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Presenters:
Pat Gelsinger
President and COO, EMC Information Infrastructure Products

Bill Cook
President, Greenplum

Scott Yara
SVP Products and Co-Founder, Greenplum

Luke Lonergan
CTO and Co-Founder, Greenplum

Joshua Klahr
VP Products, Greenplum

Michael Maxey, Sr. Director of Product Marketing
Greenplum

Greenplum partners including Alpine Data Labs, Pivotal Labs, and Squid Solutions

About this Announcement:

The era of Big Data is here. And the new currency in the enterprise is data and insights. Innovative internet and web companies have built their success with the innovations in social web, open-source software platforms, agile application development and big data technologies. See how enterprise organizations can expand their Big Data opportunities to drive greater business insights and economic value from their data than ever before.

Find out how a collaborative, social, open and agile platform can help you transform your business.

You’ll learn:

The value of bringing social collaboration to big data analytics
How to connect your analytic tools with your internal and external data sets
About next-generation data-centric agile application development
How to get started monetizing your data.

Architecting a Data-Driven Organization

Organizations are under pressure to increase the speed and effectiveness of their decision-making to increase business agility. Increasingly, expanded analytic capabilities are the means to achieve this goal - and that requires more than just a big data analytics platform. Organizations need to update the skills of their teams, foster an environment that enables analytic productivity, and develop a mindset towards data that values it as the new "fuel" for organizational productivity. Learn why human skills such as creativity, communications and leadership are becoming more valuable than ever in the era of big data.

Getting Agile Through Big Data Analytics

Organizations across sectors are faced with a major challenge beyond the massive amount of data being generated. It’s unclear which technology mix provides the operational and business agility required for deriving maximum value from big data – so most organizations continue to work with limited point solutions or traditional BI tools. Learn why big data productivity requires an upgrade to a purpose-built, unified analytics platform and how bringing this capability into your organization gives you a decision advantage that will put you ahead of your competition.

Big Data Requires Big Networks

The growth of big data and the continuing dramatic decline in the cost of storage and computer processing power are having a profound impact on the way business is being conducted across sectors. This webinar focuses on the network as the fundamental technology that powers the compute and storage levels of the big data stack. You'll learn why low-latency, nonstop networking is essential to keeping data flowing smoothly throughout your organization and enabling timely, precise analytics that enhance your business decisions.

BEYOND BI: Transforming your Business with Big Data Analytics

Do you use all the information you should when you make your most important decisions? Is your organization prepared to go beyond BI to enable breakthrough insights and decisions that transform the way you do business? Join Gartner Analyst, Merv Adrian and Greenplum thought leaders and customers for a webcast series that sets your organization up for success with big data analytics.

BIG DATA: The Answer to Agile

Introducing the industry’s next-generation platform for Big Data Analytics, you'll find out why adopting a unified approach to Big Data Analytics is the only way to achieve an agile business. Filmed at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, this webcast features thought leaders and academia from comScore, Factual, Greenplum, EMC, Informatica, SAS, UC Berkeley, and UnitedHealthcare.

Speaker Bios

About Jim Kobielus

James serves Business Process & Applications professionals. He is a leading expert on data warehousing, predictive analytics, data mining, and complex event processing. In addition to his core coverage areas, James contributes to Forrester's research in business intelligence, data integration, data quality, and master data management.

James has a long history in IT research and consulting and has worked for both vendors and research firms. Most recently, he was at Current Analysis, an IT research firm, where he was a principal analyst covering topics ranging from data warehousing to data integration and the Semantic Web. Prior to that position, James was a senior technical systems analyst at Exostar (a hosted supply chain management and eBusiness hub for the aerospace and defense industry). In this capacity, James was responsible for identifying and specifying product/service requirements for federated identity, PKI, and other products. He also worked as an analyst for the Burton Group and was previously employed by LCC International, DynCorp, ADEENA, International Center for Information Technologies, and the North American Telecommunications Association. He is both well versed and experienced in product and market assessments. James is a widely published business/technology author and has spoken at many industry events.

