Agenda At-a-Glance
Thursday, April 21

Full Schedule Sun, Apr 17 Mon, Apr 18 Tue, Apr 19 Wed, Apr 20 Thu, Apr 21 Fri, Apr 22
Thursday, 4/21/2016
Conference Sessions 08:30 AM - 09:15 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Picking Winners: Applying Hadoop and Spark to Solve Real-World Performance Challenges William Brooks, Mercer
Jifeng Shao, Mercer
 Technical (may include code)
 NoSQL
Agile Schema Management with Model Doc Tom Spitzer, EC Wise, Inc.
 Technical (may include code)
 Modeling
NoSQL
Big Data Architecture Made Easy Mike King, Dell
 Intermediate
 Big Data
Data Architecture
Coffee Break 09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
Conference Sessions 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Data Modeling for NoSQL Databases Dan Myers, DQMatters
Karen Lopez, InfoAdvisors
Theodore S. Hills, LexisNexis
William Lyon, Neo Technology
 Introductory
 NoSQL
The Big Mix: Strategically Blending Data with Information to Discover New Value Cynthia Barr, Thomson Reuters
Pramod Bohra, Thomson Reuters
 Advanced
 NoSQL
Break for Lunch - Note that Lunch will NOT be served this day 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Advanced Seminars (continue to Friday morning) 01:15 PM - 04:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
S4: Building a Modern Big Data Enterprise: Hadoop, Spark, and Beyond Vladimir Bacvanski, SciSpike
 Intermediate
 Big Data
Cloud Computing
NoSQL
S5: Data Modeling for NOSQL and SQL Theodore S. Hills, LexisNexis
 Intermediate
 Modeling
NoSQL