Recently, while I was looking for more information
on Big Data I came across some interesting conferences. Conferences allow for a
huge quantity of information to be shared amongst peers. This sharing can cause
advancements in the field to occur at a much faster rate.
One particular conference that I saw seems very
interesting and had a very enticing list of speakers. This conference was focused on Big Data across
many fields including the US Army, NASA, and numerous private industries. It
brought together key agencies from the government and the private sector to
share knowledge and help steer Big Data’s future. The conference is allowing
the government to learn from resent lessons learned in the private industry and
what new methods and techniques are being used to process this type of data. The
conference was held on March 5-6, 2013 in Washington D.C. This is
a conference I would try to attend in the future if you or your company sees the
need.
There is another large conference coming up on April
8-10, 2013 in Boston, MA. This conference is called Big Data Techcon and will
be made up of mostly tutorials, classes, and trainings. This will allow the attendee
to receive hands on training in Hadoop,
Map/Reduce and NoSQL databases and more. This conference
also has a very impressive list of speakers to discuss this topic as well. The ability to actually see hands on classes and tutorials really makes this conference a great learning experience in which you can further your education in the Big Data field.
Below is a partial list
of some of the speakers attending the two conferences.
Ms. Jo Strang
Associate Administrator, Safety, Federal Railroad Administration, DOT
• Dr. Sasi K. Pillay
Chief Technology Officer, Office of the CIO, NASA
• Dr. Sastry Pantula
Director, Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation
• Mr. Alan Shaffer – invited
Principal Deputy, OASD/R&E
• Mr. Greg Elin
Chief Data Officer, Federal Communications Commission
• Mr. Michael Simcock
Chief Data Architect, Department of Homeland Security
• Dr. Ashit Talukder
Chief, Information Access Division, NIST
• Dr. Mark Luker
Associate Director, National Coordination Office of NITRD
• Dr. Ashok Srivastava
Principal Scientist, Data Sciences, NASA Ames Research Center
• Mr. Niall Brennan
Director, Office of Information Products and Data Analytics, CMS/DHHS
• Mr. Jeff Butler
Director, Research Databases, Internal Revenue Service
• Mr. Shawn Kingsberry
Chief Information Officer, Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board
• Mr. Ted Okada
Senior Advisor for Technology, Office of the Administrator, FEMA
• Ms. Sophie Raseman
Director for Smart Disclosure, Department of the Treasury
• Mr. Dominic Sale
Policy Analyst, Office of Management and Budget
• Mr. Paul Reynolds
Information Architect, Department of Homeland Security
• Mr. John Montel
eRecords Service Manager, Department of the Interior (DOI)
• Ms. Marina Martin
Head, Education Data Initiative, Department of Education
• Senior Representative
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Dr. Nancy Grady
Technical Fellow, Data Scientist, Homeland and Civilian Solutions, SAIC
• Ms. Susie Adams
Vice President, Federal Sector, Microsoft
• Ms. Caron Kogan
Strategic Planning Director-Big Data, Lockheed Martin
• Mr. Bruce Weed
Program Director, Worldwide Big Data Business Development, IBM
• Mr. Kevin Jackson
Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Services, NJVC
• Mr. Bill Hartman
President, TerraEchos
• Mr. Mike Daconta
Vice President, Advanced Technology, InCadence Solutions
• Dr. Flavio Villanustre
Vice President, Technology Architecture and Product, LexisNexis
• Mr. Scott Gnau
Chief Development Officer, Teradata
• Mr. Dante Ricci
Director, SAP Federal Innovation
• Mr. Tom Plunkett
Senior Consultant, Oracle Public Sector
• Mr. Sean Brophy
Senior Analyst, Tableau Software
I think that more conferences of this manner should
be held in order to allow further collaboration between colleagues and to build
a larger network for the attendee. I think anyone that has the means to go to
these conferences should take advantage of the massive amount of information
that you would receive at a conference of this sort.
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