May

Bay Area DataFest 2019: Advanced Analytics & Big Data Conference

by Azure DataFest Team

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Date and Time

Thu, May 23, 2019

8:00 AM – 6:00 PM PDT

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Location

Microsoft Moffett Tower

1020 Enterprise Way

Sunnyvale, CA 94089

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Refunds up to 7 days before event

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Event description

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Please join us for the Bay Area DataFest 2019 a user community event which will feature products around Big Data, IOT and AI & ML Services on Azure.  It will provide a foundation for architecting and solidifying your Data Platform and AI strategy.

This is an exciting opportunity to meet, align strategies and plan outcomes with Senior Data Leads/Managers, Executives, Data Scientist, Data Engineers, Analysts, Developers, Data Evangelist, etc..

When:  May 23rd, 2019

Time  : 8:00 am-5:30 pm followed by Happy Hour from 5:30 -7:30
Where: 1020 Enterprise Way, Sunnyvale

SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS (detailed schedule here)

Insider Track into Big Data/ML Latest Tools and Technologies

Transform your business with a unified data platform using SQL Server 2019 (with Apache Spark and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for intelligence over all your data.)
Azure IOT, BOTS and Cognitive Services in action

Keynote speakers

Justin Borgman is the Founder and CEO of Starburst, the Presto company. Presto is an open source SQL engine for quickly accessing data in a variety of data sources, including Azure Blob and ADLS. Previously, Justin was Vice President and General Manager at Teradata, where he was responsible for the company’s portfolio of Hadoop products. Prior to joining Teradata, Justin was co-founder and CEO of Hadapt, the pioneering "SQL-on-Hadoop" company that transformed Hadoop into an enterprise data warehouse. Hadapt was acquired by Teradata in 2014. Justin earned a BS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Asad Khad, Director of Program Management in Azure Data engineering group

Asad Khan, is Director of Program Management in Azure Data engineering group. Currently he lead the product and program management of SQL Server and the SQL based PaaS services in Azure. This includes SQL Server on-premises business, SQL Server on Linux, Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL MI, as well as the SQL hosting business in other Clouds. In the past, Asad used to run the Big Data Services in Azure, which includes Azure Databricks and the HDInsight service, which are the open source analytics offerings on Azure. he has spent the last few years working on Data technologies and building Cloud Services. He enjoys working with large enterprises to modernize their data pipeline and enable intelligent applications. He is passionate about building new businesses and leading organizations to build great products that impact people and organizations. He has a master’s degree from Stanford University.

We want to thank our awesome sponsors - please visit with them at the event!