Apache Spark Advanced Meetup

This is a joint event with Big Data Developers Zurich (https://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Developers-Switzerland/events/225445743/).

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Please register at this link until Thursday Oct 30, 23:59: http://sessionregister.mybluemix.net

This is necessary so that we can print your entrance badges.

Thank you!

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Program:

5:30 PM Door openings and welcome apero

6:00 PM Demo - Time (Dr. Kevin Mader, 4Quant + ETH Zurich)

Real-time Analytics (Webcam demo)

GraphX Finite Element Modeling Demo

6:30 PM Realtime Advanced Analytics: Spark Streaming+Kafka, MLlib/GraphX, SQL/DataFrames (Chris Fregly, IBM Spark Technology Center San Francisco)

7:00 PM Deep Dive: Project Tungsten Spark's Largest Performance Optimizations to Date (Chris Fregly, IBM Spark Technology Center San Francisco)

7:30 PM Twitter Analytics Demo using ApacheSpark + Jupyter (IPython+IScala) + + IBM Watson + OpenStack Swift as a Service in the IBM Cloud Free tier with 50 GB of Storage (Romeo Kienzker, IBM Cloud Transformation Lab Zurich, EcoD DACH)