Special event with MapR & Ted Dunning

Hello everyone,

Please update your RSVP to give ppl on the waiting list a chance.

This is shaping up to be an exciting event. A few brief updates:

• New venue!

• Additional Speaker

• Ted's topic - the poll has spoken

• Food & Drinks

New Venue

Thank you ASOS and Jed for coming through with a venue to host the event. The address is:Greater London HouseHampstead RoadLondon, NW1 7FBJust opposite Mornington Crescent tube stop (northern line)

Additional Speaker

Jedidiah Francis, aka Jed the Lead Data Scientist at ASOS, will present how to schedule Hive jobs with Azure Data Factory. He is also working on lots of other interesting projects at ASOS like product recommendations so feel free to chat with him before the talks over a beer.

Ted Dunning's Topic

Many have voted on the poll and I am personally pleased with the chosen topic. Ted will talk about the "

Zeta Architecture (Hadoop, Spark, Mesos)

". This is a hot topic at the West Coast and fittingly Ted will present from there via video link trying out a new format for meetups. Part of it is a question time alike an AMA where you can go off script and ask anything. Btw if you didn't know, Ted is the Chief Application Architect at MapR, committer and PMC member of the Apache Mahout, Apache ZooKeeper, and Apache Drill projects

Food & Drinks

We will have food before the event starts. We open the doors at 6:30pm and will order food and drinks to arrive shortly after that. So be on time if you want to grab a slice of pizza, have a drink and chat.

Cheers,

Christian