A San Francisco-based Hadoop user group focused on helping Hadoop users share experiences, problems and solutions, as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Hadoop-based systems.
About the Speaker:
Lawrence Spracklen, VP of Engineering at Ayasdi
Lawrence Spracklen leads Ayasdi’s world-class engineering team. He is tasked with building the next geneation of Ayasdi’s award-winning platform. He brings to Ayasdi a diverse range of experiences, spanning processor design and research, software optimization and multi-thread scalability, security, and hardware accelerator development. Prior to joining Ayasdi, Lawrence spent over a decade at Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, and VMware. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Aberdeen University, Scotland, a B.Sc. in Computational Physics from the University of York, England and holds 30 U.S. patents in a diverse range of research fields from computer architecture to cryptography.
Schedule:
6-6:30pm -- Networking
6:30pm -- Presentation by Lawrence Spracklen from Ayasdi with Q&A
6:50-7pm -- Breakout sign-ups
7-7:30pm -- Breakouts
7:30-8pm -- Networking