Sponsors

EMC
EMC provides Big Data solutions that transform your business. We help you gain unprecedented value through real-time connectivity and analysis of large data sets that live inside your organization and the Internet. Our Big Data solutions are architected for storage elasticity and seemingly infinite scale. EMC Consulting develops solutions that combine the VMware vFabric Suite for building scalable, data-intensive custom applications with a unified analytics platform from Greenplum, a division of EMC, to access and collaborate on both structured and unstructured data. The result: a data-driven, predictive enterprise that gains greater insight and value from data. To learn more, go to www.emc.com/bigdata

IMS Health
IMS Health is a leading provider of information, services and technology for the healthcare industry. The company draws on its unique combination of sophisticated analytics, objective data and technology platforms to help healthcare clients better understand performance and value. With a presence in 100+ countries and nearly 60 years of experience, IMS serves decision makers within payers, providers, government agencies, researchers, pharmaceuticals and the financial community.

Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private, nonpartisan foundation that works with partners to advance entrepreneurship in America and improve the education of children and youth. Founded by late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. For more information, visit www.kauffman.org, and follow the Foundation on www.twitter.com/kauffmanfdn and www.facebook.com/kauffmanfdn.

IBM
jStart is an innovative team within IBM's Emerging Technologies organization. Its mission is to leverage emerging technologies to solve real-world problems for real customers/clients. Over the course of the past 15 years, jStart has engaged over 300 companies ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small startups, and has championed a number of technologies into the enterprise, including Java, Web Services, mashups and situational applications, and today in big data, text analytics, natural language processing, and machine learning. If you are interested in applying emerging technologies to solve real business needs, today, contact jStart at: jstart@us.ibm.com, visit us at http://www.ibm.com/software/jstart, or better yet, visit us at our booth.

Nuance Healthcare
Nuance Healthcare is the market leader in providing clinical understanding solutions that accurately capture and transform the patient story into meaningful, actionable information to facilitate smarter, more efficient decisions across the healthcare enterprise. Nuance supports thousands of hospitals, providers and payers worldwide to achieve Meaningful Use and transform to the accountable care model.

athenahealth
athenahealth offers integrated practice management, electronic health record (EHR) and patient communication services that help your practice work more profitably and efficiently, so you can focus on delivering patient care. With easy to use web-based CCHIT-certified software, and robust back-office services, you get paid faster and more fully without costly setup or upgrades.

Cloudera
Cloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services, enables data driven enterprises to easily derive business value from multi-structured data. The Cloudera Enterprise platform includes 100% open source CDH, Cloudera Manager software, and Cloudera Support. Cloudera also offers training and certification on Apache technologies, as well as consulting services.

Genentech
Founded more than 30 years ago, Genentech is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. The company, a member of the Roche Group, has headquarters in South San Francisco, California. For additional information about the company, please visit www.gene.com.

GoodChime!
GoodChime! is a consumer social media destination focused on improving the lives of members through celebrity fitness challenges and the precise recommendation of products, content, deals and services in the fitness, health and nutrition markets based on patent pending "big data" engine.

IBM
IBM offers a comprehensive big data platform that blends traditional technologies well suited for structured, repeatable tasks together with complementary new technologies that address speed and flexibility and are ideal for adhoc data exploration, discovery and unstructured analysis. Learn how IBM's big data platform is being used in healthcare.

Intel
Connecting people to information, Intel helps build an integrated health IT infrastructure that supports innovations in computerized physician order entry (CPOE), cloud computing, security, virtualization, mHealth, and much more to enable integrated, connected, people-centered care.

Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for nearly a century. Today, the firm provides services primarily to the US government in defense, intelligence, and civil markets, and to major corporations, institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. Booz Allen offers clients deep functional knowledge spanning strategy and organization, engineering and operations, technology, and analytics-which it combines with specialized expertise in clients' mission and domain areas to help solve their toughest problems. Booz Allen is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, employs more than 25,000 people, and had revenue of $5.59 billion for the 12 months ended March 31, 2011. To learn more, visit www.boozallen.com. (NYSE: BAH)

YarcData
YarcData, a Cray company, delivers real-time graph analytics for enterprises to gain insight by discovering unknown relationships in Big Data. Adopters include the Institute of Systems Biology, Mayo Clinic, Noblis, Sandia National Labs and US and Canadian governments. YarcData is based in Silicon Valley and more information is at www.yarcdata.com.