Heavy-Hitting Keynote Speakers Head for Upcoming Big Data Conferences
With Big Data much in the news, some notable conferences are taking shape, and they include opportunities to hear from some of the most advanced users of tools such as Hadoop and Apache Spark. The Linux Foundation, has announced the keynote speakers and program for Apache: Big Data, taking place May 9-12, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Meanwhile, on 21 and 22 June at Hotel ICON in Hong Kong, Marketing magazine is hosting a two-day conference offering insights into Big Data and marketing practices.
As we've noted, the Apache Software Foundation has been shifting its focus to Big Data and is advancing many related open source projects. Apache: Big Data is targeted to gather the Apache projects, people and technologies working in Big Data, ubiquitous computing and data engineering and science in a project-neutral environment. The Linux Foundation is billing it as "the only event that brings together the full suite of Big Data open source projects."
Keynote speakers at Apache: Big Data include some really big time names, including Mark Shuttleworth and Doug Cutting:
Seshu Adunuthula, head of analytics infrastructure at eBay
Doug Cutting, co-creator of Hadoop, chief architect at Cloudera
Amy Gaskins, Big Data project director at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Alan Gates, co-founder of Hortonworks
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu
Brian Sullivan, director of streaming data engineering & analytics at Netflix
Ashish Thusoo, co-founder & CEO of Qubole
Matei Zaharia, Apache Spark creator and CTO of Databricks
The full lineup of Apache: Big Data sessions can be viewed at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america/program/schedule.
Registration for Apache: Big Data is discounted to $599 through March 6 - register and you can sign up at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america/attend/register.
Meanwhile, according to Marketing magazine:
"Taking place on 21 and 22 June at Hotel ICON, Marketing magazine will present a special two-day conference offering cutting-edge insights into big data and marketing innovation, with case studies and keynote presentations from leading industry experts.
Among the topics to be covered at Big Data & Digital Innovation 2016 is how to transform data into actionable consumer insights, along with the critical areas of CRM and customer loyalty. A panel discussion will also address what brands should do to take care of security and privacy concerns that have risen amid the growth of data.
Day two of the conference will focus on the areas of digital innovation, covering topics from the internet of things, to new social media initiatives, 360 video and the next evolution in wearable devices."