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Big Data Day LA 2016 Slides / Checkout our presentations!
About the Conference / What You Need To Know
Big Data Day LA is the largest of its kind, and completely free, Big Data conference in Southern California. Spearheaded by Subash D’Souza and organized and supported by a community of volunteers, sponsors and speakers, Big Data Day LA features the most vibrant gathering of data and technology enthusiasts in Los Angeles.
The first Big Data Day LA conference was in 2013, with just over 250 attendees. We have since grown to over 550 attendees in 2014 and over 950 attendees in 2015. This year we expect to have over 1200 attendees!
Our 4th Annual Big Data Day LA 2016 conference was on Saturday, July 9th, 2016 at West Los Angeles College in Culver City.
Our featured tracks this year were:
– Big Data
– Data Science
– Hadoop / Spark / Kafka
– NoSQL and
– Use Case Driven
Helpful Links:
Big Data Day LA Program Brochure (PDF)
Sessions Table (Google Docs)
Sessions / Track & Session Info
Check out track and session info from 2016’s conference here!
Keynote Speakers / 2016
All keynote talks will be held in Fine Arts 100 Auditorium
Session Speakers / 2016
Volunteers / 2016 Organizer

Subash D’Souza
Director, Cloud Data Engineering at CSU - Chancellor's Office, Founder at Data Con LA & Data 4 Good
Volunteers / 2016 Committee Leaders

Abraham Elmahrek
Sessions Co-Chair

Arti Annaswamy
Senior Manager, Reporting Solutions & Data Operations at WB

Austin Clements
Location Liasion

Clarissa Pinto Ribeiro
Sponsors Co-Chair

Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia
Sessions - Data Science Co-Chair

Eric Lui
Registration Chair

Jimmy Kim
Locations & Catering Co-Chair

John Kim
Watchmaker's Apprentice | E-Commerce

Kaloyan Todorov
Managing Sr. Data Scientist at FIGS

Michael Chiang
Location Vice Chair

Oszie Tarula
Online Marketing and Events Consultant at Hola Metaverso

Priyanka Biswas, Ph.D
NLP Content Lead at Espressive

Rich Ung
Data Scientist at Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution

Subash D’Souza
Director, Cloud Data Engineering at CSU - Chancellor's Office, Founder at Data Con LA & Data 4 Good

Szilard Pafka
Sessions (Data Science) Chair

Weixiang Chen
Marketing Chair
Volunteers / 2016 Volunteers

Abraham Elmahrek
First Employee at FOSSA, Inc.

Alex Hon
Student at USC

Amit Yakhmi
Business Development

Annie Chen
Cyber Security Sales Intern at Novacoast

Anthony James
Data Scientist at Southern California Edison

Armen Donigian
Lead Data Engineer at ZestFinance

Arnold Borres
Associate Software Architect at UST Global

Arti Annaswamy
Senior Manager, Reporting Solutions & Data Operations at WB

Ben Perlmutter
Sales Engineer at Xplenty

Brandon Brooks
Technical Recruiter at Teradata

Brian Cottrell
Mobile Software Engineer at DIRECTV

Cecilia Luo
MS Business Analytics candidate

Charalampos (Harry) Papadimitriou
Data Scientist at DataScience.com

Chen Zou
Business Analyst at Machinima

Clarissa Pinto Ribeiro
Technical Recruiter at Crescent Solutions

Cris Manlangit
Student at San Diego State University-California State University

Cristina Salajan
Project Manager at Farmers Insurance

Dan Gutierrez
Data Scientist at AMULET Analytics

Darryl Nousome
Doctoral Student at USC

Dave Nielsen
Cloud Computing Evangelist & Consultant

Dharmesh Soni
Summer Intern

Dinesh Srirangpatna
Data Solution Architect at Microsoft

Dominique (Nikki) Castle
Associate Insights Analyst at DataScience, Inc

Eric Lui
VP, Engineering at Second Spectrum

Eric Schimansky
Group Manager at Avanade

Frank Solomon
Chief Blogger at bitvectors.blogspot.com

Greg Sweeney
Enterprise Software Leader at TechTrends.biz

Guan Zhou
Student at UCLA

Jae Lim
Analytic Programmer/ Investor/ Thinker

Jason Brancazio
Software Engineer, Data Services at Red Bull Media House

Jason Geng
Co-Founder at Data Applications Lab

Jenny Wang
Data Wrangler at Koss REsource

Jimmy Kim
Enterprise Account Executive at Spectrum Enterprise

Jin Wu
Emerging Technologies Librarian at USC

Jing Pan
Statistical Data Analyst

Joe Devon
Entrepreneur & Advisor in the Tech Space

John Kim
VP, Operations at Captive Eight

John Zhang
PhD Candidate at UCLA

Jovany Diaz
Accounting Systems Analyst I at Los Angeles County Auditor-Controller

Kaloyan Todorov
Senior Data Scientist at Fama

Kelly Thomassen
Coordinator at AdoptTogether.org

Kyle Walker
Lead Engineer at ZEFR

Manish Dwibedy
Graduate student at USC

Michael Chiang
Founder at Eleven Recruiting

Nandan Chandrashekhar
Data Scientist at DeepCurrent

Nicholson Alforque
Autozoner at AutoZone

Nithin Reddy
Senior Software Engineer at Enplug, Inc.

Omar Atayee
Sales Engineer at Mashape

Oswald Jones
Lead Engineer at Griddy

Oszie Tarula
Digital Media Director at UCLA

Priyanka Biswas
PhD candidate at USC

Priyanka Kale
Software Engineer

Raj Babu
CEO at Agilisium

Ravin Kumar
Supply Chain Systems Engineer II at SpaceX

Rich Ung
Data Engineer at Disney ABC Television Group

Ryan Lampert
Founder at LiftedPresence

Sanjeev Sehgal
SVP Sales Satwic

Santhosh Sunkara
Graduate student at Oklahoma State University

Shashidhar Desai
Software Engineer in Test at Zefr

Simon Lee
Senior Strategic Relations Executive at Captive Eight

Siva Bhavanari
Senior Data Engineer

Sooraj Akkammaddam
ETL Architect at Core Digital Media

Spandan Karamchedu
Software Developer in Test at Velocify

Stella Shao
MS Business Analytics Candidate, USC Marshall School of Business

Subash D’Souza
Director of Big Data at Warner Bros

Vivian Li
Data Scientist at Enervee

Weixiang Chen
Founder at NewMet Data

William Mo
Partner Business Development at NovaStor

Xi Wang
Senior Data Scientist at Fama

Yunyun Dai
Senior Researcher at USC

Zia Khan
VP Business Development at Allsite IT