Beyond Duct Tape and Rubber Bands: New Methods for Big Data Ingest

Wondering how much longer you are going to have to work and re-work your manual ETL pipelines to keep your BigData infrastructure going?

In this session you will hear from ingest experts who are rethinking data intake for the Hadoop ecosystem. Learn about some of the common problems and get practical solutions that are available now, and get a sneak peak at what's just around the corner.

6pm - 6.30pm - Pizza/Beer and Networking.

6.30pm - 7.30pm - Panel Discussion : What's around the corner for Data Ingest.

Panelists :

Matthew Schumpert - Director of Product Management at Cloudera (http://cloudera.com)

Arvind Prabhakar - CTO StreamSets (http://streamsets.com)

7.30 pm - 8pm - Data Ingest Unconference.

Post a topic you are interested in talking about and we'll setup breakout discussions on the most popular topics.

Note: The building front door closes at 7pm, please make sure you are in before that.

Speaker Bios :

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Matthew Schumpert

Matt has been working in the enterprise infrastructure software space for over 15 years in various roles, including product management, sales engineering, and strategic alliances. A veteran of the Hadoop community, Matt helped drive Datameer from a pre-revenue startup to a major force in big data analytics and the first successful application vendor in the Hadoop ecosystem. Matt is currently focused on defining Cloudera (http://cloudera.com)'s product strategy in the areas of data ingest and resource management. Matt holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.

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Arvind Prabhakar

Arvind is a seasoned engineering leader, who has worked on data integration challenges for over ten years. Before co-founding StreamSets (http://streamsets.com), Arvind was an early employee of Cloudera, and led teams working on integration technologies such as Flume and Sqoop. Arvind was formerly PMC Chair for Apache Sqoop and Apache Flume projects. Prior to Cloudera, Arvind was a software architect at Informatica, where he was responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing several core systems.