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Versión Española

Nov 16th

ETSI Telecomunicación (UPM) Madrid, Spain

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Speakers

We lined up some of the most relevant industry leaders of Big Data all packed in one single day of sessions.

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Jon Bruner

Editor-at-Large at

Former Data Editor at Forbes Magazine, Jon is Editor-at-Large at O'Reilly Media. O'Reilly is a leading powerhouse of books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences for developers and innovators .At Forbes, Jon covered all things quantitative through long-form articles, infographics and interactive applications.

Jon graduated as B.S. in Mathematics and Economics at the University of Chicago.

New York, USA

HISTOPIC

The Big Business of Big Data
9:30 ~ 10:15 Salón de actos (Building C) more info

Jonathan Ellis

co-founder -

Jonathan is CTO and co-founder at DataStax. Jonathan is also project chair of Apache Cassandra. Prior to DataStax, Jonathan worked at Rackspace and built a multi-petabyte, scalable storage system based on Reed-Solomon encoding for backup provider Mozy.

Austin, TX, USA

HISTOPIC

Architecture and performance of Cassandra by Jonathan Ellis
10:15 ~ 11:00 Salón de actos (Building C) more info

Alan Gates

co-founder -

Co-founder of Hortonworks. Alan is an original member of the engineering team that took Pig from Yahoo! Labs to a successful Apache open source project. Alan also designed HCatalog and guided its adoption as an Apache Incubator project. Lead for Pig, Hive, and Hcatalog. Author of Programming Pig, a book from O’Reilly Press.

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

HISTOPIC

Apache HCatalog, Apache Pig & Apache Hive by Alan Gates
11:30 ~ 12:15 Salón de actos (Building C) more info

Nati Shalom

CTO and Founder of

Nati is a CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces. Expert in large scale enterprise systems, NoSQL, In Memory Data Grid, Cloud Computing, PaaS, DevOps. Nati is an active blogger about Big Data and a celebrated speakers at international conferences.

Tel Aviv, Israel

HISTOPIC

Putting Hadoop on any Cloud
12:15 ~ 13:00 Salón de actos (Building C) more info

Jordan Tigani

Google Software Developer -

Jordan is the Back-end tech lead for BigQuery at Google. BigQuery is a IaaS that may be used complementary with MapReduce. BigQuery allows to run SQL-like queries against very large datasets in an interactive way.

Seattle, USA

HISTOPIC

Google BigQuery by Jordan Tigani | Big Data Spain
13:00 ~ 13:45 Salón de actos (Building C) more info

Oscar de Bustos

HPC Line of Business Manager

Oscar Bustos Martin is Director of the Division of Bull HPC Spain since March 2008.

He has a Degree in Computer Science from the University of Madrid, began his career in 1997 at Sema Group as Project Manager. In 2000 he joined as HPC Technical Director at Silicon Graphics where he established himself as one of the leading experts of HPC in Spain.

In 2006 he joined Novell as Technical Director. He is currently considered one of the opinion leaders in supercomputing technologies and applications (Extreme Computing) and with greater powers in HPC solutions for the market in Spain.

Madrid, SPAIN

HISTOPIC

HPC, climbing up the Exascale - Bull Systems | Big Data Spain
14:30 ~ 15:00 Salón de actos (Building C) more info

Brendan McAdams

Software Engineer working on MongoDB

New York, USA

HISTOPIC

mongoDB by Brendam McAdams at Big Data Spain 2012
15:30 ~ 16:15 Salón de actos (Building C) more info

Pablo Doval

Plain Concepts
After some years working on several research projects and as a freelance, Pablo joined Microsoft's Premier GTSC as SQL Server Support Engineer, where he learnt to love SQL Server and a little tool called WinDbg ;) Afterwards he joined Plain Concepts, where he served as Development Advisor and has led the Debugging & Optimization Team, where he was happy hunting bugs and underperforming applications. Since the last couple of years he is back to the data realms full-time, leading the SQL/BI Team at Plain Concepts.

Madrid, SPAIN

HISTOPIC

An heterogeneous Hadoop OLAP system with microsoft BI stack
15:30 ~ 16:15 Aula Magna (Building A) more info

Ibon Landa

Plain Concepts
Ibon Landa has been involved in software development for more than 10 years. During this time he has been employed by several companies in which he had the chance of work with a wide range of environment and technologies. Currently he is part of Plain Concepts, focused mainly on development tasks, architecture, ALM tools and Windows Azure cloud platform - area in which he has been awarded as Microsoft's MVP.

