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A Model Strategy for Data Journalism in a Country Without Open Data Sandra Crucianelli, Angélica Peralta Ramos
Real Time Network Analytics with Storm Mauricio Vacas, Fausto Inestroza, Sonali Parthasarathy

Making Data Work

In 2005, Tim O'Reilly predicted: "Data is the Next Intel Inside." Today the future he envisioned is unfolding at a startling pace. O'Reilly's Strata Conference brings together the leading minds in big data: the decision makers using the power of big data to drive business strategy as well as the practitioners who collect, analyze, and manipulate the data.

The Business of Data

A connected world, brimming with data and fueled by near-limitless computing power, is changing everything about how we live, love, work, and play. It's a change that offers tremendous opportunity—to transform business, end corruption, teach the world, and help society tackle its biggest challenges. And yet it creates new threats, from privacy concerns to Orwellian dystopia. What's clear is that the future belongs to those who understand how to collect and use their data successfully. And that future happens at Strata.

Strata Conference delivers the nuts-and-bolts foundation for building a data-driven business—in three full days of inspiring keynotes, practical & information-rich sessions, an expo hall with key players and products, and plenty of networking events.

Strata Conference will bring three full days of inspiring keynotes, intensely practical & information-rich sessions, an expo hall with key players and products, and plenty of networking events. Strata has a laser-sharp focus on the big data issues that are shaping the business, finance, media, and government worlds.

What You'll Get at Strata

Strata is where the leading minds in big data converge to map out the future, share their experiences and expertise, and learn from the people driving the data revolution. If you want to tap into the opportunity that big data presents, be at Strata.

Be among the first to understand how you can leverage the promise of this huge change, and survive the resulting disruption
Find new ways to leverage your data assets across industries and disciplines
Learn how to take big data from science project to real business application
Discover training, hiring, and career opportunities for data professionals
Meet face-to-face with other innovators and thought leaders

The Strata Experience

Dozens of sessions that explore the latest advances, case studies, and best practices
Networking opportunities with hundreds of other business leaders, data professionals, designers, and developers
A vibrant "hallway track" for attendees, speakers, journalists, and vendors to debate and discuss important issues
Fun evening events, receptions, and more, giving you more face time with attendees and speakers

Who Attends Strata

Strata attendees have job titles including:

Analytics Manager, Analytics Director
Big Data Lead / Director of Big Data
Big Data Architect / Big Data Systems Engineer
Bioinformatics Scientist
Business Analyst
Business Intelligence Analyst / BI Director
Business Systems Director
CEO / CIO / COO / CTO
Chief Architect, Chief Data Architect
Chief Data Officer / Chief Data Scientist
Cloud Architect / Cloud Engineer
Data Analyst / Data Analytics Director
Database Administrator / Database Developer
Data Center Manager / Data Services Director
Data Scientist / Sr. Data Scientist
Data Warehouse Manager
Designer / Information Designer
Economist
Hadoop Administrator / Hadoop Architect
Hadoop Development Lead / Hadoop Development Manager
Information Architect / Infrastructure Architect

Journalist
Marketing Analytics Director
Mining Engineer / Modeling Engineer
Predictive Analytics and Optimization
Product Development / Product Manager
Product Architect
Quantitative Analyst / Quantitative UX Analyst
Research Analyst / Research Director
Research Engineer / Research Systems Analyst
Search Quality Analyst
Software Engineer / Lead Engineer
Software Architect / Sr. Software Architect
Solutions Architect
Statistician
Systems Analyst / Sr. Systems Analyst
Systems Engineer / Sr. Systems Engineer
Technology Director
Venture Capitalist / Investor
Visual Designer
Web Analyst
Web Applications Developer / Web Developer

Strata attendees are from organizations such as:

Accenture
Adobe Systems
AKQA
Allstate
Amazon Web Services
American Express
American Public Media
Apple
ATT Interactive
Bank of America
Bed Bath and Beyond
Bioanalytical Computing
Bloomberg Ventures
Boeing
CareerBuilder.com
Carfax
Center for Investigative Reporting
Chevron
CitiGroup
comScore
Department of Defense
Deutsche Bank
Dow Jones

DuPont Pioneer
eBay
Edmunds
Etrade
Etsy
Experian
Federal Reserve Board
Gartner
General Electric
Google
Lawrence Berkeley Labs
LinkedIn
LG
Lockheed Martin
Mastercard
McLaren Applied Technologies
Merck & Co.
Motorola Mobility
NBC Universal
National Academy of Sciences
The Neilsen Company
Netflix
Northrup Grumman

Opera Solutions
Orbitz Worldwide
Paypal
Raytheon / Jet Propulsion Lab
Salesforce.com
Samsung
SEOMoz
Shopzilla
Smithsonian Institution
Skype
Stanford University
SVB Financial Group
Thomson Reuters
Twitter
USAA
US Census Bureau
Venrock
Verizon
Walmart Labs
The Walt Disney Co.
Weather Trends
Zillow and more.

