• Ion Stoica, one of the creators of Apache Spark and CEO of Databricks, will answer questions from the audience about what Spark is and why it’s being lauded as the best thing to happen to big data since Hadoop.

    Speaker

    Ion Stoica — CEO, Databricks

    Moderated by

    Andrew Brust — Research Director, Gigaom Research

    About the Speaker

    CEO

    Ion Stoica is the CEO of Databricks, which he co-founded in 2013 to commercialize Spark and other related big data technologies developed at AMPLab (UC Berkeley). More…

    About the Moderator

    Gigaom Research
    Research Director

    Andrew Brust is Research Director for Big Data and Analytics at Gigaom Research. More…