



Featured Talks
Big Data: Mind the Gap
All executive teams have business questions to answer and problems to solve. Can you take actions or make changes which drive revenue or cut costs as a data-driven business? Can you in some way monetize...
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Beyond Hadoop – The Next Generation Data Platform
As customers begin to deal with data deluge, storage growth, and shrinking budgets, they have to evaluate how to best manage legacy and new applications based on old...
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Modern Streaming Analytics, Flow versus State
The leading edge of big data architectural practice is rapidly moving to flow-based computing using streaming architectures as opposed to state-based computing based on batch programs...
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Agenda: May 17, 2016
The Westin Boston Waterfront
425 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210
FULL SCHEDULE | |
8:00am - 9:00am | Registration & Breakfast |
9:00am - 9:15am | Introductions & Welcome |
9:15am - 10:00am | Modern Streaming Analytics, Flow versus State Ted Dunning, Chief Application Architect, MapR |
10:00am - 10:45am | Beyond Hadoop – The Next Generation Data Platform Bob Fosina, Sales BDM - Advanced Analytics & Data Science, Cisco |
10:45am - 11:15am | Inside Eastern Bank's Big Data Journey Brian Griffith, Principal Data Engineer, Eastern Bank |
11:15am - 11:45am | Morning Break & Book Signing |
11:45am-12:15pm | Big Data: Mind the Gap Brad Anderson, Vice President, Big Data Informatics, Liaison Technologies |
12:15pm - 12:45pm | Data Management as a Service to Drive Business Value Julio Gomez, Knowledgent |
12:45pm - 1:15pm | The Successful Data Lake: How Data Wrangling Bridges IT & Business Chris Moore, Senior Sales Engineer, Trifacta |
1:15pm - 2:00pm | Networking Lunch |
Featured Speakers

Bob Fosina
Sales BDM - Advanced Analytics & Data Science, Cisco Bob Fosina holds a BA in Computer Science, a MS in Telecommunications and numerous certifications from companies like Microsoft and Gartner Group. Fosina has also attended HP sponsored Executive MBA classes at Harvard Business School.

Ted Dunning
Committer for Apache Mahout, Drill, & ZooKeeper Projects & Chief Application Architect, MapR Ted Dunning is Chief Applications Architect at MapR Technologies and committer and PMC member of the Apache Mahout, Apache ZooKeeper, and Apache Drill projects and mentor for Apache Storm, Apache Spark and Apache Flink. Ted is also now VP of Incubator for the Apache Software Foundation. Ted was the chief architect behind the MusicMatch (now Yahoo Music) and Veoh recommendation systems. He built fraud detection systems for ID Analytics (LifeLock) and he has 24 patents issued to date and a dozen pending. Ted has a PhD in computing science from the University of Sheffield. When he’s not doing data science, he plays guitar and mandolin. He also bought the beer at the first Hadoop user group meeting.