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Opening Remarks
Speakers
Om Malik — Founder, GigaomDerrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomPaul Walborsky — CEO, GigaomEmceed by
Joe Weinman — Author, Cloudonomics, and Chairman, IEEE Intercloud Testbed Executive CommitteeBuilding a billion-dollar Hadoop business with open source
After spinning out from Yahoo in 2011, Hortonworks is trying to build the world’s dominant Hadoop platform entirely on open source software.
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Rob Bearden — CEO, HortonworksModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom2 years + 2 years + 2 years
The first two years of Foursquare were spent collecting data with check-ins and user engagement. The next two years were about turning that data into usable information.
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Dennis Crowley — Co-founder and CEO, FoursquareModerated by
Mathew Ingram — Senior Writer, GigaomHow the Federal Trade Commission is protecting consumers data
Daniel Kaufman has been working actively on issues of critical importance to today’s consumers, including protecting consumers’ privacy, encouraging appropriate advertising substantiation, guarding consumers from financial fraud, and maintaining competition in industries involving health care and high-tech. Hear how data and privacy are treated by the FTC.
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Daniel Kaufman — Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade CommissionModerated by
Jeff Roberts — Staff Writer, GigaomWhy a new type of data needs a new type of platform
The industrial internet isn’t just about putting sensors on heavy machinery — it’s about how industries of all types will use the data they’re generating to build better products and run smarter businesses.
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Paul Maritz — CEO, PivotalModerated by
Om Malik — Founder, GigaomMorning Break
Oceanic SuiteIntel Sponsor Workshop: Going From Big Data to Big Answers
Big data is a game changer. To successfully derive value from their big data, organizations need new ways to harness it and mine it for insight.
More…Aquitania West SuiteSanDisk Sponsor Workshop: Flash Solid-State Disks (SSDs): High-Performing, Cost-Effective Solutions for Big Data Analytics
Flash solid-state disks (SSDs) provide high performance for important Big Data Analytics workloads, deployed at cost-effective prices, given their storage capacity and speed.
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Every conversation about Big Data includes Hadoop, due to its massive scalability and ability to store massive volumes of all forms of data. But that’s not enough…getting the right answers in real time separates the winners from the followers.
More…Searching for the next big thing in big data
As the big data market grows, investment into data companies grows alongside.
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Sven Strohband — Partner and CTO, Khosla VenturesJalak Jobanputra — Managing Partner, FuturePerfect VenturesShivon Zilis — VC, Bloomberg BetaHilary Mason — Data Scientist in Residence, Accel PartnersModerated by
Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, GigaomData driven design at formula one speed
Geoff McGrath, Managing Director, McLaren Applied Technologies (MAT), will discuss how the collection and analysis of ever increasing amounts of data will revolutionize the design process.
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Geoff McGrath — Managing Director, McLaren Applied TechnologiesA car company with a passion for data
Mike Cavaretta is a leader for the Predictive Analytics group in Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford.
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Michael Cavaretta — Data Scientist and Manager, Ford Motor CompanyModerated by
David Strom — Contributor, Gigaom Research and President, David StromHow MetLife data is transforming the customer experience
For 140+ years, MetLife has been a global provider of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs, currently serving over 90 million customers.
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Gary Hoberman — CIO and SVP of Regional Application Development, MetLifeModerated by
Barb Darrow — Senior Writer, GigaomAmid billions of metrics, your software is trying to tell you something
We’ve become pretty smart about using the billions of metrics coming from our applications to solve performance issues, but paying attention to software analytics can do that one better — it can give you business insights.
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Lew Cirne — Founder and CEO, New RelicLunch Break
Oceanic SuiteAlpine Data Labs Sponsor Workshop: Hadoop at the Speed of Business
Everyone knows that data mining and predictive analytics are hard, especially on Hadoop.
More…Aquitania West SuiteCenturyLink Technology Solutions Sponsor Workshop: 12% or 88%? Are you accelerating insight or just storing data?
Over 80% of businesses are just storing data today. This potentially valuable data is sitting dormant and the promise of big data begs for it to be analyzed.
