SPARK + AI SUMMIT 2019 | Databricks | 23 April 2019 | Moscone Center, 747 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

Data and AI need to be unified: the best AI applications require massive amounts of constantly updated training data to build state-of-the-art models. Apache Spark has been the only unified analytics engine that combines large-scale data processing with the execution of state-of-the-art machine learning and AI algorithms.

The sessions and training at this conference will cover data engineering and data science content along with best practices for productionizing AI: keeping training data fresh with stream processing, monitoring quality, testing, and serving models at massive scale. We will also have deep dive sessions on popular software frameworks—e.g., TensorFlow, SciKit-Learn, Keras, PyTorch, DeepLearning4J, BigDL, and Deep Learning Pipelines.

With Spark + AI topics together, this conference is the unique “one-stop shop” for developers, data scientists, and tech-executives to learn how to practically apply the best tools in data and AI to build innovative products. So join more than 5,000 engineers, data scientists, AI experts, researchers, and business professionals for three days of in-depth learning and networking.

2019 Speakers

David Patterson
Turing Award Winner Pardee Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley

Matei Zaharia
Co-founder & Chief Technologist, Databricks, Original Creator of Apache Spark & MLflow

Caitlin Smallwood
VP of Data Science and Analytics, Netflix

Timnit Gebru
AI Researcher at Stanford University Co-founder of Black in AI

Reynold Xin
Co-founder & Chief Architect, Databricks Top Contributor & Original Creator of Apache Spark

Jitendra Malik
Pioneer in Vision and ML Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS University of California at Berkeley Director at Facebook AI Research

Jan Neumann
Senior Director, Applied AI Research, Comcast

Jim Forsythe
Senior Director, Product Analytics & Behavior Science, Comcast

Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder & CEO, Databricks Original Creator of Apache Spark

Rohan Kumar
Corporate Vice President, Azure Data, Microsoft

Caryl Yuhas
Solutions Architect, Databricks

Michael I. Jordan
Professor, UC Berkeley

Anitha Vijayakumar
Technical Manager, Google Brain

Aaron Colcord
Director of Engeineering, FIS Global

Aaron Davidson
Software Engineer, Databricks

Abhi Jha
Director of Advanced Analytics, McKesson

Ahmed Ibrahim
Principal Engineer, FINRA

Ajay Krishna
Head of Data Science & Engineering, MScience

Ajit Mathews
Corporate Vice President, Machine Learning Software Engineering, AMD

Alastair Green
OpenCypher and SQL Property Graphs Standards Contributor Lead, Neo4j

Albert Franzi Cros
Software Engineer, Alpha

Alex Rosenbaum
Staff Software Architect, Mellanox Technologies

Alexander Thomas
Data Scientist, Indeed

Alexey Zinovyev
Java/BigData trainer, GridGain

Amy Hodler
Graph Analytics & AI program manager, Neo4j

Amy Wang
Senior Solutions Architect, Databricks

Anand Raman
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Andre Mesarovic
Resident Solutions Architect, Databricks

