January Presentation Night Hosted by WB Games Boston

A special thanks to WB Games for hosting! They have had a speaker in the past and are big Spark users.

1st Speaker:
Suds Menon is responsible for engineering, marketing, venture funding and juggles all operational aspects of SnappyData. At Pivotal, Suds was the Head of Products for all the Real Time and Big Data products at Pivotal and was named as a member of the technical leadership team. Prior to that he led GemFire engineering for 8+ years, both at Pivotal and VMware. He holds several patents in the area of distributed systems. He is a frequent speaker at in-memory and distributed data conferences. He has 20+ years of experience in the software industry and holds a Bachelors of Engg in Computers (Pune University) and an MBA (Babson) in Entrepreneurship.

2nd Speaker:
Dale Deloy will demonstrate how to ingest data into MemSQL with the massively parallel processes of Spark and MemSQL. The use case will feature JSON documents from sensors being pushed through a Kafka Topic directly into a MemSQL database. Then, MemSQL JSON processing will be leveraged for high-speed query access from BI/SQL tools to deliver executive dashboards.