Speakers Announced for Upcoming Leverage Big Data 2014 Summit
Tabor Communications Inc. (TCI), Datanami (www.Datanami.com) and nGage Events today announced the initial program of speakers for Leverage Big Data 2014 (www.LeverageBigData.com) summit which will be held May 20-22, 2014 at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort in Carlsbad, CA in North San Diego County.
Leverage Big Data 2014 is an exclusive, invitation-only hosted summit designed to bring leaders in advance computing together to discuss the infrastructure challenges (both hardware and software) that organizations face as they navigate the build-out of Big Data systems.
This unique conference program will engage users through a broad spectrum of peer-to-peer interaction, including informational sessions, board room style peer discussions, and one-on-one solution sessions with leading solution providers in the Big Data space. The educational program is driven by the program chair, Nicole Hemsoth, Editor of HPCwire and Editorial Director for TCI, and will include the following speakers:
- Dr. Jack Collins, Director, Advanced Biomedical Computing Center, National Cancer Institute
- Dr. Ari Berman, Director of Government Services and Principal Investigator, BioTeam, "Data Infrastructure Challenges in the Life Sciences"
- Richard Arthur, Computing Advocate and Lab Manager, GE Research, "Industrial Big Data Challenges"
- Jack Levis, Analytics Lead, United Parcel Service
- Dr. Kirk Borne, Professor of Astrophysics & Computational Science, George Mason University, "From Astrophysics to Airlines--The Big Picture of Massive Data"
- Steve Yatko, CEO, Oktay Technologies & Former Managing Director & Head of Worldwide IT R&D at Credit Suisse
- Dr. Chaitan Baru, Associate Director, Data Initiatives at San Diego Supercomputer Center - "Benchmarking Big Data Systems"
General areas of event coverage include:
- Infrastructure: Large Scale Data Intensive; Refining & scaling; Cloud approaches; Performance tuning; Examining portability
- Hadoop: Limitations and Promise: Integrating enterprise data within Hadoop
- Analytics: Predictive, Behavioral, Prescriptive; Graph, Real-time, BI tools
- Database Systems & Management: Relational vs. NoSQL
- Data modeling: Structured vs. Unstructured data; Avoiding complicated dependencies
- Storage: Virtualization, resource management, types and options
- Cloud Analytics: Real-time streaming analytics and management, services
- Case Studies: Challenges, Strategies, Implementation, Outcomes
Applications to attend this exclusive, invitation-only conference can be made at www.leveragebigdata.com. For sponsorship information, contact Jeff Hyman, Group Publisher, Tabor Communications at jeff@taborcommunications.com or contact David Pesko, Senior Vice President, nGage Events at dpesko@ngagevents.com.
