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Structure Data

Thanks for attending!March 19 – 20, 2014 | New York, NY

Schedule
  • Jump to day 2

    Day 1: Wed, March 19 Wednesday, March 19

    8:00 AM

    Registration and Breakfast

    9:00 AM

    Opening Remarks

    Speakers

    Om Malik — Founder, Gigaom
    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    Paul Walborsky — CEO, Gigaom

    Emceed by

    Joe Weinman — Author, Cloudonomics, and Chairman, IEEE Intercloud Testbed Executive Committee
    9:05 AM

    Building 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Rob Bearden — CEO, Hortonworks

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    9:20 AM

    2 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Dennis Crowley — Co-founder and CEO, Foursquare

    Moderated by

    Mathew Ingram — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    9:40 AM

    How 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Daniel Kaufman — Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission

    Moderated by

    Jeff Roberts — Staff Writer, Gigaom
    10:05 AM

    Why 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Paul Maritz — CEO, Pivotal

    Moderated by

    Om Malik — Founder, Gigaom
    10:25 AM

    Morning Break

    10:40 AM
    Oceanic Suite

    Intel 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…
    10:40 AM
    Aquitania West Suite

    SanDisk 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.

    More…
    10:40 AM
    Aquitania East Suite

    HP Vertica Sponsor Workshop: Making Elephants Fly – Marrying Hadoop with Real-Time Analytics

    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…
    11:25 AM

    Searching for the next big thing in big data

    As the big data market grows, investment into data companies grows alongside.

    More…

    Speakers

    Sven Strohband — Partner and CTO, Khosla Ventures
    Jalak Jobanputra — Managing Partner, FuturePerfect Ventures
    Shivon Zilis — VC, Bloomberg Beta
    Hilary Mason — Data Scientist in Residence, Accel Partners

    Moderated by

    Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    11:50 AM

    Data 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Geoff McGrath — Managing Director, McLaren Applied Technologies
    12:10 PM

    A car company with a passion for data

    Mike Cavaretta is a leader for the Predictive Analytics group in Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford.

    More…

    Speaker

    Michael Cavaretta — Data Scientist and Manager, Ford Motor Company

    Moderated by

    David Strom — Contributor, Gigaom Research and President, David Strom
    12:30 PM

    How 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Gary Hoberman — CIO and SVP of Regional Application Development, MetLife

    Moderated by

    Barb Darrow — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    12:50 PM

    Amid 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Lew Cirne — Founder and CEO, New Relic
    1:00 PM

    Lunch Break

    1:15 PM
    Oceanic Suite

    Alpine Data Labs Sponsor Workshop: Hadoop at the Speed of Business

    Everyone knows that data mining and predictive analytics are hard, especially on Hadoop.

    More…
    1:15 PM
    Aquitania West Suite

    CenturyLink 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…
    1:15 PM
    Aquitania East Suite

    SpaceCurve Sponsor Workshop: The Internet of Things Changes Everything

    The Internet of Things generates complex and diverse data that overwhelms traditional systems.

    More…
    2:00 PM

    Tech against human trafficking and illicit networks

    It’s becoming increasingly possible to map, expose and disrupt illicit networks with technology.

    More…

    Speaker

    Justin Kosslyn — Product Manager, Google Ideas

    Moderated by

    Patrick Keefe — Staff Writer, The New Yorker
    2:00 PM
    Aquitania West Suite

    Mapping 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.

    More…

    Speakers

    Rich Morrow — Gigaom Research Analyst and Founder and Principal Engineer, quicloud
    Andrew Brust — Gigaom Research Analyst and Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights
    William McKnight — Gigaom Research Analyst and Founder, McKnight Consulting Group

    Moderated by

    David Card — VP, Gigaom Research
    2:25 PM

    Security, 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Peter Guerra — Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton

    Moderated by

    Tom Krazit — Executive Editor, Gigaom
    2:40 PM

    Why 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Colin Coleman — Sr. Director Analytics Products Strategy and Data Governance, Turner Broadcasting System

    Moderated by

    Mike Dauber — Principal, Battery Ventures
    3:00 PM

    A 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Vern Brownell — President and CEO, D-Wave Systems

    Moderated by

    Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    3:20 PM

    How 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    David Soloff — CEO and Co-Founder, Premise
    3:30 PM

    Afternoon Break

    3:45 PM
    Oceanic Suite

    WSO2 Sponsor Workshop: Tracking a Soccer Game with Big Data

    Teams gain a competitive edge by analyzing Big Data streams.

    More…
    3:45 PM
    Aquitania West Suite

    Pivotal 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…
    3:45 PM
    Aquitania East Suite

    Varonis 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…
    4:30 PM

    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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Juliette Powell — CEO and Founder, Turing AI

    Moderated by

    Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    4:40 PM

    International 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Amr Shady — Founder and CEO, TA Telecom

    Moderated by

    Shaun Young — Director, Network and Business Development, Endeavor
    4:50 PM

    Gigaom 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.

    More…

    Speakers

    Adam Bonnifield — Co-Founder, Spinnakr
    Gunnar Carlsson — Co-Founder, Ayasdi
    Francis Irving — CEO, ScraperWiki
    Robert Munro — CEO, Idibon
    Prakash Nanduri — CEO and Co-Founder, Paxata
    David Soloff — CEO and Co-Founder, Premise
    Ion Stoica — CEO and Co-Founder, DataBricks
    Carl Tremblay — Head of Platform, Plaid

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    5:35 PM

    Closing Day 1

    Emceed by

    Joe Weinman — Author, Cloudonomics, and Chairman, IEEE Intercloud Testbed Executive Committee
    5:40 PM

    New Relic Cocktail Reception

    8:00 PM
    675 Bar

    New Relic Trivia Night

    Join Gigaom and New Relic for the first ever Structure Data Trivia night!

