instances without EMR or Hadoop installed.

The 3 selected engines for this presentation are : - Facebook's Presto- Apache Impala- Apache Spark ".

• cortAIx, center of research and technology in Artificial Intelligence expertise by Philippe Molaret from Thales

How from a big buzz about AI in Montreal and Thales own internal digital transformation plan is Thales Canada answering with its own vision and cortAIx, the now officially announced center of research and technology in Artificial Intelligence and expertise. What is the supporting ecosystem, the various actors, labs and the AI technologies it covers. You will learn what motivated Thales to invest in Montreal for AI capabilities, what are the potential technologies cortAIx will develop, the typical fields where these technologies will be applied and expected ramp up of the activity in coordination with our research center in Quebec city, Thales Canada Research and Technology, and with the addition of Guavus to this mini Thales ecosystem for digital technologies in Quebec.

The following BigData Montréal meetup will be in December.

TickSmith will generously sponsor the event by provide food and drinks to the attendees!

Finally, you are also welcome to join us for some casual networking, in the same room, after the presentations, followed by a beer in a close by location.

Please tell your friends and colleagues :) !

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Big Data Montréal vous invite à sa 56ième rencontre!

Joignez-vous à nous le mardi 31 octobre 2017 à 18h00 pour assister à une conférence, ainsi que pour réseauter avec les autres enthousiastes montréalais du Big Data!

Tous sont bienvenus, que vous ayez déjà de l'expérience avec les technologies de Big Data ou que vous soyez simplement curieux d'en apprendre plus.

Nous avons deux présentations à l'horaire:

• Use Impala, Presto or Spark to query data stored on Amazon S3 by Tony Bussieres, SVP Development and Co-founder at TickSmith

“In this presentation we will show how to query data stored as parquet on Amazon S3. We will present 3 popular Big Data SQL engines and kick the tires of what they can do when they run on EC2 instances without EMR or Hadoop installed.

The 3 selected engines for this presentation are : - Facebook's Presto- Apache Impala- Apache Spark ".

• cortAIx, center of research and technology in Artificial Intelligence expertise by Philippe Molaret from Thales

How from a big buzz about AI in Montreal and Thales own internal digital transformation plan is Thales Canada answering with its own vision and cortAIx, the now officially announced center of research and technology in Artificial Intelligence and expertise. What is the supporting ecosystem, the various actors, labs and the AI technologies it covers. You will learn what motivated Thales to invest in Montreal for AI capabilities, what are the potential technologies cortAIx will develop, the typical fields where these technologies will be applied and expected ramp up of the activity in coordination with our research center in Quebec city, Thales Canada Research and Technology, and with the addition of Guavus to this mini Thales ecosystem for digital technologies in Quebec.

Le prochain meetup BigData Montréal aura lieu en decembre.

Ticksmith a généreusement accepté de soutenir cette édition et fournira aux participants nourriture et boissons

Finalement, vous êtes invités à vous joindre à nous après les présentations, dans la même salle, pour continuer à réseauter, ensuite de quoi nous pourrons aller prendre un verre proche.

Passez le mot et venez en grand nombre :) !