Program

Program Matrix

Click here for a complete program matrix, showing when all talks are scheduled.

Click on the tracks below for a list of abstracts.

• Plenaries
• Big Data 101
• Case Studies
• Emerging Trends
• Software Tutorials
• Poster Sessions
  

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