• Hadoop vendor Hortonworks pulled off a successful, and surprising, IPO in December. In this session, CEO Rob Bearden will talk about why investors are putting their money into big data and Hortonworks’ open source software.

    Speaker

    Rob Bearden — CEO, Hortonworks

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom

    About the Speaker

    CEO

    Rob Bearden – CEO Rob is the former chief operating officer of both SpringSource and JBoss, two of the most commercially successful open source companies in history. More…

    About the Moderator

    Senior Writer

    Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for GigaOM since 2009. More…