About Annika Jimenez

Annika is a seasoned leader of analytics initiatives, coming to Greenplum after over six years in data leadership roles at Yahoo!. During her time at Yahoo!, she led International data solutions for Yahoo!'s central data organization, Strategic Data Solutions, and then led Insights Services - comprised of a team of 40 researchers covering Web analytics, satisfaction/brand health metrics, audience/ad measurement, etc. Annika is a recognized evangelist for "applied data" -- analytics and data-driven applications -- and well known for her acute focus on action-enablement. Prior to Yahoo!, Annika was a founder of an international tech consultancy, and she oversaw research and consulting for Internet/Comms programs at IDC. She has a Masters of International Affairs from UCSD.

Speaker Bios

About Jim Kobielus

About Steve Hillion

Steven Hillion has been leading large engineering and analytics projects for 15 years. Prior to Greenplum, he was VP of engineering at M-Factor, where he built analytical applications that became global standard for demand-modeling at companies like Coca-Cola. Before that, he led development of a new application platform at QRS. At Kana Communications, Steven led the engineering group during the two largest releases of its flagship product, which was the engine for online support at companies like Yahoo! and eBay.

Steven received Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California and was a King Charles I scholar at Oxford University.

About Jeremy Howard

Jeremy Howard is the President and Chief Scientist at Kaggle. Previously, he founded FastMail (sold to Opera Software) and Optimal Decisions (sold to ChoicePoint – now called LexisNexis Risk Solutions). Prior to that he worked in management consulting, at McKinsey & Company and A.T. Kearney, but he is now nearly fully recovered.

Jeremy’s passion is applying algorithms to data. At FastMail he used algorithms to automate nearly every part of the business – as a result the company only needed a total of 3 full time staff, and got over a million signups. Optimal Decisions was a business entirely built to commercialise a new algorithm he designed for the optimal pricing of insurance.

Jeremy competes regularly in data mining competitions, which he uses to test himself and stay on the leading edge of machine learning and predictive modelling technology. His competition performance history is available on his Kaggle profile page . If you have beaten Jeremy in a competition, he would appreciate it if you didn’t rub it in too much.

Speaker Bios

About Rick Villers

As Vice President, Information & Cloud, Richard Villars is a senior member of IDC's Information Infrastructure research team, which assesses the development and adoption of solutions for data center transformation and the exploitation of rapidly growing information assets. He develops IDC's viewpoints on the evolution of next-generation storage technologies and the adoption of public and private cloud solutions. He advises clients on the impact of converged IT infrastructure, archival storage systems, Big Data applications, and rich content on organizations' storage and information management practices. Mr. Villars is a frequent speaker at industry and Wall Street conferences. Most recently, he spoke to IT managers in the US, South American, and Asia on compute and storage solutions for the "cloud," managing storage capacity growth associated with rich content/machine generated data, and the impact of converged IT solutions on data centers and IT staffs.

Mr. Villars has spent over 24 years at IDC assessing the emergence of network and storage solutions as well as advising companies on the impact of networking and information growth on existing IT and general business practices. He has testified about the impact of eBusiness on small business before the US Senate Committee on Small Business. Mr. Villars is co-author of the book eCommerce for Dummies. He has a bachelor of science in Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.) from Georgetown University with a concentration in science, technology, and international affairs.

About Jason Nolet

As Vice President of the Brocade Data Center and Enterprise Networking business, Jason Nolet is responsible for defining the company's strategy and business results for all SAN and IP data center products, campus LAN wired and wireless networking products, and network management solutions. He joined Brocade in 2009, bringing nearly 25 years of experience in the networking industry.

Prior to Brocade, Nolet held a variety of executive positions at Cisco during a 13-year period. He was most recently Vice President of Engineering, leading product development for a wide range of security products and solutions. Prior to Cisco, Nolet spent more than a decade in engineering leadership roles at Stratus Computer, AT&T Global Information Systems, and NCR Corporation.

Nolet has a BS in Business Administration and Information Systems from San Diego State University.

About Luke Lonergan

A co-founder of Greenplum, Luke served as CTO of the organization and continues in this role for the Data Computing Products Division. Prior to Greenplum, Luke founded Didera, a database clustering company, in 2000 and served as CEO and Chairman. Luke's background includes 16 years of management experience in computing technology ranging from innovations in supercomputing to advances in medical imaging systems. Most recently, he directed data center integration at High Performance Technologies Inc (HPTi), scaling the business to $30M, and setting industry firsts in parallel computing subsequently adopted by IBM and Compaq. Previously he held management positions at Northrop Grumman Corporation. He holds an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University and a B.E. in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University.