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Ashish Gupta, Google

Ashish Gupta is a Distinguished Software Engineer at Google. Ashish works in the Ads Backend Infrastructure group, where he works on numerous very large scale distributed system problems, including continuous event processing, peta-byte scale...

Jessica Staddon, Google

Jessica Staddon Research Scientist & Privacy Product Lead Google Jessica is a research scientist and privacy product lead at Google working on leveraging data for better security and privacy. Her interests include usability of...

Kapil Surlaker, LinkedIn.

Kapil Surlaker leads the Data Analytics Infrastructure team at LinkedIn, where he’s responsible for core analytics infrastructure platforms including Hadoop, Spark, other computation frameworks such as Cubert and Pinot, an OLAP serving store. Previously,...

Merv Adrian, Gartner

Merv Adrian is a Gartner Research Vice President Analyst following DBMS, big data, NoSQL and adjacent technologies as extreme information processing transforms assumptions about how to activate unused information assets. He also monitors the...

Cory Isaacson, CodeFutures

Cory Isaacson Founder & Chairman, CodeFutures Corporation Cory Isaacson is the Founder and Chairman of CodeFutures Corporation and served at CEO / CTO from 2007 until 2015 where he developed both AgilData and dbShards. Cory...

Mithun Radhakrishnan, Yahoo

My name is Mithun Radhakrishnan. I work on Apache Hive, in the Yahoo Hadoop team. My team is responsible for the deployment, scaling and performance of Hive-related services (including HCatalog and HiveServer2) on the...

Todd Walter, Teradata Corporation

Todd Walter Chief Technologist – Americas Teradata Corporation Todd Walter is the Chief Technologist for Teradata across the Americas region. With substantive expertise in big data, database engineering and systems architecture, he works closely...

Dr. Justin Levandoski, Microsoft Research

Justin Levandoski is a researcher in the database group at Microsoft Research. His current interests include main-memory databases, database support for new hardware platforms, transaction processing, cloud computing, and support for new data-intensive applications,...