Andrew Clegg
Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer, Yelp

Andrew Ray
Director of Software Engineering, Sam’s Club Technology

Animesh Singh
STSM, IBM

Ankit Agarwal
Production Engineering manager, Facebook

Anna Holschuh
Lead Data Scientist/Engineer, Target

Anne Holler
Member of Technical Staff, Uber

Anton Okolnychyi
Software Engineer, Apple

Asif Khalak
Director of Data Science, Collective Health

Austin Allshouse
Senior Security Research Scientist, BitSight

Bala Chandrasekaran
Technical Staff Engineer, Dell EMC

Balaji Venkataraman
Engineering Manager, Data & Analytics Platforms, Starbucks

Beck Cronin-Dixon
Data Engineer, Eventbrite

Behnam Robatmili
CTO, Bigstream Solutions

Ben Storrie
Senior Big Data Engineer, SpotX

Ben Weber
Principal Data Scientist, Zynga

Binwei Yang
Big Data Analytics Architect, Intel

Blake Skinner
Software Engineer, Bigstream Solutions

Brandon Hamric
Principal Data Engineer, Eventbrite

Brian Cho
Software Engineer, Facebook

Brooke Wenig
Machine Learning Practice Lead, Databricks

Bryan Cafferky
Data Science and AI Technical Solutions Professional, Microsoft

Bryan Cutler
Software Engineer, IBM

Bryn Clark
Data Scientist, Nationwide Insurance

Burak Yavuz
Software Engineer, Databricks

Carson Wang
Big Data Software Engineer, Intel

Caryl Yuhas
Solutions Architect, Databricks

Cesar Delgado
Big Data Scientist, Apple

Chen Yang
Software Engineer, Facebook

Cheng Lian
Software Engineer, Databricks

Cheng Xu
Senior Architect, Intel

Corey Zumar
Software Engineer, Databricks

Craig Covey
Software Engineer, Sam’s Club Technology

Daeyoung Kim
Data Scientist, BISTel

Daniel Antonio
Product Manager of Internal Data Integration and Big Data Enablement, Halliburton

Daniel Tomes
Resident Solutions Architect, Databricks

David Newell
Manager, Product Management & Analytics, McAfee

David Talby
CTO, Pacific AI

David Wrench
Data Scientist, McKesson

DB Tsai
Senior Research Engineer, Apple

Deepak Abburi
Director of Data and Analytics, Amgen

Denny Lee
Technical Product Marketing Manager, Databricks

Diane Feddema
Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Inc.

Donghwa Kim
Director of Application Engineering, NewWave Telecom and Technologies

Doug Balog
Principal Data Engineer, Target

Dr. Ameet Kini
Regional Leader of Resident Solutions Architects, Databricks

Dr. Kazuaki Ishizaki
Research Staff, IBM

Eric Chu
VP Data Insights, Unravel Data

Eric Kim
Director of Data Engineering, Acorns

Fei Hu
Software Engineer, IBM

Franco Vieira
Data Scientist, HP

Garren Staubli
Solutions Architect, Databricks

Gene Davis
VP of Product Management, Splice Machine

Geoff Oitment
Manager, Analytics Software Engineering, McAfee

George Williams
Director of Computing and Data Science, GSI Technology

Georgia Koutrika
Research Director, Athena Research Center

Gheni Abla
Principal Architect, CoreLogic

Guoqiong Song
Senior Deep Learning Software Engineer, Intel

Gurpreet Singh
Azure Customer-Advisory-Team, Microsoft Corporation

Hanna Torrence
Software Engineer, ShopRunner

Hao Guo
Applied Research Scientist, Tencent

Hao Lin
Research Assistant, Facebook

Hao Wang
Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb

Hari Rajaram
Data Architect, Merlin International

Hari Subramanian
Data Architect, Uber

Himanshu Gupta
Lead Consultant, Knoldus Software LLP

Holden Karau
Software Engineer, Google

Hossein Falaki
Tech Lead, Databricks

Jake Graham
Lead Product Manager, Neo4J

Jake Secor
Data Scientist, Optum

Jalal Ali
Director, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Verizon

James Norman
Lead Software Engineer, Nike

Jameson Woodfin
Data Engineer, FIS Global

Jan Scherbaum
Big Data Engineer, ABSA

Jason Gauci
Software Engineering Manager, Facebook AI

Javier Buquet
Technical Lead, Dataxu, Inc.

Javier Luraschi
Software Engineer, RStudio

Jayant Shekhar
CEO, Sparkflows Inc.