More…Aquitania East SuiteSpaceCurve Sponsor Workshop: The Internet of Things Changes Everything
The Internet of Things generates complex and diverse data that overwhelms traditional systems.
More…Tech against human trafficking and illicit networks
It’s becoming increasingly possible to map, expose and disrupt illicit networks with technology.
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Justin Kosslyn — Product Manager, Google IdeasModerated by
Patrick Keefe — Staff Writer, The New YorkerAquitania West SuiteMapping Session (Buyers-Only): Implementing Visual Data Discovery
Mapping sessions are live, interactive, facilitated discussions with a small, focused participant audience. In this exclusive industry insight event — open only to technology buyers — we’ll present the key findings from the Sector Roadmap report on visual data discovery that will be distributed at the conference.
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Rich Morrow — Gigaom Research Analyst and Founder and Principal Engineer, quicloudAndrew Brust — Gigaom Research Analyst and Founder and CEO, Blue Badge InsightsWilliam McKnight — Gigaom Research Analyst and Founder, McKnight Consulting GroupModerated by
David Card — VP, Gigaom ResearchSecurity, data and the future of cyberspace
Hear a perspective on the where the advancement of data is headed and how security will be affected from one of the major players behind the scene.
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Peter Guerra — Principal, Booz Allen HamiltonModerated by
Tom Krazit — Executive Editor, GigaomWhy media is harder than rocket science
Media companies face huge transformations as consumers change their engagement patterns to cross platform and advertisers demand more insights and apply downward price pressure.
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Colin Coleman — Sr. Director Analytics Products Strategy and Data Governance, Turner Broadcasting SystemModerated by
Mike Dauber — Principal, Battery VenturesA quantum leap for data processing
Moore’s Law and data centers are reaching their limits in terms of scale and energy consumption. For businesses to solve their most challenging problems, a new computing paradigm is entering the commercial market.
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Vern Brownell — President and CEO, D-Wave SystemsModerated by
Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, GigaomHow microdata can say a lot about macroeconomics
Premise Data Founder and CEO David Soloff will talk about how his company is using crowdsourcing to bring economic indicators into the age of globalization and real-time data.
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David Soloff — CEO and Co-Founder, PremiseAfternoon Break
Oceanic SuiteWSO2 Sponsor Workshop: Tracking a Soccer Game with Big Data
Teams gain a competitive edge by analyzing Big Data streams.
More…Aquitania West SuitePivotal Sponsor Workshop: Data Lake Architecture – What’s Next & What You Need to Know
As the value of information has increased, so has the business’s thirst for more information.
More…Aquitania East SuiteVaronis Sponsor Workshop: Notes From the IT Battlefield – 5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know You Could Automate
Some of the most time-consuming tasks in the data center are also the most painful and error-prone – managing access, identifying threats, migrating and archiving data and recovering from day-to-day mishaps like lost files or the CryptoLocker virus.
More…What’s the market for big data?
90% of the data in the world has been generated over the last two years. But, data will not help you if you can’t access it when you need it.
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Juliette Powell — CEO and Founder, Turing AIModerated by
Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, GigaomInternational entrepreneurship and emerging trends in data
Join is for a session with some of the most impactful international entrepreneurs in the world in a session with Endeavor and Gigaom.
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Amr Shady — Founder and CEO, TA TelecomModerated by
Shaun Young — Director, Network and Business Development, EndeavorGigaom Structure Data Awards
For the first time, watch as Gigaom presents it’s selections of the best and brightest big data startups with an award and the chance to talk about how they are changing the game.
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Adam Bonnifield — Co-Founder, SpinnakrGunnar Carlsson — Co-Founder, AyasdiFrancis Irving — CEO, ScraperWikiRobert Munro — CEO, IdibonPrakash Nanduri — CEO and Co-Founder, PaxataDavid Soloff — CEO and Co-Founder, PremiseIon Stoica — CEO and Co-Founder, DataBricksCarl Tremblay — Head of Platform, PlaidModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomClosing Day 1
Emceed by
Joe Weinman — Author, Cloudonomics, and Chairman, IEEE Intercloud Testbed Executive CommitteeNew Relic Cocktail Reception
675 BarNew Relic Trivia Night
Join Gigaom and New Relic for the first ever Structure Data Trivia night!
