Strata Finance Data Summit 2017 | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 26 July 2017 | New York, NY , Javits Center 655 W 34th Street (map) New York, NY 10001 (212) 216-2000

What happens when a satellite photo of a Wal-Mart parking lot predicts GDP better than economists? When algorithms create their own models that need to be explained to regulators? When markets move on a tweet?

Justin Bleich
Senior Data Scientist, Coatue Management

Ashvin Agrawal
Microsoft

Manish Ahluwalia
Cloudera

Tyler Akidau
Google
@takidau

John Akred
Silicon Valley Data Science
@BigDataAnalysis

Jesse Anderson
Big Data Institute
@jessetanderson

Assaf Araki
Intel

Andre Araujo
Cloudera

Eduardo Arino de la Rubia
Domino Data Lab
@earino

Amitai Armon
Intel

Carme Artigas
Synergic Partners
@carmeartigas

Shivnath Babu
Unravel Data Systems, Inc.

Josh Baer
Spotify
@L_Phant

Travis Bakeman
T-Mobile

Michael Balint
Nvidia

Kirit Basu
StreamSets

Dominikus Baur
Freelance

Roy Ben-Alta
Amazon Web Services
@benalt

Tim Berglund
Confluent
@tlberglund

Ron Bodkin
Teradata
@ronbodkin

Charles Boicey
Clearsense

Matt Bolte
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Tobi Bosede
Johns Hopkins

Danah Boyd
Microsoft Research | Data & Society
@zephoria

David Boyle
BBC Worldwide
@beglen

Claudiu Branzan
G2 Web Services
@melcutz

Richard Brath
Uncharted Software
@oculusbusiness

Mikio Braun
Zalando SE
@mikiobraun

Tamara Broderick
MIT

Kalah Brown
Big Fish Games, Inc.

Kurt Brown
Netflix

Marc Carlson
Seattle Children's Research Institute

Michelle Casbon
Qordoba
@texasmichelle

Tanya Cashorali
TCB Analytics
@tanyacash21

Sarah Catanzaro
Canvas Ventures

Simon Chan
Salesforce, SalesforceIQ, PredictionIO
@salesforceiq

Fallon Chen
Spotify

Michael Chui
McKinsey Global Institute
@mchui

Eric Colson
Stitch Fix
@ericcolson

Riccardo Corbella
Data Reply IT

Dustin Cote
Confluent

Alistair Croll
Solve For Interesting
@acroll

Bradford Cross
DCVC

Michael Crutcher
Cloudera

Nick Curcuru
MasterCard

Paul Curtis
MapR Technologies

Shannon Cutt
O'Reilly Media

Doug Cutting
Cloudera
@cutting

Brian Dalessandro
Zocdoc
@delbrians

Atul Dalmia
Head of AXP Global Big Data Platforms, American Express

Shirshanka Das
LinkedIn

Michael Dauber
Amplify
@dauber

Gerard de Melo
Rutgers University

Beniamino Del Pizzo
Data Reply IT

Noemi Derzsy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Stephen Devine
Big Fish Games, Inc.