Jayesh Thakrar
Data Stack Architect,
Conversant

Jeffrey Shauer
JS Business Intelligence, LLC

Jianneng Li
Software Development Engineer, Workday

Jim Dowling
Associate Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Jim Forsythe
Senior Director–Product Analytics & Behavior Science, Comcast

Jim Kubicek
Data Science Engineering Manager, Collective Health

Joe Widen
Solutions Architect, Databricks

Jonathan Gole
Business Analytics and Product Management, Capital One

Jongse Park
Deep Learning Product Engineer, Bigstream Solutions

Josh Firminger
Data Scientist, Optum

Josh Johnston
Leads AI Science team, Kount

Josh McNutt
SVP, Data Strategy, Showtime Networks Inc

Jules Damji
Developer Advocate, Databricks

Junjie Chen
Senior Cloud Software Engineer, Tencent

Junping Du
Software Engineer, Tencent

Jyoti Mohapatra
Senior Manager, Big Data Architect, Altria

Kaarthik Sivashanmugam
Software Engineer, Microsoft

Karen Feng
Software Engineer, Databricks

Kartik Thakore
Head of Data Engineering, doc.ai

Keith Sun
Senior Data Engineer, eBay

Keria Bermudez-Hernandez
Data Scientist, Data Strategy, Showtime Networks Inc

Kevin Kuo
Software Engineer, RStudio

Kevin Mellott
Team Lead and Spark Data Developer, FIS Global

Kishori Konwar
Computational Biologist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Konstantinos Karanasos
Principal Scientist, Microsoft

Konstantinos Katsiapis
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google

Krish Rajaram
Data Engineer, Nationwide Insurance

Kurt Stockinger
Professor of Computer Science, Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Landon Robinson
Senior Big Data Engineer, SpotX

Lantao Jin
Software Engineer, eBay

Latheef Syed
Head of Analytics and AI/ML, Verizon

Leah McGuire
Technical Staff, Salesforce

Li Gao
Technical Leadership, Lyft

Liyin Tang
Software Engineer, Airbnb

Lucrezia Noli
Big Data Scientist, Dataskills

Maneesh Bhide
Solutions Architect, Databricks

Mark Hamilton
Software Engineer, Microsoft

Mark Needham
Developer Advocate, Neo4J

Martin Cai
Senior Data Engineer, eBay

Martin Junghanns
Engineer, Neo4j

Maryann Xue
Software Engineer, Databricks

Matthew Powers
Data Architect, Prognos

Matthew Tovbin
Principal Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce

Maurice Nsabimana
Statistician, World Bank

Max Melnick
Big Data Analyst, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Max Schultze
Data Engineer, Zalando

Maximo Gurmendez
Engineer, Dataxu, Inc.

Md Jawad
Senior Data Scientist, GOJEK

Michael Mui
Software Engineer II, Uber

Michael Recce
Chief Data Scientist, Neuberger Berman

Minghung Cho
Senior Vice President, Neuberger Berman

Nicolas Poggi
Researcher, Databricks

Niels Hanson
Senior Security Research Scientist, KPMG

Noah Pritikin
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Kount

Paige Bailey
TensorFlow Developer Advocate, Google

Panagiotis Garefalakis
Ph.D. candidate, Imperial College London

Patrick Hall
Senior Director for Data Science Products, H2O.ai

Patrick Pisciuneri
Data Scientist, Target

Paul Bruffett
Enterprise Information Architect, Devon Energy

Pavel Hardak
Director of Product Management, Workday

Peiyu Zhuang
Engineer, MemVerge

Peter James
Chief Architect, Healthdirect Australia

Peyvand Khademi
PhD, Voicebox

Piotr Balcer
Software Engineer, Intel

Premal Shah
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Raela Wang
Solutions Architect, Databricks

Rafael Dal Zotto
Software Architect, HP

Rahul Potharaju
Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Ramana Prakash Kavi
Sr. Engineer, Data & Analytics Platforms, Starbucks

Ramesh Ketha
Managing Solutions Architect, Capgemini

Richard Whitcomb
Senior Engineer, Nvidia

Rohit Kulkarni
Architect, Nvidia

Rohit Menon
Software Engineer, Lyft

Ronen Fidel
Big Data Architect, Iguazio

Rong Ou
Principal Engineer, Nvidia

Roshan Kumar
Senior Product Manager, Redis Labs, Inc.

