Program
Program Matrix
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Click on the tracks below for a list of abstracts.
Keynote Presenters
- Accenture – Michael Svilar, Managing Director, Advanced Analytics
- Teradata Corp. – Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer
Track: Big Data Case Studies
- U.S Census Bureau - Cavan Capps CISSP, Big Data Lead
- Merck & Co., Inc. - John E. Koch, MS, Director of Informatics
- Intel Corp. – Link C. Jaw, PhD, Fellow, Internet-of-Things Solutions Group
- JP Morgan Intelligent Solutions - Mike Aguiling, Head of Big Data Technology CANCELLED
- Analytics Media Group (AMG) - Alan Papir, MS, Software Engineer
- Teradata Aster - Lee Paries, BS, Vice President, Central & Western US
- Bell Laboratories - Marina Thottan, PhD, Director
- Alpine Data Labs - Joel Horwitz, Director of Products and Marketing
- Google- Behdad Masih, Quantitative Analyst
- HERE, a Nokia Business - Toby Tennent, Product Development Manager
- Exponent®, Inc.- Juergen Klenk, Principal Scientist
- Kabbage, Inc.- Pinar Donmez, Chief Data Scientist
Track: Big Data 101
- Kaiser Permanente - Anton J. Mobley, MS, Security Data Scientist
- Booz Allen Hamilton - Steve Mills, Senior Associate
- IBM - Kevin Foster, MS, Big Data Solutions Architect
- Koverse, Inc. - Paul Brown, MS, CEO and Founder
- Verizon Wireless - Anne Robinson, PhD, Director, Supply Chain Strategy & Analytics
- Booz Allen Hamilton – Brian Keller, PhD, Data Scientist
- Amazon- Vikram Garlapati, Manager, Solutions Architect
- Northwestern University- Diego Klabjan, Professor, Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences; Director, Master of Science in Analytics Program
Track: Emerging Trends in Big Data
- IBM - Rob High, BA, Chief Technology Officer, Watson Solutions, IBM Fellow and Vice President, IBM
- LinkedIn Corp. - Simon Zhang, M.D. & MBA, Senior Director, Business Analytics
- SAS - Paul Kent, B Commerce (WITS), Vice President, Big Data
- Univ. of California-Berkeley - Ion Stoica, PhD, Professor, Univ. of California-Berkeley; CEO, Databricks; CTO-Conviva
- Kaggle - Anthony Goldbloom, B Commerce, Founder and CEO
- SAP- Chris Hallenbeck, Global Vice President
- Pivotal- Kaushik Das, Senior Principal Data Scientist
- GraphLab- Shawn Scully, Data Scientist