Ewa Ding
Cloudera

Thomas Dinsmore
Cloudera
@thomaswdinsmore

Leo Dirac
Amazon Web Services

Mark Donsky
Cloudera

Mike Driscoll
Metamarkets

Leigh Drogen
Estimize
@LDrogen

Mathieu Dumoulin
MapR Technologies
@lordxar

Ted Dunning
MapR Technologies
@ted_dunning

Sastry Durvasula
American Express

Mateusz Dymczyk
H2O.ai

Barbara Eckman
Comcast

Amie Elcan
CenturyLink

Javier Esplugas
DHL Supply Chain

Bin Fan
Alluxio

Carson Farmer
Set

Avrilia Floratau
Microsoft

Parisa Foster
Play The Future
@parisafoster

Eugene Fratkin
Cloudera

Michael Freedman
Timescale | Princeton University

Jon Fuller
KNIME.com AG

Jerrard Gaertner
University of Toronto
@JerrardB

Eddie Garcia
Cloudera
@edygarcia

Yael Garten
LinkedIn

Alison Gilles
Spotify

Daniel Goddemeyer
OFFC NYC

Brian Granger
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
@ellisonbg

Mark Grover
Cloudera
@mark_grover

Nadeem Gulzar
Danske Bank Group

Alexandra Gunderson
Arundo Analytics

Sijie Guo
Streamlio

Yufeng Guo
Google
@YufengG

Yunsong Guo
Pinterest

Sebastian Gutierrez
DashingD3js.com
@dashingd3js

Felix GV
LinkedIn
@felixgv

Patrick Hall
H2O.ai | George Washington University
@jpatrickhall

Eui-Hong Han
The Washington Post

Behrooz Hashemian
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
@behroozxyz

Bill Havanki
Cloudera

Katherine Heller
Duke University

Seth Hendrickson
Cloudera

J. C. Herz
Ion Channel Inc.
@jcherz

John Hitchingham
FINRA

Vincent-Charles Hodder
cofounder and CEO of Local Logic

Felipe Hoffa
Google
@felipehoffa

Carla Holtze
Parrable
@carlaholtze

John Horcher
Virtual Cove

Fabian Hueske
data Artisans
@fhueske

Christine Hung
Head of Data Solutions, Spotify

Alysa Z. Hutnik
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Ihab Ilyas
University of Waterloo | Tamr, Inc.
@ihabilyas

Pramod Immaneni
DataTorrent

Marta Jamrozik
Claire

Nandu Jayakumar
Visa

Ling Jiang
The Washington Post

David Kale
University of Southern California

Supun Kamburugamuve
Indiana University

Sean Kandel
Trifacta

Daniel Kang
Stanford University

Holden Karau
IBM
@holdenkarau

Arun Kejariwal
Machine Zone
@arun_kejariwal

Elsie Kenyon
Nara Logics

Kimoon Kim
Pepperdata Inc

James Kirkland
Red Hat

Olivia Klose
Microsoft

Katarina Kolich
BNZ

Priya Koul
American Express

Chi-Yi Kuan
LinkedIn

Sanjeev Kulkarni
Streamlio

Stuart Lacey
Trunomi
@StuartHLacey

Jared Lander
Lander Analytics
@jaredlander

Sam Lavigne
The New Inquiry
@sam_lavigne

Francesca Lazzeri
Microsoft

Julien Le Dem
Apache Parquet
@J_

Toni LeTempt
Wal-Mart

Evan Levy
SAS
@evanjaylevy

Michael Li
LinkedIn

Zhichao Li
Intel

julia lintern
Metis

Todd Lipcon
Cloudera
@tlipcon

Ryan Lippert
Cloudera
@RyanInTech

Julie Lockner
17 Minds Corporation
@julielockner

Ben Lorica
O'Reilly Media
@bigdata

Hong Lu
Microsoft

Zhenxiao Luo
Software Engineer, Uber

Thiruvalluvan M G
Aqfer.com

Allan MacInnis
Amazon Web Services

Ted Malaska
Blizzard

Bruce Martin
Cloudera

Hilary Mason
Fast Forward Labs
@hmason

Andy Mauro
Automat
@andymauro

Tony McAllister
Be The Match (National Marrow Donor Program)

Michael McCune
Red Hat

Jason McIntyre
Accenture

Matteo Merli
Streamlio

Chris Mills
if(we)
@rndmxs

Harjinder Mistry
Red Hat

William Mok
The Tech Trader

Karen Moon
Trendalytics
@KarenMoon140

Jason Morton
Corvil

Milind Nagnur
Citigroup

Milind Nagnur
Citigroup

Paco Nathan
O'Reilly Media
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Chris Neumann
500 Startups
@ckneumann

Ryan Nienhuis
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Brian O'Neill
Designing for Analytics, LLC

Stephen O'Sullivan
Silicon Valley Data Science
@steveos

Andrew Otto
Wikimedia Foundation

Shoumik Palkar
Stanford University

Lloyd Palum
Vnomics

Gene Pang
Alluxio

Kevin Parent
Conduce Inc.