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CEO Morning Run
Join Jason Jacobs, Founder & CEO of RunKeeper and Paul Walborsky, CEO of Gigaom, for a casual run in NYC on Thursday March 20th at 7:00 AM.
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Welcome Day 2
Emceed by
Joe Weinman — Author, Cloudonomics, and Chairman, IEEE Intercloud Testbed Executive CommitteeHow far can Hadoop go?
Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly will talk about how the enterprise data hub is becoming an integral part of data management architectures by handling interactive SQL, transformation, stream processing, advanced analytics and other workloads.
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Tom Reilly — CEO, ClouderaModerated by
Tom Krazit — Executive Editor, GigaomDemocratizing artificial intelligence with APIs
If you think Siri is smart, you haven’t seen anything yet. Hear how APIs are putting cutting-edge capabilities in deep learning, cognitive computing and artificial intelligence into the hands of developers everywhere.
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Elliot Turner — CEO, AlchemyAPIStephen Gold — VP, WW Marketing and Sales Operations, Watson Solutions, IBM Software GroupModerated by
Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, GigaomWhen you’re talking or typing, AI is there
Despite the hard work that goes into building systems for deep learning and other methods of understanding human language, users might never know they’re powering their favorite apps. And that’s kind of the point.
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Om Malik — Founder, GigaomBing, Xbox and the results of machine learning at Microsoft
For a company like Microsoft, there’s no such thing as too much data. Microsoft Research’s John Platt will talk about the advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques his team is studying, where it gets its data, and how that work eventually makes its way into everything from Office to Xbox.
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John Platt — Distinguished Scientist and Manager, Machine Learning Department, Microsoft ResearchModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomWhy the future of social search is semantic
In any large social network, there are an incredible number of relationships and interactions between the elements that comprise it.
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Ramona Pierson — Co-Founder and CEO, DeclaraModerated by
Mathew Ingram — Senior Writer, GigaomNorthbridge and Gigaom’s Survey Announcement
Stay tuned for details on Northbridge and Gigaom’s annual survey
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Eric Jones — Marketing Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners and Growth EquityModerated by
David Card — VP, Gigaom ResearchMorning Break
Oceanic SuiteSoftLayer Sponsor Workshop: Making Big Data Cost Effective in a Bare Metal Cloud
The cloud provides an easy onramp to building and deploying Big Data solutions, particularly the latest technologies that favor scale-out architectures.
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Data continues to drive innovation, yet it’s how we interpret and use that data that becomes imperative to success.
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No beer in the fridge? The best restocking strategy sheds light on the big data analytics trend GigaOM notes is, “growing like mad.”
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The data is clear. Most companies are leveraging less than 5% of their information.
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Nick Beim — Partner, VenrockA datacenter operating system for a data-rich society
Imagine a future where every organization in the world can use new sources of data to enhance their operational intelligence, fostering discoveries and innovation in science, industry, and medicine.
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Boyd Davis — VP Data Center Group; GM Datacenter SW Division, IntelModerated by
Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, GigaomThe best websites aren’t just built, they’re calculated
Creating a great web experience isn’t just a matter of using the latest and greatest development tools. Data infrastructure and data science leaders from Airbnb and LinkedIn will talk about the work that goes into building sites — indeed, entire web businesses — that look good, perform well and keep users coming back.
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Yael Garten — Manager, Mobile Data Science, LinkedInRiley Newman — Head of Data Science, AirbnbHenry Lin — Senior Data Scientist, UberModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomAquitania West SuiteMapping Session: Machine learning – When does the payoff start?
Mapping Sessions are industry insight events open to Gigaom Events attendees. The sessions are live, interactive, facilitated discussions with a small and focused participant audience.
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Rich Morrow — Gigaom Research Analyst and Founder and Principal Engineer, quicloudPaul Miller — Gigaom Research Analyst and Founder, The Cloud of DataModerated by
Cormac Foster — Research Director, Gigaom ResearchBig Data Analytics re-invented
Join us to learn how Amazon Web Services, and leading edge customers think about Big Data on AWS. Customers’ are ingesting terabytes of data per hour from hundreds of thousands of different concurrent sources in real-time, and performing continuous processing on this data.
