Findata Day - New York 2018 | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 26 September 2017 | Javits Center, 655 W 34th Street New York, NY 10001

In finance, data is money. The right information, a second before others, is Alpha; a second later, is a lawsuit. Finance has found new ways to harness information, from real-time feeds to learning algorithms—with new forms of governance and emerging regulations.

Every year, thousands of top data scientists join business and technology leaders at Strata Data Conference. Curated for finance executives, Findata Day at Strata is an unprecedented deep dive into the most disruptive data technologies—within the context of banking, investment, and finance.

2018 Event Speakers:

SESSION SPEAKERS:

William Chambers
Product manager at Databricks

Nishith Agarwal
Works on the Hudi project & Hadoop platform at large at Uber.

Arpan Agrawal
A software engineer at LinkedIn working with Analytics Platforms and Applications team.

Adil Aijaz
Adil Aijaz (Split Software)
CEO and co-founder at Split Software.

Archana Anandakrishnan
Archana Anandakrishnan (American Express)
Senior Data Scientist in the Decision Science Organization at American Express.

Alberto Andreotti
Working for a few big companies: Motorola, Intel, and Samsung. Specializing in the field of Machine Learning.

Mauricio Aristizabal
Data Pipeline Architect at Impact (formerly Impact Radius).

Ahsan Ashraf
Data scientist at Pinterest.

Stacy Ashworth
Registered Nurse with a Master’s Degree in Health Care Administration with an emphasis in Informatics.

Tony Baer
Leads Ovum’s research in Big Data, middleware, and the management of embedded software development in the product lifecycle.

Roger Barga
General manager and director of development at Amazon Web Services.

Bonnie Barrilleaux
Staff data scientist in analytics at LinkedIn.

William Benton
Leads a team of data scientists and engineers at Red Hat.

Anya Bida
Senior member of the technical staff (SRE) at Salesforce.

Albert Bifet
Professor at LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, Head of the Data, Intelligence and Graphs (DIG) Group at Telecom ParisTech, and Scientific Collaborator at Ecole Polytechnique.

Ryan Blue
Engineer on Netflix’s Big Data Platform team.

Matt Brandwein
Leads the machine learning product team at Cloudera.

Mikio Braun
Principal engineer for search at Zalando.

Andrew J Brust
Founder/CEO, Blue Badge Insights.

Issac Buenrostro
Works at LinkedIn in the data management team.

Andrew Burt
Chief privacy officer and legal engineer at Immuta.

Michelle Casbon
Senior engineer on the Google Cloud Platform developer relations team.

Sarah Catanzaro
Principal at Amplify Partners.

Vinoth Chandar
Works on data infrastructure at Uber

Manna Chang
Senior data scientist in Optum Enterprise Analytics

Danny Chen
Software engineer at Uber

Felix Cheung
PMC & Committer of Apache Spark

Kapil Chhabra
Product Manager at Amazon Web Services

Anant Chintamaneni
VP of products at BlueData.

Erin Coffman
Erin Coffman (Airbnb)
The company’s most tenured data scientist.

Mark Cohen
Web Application builder.

Lawrence Cowan
Partner and Advanced Analytics Practice Leader with Cicero Group.

Umur Cubukcu
Co-founder and CEO of Citus Data.

Paul Curtis
Principal solutions engineer at MapR.

Olga Cuznetova
A data science team lead in Optum Enterprise Analytics

Michelangelo D'Agostino
Senior director of data science at ShopRunner.

Zavain Dar
VC trends in machine learning and data science session.

Milene Darnis
Data Product Manager at Uber.

Kaushik Deka
Partner/CTO at Novantas.

Ding Ding
Software engineer on Intel’s big data technology team

Harish Doddi
CEO and Founder of Datatron Technologies

Mark Donsky
Leads data management and governance solutions at Cloudera.

Florian Douetteau
CEO of Dataiku

James Dreiss
Senior Data Scientist at Reuters.

Chiny Driscoll
Founder and CEOMetiStream.

Ted Dunning
Chief application architect at MapR Technologies.

Brent Dykes
Director of Data Strategy at Domo.

Barbara Eckman
Principal Data Architect at Comcast.

Jacob Eisinger
Director of Data in Talroo

Jonathan Ellis
Jonathan Ellis (DataStax)
CTO and co-founder at DataStax.

Moty Fania
Principal engineer for big data analytics at Intel IT and the CTO of the Advanced Analytics Group.

Usama Fayyad
Founder/CEO of Open Insights

William Fehlman
Data Scientist Lead at USAA

Jean-Michel Franco
Director of Product Marketing for Talend’s Data Governance solutions.

Bill Franks
Chief Analytics Officer for The International Institute For Analytics.

Michael Freedman
cofounder and CTO of TimescaleDB

Chris Fregly
Founder and research engineer at PipelineAI.

Brandy Freitas
Research physicist-turned-data scientist based in Boston, MA.

JF Gagne
Senior global Executive

Naveed Ghaffar
Cofounder of Narrative Economics

Harry Glaser
Founder of Periscope Data in 2012

Heitor Murilo Gomes
Researcher at Télécom ParisTech.

