Wednesday January 10th, 2016
Location: Tuliva 2399 Blake St. Suite 150 Denver, CO 80205 (map)
5:30-6:00: Networking and Food Food, Soda, Beer and Networking.
We are grateful to TEKsystems for their continued sponsorship of the Food and Soda! Tuliva have taken over the beer sponsorship and hosting the location, so a big thanks to them.
6:00-6:15: Announcements
6:15-7:45: An Evening with Apache Spark – Dan Lynn and Andy Grove
Dan and Andy will spend an evening rolling up our sleeves with you to try out some real-world use cases for Apache Spark.
We’ll cover Spark’s RDD API, the DataFrame API, as well as the brand new Dataset API.
About Dan Lynn:
Dan Lynn is an entrepreneur, technologist, teacher, and technical leader with 15 years of experience in the software industry. Dan is presently the CEO of AgilData Inc., helping businesses get lasting value out of their organization’s data. Dan was previously the founding CTO at FullContact Inc., a contact management startup focusing on fuzzy match and record linkage problems. Dan is an accomplished speaker and is actively involved in the Colorado software community, serving as an organizer for the Denver Storm users group and the Boulder/Denver Big Data meetup group. In addition, he is also a Techstars alumnus Boulder 2011, with FullContact.
About Andy Grove:
Andy Grove is a software architect with 25 years of experience developing software products and solutions in a number of industries, including banking, media, and software. Andy is cofounder and Chief Architect at AgilData. Andy previously cofounded Orbware, a J2EE application server vendor based in the UK, which was acquired by Cape Clear Software, a web services software company.
7:45: Door prizes:
JetBrains IDE License
Books – Provided by O’Reilly Media