8 AM - 9 AM

Registration, Breakfast, & Exhibit Booths Open

Atrium

9:00 AM - 9:05 AM

Opening Ceremony

Auditorium

9:10 AM - 9:40 AM

Keynote: Eric Martin & Yuri Bogdanov (Capital One) - Spark and AI at Capital One

Auditorium

9:40 AM - 10:10 AM

Keynote: Nathan Salmon (MetiStream) - Healthcare - The Final Frontier

Auditorium

10:10 AM - 10:20 AM

10 min Break

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM

Ugur Tigli (Minio) - Modern Data Architecture with Cloud Native Technologies

Auditorium

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM

Patrick Hall (H2O) - A Discussion of Model Explanation Tools with Practical Recommendations

100 D/E

11:00 AM - 11:05 AM

5 min Break

11:05 AM - 11:45 AM

Ted Malaska (Capital One) - Data Modeling Considerations for State Management of Spark Structure Streaming

Auditorium

11:05 AM - 11:45 AM

Charmee Patel (Syntasa) - AI assisted Merchandising: Driven by Personalized Recommendations, Powered by Spark

100 D/E

11:50 AM - 1:15 PM

Lunch & Exhibitor Booths

Atrium

1:15 PM - 2 PM

Chris Hamson (Microsoft) - Azure Databricks and Microsoft Machine Learning for Spark

Auditorium

12 PM - 2 PM

Training #1: Introduction to Spark SQL and Data Frames with Silvio Fiorito (Databricks)

370 A/B

12 PM - 2 PM

Training #2: Introduction to Spark SQL and Data Frames with Ricardo Portilla (Databricks)

100 A

12 PM - 2 PM

Training #3: What the Hail!? - A crash course in Spark-enabled genomic analytics with Mike Trepanier & Nathan Salmon (MetiStream)

370 C

12 PM - 2 PM

Training #4: Practical techniques for interpreting machine learning models with Patrick Hall (H2O.ai)

370 D/E

2 PM - 2:10 PM

5 min Break

2:10 PM - 2:40 PM

Keynote: Elena Boiarskaia (Databricks) - Introducing MLflow: Infrastructure for a Complete Machine Learning Life Cycle

Auditorium

2:40 PM - 2:50 PM

Student Pitch: Evan Cypher, Chu Chuan (Julia) Heng, Jin Lin Guan (GMU) - Combating Human Trafficking using Spark & AI

Auditorium

2:50 PM - 2:55 PM

5 min Break

2:55 PM - 3:35 PM

Chris Fregly (Pipeline.ai) - Building ML and AI Pipelines with Spark and TensorFlow

Auditorium

2:55 PM - 3:35 PM

Hari Rajaram (Merlin International) - Containerization of Spark Workloads – a new paradigm for building simple and efficient polyglot systems In Kubernetes

100 D/E

3:35 PM - 3:40 PM

5 min Break

3:40 PM - 4:10 PM

Dr. Alain Briançon and Victor Potapov (Cerebri.ai) - Challenge of real time B2C recommendations: Software and data science views

Auditorium

3:40 PM - 4:10 PM

Dr. Eliu Huerta Escudero (University of Illinois at UC) - Frontiers at the interface of deep learning and high performance computing

100 D/E

4:00 PM

Exhibitor Booths Close

Atrium

4:10 PM - 4:20 PM

Closing Ceremony & Student Awards

Auditorium

4:20 PM - 5:00 PM

Cake Cutting & Happy Hour

Atrium