Sanjay Radia, original Hadoop team member & hear about Manulife's Hadoop journey

After a small hiatus, the Toronto Hadoop User Group (THUG) is excited to announce the latest meetup Nov 13th @7pm. The evening will consist of two presentations.

The first presentation will be an in-depth summary of the Hadoop journey at Manulife. Manulife has been rolling out a 100% cloud strategy for Hadoop globally to tackle the most challenging analytic use cases. Derek Hwong (AVP, Global Data Engineering and Operations) and Bill Graves (AVP, Data Management Services) will present on Manulife’s Hadoop strategy, lessons learned, and the forward leaning data management vision. The second presenter for the evening is Sanjay Radia (Hortonworks founder and Chief Architect). Sanjay will provide a glimpse into topics ranging from a Hadoop 3.0 overview, describe advancements in cloud storage, convey the enterprise data management strategy with Data Plane, and how to obtain interactive Hive query performance with LLAP.

Access to the event is limited based on space available and those people who have RSVP’d. Please note that only individuals on the RSVP list will be permitted access.

Derek Hwong’s Bio: Derek has many years of experiences in leading and building award-winning, innovative and patented data driven solutions, advanced technology platforms and high performance data ecosystems. He is leading the data engineering globally to build out data capabilities for the enterprise data lake and enable analytics that ensure accessibility, consistent governance and well modeled architecture to meet the needs of the business, regional divisions and position competitively for the future. He is also responsible for the global data operations.

Bill Graves Bio: In Bill’s current role, he is focused on enhancing the Data and Information Management capabilities of Manulife's Canadian Division. Enable and deliver data management solutions in support of the division's business strategy, including the introduction of Master Data Management and Enterprise Data Lake capabilities. Responsible for Canadian Division Data Governance program.

Sanjay Radia’s Bio: Sanjay is an Apache Hadoop committer and member of the Apache Hadoop PMC. Prior to co-founding Hortonworks, Sanjay was the architect of the Hadoop HDFS project at Yahoo!. He has also held senior engineering positions at Sun Microsystems and INRIA, where he developed software for distributed systems and grid/utility computing infrastructures. Sanjay has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in Canada.