The 4th annual QCon New York will take place at the Marriot at the Brooklyn Bridge, June 8 – 12, 2015. There will be two days of full & half day tutorials from June 8-9 (Mon-Tues) and a full 3-day conference from June 10 – 12 (Wed-Fri). We’re expecting over 560 attendees and we’ll have more than 100 speakers, 15 tracks, and many opportunities for networking.’
Experiment the perfect mix: expert practitioner speakers, professional software developers, new technologies, innovative tracks, networking with top engineers around the world, open space peer sharing and great city!’
Some of this year’s 15 track topics will include Fraud Detection and Hack Prevention, Mobile, Continuously Deploying Containers in Production, Monoliths to Microservices, High Performance Streaming Data, Reactive Architecture Tactics, Modern Advances in Java Technology & more’
Here are the top 10 reasons to attend’QCon New York
- Talk to the early-adopters & innovators in the industry: attendees, speakers & program committee
- Hear from speakers who are practitioners – not marketers (qcon is by invite-only)
- Interact with high-level peers: 2/3 of the qcon audience are team-leads or architects
- Hear what the “big guys” – as well as the smaller, cutting edge companies are doing and planning
- Tap into your peer’s brainpower to discuss and help solve your company’s specific problems
- Discuss culture and management issues in software development
- Be exposed to a variety of different platforms & different languages
- Listen to vendor-neutral presentations
- Access to over 100 speakers
- Enjoy a ‘we-care’ conference experience in a great city
We have two tracks that might very interesting to the Big Data community. Applied Data Science and Machine Learning and High Performance Streaming Data. Some sessions to consider:’
- Using Big Data Tools to Determine the Offline Sales Impact of Social Networking Platforms Using a Geo-Based Methodology – Rowan Vasquez, Twitter
- Akka Streams: Streaming data transformation’
la carte – Viktor Klang, Typesafe Inc. - The Many Faces of Apache Kafka: How is Kafka used in practice – Neha Narkhede, Key contributor to Apache’s Kafka & Samza
- Fans just wanna have fun: How 30 years of ticket transaction data helps you discover new shows! – Vaclav Petricek Director, Data Sciences at Live Nation Entertainment
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