Convergence New York
from Thursday, September 20, 2018 7:00AM to Thursday, September 20, 2018 4:30PM
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Big data comes with big myths. Convergence, a full-day seminar, focuses on busting through those myths and getting to the truth so you can make informed decisions. Learn from executives, practitioners, myth busters, and technical experts how to solve real-world problems by harnessing disruptions in data, artificial intelligence, cloud, containers, and edge technologies. These events fill up quickly so secure your seat today! Areas of Focus: Use cases, artificial intelligence, data analytics, edge analytics, analytics in cloud, hybrid and multi cloud, containers, microservices, data and cyber security, intelligent applications, global event systems, Hadoop and friends, IoT transformation AGENDA 8:00a-9:00a Breakfast/ Registration 9:00a-9:10a Session One: Intro to the Day 9:10a-9:35a Session Two: Identifying Three Big Data Myths 9:35a-10:00a Session Three: Customer Break-through Presentation 10:00a-10:20a Break 10:20a-10:45a Session Four: Customer Break-through Presentation 10:45a-11:15a Session five: Featured Keynote Speaker 11:15a-11:40a Session Six: Platinum Sponsor Session 11:40a-12:40p Lunch 12:40p-1:20p Session Seven: Myth Busting Demo Presentation 1:20p-1:40p Session Eight: Gold Sponsor Session 1:40p-2:05p Session Nine: Technical Advocate Presentation 2:05p-2:25p Break 2:25p-2:50p Session Ten: Myth Busting Presentation 2:50p-3:20p Session Eleven - Thirteen: Silver Sponsor Sessions 3:20p-3:50p Session Fourteen: Expert Closing Panel 3:50p-5:20p Meet the Experts Happy Hour *Final details coming soon... Featured Speakers Ted Dunning PhD, Chief Application Architect at MapR Technologies Ted Dunning is Chief Application Architect at MapR and has years of experience with machine learning and other big data solutions across a range of sectors. Ted was the chief architect behind the MusicMatch (now Yahoo Music) and Veoh recommendation systems. He built fraud detection systems for ID Analytics (later purchased by LifeLock) and he has 24 patents issued to date plus a dozen pending. Ted has a PhD in computing science from the University of Sheffield and is active with open source projects as committer, PMC member, mentor and currently serving as a board member for the Apache Software Foundation. When he’s not doing data science, he plays guitar and mandolin. He also bought the beer at the first Hadoop user group meeting. View Ted's LinkedIn profile Ellen Friedman PhD, Principal Technologist at MapR Technologies and O'Reilly author Ellen Friedman (@Ellen Friedman) is a solutions consultant, scientist, author and a committer on Apache Drill and Apache Mahout projects. With a PhD in biochemistry and having written and spoken on a variety of scientific and computing topics, she is an experienced communicator. Her books include Introduction to Apache Flink; Streaming Architecture; the Practical Machine Learning series and Time Series Databases, plus data report “Data Where You Want It: Geo-Distribution of Big Data and Analytics”, all from O'Reilly. Ellen has been an invited speaker at Strata London, the Nike Tech Talks in Portland, Data Day Seattle, Berlin Buzzwords, Philly ETE conference and a keynote speaker at Big Data London and at NoSQL Matters (Barcelona). Beyond work with big data, she enjoys painting and is co-author of a book of magic-themed cartoons, A Rabbit Under the Hat. View Ellen's LinkedIn profile Featured Sessions Coming soon... Presented by: Platinum Sponsor: Gold Sponsor: AUTHORIZATION: By registering for this event, you are authorizing MapR to (i) provide contact information including your name, your company’s name, address, email address and phone number to MapR, MapR sponsors, the event center and any service vendor contracted to conduct work for the MapR Event, and (ii) contact you about MapR products and services.
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