Real-Time Intelligence: the Rise of Apache Druid

We have 2 speakers on the subject of Real-Time Intelligence: the Rise of Apache Druid

Session One: Rethinking Druid's User Experience

Apache Druid has always been fast, powerful, and scalable, but it has never been "user-friendly" from a UX perspective. This talk will examine how the Druid UX is being redesigned from the ground up. This will make Druid straightforward to get started with, load data into, and manage at scale.

Speaker:
Vadim Ogievetsky, co-founder and CPO of Imply, cares about two things: making huge datasets accessible to everyone, and highly complex distributed systems easier to manage. Previously Vadim led the Application team at Metamarkets (acquired by Snap). He holds an MSc in Computer Science from Stanford and a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Oxford.

Session Two: TrafficGuard's Battle Against Ad Fraud using Imply Apache Druid

Talk abstract: Digital advertising generates a lot of data with high dimensionality and cardinality. One eCommerce purchase, is the result of hundreds of ad clicks and thousands of ad impressions. These ad engagements are accompanied by thousands of data points about devices, networks, geography, time. TrafficGuard relies on Druid for real time analytics of these enriched data points to provide formidable ad fraud prevention at lightning speed. In this session, TrafficGuard’s Head of Data Science, Raigon Jolly, will discuss how TrafficGuard uses Druid and its partnership with Imply to:

• Provide granular reporting to clients in near-real time
• Use analytics to stay ahead of ad fraud as it continuously evolves
• Drive operational optimisation as TrafficGuard scales from startup to dominant ad fraud prevention player

Bio: Raigon Jolly is the Head of Analytics and Data Sciences at TrafficGuard, where he leads the team that pioneers real-time fraud detection and reporting across cloud environments leveraging both GCP and AWS. Raigon’s team is tasked to reduce friction between data and actionable insights at massive global scale in a highly distributed environment.

Raigon’s expertise spans data visualization, streaming, applied AI, unsupervised ML, mobile and web user behaviour analysis. A recognised leader in the field of data analytics, Raigon was listed as a Top 25 Analytics Leaders by IAPA (Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia). Previous roles have seen Raigon driving data warehousing transformation projects and business intelligence for the likes of QuickFlix and Accenture.

Venue, food and drinks provided by our sponsor, Imply.io.