Agenda At-a-Glance
Monday, April 18

Full Schedule Sun, Apr 17 Mon, Apr 18 Tue, Apr 19 Wed, Apr 20 Thu, Apr 21 Fri, Apr 22
Monday, 4/18/2016
Morning Tutorials 08:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
AM9: Data Modeling in a Big Data World Dave Wells, Eckerson Group
Intermediate
Big Data
Modeling
NoSQL
AM10: Evaluating NoSQL and SQL Databases - Part 1 Mike Bowers, LDS Church
Introductory
NoSQL
In Perspectives 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB – The Serverless NoSQL Service on AWS Johann Lau, Amazon Web Services
Introductory
NoSQL
A Better Process to Eliminate Your Data Silos Stan Christ, MarkLogic
Business/Strategic
Data Strategy
Modeling
NoSQL
FinchDB: Better Analytics Derived from Better Questions Scott Lightner, Finch Computing
Intermediate
New Ideas and Technologies
Lunch 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Afternoon Tutorials 01:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
PM1: Architecting A Big Data Platform John Akred, Silicon Valley Data Science
Gary Dusbabek, Silicon Valley Data Science
Stephen O'Sullivan, Silicon Valley Data Science
Technical (may include code)
Big Data
Data Architecture
NoSQL
PM8: Introduction to Enterprise Semantics and Ontologies Dave McComb, Semantic Arts
Introductory
PM9: Evaluating NoSQL and SQL Databases - Part 2 Mike Bowers, LDS Church
NoSQL
Lightning Talks (5 minutes each) 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Confessions of an Unlikely Big Data Skeptic Tim Berglund, DataStax
Introductory
Big Data
NoSQL
Faceted Browsing of Semantic Graphs Evren Sirin, Complexible Inc
Introductory
NoSQL