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Boston Chapter

The purpose of the Boston Chapter is to enable local BI/DW professionals to:

Meet regularly with each other on a regional basis
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June 16th, 2016: The Business Value of Hadoop

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ATTENTION ALL BI/DW AND ANALYTICS PROFESSIONALS
Dear Boston Area BI/DW and Analytics Professionals,
We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming TDWI Boston Chapter meeting on June 16, 2016. Come meet other local professionals, swap business cards, share ideas, and exchange career advice while listening to quality presentations in a vendor-neutral setting, which is the hallmark of TDWI education. Our featured speaker is Mike Olson, the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Cloudera. Please see our detailed meeting agenda below.

When:

Thursday, June 16, 2016, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Where:

Topic:

The Westin Waltham Boston
70 Third Avenue
Waltham, MA, 02451

“The Business Value of Hadoop” by Mike Olson, Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera

DON'T MISS THIS EVENT! Please RSVP

Agenda:

8:00am – 8:45am	Registration & Networking
8:45am – 9:00am	Opening Remarks
9:00am – 10:30am	Presentation: “The Business Value of Hadoop” by Mike Olson
	Abstract Data is transforming industries and creating massive value for businesses. Let's discuss how data and Hadoop can guide board-level decisions to deliver new revenue streams through a 360-degree view of your customer base, lower business risk through ensuring secure systems, and decrease costs through improved products and services efficiency. In addition to hearing from Cloudera's co-founder, Mike Olson, you will learn how leveraging your data correctly can make anything possible..
10:30am – 10:45am	Networking Break
10:45am – 11:30am	Presentation: “Hadoop Enterprise Transforming Use Cases” by Douglas Moore, Think Big Analytics
11:30am – 12:00noon	Raffle, Wrap-up, Networking

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Bios of Presenters

Mike Olson
Mike (@mikeolson) co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and served as its CEO until 2013 when he took on his current role of chief strategy officer (CSO.) As CSO, Mike is responsible for Cloudera’s product strategy, open source leadership, engineering alignment and direct engagement with customers. Prior to Cloudera Mike was CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. Mike spent two years at Oracle Corporation as vice president for Embedded Technologies after Oracle’s acquisition of Sleepycat in 2006. Prior to joining Sleepycat, Mike held technical and business positions at database vendors Britton Lee, Illustra Information Technologies and Informix Software. Mike has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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