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Big Data Track I

Day -1 ( August 19 7:30AM-8:00PM )

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Registration
8:00 AM - 10:00AM Spark Workshop (Spark Core) (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale)
10:00 AM - 10:10AM Morning Break
10:10 AM - 12:00PM Spark Workshop (Spark Core) (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale)(Contd..)
12:00 PM - 12:30PM Lunch Break
12:30PM - 1:10PM Big ML @ DataXu (Beth Logan, Vice President, DataXu)
1:10PM - 1:50PM Monitoring adverse drug reactions with Spark Streaming, Kafka, and Impala (Martin Lurie, Sr System Engineer, Cloudera)
1:50 PM - 2:30PM Using High Frequency Market Data For Intraday Portfolio Risk Analysis And Optimization (Stephanie Toper, Director Of Portfolio Analytics, PortfolioEffect)
2:30 PM - 3:10PM Pragmatic Polyglot Data Analysis (Laurent Gautier, Senior Researcher, Novartis Institutes For BioMedical Research)
3:10 PM - 3:20PM Afternoon Break
3:20 PM - 8:00 PM Advanced Spark (Spark SQL, Spark ML) & Hadoop (Hive)Workshop (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale)

Day -2 ( August 20 7:45AM-8:00PM )

7:45 AM - 8:00AM Registration
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Kafka & Spark Streaming Workshop (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale)
10:00 AM - 10:10AM Morning Break
10:10 AM - 12:00PM Kafka & Spark Streaming Workshop (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale)(Contd..)
12:00 PM - 12:30PM Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:10 PM Splunk, Big Data, and Higher Education (Ryan O'Connor,  IT Security and Big Data Architect, Hurricane Labs)
1:10PM - 1:50PM Converting A Legacy Hadoop System In Near-Realtime Streaming (Louis Calisi, Principal, Tripadvisor)
1:50 PM - 2:30PM Asset Tracking Using Blockchain (Anindita Mahapatra, Data Engineer, ThinkBig, Teradata)
2:30 PM - 3:10PM Bringing Healthcare Operations Data Into The Cloud: The Prescription For The Future (Ann Goldman, Director, Providence Health And Services)
3:10 PM - 3:20PM Afternoon Break
3:20 PM - 8:00PM Cassandra Workshop (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale)

Day -3 (August 21 7:45AM-6:30PM )

7:45AM-8:00AM Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Regression In The Wild: Solving The Challenges Posed By Dirty Data (Neil Tenenholtz, Data Scientist, Fitbit)
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM Machine Intelligence At Google Scale: Vision/Speech API, TensorFlow And Cloud Machine Learning (Kaz Sato, Lead Developer Evangelist Google)
9:50 AM - 10:00AM Morning Break
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Anomaly Detection: Techniques And Best Practices (Sri Krishnamurthy, CEO, QuantUniversity)
12:00 PM - 12:30PM Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:10 PM Program Managing Big Data Implementation (Kadir Meeramohideen, Sr. Program Manager, PNC Financial Services)
1:10PM - 1:50PM Price Optimization In E-Commerce (Deforest Mcduff, VP, Intensity)
1:50PM - 2:30PM Merlin: The Ultimate Data Science Computing Environment (Charles Givre, Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton)
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM

Implementing And Maintaining Analytics Models (Jens Meyer, Managing Director, First Marblehead)
3:10 PM - 3:20PM Afternoon Break
3:20 PM - 4:00PM Microservices, DevOps, IoT And Azure (Bob Familiar, Chief Architect, BlueMetal)
4:00 PM - 6:30PM Tutorial: Cognitive Algorithms For Big Data (Leonid perlovsky Professor, Harvard University)

Big Data Track II

 August 20 7:45AM-7:00PM

7:45 AM - 8:00AM Registration
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Text Modeling with R and Python : Workshop (Frank Evans, Data Scientist, Exaptive)
12:00 PM - 1:00PM Lunch Break
3:20 PM - 7:00 PM Text & Predictive Analytics with Machine & Deep Learning: Workshop(Dr. Subrata Das, Founder and President, Machine Analytics)

NOTE: Agenda and speakers subject to change without notice