Get Ready for The Elephant Party in Europe

We are just two weeks away from first ever Hadoop Summit Europe! With all of the final preparations coming together we thought we would highlight some of the not to be missed activities in and around the event. Here are 10 great reasons to attend! 1)   Great track content – there are 35 informative sessions [...]

Meet the Track Chairs: Steve Loughran of the Hadoop Futures Track

Today’s interview features Steve Loughran, chair of the Hadoop Futures track. Steve is a member of the Hortonworks technical staff, working for CTO Eric Baldeschwieler. In this role, Steve explores leading edge options for the Hadoop platform. Tell us about the Hadoop Futures track. We’re looking at the future of Hadoop – what is coming [...]

Hadoop Summit Europe: Lightning Talks Results

The community has voted, and the results are in! Congratulations to the 8 speakers whose Lightning Talks were selected: Smart Metering x Hadoop x Frost: A Smart Elephant Enabling Massive Time Series Analysis with Marie-luce Picard & Benoit Grossin, EDF France Vanilla- Business Intelligence Inside Hadoop – Patrick Beaucamp, BPM Counseil Videodoop- A Content Based Video Retrieval System [...]

Meet the Track Chairs: Lars George of the Integrating Hadoop Track

Today’s interview features Lars George, chair of the Integrating Hadoop track. Lars is the Director EMEA Services for Cloudera, where he manages the team of pre- and post-sales services staff at Cloudera EMEA. Tell us about the Integrating Hadoop track. An essential task introducing Apache Hadoop to any organization is to make it fit into [...]

Meet the Track Chairs: Isabel Drost of the Applied Hadoop Track

Today’s interview features Isabel Drost, chair of the Applied Hadoop track. Like many in the Apache Hadoop community, Isabel wears a couple of hats. She develops software at Nokia Gate 5 GmbH as part of the category search team for the Here maps product. She is also a member of the Apache Software Foundation, co-founder [...]

Vote for Lightning Talks now open for Hadoop Summit Europe

Thanks to everyone who submitted a proposal for our first ever Lightning Talks session at Hadoop Summit Europe. Lightning Talks are short 5-minute presentation where speakers can share their initiatives, innovations and ideas related to Apache Hadoop. Each 5-minutes presentation should spark Hadoop Community’s interests and perhaps get people motivated about new ways of using [...]

Meet the Track Chairs: Evert Lammerts of the Operating Hadoop Track

Today marks the first interview with the Hadoop Summit track chairs. We sat down with Evert Lammerts, chair of the Operating Hadoop track. For the past two years, Evert has been responsible for defining and building the Hadoop & Big Data services for the academic community in the Netherlands at SURFsara. Tell us about the [...]

Meet the Presenters: Joydeep Sen Sarma of Qubole

Today’s interview features Joydeep Sen Sarma, co-founder of Qubole. Joydeep and his co-presenter Siva Narayanan, will be presenting Cloud-Friendly Hadoop and Hive, a discussion about how organizations can now easily analyze Hadoop data in the cloud. Tell us about your presentation. Joydeep: We’ll talk about the different challenges and opportunities that a cloud environment provides and how we have [...]

Meet the Presenters: Steve Watt of Red Hat

Today’s interview features Steve Watt, consulting software engineer for Red Hat. Steve will be presenting Optimizing Your Infrastructure and Operating Systems for Hadoop, a discussion aimed at helping organization to optimally design and configure their Apache Hadoop platforms. Tell us about your presentation. Steve: Hadoop is a fairly rapidly evolving technology and I feel the accessible [...]

Meet the Presenters: Jason Dai of Intel

Today’s interview features Jason Dai, Engineering Director and Principal Engineer for Intel SSG (Software and Services Group). Jason will be co-presenting How to Weigh an Elephant, a discussion on benchmarking big data systems. Jason’s co-presenter will be Vin Sharma, a software strategist at Intel responsible for planning and marketing Intel contributions to open source datacenter software [...]

Call for Lightning Talks at Hadoop Summit Europre

Yes, you heard it correctly. At this year’s Hadoop Summit Europe, conference participants will have the opportunity to share their initiatives with the Hadoop community through our Lighting Talks session. Lightning Talks are a series of 5-minute presentatons. You are invited to submit a topic for consideration to present as a Lightning Talk. You can submit [...]

Meet the Presenters: Mikhail Petrenko of Adobe

Today’s interview features Mikhail Petrenko, Senior Data Architect at Adobe. Mikhail will be presenting Big Data Sampling: a Way to Make all of Your Data Useful Again. Tell us about your presentation. Mikhail: I feel efficient sampling on Apache Hadoop is underutilized by the Big Data community. I hope to give business, product and data specialists enough [...]

Meet the Presenters: Alasdair Anderson of HSBC

Today’s interview features Alasdair Anderson, Global Head of Architecture for HSBC’s HSS IT division within the HSBC Global Banking and Markets. Alasdair will be presenting Enterprise Integration of Disruptive Technologies, an interesting look at how established enterprises can introduce Apache Hadoop into their environments. Tell us about your presentation. Alasdair: My talk is as non-technical as I can make [...]

Meet the Presenters: Clemens Neudecker of the National Library of the Netherlands and Sven Schlarb of the Austrian National Library

Today marks the inaugural blog featuring interviews with some of the upcoming presenters for Hadoop World Europe. Kicking things off are Clemens Neudecker of the National Library of the Netherlands and Sven Schlarb of the Austrian National Library. Clemens and Sven will be presenting The Elephant in the Library; a unique look at the role Apache [...]

Hadoop Summit Schedule Now Available!

We’re happy to announce that sessions and the schedule for Hadoop Summit Europe are now available. Hadoop Summit is taking place in March 20-21, 2013 at Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam. The two-day event will feature 35 sessions given by leading Hadoop experts representing more than 25 different organizations (Adobe, Cloudera, eBay, Facebook, Hortonworks, HP, HSBC, [...]

Congratulations to the Community Choice Winners

Thank you to the Apache Hadoop community for casting 8,480 total votes during the Hadoop Summit Community Choice voting process. This is a new record for the Community Choice program, exceeding the number of votes received for the 2012 Hadoop Summit Conference hosted in San Jose. As we announced earlier, the sessions that received the [...]

Announcing Hadoop Summit Community Choice

Thank you to everybody who submitted an abstract for Hadoop Summit Europe. We received an incredible response from our Call for Abstracts reaching over 200 submissions. With such an array of great content to choose from, the agenda is bound to include something for everybody. And now you have an opportunity to weigh in on [...]

Announcing Track Chairs for Hadoop Summit Europe

Track Chairs have been named for Hadoop Summit Europe. Track Chairs will, in turn, select their track committees who, as a team, will decide which sessions are to be presented at Hadoop Summit. Track Chairs are as follows: Operating Hadoop – Evert Lammerts, SARA I joined Sara as a technical consultant in October 2008. In [...]

Hadoop Summit Coming to Europe

Hadoop Summit jumps the pond. Hortonworks and Yahoo! are pleased to bring this highly successful community-focused event to Europe. This will be the first European conference focused exclusively on accelerating the enterprise adoption of Apache Hadoop. Join the vibrant Apache Hadoop community of developers, data scientists, data architects and solution providers at the Beurs van [...]

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