Rui Jian
Software Engineer, Facebook

Ruslan Iushchenko
Big Data Engineer, ABSA Group Limited

Ryan Blue
Data Platform Team, Netflix

Saisai Shao
Expert Engineer, Tencent

Sameer Agarwal
Software Engineer, Facebook

Satish Dandu
Data Science and Engineering Manager, Nvidia

Sergey Makagonov
Software Engineer, Facebook

Seungchul Lee
Data Scientist, BISTel

Shengsheng Huang
Senior Software Architect, Intel

Shivnath Babu
CTO/Adjunct Professor, Unravel Data Systems/Duke University

Sim Simeonov
CTO, Swoop

Slater Victoroff
Founder and CTO, Indico

Steven Moy
Lead Engineer, Yelp

Steven Yu
Senior Solutions Architect, Databricks

Sunitha Kambhampati
Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

Suraj Acharya
Director Engineering, Databricks

Svetlana Levitan
Developer Advocate, IBM

Takeo Hosomi
Senior Architect, NEC Corporation

Takuya Araki
Senior Principal Researcher, NEC Corporation

Takuya Ueshin
Software Engineer, Databricks

Tathagata Das
Lead Developer, Databricks

Ted Malaska
Director of Enterprise Architecture, Capital One

Terry Kim
Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Till Bergmann
Senior Data Scientist, Salesforce

Tim Hunter
Software Engineer, Databricks

Ting Chen
Director of Applied Machine Learning,Tencent

Todd Dube
Sr. Solutions Architect, Data Science & Machine Learning Platforms, CarMax

Tyson Condie
Engineer, Microsoft

Utkarsh Contractor
Director of AI, Aisera

Viacheslav Inozemtsev
Data Engineer, Zalando

Vineet Kumar

Vishnu Vettrivel
Data Scientist, Cloudcircle

Vishwanath Subramanian
Director, Data Engineering and Analytics, Starbucks

Wai Chee Yau
Technical Lead, Zendesk

Wayne Zhang
Staff Data Scientist, Uber

Wee Hyong Tok
Principal Data Science Manager, Microsoft

Willem Pienaar
Data Science Platform Team Leader, GOJEK

Xiangrui Meng
Software Engineer, Databricks

Xiao Li
Software Engineer, Databricks

Xin Yao
Software Engineer, Facebook

Xingbo Jiang
Software Engineer, Databricks

Xuan Wang
Data Scientist/Engineer, Databricks

Yaron Haviv
Entrepreneur, Iguazio

Yifan Cao
Sr. Product Manager—Machine Learning and Data Science, Databricks

Yong Liu
Principal Data Scientist, Outreach.io

Yue Li
Co-Founder, MemVerge inc

Yuhao Yang
Senior Software Engineer, Intel

Yuval Degani
Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn

Zach Musgrave
Lead Engineer, Yelp

Zachary S. Brown
Lead Data Scientist, S&P Global Market Intelligence

Zak Hassan
Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML CoE, CTO Office, Red Hat, Inc.

Zhen Fan
Big Data Platform, JD.com

2019 Sponsors

PRESENTING:
• Databricks

DIAMOND:
• Intel
• Microsoft
• Snowflake

PLATINUM:
• Pepper Data
• Minio
• Informatica
• IBM
• Talend

GOLD:
• Neo4j
• Datameer
• Splice Machine
• Pure Storage
• Attunity
• Google Cloud

SILVER:
• Coatue
• Blooberg
• Tencent Cloud
• GridGain
• Weka.oi
• Alluxio
• Data Robot
• RiseLab
• Dremio

BRONZE:
• Studio
• Booz
• Tiger Graph
• Nvidia
• Two Sigma
• Immuta
• Xilinx
• Quantum Black
• Qubole
• H2o.ai
• Memsql
• Micro Focus
• Bosch