Mark Grover
Product manager at Lyft.

Sudipto Guha
Principal scientist at Amazon Web Services

Sumit Gulwani
Partner Research manager at Microsoft

Zachary Hanif
Director in Capital One’s Center

Dan Harple
Founder CEO of Context Labs

Kenji Hayashida
Data engineer at Recruit Lifestyle co., ltd. in Japan.

Jeffrey Heer
Chief Experience Officer, Co-founder and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington

Alexander Heye
Software engineer with the analytics group at Cray focused on deep learning technologies.

Felipe Hoffa
Developer advocate for big data at Google

Anthony Hsu
Senior software engineer working on the Data Management team at LinkedIn

Keqiu Hu
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn

Fabian Hueske
Committer and PMC member of the Apache Flink project.

Lars Hulstaert

Data Science and Machine Learning consultant at Microsoft.

Jonathan Hung
Sr. Software Engineer at LinkedIn on the Hadoop development... Read more.

Ihab Ilyas
Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo

Rashed Iqbal
Teaches graduate courses in Data Science in Economics Department at UCLA as adjunct faculty.

Ankit Jain
Data Scientist at Uber

Jeroen Janssens
Founder and CEO of Data Science Workshops

Omkar Joshi
Omkar is a software engineer on Uber’s hadoop platform team

Alexey Kachayev
All-day-long-coding-CTO at Attendify.

Atul Kale
Software Engineer on Airbnb’s Machine Learning Infrastructure team.

Daniel Kang
PhD student in the Stanford InfoLab

Holden Karau
Transgender Canadian open source developer advocate at Google focusing on Apache Spark, Beam, and related big data tools.

Yasuyuki Kataoka
Data scientist at NTT Innovation Institute Inc.

Arun Kejariwal
Statistical learning principal at Machine Zone.

Jawad Khan
Director of Data Sciences and Knowledge Management at Rush University Medical Center.

Amandeep Khurana
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder at Cerebro Data

James Kirkland
Advocate for Red Hat’s initiatives and solutions for the internet of things (IoT) and is the architect of Red Hat’s strategy for IoT deployments.

Spencer Kirn
PhD student in the Applied Science Department at the College of William & Mary.

Rita Ko
Director of The Hive.

Cassie Kozyrkov
Google Cloud’s Chief Decision Scientist

Jay Kreps
Co-founder and CEO of Confluent

Ramesh Krishnan
sSenior BI Architect

Manoj Kumar
Senior software engineer working at Linkedin in data team.

Jared Lander
Chief data scientist of Lander Analytics

Francesca Lazzeri
Data scientist at Microsoft

Julien Le Dem
Co-author of Apache Parquet and the PMC chair of the project.

Bob Levy
CEO of Virtual Cove, Inc.

Chang Liu
Applied Research Scientist and a member of the Georgian Impact team.

Changshu Liu
Software engineer at Pinterest

Ingrid Liu
Senior software engineer at Novantas with an economics degree from Princeton University.

Cristobal Lowery
Advocate of Artificial Intelligence

Gerard Maas
Senior software engineer at Lightbend

Swetha Machanavajhala
Software engineer in Azure Networking

Ted Malaska
Group technical architect on the Battle.net team at Blizzard

Shankar Manian
Experience 17+ year building distributed systems and productivity tools.

Baolong Mao
Big data platform development engineer at JD.com

Jaya Mathew
Senior data scientist on the artificial intelligence and research team at Microsoft

Les McMonagle
VP of Security Strategy, BlueTalon Inc.

Matteo Merli
Software engineer at Streamlio

Cory Minton
Staff Technologist for Dell EMC in their Ready Solutions team

Nina Mishra
Principal scientist at Amazon Web Services

Sanjeev Mohan
Leads Big Data research at Gartner for Technical Professionals.

Mostafa Mokhtar
Performance engineer at Cloudera.

Andrew Montalenti
Co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly,

Steve Morgan
Software Engineer on the GovCloud Session

Francesco Mucio
BI Architect at Zalando

Ash Munshi
CEO of Pepperdata.

Jacques Nadeau
CTO and cofounder of Dremio.

Niraj Nagrani
Global leader in family history and consumer genomics, in September 2017 as Senior Vice President of Data and Cloud Platform.

Paco Nathan
Leads the Learning Group at O’Reilly Media, and is the program co-chair for JupyterCon.

Kimberly Nevala
Director of Business Strategies for SAS

Minh Chau Nguyen
Researcher in the Big Data Software Platform Research department at the Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute

Anna Nicanorova
Director of Annalect Labs.

Tawny Nichols
Chief Information Officer at SelectData.

Owen O'Malley
Software architect on Hadoop.

Brian O'Neill
Product designer and founder of the consulting firm, Designing for Analytics

Troels Oerting

Diego Oppenheimer
Founder and CEO of Algorithmia

Francois Orsini
Chief technology officer for MZ’s Satori business unit.

