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Apache: Big Data North America 2017 will be held at the Intercontinental Miami in Miami, Florida. 

Register now for the event taking place May 16-18, 2017. 
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Jianfeng Zhang

Hortonworks
China
Tuesday, May 16
 

8:00am EDT

Breakfast Ballroom Foyer

9:00am EDT

Keynote: State of the Feather - Sam Ruby, President, Apache Software Foundation Versailles Ballroom

9:25am EDT

Keynote: Training Our Team in the Apache Way - Alan Gates, Co-founder, Hortonworks Versailles Ballroom

9:50am EDT

Keynote: Apache CouchDB: A Tale of Community, Cooperation and Code - Adam Kocoloski, Fellow and CTO for the Watson Data Platform, IBM Versailles Ballroom

10:10am EDT

Keynote: Digital Psychometrics and it's Future Effects on Technology - Sandra Matz, Computational Social Scientist Versailles Ballroom

10:30am EDT

Coffee Break Ballroom Foyer

11:05am EDT

Starting with Apache Spark, Best Practices and Learning from the Field - Felix Cheung, Microsoft Trianon

12:05pm EDT

Apache Hivemall: Scalable Machine Learning Library for Apache Hive/Spark/Pig - Makoto Yui, Treasure Data, Inc. & Takeshi Yamamuro, NTT Balmoral Profiling Spark Applications - Jayesh Thakrar, Conversant Trianon Even Faster: When Presto Meets Parquet @ Uber - Zhenxiao Luo, Uber Alhambra

12:55pm EDT

Lunch ( Attendees on Own) TBA

2:30pm EDT

Leveraging Docker for Hadoop Build Automation and Big Data Stack Provisioning - Evans Ye, Yahoo Balmoral Spark SQL + Pig-Latin: Combine Query Language and Data Flow Language for Data Science - Jeff Zhang, Hortonworks Alhambra

3:30pm EDT

Understanding Apache MXNet - Dominic Divakaruni, Amazon Web Services Balmoral

4:20pm EDT

Coffee Break Ballroom Foyer

4:40pm EDT

Cassandra Persistence for Online Systems, What Actually Works - John Sumsion, FamilySearch Windsor Efficient Columnar Storage with Apache Parquet - Ranganathan Balashanmugam, ThoughtWorks Alhambra

5:30pm EDT

Onsite Attendee Reception & Technology Showcase, sponsored by Hortonworks Ballroom Foyer

6:00pm EDT

PGP Key Signing: Expanding the Web of Trust Ballroom Foyer
 
Wednesday, May 17
 

8:00am EDT

Breakfast Ballroom Foyer

9:00am EDT

Keynote Panel Discussion: How to Succeed in IoT 2.0 - Abhi Arunachalam, Battery Ventures; Sudip Chakrabarti, Lightspeed Venture Partners; James Pace, Runtime; Roman Shaposhnik, Pivotal Versailles Ballroom

11:15am EDT

Developer on the Rise: Blurring the Line Between the Developer and the Data Scientist with PixieDust - David Taieb, IBM Biscayne

12:15pm EDT

Pilot Hadoop Towards 2500 Nodes and Cluster Redundancy - Stuart Pook, Criteo Windsor

1:05pm EDT

Lunch ( Attendees on Own) TBA

3:30pm EDT

Biophotonics Using Apache PredictionIO, Spark and Deep Learning - Prajod Vettiyattil, Wipro Technologies Balmoral

4:40pm EDT

Expanding Apache Zeppelin into Your Cluster - Jongyoul Lee, ZEPL Balmoral

5:40pm EDT

Helium makes Zeppelin Fly! - Moon Soo Lee, Ahyoung Ryu and Hoon Park, NFLabs Balmoral Construct a Sharable GPU Farm for Data Scientists - Layne Peng, EMC Windsor TensorFlow in the Wild: From Cucumber Farmer to Global Insurance Firm - Kazunori Sato, Google Biscayne A Practical Approach to Using Graph Databases and Analytics - Greg Jordan, Graph Story Trianon
 
Thursday, May 18
 

8:00am EDT

Breakfast Ballroom Foyer

9:00am EDT

Venturing into Large Hadoop Clusters - Varun Saxena & Naganarasimha Garla, Huawei Technologies Windsor Challenges of Monitoring Distributed Systems - Nenad Bozic, SmartCat Biscayne

10:00am EDT

Big Data Analytics Using Apache (Py)Spark For Analyzing IPO Tweets - Dirk Van den Poel, Ghent University Trianon

11:20am EDT

Presto - Swiss Army SQL Knife on Hadoop - Marek Gawiński & Dariusz Eliasz, Allegro Group Windsor From Open Data to Open Information - Thomas Vanhove, Qrama Trianon

12:20pm EDT

Podling Shark Tank - Jim Jagielski, Capital One; Sally Khudairi, ASF; Justin Mclean, Class Software; Roman Shaposhnik, Pivotal Inc. Windsor

1:10pm EDT

Lunch (Attendees on Own) TBA

2:40pm EDT

Secure, UI-Driven Spark/Flink/Kafka-as-a-Service - Jim Dowling, Royal Institute of Technology Trianon

3:40pm EDT

One-Click Production Deployment of Tensorflow AI and Spark ML Models Using 100% Open Source Jupyter Notebook, Kubernetes, and NetflixOSS - Chris Fregly, PipelineIO Alhambra A Smarter Pig - Eli Levine, Salesforce & Julian Hyde, Hortonworks Windsor

4:40pm EDT

Docker on Hadoop - Daniel Templeton, Cloudera, Inc. Balmoral