Spark Party - 5 minute Lightning sessions...

We will be live-streaming in Vancouver.. (Burnaby)..

IBM is hosting a Spark Community event in San Francisco, California: IBM | Spark - The Start of Something Big in Data and Design. There will be a Town Hall discussion featuring some of the most trail-blazing data scientists in today's Spark Community, including:

• Edd Dumbill, VP Strategy, Silicon Valley Data Science
• Mike Tamir, Chief Science Officer & VP of Data Science & Education at Galvanize
• Fernando Perez, Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & Founding Investigator of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science
• Haoyuan Li, CEO and Founder of Tachyon Nexus
• Shankar Venkataraman, Distinguished Engineer & CTO, IBM Analytics Platform at IBM
• Paco Nathan, Director, Community Evangelism, Databricks

Spark Community members will also deliver 5-minute lightning talks to describe exciting projects they're working on.

We will provide a livestream presentation of what these Spark leaders have to say.

Agenda:

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Refreshments & Intro to Spark
7:00 pm - 8:15 pm - LiveStream From San Francisco
8:15 pm - Q&A

Don't miss the opportunity to see this major announcement "live". (location is tentative and subject to change)

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Apache Spark is an open source processing engine built around speed, ease of use, and analytics. If you have large amounts of data that requires low latency processing that a typical Map Reduce program cannot provide, Spark is the alternative. Spark performs at speeds up to 100 times faster than Map Reduce for iterative algorithms or interactive data mining. Spark provides in-memory cluster computing for lightning fast speed and supports Java, Scala, and Python APIs for ease of development.

Spark allows data scientists to build models quickly and supports iterative jobs on distributed datasets. This means more people can apply deep intelligence into applications to make everything smarter, including the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, web, mobile, social, business process and more.