OC Big Data Monthly Meetup #4

5:45 - 6:45
Socialize over food and adult beverages

6:45 - 7:30
Hadoop and NoSQL Joining Forces
Dale Kim - Director, Industry Solutions @ MapR
----Dale Kim is the Director of Industry Solutions at MapR. His background includes a variety of technical and management roles at information technology companies. While his experience includes work with relational databases, much of his career pertains to non-relational data in the areas of search, content management, and NoSQL, and includes senior roles in technical marketing, sales engineering, and support engineering. Dale holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, and a BA in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

7:30 - 8:15
Apache Drill: Highly Flexible, High Performance Queries on Big Data w/ Demo
David Kewley - Senior Field Enablement Engineer @ MapR

David is a Senior Engineer on the Field Enablement team at MapR, providing tools, support, and mentorship to MapR field personnel and customers alike. His experience working with MapR's customers, as well as running large-scale (>1000-node) HPC clusters in the past, gives him a unique perspective on what it takes to make a Big Data solution actually work. David holds an MS in Computation and Neural Systems from Caltech, and a BS in Physics from the University of Rochester.

MapR (http://www.mapr.com/) will be sponsoring the food for this event.