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Ryan Waite — General Manager, Data Services, Amazon Web ServicesHow humans and machines can team up to solve big problems
In the same way a microscope helps augment the innate ability of the human eye, Quid creates tools to augment how we as humans process unstructured data and visualize it.
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Sean Gourley — Founder and CTO, QuidLunch Break
Oceanic SuiteSumo Logic Sponsor Workshop: Sumo on Sumo – How Sumo Logic uses Sumo Logic Internally to Troubleshoot, Debug and Improve Customer Experience
This workshop will give you a in-depth look at how Sumo Logic leverages its own enterprise-class log management and analytics solution to
More…Aquitania West SuiteGuavus Sponsor Workshop: Increase Operational Intelligence & Reduce Cost of Care Through Dynamic Root Cause Analysis & Proactive Network Maintenance
This workshop focuses on improving customer experience and reducing care costs via real-time root cause analysis of anomalous network events and care interactions.
More…Aquitania East SuiteTableau Software Sponsor Workshop: Can we all be heroes with our data?
At Tableau Software, Robin Cottiss, Tableau Software Sales Consultant shares a narrative of what makes data powerful, he travels back in time with eight discoverers
More…Inverting 80/20: Beyond Bespoke Big Data
The past decade has seen a proliferation of standalone-tools and technology for large scale data processing. While powerful and transformational, the onus is still on the implementer to do most of the work – 80% of the time is spent on setting up the technology, leaving only a fraction to work on the actual problem at hand.
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Ari Gesher — Engineering Ambassador, Palantir TechnologiesAquitania East SuiteDATA LAB – Software as a service
DataHero’s Chris Neumann will discuss the user-driven design strategies they employ to make data analytics and data visualization accessible to everyone.
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Chris Neumann — CEO and Cofounder, DataHeroRunning a data business
Tracking fitness, tracking steps, tracking food, tracking sleep… the amount of data we have about ourselves is growing exponentially every day.
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Jason Jacobs — Founder and CEO, RunKeeperModerated by
Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, GigaomAquitania East SuiteDATA LAB – Krossover
There’s gold in them thar sports videos, and Krossover’s mission is to find it. Founder Vasu Kulkarni will discuss the value of information stored in video, including how his company is able to breakdown game films for everything from player analysis to testing sports IQ.
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Vasu Kulkarni — Founder and CEO, KrossoverIs Video Big Data?
By leveraging customer data, online retailers have vastly improved the shopping experience. Until recently, brick-and-mortar retailers have been unable to similarly optimize at the same speed or scale.
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Steve Russell — CEO and Founder, Prism SkylabsFive myths about big data
Sponsored – Join SiSense’s CEO as he presents five misconceptions about big data that are costing companies time and money and confusing an already murky term.
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Amit Bendov — CEO, SiSenseAquitania East SuiteDATA LAB – Echo Nest
Music is about so much more than singers, albums and genres. Brian Whitman discusses the state of the art in machine listening, as well as how The Echo Nest built a music data graph spanning tens of millions of songs that powers recommendations for services such as Spotify.
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Brian Whitman — Co-Founder and CTO, The Echo NestHow will we train data scientists of the future?
Many companies are wondering where they’ll get the skilled employees they need to succeed in the data economy, and the answer increasingly looks to be from online courses.
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AnnaLee Saxenian — Professor and Dean, UC BerkeleyModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomClosing Remarks
Speakers
Om Malik — Founder, GigaomDerrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomPaul Walborsky — CEO, GigaomMetaScale Cocktail Reception
Aquitania East SuiteDATA LAB – Images
Sight Machine (and Slashdot) Co-founder Nathan Oostendorp will share insights about using computer vision to extract features and structured data from video and still images.
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Nathan Oostendorp — Chief Product Officer, Sight MachineAquitania East SuiteDATA LAB – Social media
Dataminr’s Founder and CEO, Ted Bailey talks about transforming the Twitter stream into actionable alerts that provide a time and information advantage for professionals in finance, public sector and the news industries.
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Ted Bailey — CEO, Founder and Chairman, Dataminr