Kudos for Strata Conference from Attendees

"One of the most valuable events to advance my career."

"An excellent event focused on the intersection between distributed computing and data science."

"The conference gave me access to leading thinkers in big data and businesses with big data problems. I enjoyed the tutorials and talks, and look forward to experimenting with some of them in the next few months."

"The event was invigorating from a community perspective. Big Data gets so much hype that being with real practitioners felt awesome. It was also nice to see the spectrum of professionals in the space--data scientists, software guys, business users, tool developers, etc. all in one location--sharing knowledge was awesome."

"The event speakers, content, and organization were exceptional. This is probably the pinnacle of Big Data conferences to attend for networking and getting the latest updates on ground breaking new technologies in the Big Data space. I will definitely attend this event next year."

Program Chairs

Edd Dumbill
is program chair for Strata and the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. A technologist and writer, he also leads the design and implementation of conference software at O'Reilly. Edd was the editor of XML.com for many years, and program chair for the XML Europe and XTech conferences.

Alistair Croll
is the founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm focused on emerging technologies. He's founded a variety of startups, and technology accelerators, including Year One Labs, CloudOps, Rednod, Coradiant (acquired by BMC in 2011) and Networkshop. He's a frequent speaker and writer on subjects such as entrepreneurship, cloud computing, Big Data, Internet performance and web technology, and has helped launch a number of major conferences on these topics.

Alistair has co-authored three books on Internet technology, including Web Operations (2010, O'Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly), and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). A product manager by trade, he's also an advisor to a number of venture firms and the founder of the Bitnorth conference.

Most of what he says winds up on his blog, solveforinteresting.com, or on Twitter (@acroll).

Committee Members

Joseph Adler, LinkedIn
Amr Awadallah, Cloudera
Dave Beckett, Zite/CNN
Matt Biddulph, Product Club
Ron Bodkin, Think Big Analytics
Carla Borsoi, AOL
Edward Capriolo, Media6Degrees
Drew Conway, New York University
Alistair Croll, Solve for Interesting
Paul Dix, Flurry
Edd Dumbill, O'Reilly Media
Kellan Elliott-McCrea, Etsy
DJ Patil, Greylock Partners
Nick Grossman, Open Plans
Martin Hall, Coreservlets.com
Jeff Hammerbacher, Cloudera
Mark Hansen, UCLA
Mike Hendrickson, O'Reilly Media
J. C. Herz, Batchtags LLC
Noah Iliinsky, Complex Diagrams
Adam Laiacano, Tumblr Inc.
Maribel Lopez, Lopez Research
Ben Lorica, O'Reilly Media

Michael Loukides, O'Reilly Media
Hilary Mason, Bit.ly
Sarah Novotny, Blue Gecko
Claudia Perlich, Media6Degrees
Jake Porway, DataKind
John Rauser, Amazon
Toby Segaran, Google
Maxwell Shron, OKCupid
Peter Skomoroch, LinkedIn
Julie Steele, O'Reilly Media
Bradford Stephens, Drawn to Scale
James Stogdill, O'Reilly Media
Kaitlin Thaney, Digital Science
Matt Turck, Bloomberg Ventures
Joseph Turian, Ph.D., MetaOptimize
Andrew Vande Moere, Infosthetics
Simon Wardley, LEF (Leading Edge Forum)
Chris Wensel, Concurrent
John Myles White, Princeton University
Chris Wiggins, Hackny.org & Columbia.edu
Chrys Wu, Hacks/Hackers NYC
Charles Zedlewski, Cloudera

Track Hosts

Data Science

Monica Rogati is one of the founding members of the LinkedIn product data science team. She leads a team of data scientists and turns data into products, actionable insights and (news) stories.

Peter Skomoroch is a Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn where he leads a team focused on identity, reputation, information extraction, and building data driven products. He was also the creator of LinkedIn Skills.

Hadoop in Practice

Sarah Sproehnle is the Director of Educational Services for Cloudera where she helps customers learn to use Apache Hadoop for big data processing. Cloudera provides commercial support, training and services for the Apache Hadoop platform.

Russell Jurney cut his data teeth in casino gaming, building web apps to analyze the performance of slot machines in the US and Mexico. After dabbling in entrepreneurship, interactive media and journalism, he moved to silicon valley to build analytics applications at scale at Ning and LinkedIn. He lives on the ocean in Pacifica, California with his wife Kate and two fuzzy dogs.

Beyond Hadoop

Bradford Stephens is the founder and CEO of Drawn to Scale, creators of the Spire database. Spire is a SQL database built on Hadoop and HBase, similar to Google F1. Drawn to Scale has customers powering large web apps, mobile infrastructures, telecoms, social networks, and more. A long-time user of Hadoop and HBase, Bradford has built large infrastructures at various startups and enterprises, and worked on Microsoft SQL Server. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Political Science, and spent several years as a Campaign Manager in politics at the Presidential and U.S. House levels.