Occhio Orsini

Mani Parkhe
ML/AI Platform Engineer at Databricks, working on various customer facing and open source platform initiatives to enable data discovery, training, experimentation, and deployment of ML models on the cloud.

Joshua Patterson
Director of applied solutions engineering at NVIDIA.

Jennifer Prendki
VP of Machine Learning at Figure Eight

Greg Rahn
Director of product management at Cloudera

Mala Ramakrishnan
Comparative Analysis of the Fundamentals of AWS and Azure Session

Karthik Ramasamy
Cofounder of Streamlio

Radhika Rangarajan
Engineering director for big data technologies within Intel’s Software and Services Group

Jun Rao
Cofounder of Confluent

Anthony Reid
Sr. Manager of Analytics

LaVonne Reimer
Lawyer-turned-entrepreneur.

Steven Ross
Director of product management at Cloudera

Nikki Rouda
Cloud and core platform director at Cloudera.

Nuria Ruiz
Data and Privacy at Scale at Wikipedia Session

Patty Ryan
Applied data scientist for Microsoft.

Neelesh Srinivas Salian
Software Engineer on the Data Platform team at Stitch Fix.

Shioulin Sam
Research engineer at Cloudera Fast Forward Labs.

Osman Sarood

Toru Sasaki
System infrastructure engineer and leads OSS professional services team at NTT Data Corporation.

Eric Sayle

Friederike Schuur
Research engineer at Cloudera Fast Forward Labs

Jim Scott
Director of enterprise strategy and architecture at MapR Technologies.

Jonathan Seidman
Software engineer on the cloud team at Cloudera.

Rama Sekhar
Principal at Norwest Venture Partners

Gwen Shapira
System architect at Confluent

Dave Shuman
Industry lead for IoT & manufacturing at Cloudera

Kamil Sindi
Principal Engineer working on productionizing machine learning algorithms and scaling distributed systems.

Guoqiong Song
Software engineer on the big data technology team at Intel

Timothy Spann
Senior Solutions Architect at AirisData

David Talby
Chief technology officer at Pacific AI

Wangda Tan
Product Management Committee member of Apache Hadoop and Staff Software Engineer at Hortonworks.

Elena Terenzi
Software development engineer at Microsoft

Shawn Terry
Lead Systems Architect for Komatsu Mining’s Analytics Platform.

John Thuma

Yaroslav Tkachenk
Senior Data Engineer at Activision

Michelle Ufford
Leads the Data Platform Architecture Core team at Netflix

Sandeep Uttamchandani
Distinguished Engineer at Intuit

Preeti Vaidya
Data Science Professional

Balaji Varadarajan
Lead engineers on Linkedin

Tim Walpole
IT Consultant

Dean Wampler
VP of Fast Data Engineering at Lightbend.

Jason Wang
Software engineer at Cloudera

Marc Warner

Rachel Warren
Software engineer and data scientist for Salesforce Einstein

Daniel Weeks
Manages the Big Data Compute team at Netflix and is a Parquet committer.

Thomas Weise
Software Engineer, Streaming Platform at Lyft and Apache Apex PMC Chair.

Mike Wendt
Engineering Manager in the AI Infrastructure group at NVIDIA.

Masha Westerlund
Director of the Investopedia Data Science team

Heesun Won
Principal researcher at the Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and leads the Collaborative Analytics Platform for BDaaS

Brian Wu
Engineer on the AppNexus Optimization team

Tony Wu
Manages Altus Core Engineering team at Cloudera.

Jerry Xu
Cofounder and CTO at Datatron Technologies.

CY Yam

Longqi Yang
4th year Ph.D. candidate of Computer Science at Cornell Tech and Cornell University.

Nir Yungster
Leads the Data Science team a

Varant Zanoyan
Software engineer on the ML Infrastructure team at Airbnb

Xiaohan Zeng
Software Engineer on the Machine Learning Infrastructure team at Airbnb.

Wenjing Zhan
Data scientist at Talroo in charge of the predictive machine learning.

Mang Zhang
Big data platform development engineer at JD.com

Zhe Zhang

Xiaoyong Zhu
Program Manager working in Microsoft Cloud AI group.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Gina Bianchini
Founder & CEO of Mighty Networks

Amber Case
Director of Esri’s R&D Center in Portland

Alistair Croll
Entrepreneur with a background in web performance, analytics, cloud computing, and business strategy

Doug Cutting
Chief architect at Cloudera and the founder of numerous successful open source projects, including Lucene, Nutch, Avro, and Hadoop.

Ben Lorica
Chief data scientist at O’Reilly Media

Joseph Lubin
Co-founder of blockchain computing platform Ethereum and the founder of Consensus Systems

Amanda Pustilnik
Orofessor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law and permanent faculty at the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Jacob Ward
Science and technology correspondent for CNN, Al Jazeera, and PBS. Former editor-in-chief of Popular Science magazine

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• Cloudera
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• MapR Technologies
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• CISCO
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• Actian
• Confluent
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• DataStax
• Dremio
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• DXC Technology
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