Cloudera Keynote: A blueprint for data management
Kirk Dunn, COO, Cloudera

Big Data presents tremendous opportunities for modern business, but understanding where to start and how to grow with Big Data can be difficult. Hear why Big Data matters to you and your business, and why and how you can get on track to using platforms like Hadoop to address your immediate and future data management challenges.

Partner Keynote: 
Donald Livengood, Distinguished Technologist/Strategist, HP

Big Data has moved from buzzword to reality. Building a strong foundation for Big Data not only makes good business sense, but it's a business imperative. Learn about key findings and advice from experts on what to expect along the way and how to get started building your enterprise ready foundation for big data.

Meet Mission Critical SLAs with Big Data

At the heart of data integration and ETL is the movement of information, and movement at the scale of Big Data can test your existing processes and systems. See how Hadoop can help to accelerate data integration, scale processing capabilities, and optimize slow or complex transformations.

Optimize Your Data Warehouse for Improved ROI & Data Utilization
Drew O'Brien, Product Marketing, Cloudera

All data is potentially valuable to your business, but its value density determines just how you manage and access that data.  Discover how Hadoop complements your data warehouse by letting your choose the “right tool for the right job” and optimize your data economics and usage.

Delivering Improved Business Value with Big Data

One way to build value in your business is to look at how you use data to make better decisions and increase efficiency and productivity.  Learn how you can use Hadoop to break down your data silos and promote the connections that bring greater visibility, insights, and analysis to all your data.

Centralized Systems and Data Management 
Drew O'Brien, Product Marketing, Cloudera

As Big Data becomes an integral element in your data management infrastructure, you need mature controls for governance, provisioning, automation, disaster recovery, and high-availability services. Find out how you can integrate and simplify the management of Big Data with Hadoop and address the needs of your sensitive information and compliance policies.

Customer Use Case Discussion

Lunch and Sponsor Networking

 1:30pm

(Choose One)

Track 1 - First Steps - Get Started with Hadoop. 

If you’re interested in Hadoop and its capabilities, but you are not sure where to begin, this is the session for you. Learn the basics of Hadoop, see how to spin up a development cluster in the cloud or on-premise, and start exploring ETL processing with SQL and other familiar tools.

Track 2 - Next Steps - Fostering Hadoop Excellence and Preparing Your Springboard

Success with new technologies like Hadoop is more than just deploying software and infrastructure.  Build your foundation the right way, from people to technology. Learn from experienced leaders, who have hard-earned knowledge from the trenches, the right way to assemble your team, cultivate program excellence, and prepare your cluster to achieve maximum effect.

Track 3 - Advanced Steps - Fast-track Development for ETL and Data Integration

Working with Hadoop does not always mean starting from scratch. In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage your existing investments in tools and skills to accelerate your Hadoop development. Learn from experts as they walk you step-by-step through the conversion of an existing ETL process to use Big Data.