Julia Ferraioli is a Developer Advocate working on Google Compute Engine. She helps developers harness the power of Google's infrastructure to tackle their computationally intensive processes and jobs. She comes from an industrial background in software engineering, and an academic background in machine learning and assistive technology.

Connected World

Laurel Ruma is the Director of Talent for O'Reilly Media. Most recently she co-chaired Where 2.0, OSCON Java, and Gov 2.0 Expo. She joined the company in 2005 after working for five years at various IT analyst firms in the Boston area. Laurel is also the co-editor of Open Government, published by O'Reilly.

Craig Barratt joined Qualcomm in May 2011 as president of Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. He served as president and chief executive officer of Atheros, and as director on the company's board from 2003, leading the company through its 2004 IPO and growth to over $900M of revenue in 2010, culminating in its 2011 acquisition by Qualcomm. Dr. Barratt previously served as Atheros' vice president of technology from 2002 until 2003. Prior to joining Atheros, Dr. Barratt held the role of executive vice president and general manager of ArrayComm, Inc., a company specializing in multi-antenna signal processing. Dr. Barratt holds Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in pure mathematics and physics from the University of Sydney in Australia. Dr. Barratt has been granted over 30 patents in a variety of wireless and related technologies and has co-authored a book on linear controller design, various technical publications and open source software.

Design

Julie Steele is the Content Editor for Strata at O'Reilly Media. She is co-author of Beautiful Visualization and Designing Data Visualizations. She finds beauty in exploring complex systems, and thinks in metaphors. She is particularly drawn to the visual medium as a way to understand and transmit information.

Noah Iliinsky strongly believes in the power of intentionally crafted communication. He has spent the last several years thinking, writing, and speaking about best practices for designing visualizations, informed by his graduate work in user experience and interaction design. He is a frequent speaker in both industry and academic contexts, and an occasional judge of visualization contest. He has a master’s in Technical Communication from the University of Washington, and a bachelor’s in Physics from Reed College. Noah works as a Visualization Expert at IBM's Center for Advanced Visualization.

Law, Ethics, and Open Data

Alexander Howard is the Government 2.0 Correspondent for O'Reilly Media, where he reports on technology, open government and online civics. Before joining O'Reilly, Howard was the associate editor of SearchCompliance.com at TechTarget. His work there focused on how regulations affect IT operations, including issues of data protection, privacy, security and enterprise IT strategy. Before moving the focus of his coverage to cybersecurity, online privacy and compliance, Howard was the associate editor of WhatIs.com, an online IT encyclopedia. In that role, he researched and wrote about nearly every aspect of enterprise IT, including the impact of social software on business and the media. In his spare time, he practiced writing about himself in the third person, with mixed results. Howard's work experience also includes working in operations for an e-business consultancy, as a knowledge broker for a management consulting firm, as a middle school teacher, as a master home builder and, very briefly, as a garden manager at an outstanding Italian restaurant. Howard graduated from Colby College with a bachelor's degree in biology and sociology.

Terence Craig is CEO and CTO of PatternBuilders, a real-time, big data analytics application provider that makes big data analytics a reality for organizations and businesses of any size. With over 20 years of experience in both executive and technical management roles with leading-edge private and public technology companies, Terence brings a unique and innovative view of what is needed—from both an operational and technology perspective—to build a world class analytics platform that is focused on the innovative development of analytic applications designed to improve companies' and organizations' profitability and efficiencies.

Big Data for Enterprise IT Day

Martin Hall is co-founder, Chairman & Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at Karmasphere. He brings a strong entrepreneurial track record and a history of pioneering new Internet technologies and markets. Prior to founding Karmasphere, Martin was a founder of Aventail, a leading computer security company acquired by SonicWall. Prior to that, he was the founding CEO of Stardust, an Internet technology services company sold to Penton Media. Martin has chaired and participated in a number of industry groups including WinSock, Quality of Service, Internet Multicast and Wireless Multimedia Forums. He holds a Masters of Computer Science from Staffordshire University in Stafford, England.

Mark Madsen spent the past two decades working on analysis and decision support projects in many industries. He is the founder of Third Nature, a research and consulting firm focused on emerging technology and practices in analytics, BI and information management. Mark is also an award-winning former CTO and consultant who frequently speaks at US and European conferences.

Strata Vendor Advisory Board

Dave Danielson, Digital Reasoning
Elissa Fink, Tableau Software
Adam Grey, Amazon Web Services
Martin Hall, Karmasphere
David Inbar, Pervasive Software
Generosa Litton, EMC
Joe McGonnell, Hortonworks
Sanjay Mehta, Splunk
Mike Olson, Cloudera
Steve Wooledge, Teradata Aster

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