Robert Passarella
Protege Partners
@robpas

Mo Patel
Teradata

Josh Patterson
Skymind
@jpatanooga

Joshua Patterson
Nvidia
@datametrician

Nick Pentreath
IBM

Frances Perry
Google

Sander Pick
Set

Mike Pittaro
Dell, Inc.
@pmikeyp

Pavan Podila
financial technologist specializing, Trading and analytics applications

Adrian Popescu
Unravel Data

Sean Power
Repable

Syed Rafice
Cloudera

Karthik Ramasamy
Streamlio
@karthikz

Jun Rao
Confluent

Sneha Rao
Spotify

Faraz Rasheed
TD Bank

Pranav Rastogi
Microsoft

Alex Ratner
Stanford University

Radhika Ravirala
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Salema Rice
Allegis Group

Dario Rivera
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Henry Robinson
Cloudera
@HenryR

Matthew Roche
Microsoft Corporation

Matthew Rocklin
Continuum

Julie Rodriguez
BNY - Eagle
@juliargentinag

Steven Ross
Cloudera

Edgar Ruiz
RStudio
@theotheredgar

Edgar Ruiz
RStudio
@theotheredgar

Philip Russom
TDWI: The Data Warehousing Institute
@prussom

Neelesh Srinivas Salian
Stitch Fix
@NeelS7

Majken Sander
TimeXtender
@majsander

Sri Satish
H2O.ai
@srisatish

Andrei Savu
Cloudera
@andreisavu

Jared Schiffman
Perch Interactive

Bill Schmarzo
EMC
@schmarzo

Jacob Schreiber
University of Washington

Robert Schroll
The Data Incubator

Jim Scott
MapR Technologies, Inc.
@kingmesal

Jonathan Seidman
Cloudera
@jseidman

Nick Selby
CJX, Inc. | Midlothian Police Department
@nselby

Yahav Shadmi
Intel

Viral Shah
Julia Computing, Inc.

Shaked Shammah
Hebrew University

Tushar Shanbhag
LinkedIn

Gwen Shapira
Confluent
@gwenshap

Jeffrey Shmain
Cloudera

Dave Shuman
Cloudera

Tanvi Singh
Credit Suisse

Vartika Singh
Cloudera

Jose Soltren
Cloudera

Audrey Spencer-Alvarado
Portland Trail Blazers

Jessica Stauth
Quantopian
@jstauth

Jennifer Marie Stevens
Microsoft

Bargava Subramanian
Red Hat
@bargava

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Stanford University

Inbal Tadeski
Anodot

David Talby
Atigeo
@davidtalby

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Seattle Children's Research Institute

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Quandl

Alex Thomas
Indeed

Jer Thorp
The New York Times

Robin Thottungal
US Environmental Protection Agency
@rathottungal

Richard Tibbetts
MIT
@tibbetts

Steven Totman
Cloudera
@steventotman

DB Tsai
Netflix

Madeleine Udell
Cornell University

Michelle Ufford
Netflix

Amy Unruh
Google

Vinithra Varadharajan
Cloudera

Manuela Veloso
Carnegie Mellon University

Ashish Verma
Deloitte

Dean Wampler
Lightbend
@deanwampler

Melanie Warrick
Google
@nyghtowl

Emmie Watt
Air New Zealand

Kyle Wild
Keen IO
@dorkitude

Edd Wilder-James
Silicon Valley Data Science
@edd

Rose Winterton
Pitney Bowes

Ian Wrigley
Confluent
@iwrigley

Bichen Wu
UC Berkeley

Jennifer Wu
Director of Product Management for Cloud, Cloudera

Stephen Wu
Microsoft

Wei Yan
Uber

Yan Yan
LinkedIn

Fangjin Yang
Imply

Yuhao Yang
Intel

Lucy Yu
MemSQL

Matei Zaharia
Stanford University

Ben Zaitlen
Continuum Analytics

Tristan Zajonc
Cloudera

David Zhou
Samsung

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