    More…
  • Day 2: Thu, March 20 Thursday, March 20

    6:30 AM

    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.

    More…
    8:00 AM

    Registration and Breakfast

    8:55 AM

    Welcome Day 2

    Emceed by

    Joe Weinman — Author, Cloudonomics, and Chairman, IEEE Intercloud Testbed Executive Committee
    9:00 AM

    How 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Tom Reilly — CEO, Cloudera

    Moderated by

    Tom Krazit — Executive Editor, Gigaom
    9:15 AM

    Democratizing 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.

    More…

    Speakers

    Elliot Turner — CEO, AlchemyAPI
    Stephen Gold — VP, WW Marketing and Sales Operations, Watson Solutions, IBM Software Group

    Moderated by

    Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    9:35 AM

    When 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.

    More…

    Speakers

    Ben Medlock — Co-Founder and CTO, SwiftKey
    Tim Tuttle — CEO and Founder, Expect Labs

    Moderated by

    Om Malik — Founder, Gigaom
    9:55 AM

    Bing, 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    John Platt — Distinguished Scientist and Manager, Machine Learning Department, Microsoft Research

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    10:10 AM

    Why 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Ramona Pierson — Co-Founder and CEO, Declara

    Moderated by

    Mathew Ingram — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    10:25 AM

    Northbridge and Gigaom’s Survey Announcement

    Stay tuned for details on Northbridge and Gigaom’s annual survey

    More…

    Speaker

    Eric Jones — Marketing Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners and Growth Equity

    Moderated by

    David Card — VP, Gigaom Research
    10:30 AM

    Morning Break

    10:45 AM
    Oceanic Suite

    SoftLayer 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.

    More…
    10:45 AM
    Aquitania West Suite

    Qlik Sponsor Workshop: Analytics the Way Nature Intended

    Data continues to drive innovation, yet it’s how we interpret and use that data that becomes imperative to success.

    More…
    10:45 AM
    Aquitania East Suite

    SiSense Sponsor Workshop: On Beer, Chips and Data

    No beer in the fridge? The best restocking strategy sheds light on the big data analytics trend GigaOM notes is, “growing like mad.”

    More…
    11:30 AM

    Analytics without limits

    The data is clear. Most companies are leveraging less than 5% of their information.

    More…

    Speakers

    Colin Mahony — VP and GM, HP Vertica
    Bruce Yen — Director of Business Intelligence, Guess

    Moderated by

    Nick Beim — Partner, Venrock
    11:45 AM

    A 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Boyd Davis — VP Data Center Group; GM Datacenter SW Division, Intel

    Moderated by

    Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    12:05 PM

    The 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.

    More…

    Speakers

    Yael Garten — Manager, Mobile Data Science, LinkedIn
    Riley Newman — Head of Data Science, Airbnb
    Henry Lin — Senior Data Scientist, Uber

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    12:05 PM
    Aquitania West Suite

    Mapping 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.

    More…

    Speakers

    Rich Morrow — Gigaom Research Analyst and Founder and Principal Engineer, quicloud
    Paul Miller — Gigaom Research Analyst and Founder, The Cloud of Data

    Moderated by

    Cormac Foster — Research Director, Gigaom Research
    12:25 PM

    Big 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Ryan Waite — General Manager, Data Services, Amazon Web Services
    12:45 PM

    How 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Sean Gourley — Founder and CTO, Quid
    1:00 PM

    Lunch Break

    1:15 PM
    Oceanic Suite

    Sumo 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…
    1:15 PM
    Aquitania West Suite

    Guavus 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…
    1:15 PM
    Aquitania East Suite

    Tableau 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…
    2:00 PM

    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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Ari Gesher — Engineering Ambassador, Palantir Technologies
    2:00 PM
    Aquitania East Suite

    DATA 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Chris Neumann — CEO and Cofounder, DataHero
    2:20 PM

    Running a data business

    Tracking fitness, tracking steps, tracking food, tracking sleep… the amount of data we have about ourselves is growing exponentially every day.

    More…

    Speaker

    Jason Jacobs — Founder and CEO, RunKeeper

    Moderated by

    Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    2:30 PM
    Aquitania East Suite

    DATA 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Vasu Kulkarni — Founder and CEO, Krossover
    2:40 PM

    Is 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Steve Russell — CEO and Founder, Prism Skylabs
    3:00 PM

    Five 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Amit Bendov — CEO, SiSense
    3:00 PM
    Aquitania East Suite

    DATA 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Brian Whitman — Co-Founder and CTO, The Echo Nest
    3:10 PM

    How 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    AnnaLee Saxenian — Professor and Dean, UC Berkeley

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    3:30 PM

    Closing Remarks

    Speakers

    Om Malik — Founder, Gigaom
    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    Paul Walborsky — CEO, Gigaom
    3:35 PM

    MetaScale Cocktail Reception

    3:45 PM
    Aquitania East Suite

    DATA 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Nathan Oostendorp — Chief Product Officer, Sight Machine
    4:10 PM
    Aquitania East Suite

    DATA 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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    Speaker

    Ted Bailey — CEO, Founder and Chairman, Dataminr
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