CO N FERE N C E P R E V I E W
Program tracks and speakers
Track: Big Data Case Studies
• 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
• U.S. Census Bureau – Cavan Capps,
big data lead
• Merck & Co., Inc. – John E. Koch,
director of informatics
• Intel Corp. – Link C. Jaw, Internet-of
things solutions group
• JP Morgan Intelligent Solutions –
Govind Nagubandi, data scientist
• Analytics Media Group (AMG) Alan
Papir, software engineer
• Kaiser Permanente – Anton J. Mobley,
MS, security data scientist
• Booz Allen Hamilton – Peter Guerra,
BS, principal
• IBM – Kevin Foster, MS, big data
solutions architect
• Koverse, Inc. – Paul Brown, MS, CEO
and founder
• Verizon Wireless – Anne Robinson,
Ph.D., director, supply chain strategy
& analytics
• Booz Allen Hamilton – Brian Keller,
Ph.D., data scientist
Track: Emerging Trends in Big Data
• IBM – Rob High, BA, chief technology
officer, Watson solutions, IBM fellow and
vice president
• LinkedIn Corp. – Simon Zhang, MD &
• Teradata Aster – Lee Paries, vice
MBA, senior director, business analytics
president, Central & Western U.S.
• SAS – Paul Kent, B Commerce (WITS),
• Bell Laboratories – Marina Thottan,
director
• Alpine Data Labs – William C. Ford,
lead data scientist
vice president, big data
• Univ. of California Berkeley – Ion
Stoica, Ph.D., professor, Univ. of
California Berkeley; CEO, Databricks;
CTO, Conviva
Track: Big Data 101
• Amazon – Vikram Garlapati, manager,
solutions architect
• Northwestern University – Diego
Klabjan, professor, industrial engineering
& management sciences; director,
master of science in analytics program
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• 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
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