Bilbao, SPAIN

HISTOPIC

An heterogeneous Hadoop OLAP system with microsoft BI stack
15:30 ~ 16:15 Aula Magna (Building A) more info

Roberto Maestre

Research and development engineer -
Roberto Maestre is specialized in Artificial Intelligence. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering (Informatics), a research M.Sc. in Artificial intelligence and is currently working on his Ph.D. in the fields of Logic and Algebra models. His recent work projects are focused on understanding, detecting and predicting the human behavior in a huge range of social networks, analyzing the topology and information flow dynamics.

Madrid, SPAIN

HISTOPIC

A Big Data approach to sentiment analysis
16:15 ~ 17:00 Salón de actos (Building C) more info

Ruben Abad

Research and development engineer -
Rubén Abad is specialized in Information Retrieval. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering (Informatics). His work as a research engineer in the industry is related to Big data, NoSQL, network analysis, data visualization and information retrieval. His recent work projects are focused on data journalism, social network information flow and language evolution of a domain among time and its uses.

Madrid, SPAIN

HISTOPIC

A Big Data approach to sentiment analysis
16:15 ~ 17:00 Salón de actos (Building C) more info

Francesc Alted

Software architect -
Francesc is interested in the optimization and handling of extremely large amounts of data and he is currently working for Continuum Analytics as software developer for big data apps.

Castelló de la Plana, SPAIN

HISTOPIC

Memory efficient applications by Continuum Analytics
16:15 ~ 17:00 Aula Magna (Building A) more info

Ivan de Prado

Co-Founder -
Co-founder and CEO of Datasalt, Iván has more than 5 years of experience with Big Data and Hadoop. Iván was one of the creators of the Open Source project Pangool that was born with the aim of being a simpler replacement for the Hadoop Java API. As Hadoop architect, Iván has led Big Data projects across many sectors (banking, social networks, Internet, mobile, etc) successfully.

Madrid, SPAIN

HISTOPIC

Value extraction from BBVA credit card transactions
17:15 ~ 18:00 Aula Magna (Building A) more info

Donn Rochette

CTO -

Donn has more than 25 years of experience creating, applying, and managing new technology. Donn leads the development team at AppFirst to design application monitoring solutions for application infrastructure. He started his career in 1980 as the Lead Design Engineer for the NASA Development and Assessment Lab where he designed hardware and software for the Space Shuttle Launch Processing System.

Donn holds a Master of Science degree in Information Systems from Southeastern University and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Electronics from the University of Northern Iowa.

Sioux City, Iowa Area, USA

HISTOPIC

Architecture to Scale
17:15 ~ 18:00 Salón de actos (Building C) more info

Julien Cabot

Managing Director -

Julien Cabot leads, over 12 years, critical architecture and IT strategy consulting for financial major companies in risk management and analytics, in France, Europe and abroad. He has a strong technical background on grid computing, complex event processing and real time analytics as head of R&D at OCTO Technology. Currently, Julien is Director of the Capital Market Business unit and Head of the Big data R&D since 2010.

Julien is speaker and author about IT management and emerging technologies on blogs, press and conferences. He holds a master degree in Computer Science and an executive master degree in Capital Market Finance from La Sorbonne Business School.

Paris, FRANCE

HISTOPIC

MapReduce and Machine Learning for Health Insurance Predictive Analysis
18:00 ~ 18:45 Salón de actos (Building C) more info

Ruben Jimenez

Software Architech -
Rubén Jiménez Marrufo has worked for more than five years as director of R & D for Icinetic. In these years he has led the development of Radarc, a tool that integrates aspects of Model Driven Development, Software Factories and Software Product Lines to accelerate the development of technologies based software .Net. Among other projects, Radarc has been applied to cloud-based projects for clients such as Spanish Electricity Network, Microsoft or Endesa increasing profitability, efficiency and time-to-market. The last challenge has been to make possible Radarc CloudMC, a platform for parallelizing Monte Carlo simulations applied to radiation transport calculations, which satisfactory results will be published in the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology.

Sevilla, SPAIN

HISTOPIC

A cloud computing map-reduce implementation for radiotherapy
18:00 ~ 18:45 Aula Magna (Building A) more info

Héctor Miras del Rio

Medical Physics at Virgen Macarena Hospital. Seville, Spain

Seville, Spain

HISTOPIC

A cloud computing map-reduce implementation for radiotherapy
18:00 ~ 18:45 Aula Magna (Building A) more info

MODERATORS

Ruben Martinez

Program chair Big Data Spain
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Abraham Otero

Associate Professor at Universidad CEU San Pablo
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