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Startup Showcase / 2017 Big Data Day LA Startup Showcase in collaboration with TenOneTen Ventures
This year we are excited to add something new to Big Data Day LA. In partnership with TenOneTen Ventures, we are bringing together some of the best data driven startups in Southern California! Five startups will have the opportunity to pitch to a panel of judges that range from VCs to data experts. The winner will receive a $1500 cash prize, $1,000 in MongoDB Atlas DBaaS credit and 3 strategy sessions with VCs. Congratulations to the first ever Big Data Day LA 2017 Startup Showcase winner – MK.collective.
The Startup Showcase Finalists were: –
- Popspots
- Popspots drives sales and improves operations for grocery retailers using a network of IoT devices located in the checkout aisles.
- MK.Collective
- Big data debugging, cleaning, and code analytics for production cloud/Apache Spark
- ALAPY
- Machine learning for sequencing data compression, transfer, and analysis.
- Polis Assist
- Polis Assist, Inc. is the WAZE of parking. Find FREE parking and any other kind of parking in LA, and soon in NYC and San Francisco.
Visit us at 2:30 PM on the day of the event to come witness these 5 finalists duke it out to be crowned the First Big Data Day LA Startup Showcase Winner.
Sessions / Track & Session Info
Keynote Speakers / 2017
Session Speakers / 2017
Organizers / 2017 Organizers

Subash D’Souza
Founder at Data Con LA
Organizers / 2017 Committee Leaders

Abraham Elmahrek
Sessions Co-Chair

Amee Lord
Registration Co-Chair

Arjun Mahajan
Marketing Co-Chair

Arnold Borres
Registration Co-Chair

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

Clarissa Pinto Ribeiro
Sponsors Co-Chair

Humberto Zuniga
Sessions Co-Chair

Jason Brancazio
Sessions Co-Chair

Jimmy Kim
Locations & Catering Co-Chair

John Kim
Watchmaker's Apprentice | E-Commerce

Kaloyan Todorov
Partner at Data Con LA

Nilesh DSouza
Food/ Beverages Co-Chair

Oszie Tarula
Online Marketing and Events Consultant at Hola Metaverso

Ravin Kumar
Registration Co-Chair

Rich Ung
Data Scientist at Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution

Ruben Barrios
Information Security Student at Red River College

Sanjeev Sehgal
SVP, Sales at Satwic

Spencer Huang
Sponsors Co-Chair

Subash D’Souza
Founder at Data Con LA
Volunteers / 2017 Volunteers

Aaron Zira
Data Scientist at Scribie

Abbass Sharif
Academic Director, MS in Business Analytics Program at USC

Abraham Elmahrek
First Employee at FOSSA, Inc.

Alain Mbuku
Member Technology Specialist at WeWork

Alvin Thai
Data Scientist at Galvanize

Aman Mathur
Data Science Engineer at SnackNation

Amee Lord
Talent Acquisition Manager at iSpace

Angela Chung
Biotech Research Analyst at XCG Design Corp

Angelina Ha
AI/ML & Analytics Sales Specialist, Strategic Accounts at AWS

Anna Rezhko
IT Support Specialist at Life Sciences Computing Group

Anthony James
Data Scientist at Southern California Edison

Anya Singer
MBA Candidate, UCLA Anderson

Arjun Mahajan
Client Principal at Bitwise Inc

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

Asha Dasi
Senior ETL Engineer at UC Irvine

Austin Clements
Senior Associate at TenOneTen Ventures

Benjamin Parker
Sales Development Representative at Qubole

Bob Newstadt
Director of Business Intelligence at HopSkipDrive

Brandon Brooks
Technical Recruiter at Teradata

Brian Song
Lead Systems Engineer at US Navy, Space and Missile Systems Center

Charalampos (Harry) Papadimitriou
Data Scientist at DataScience.com

Cheng (Jimmy) Chen
Data Analytics Intern at Disney

Chita Oje
Programmer & Systems Analyst at UCLA Extension

Chulhee Lee
Student, MA Applied Math at CSU, Fullerton

Clarissa Pinto Ribeiro
Technical Recruiter at Crescent Solutions

Crystian Marron
Student at CSU, Channel Islands

David Harnick-Shapiro
Data Engineering Consultant

Diane Craig
System Business Analyst

Earl Cooke
Business Partner Lead - Space Systems at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems

Ella Foux
Sr. Program Manager at Cornerstone OnDemand

Elysia Oh
Business Analyst at Mitchell Madison Group

Emma Freeman
Data Science Teaching Assistant at General Assembly

Eric Pan
Summer Life Science Analyst (Intern) at DeciBio

Eyal Yurman
DBA & Big Data Engineer at AOL

Fangzhao Si
Retail Associate at Peet's Coffee

Frank Solomon
Chief Blogger at bitvectors.blogspot.com

Gina Escobar
Data Science Intern at Valor Water Analytics, Inc.

Girlie Salgueiro
Co-Founder at Oodon: The Never-Ending Comic Con

Greg Sweeney
Enterprise Software Leader at TechTrends.biz

Guru Palanisamy
IT Specialist at Souther California Edison

Hassan Afzal
Business Analyst & MBA Candidate at ISU

Hilary Primack
Associate Director, MS In BA Program At USC

Hina Fatima
Computer Science Graduate Student at USC

Humberto Zuniga
Sr. Product Owner at Disney

Ivan Bermudez
Director, Client Solutions at Cognizant

Janice Lee
MBA Candidate at UCLA Anderson

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

Jay Talaviya
Manager, Enterprise Data at Cox Automotive

Jennifer So
Avionics Systems Engineer at Boeing

Jenny Wang
Data Wrangler at Koss REsource

Jerry Power
Executive Director, CTM at USC

Jerry Tsai
Data Scientist

Jessica Santana
Founder & CEO at LS Lab Media

Jim Morales
Lead Data Warehouse Engineer at Cox Automotive

Jimmy Kim
Enterprise Account Executive at Spectrum Enterprise

John Kim
VP, Operations at Captive Eight

John Shojaei
Data Engineer at Ingram Micro

Juan Carreno
Consultant at Softech and Associates Inc

Julian Haft
Associate Data Engineer at Disney ABC Television Group

Justin Javier
Data Analyst at Kaiser Permanente

Kaloyan Todorov
Senior Data Scientist at Fama

Karen Simmons
Sr. Director, Enterprise Data Services at KBB

Kevin Coyle
Data Science Teaching Assistant at General Assembly

Kimberly Co
Sales Operations Analyst at Boston Scientific Neuromodulation

Kingshuk Chatterjee
CTO at Cerebro Solutions Inc

Lex Collette
Research Fellow, Swarm Robotics at CSU-Channel Islands

Lisa Tse
GIS Analyst at CalTrans

Luis Torres
Student at CSU, Channel Islands

Manish Dwibedy
Graduate student at USC

Marc Waddell
Owner at Trademark Artists

Margaret Chang
Support Analyst at Cornerstone OnDemand

Marianda Dong
Student at University of California, Irvine

Martha Wolnicki
Summer Life Science Analyst Intern at DeciBio

Mehul Merchant
Sr. Executive at Aptude

Melissa Paloma
Project Engineer at Romeo Power

Mike Rose
Telecommunications/Tech Support

Miten Bhatt
Director at Aviana Global

Nancy Chansavang
Web Developer at Ensign Services

Nandan Chandrashekhar
Data Scientist at DeepCurrent

Nicholas Cummings
Content Distribution Analyst at Shareability

Nicole Dubin
Web Developer and Computer Science Student at CSU - Channel Islands

Nilesh Dsouza
Sr. Data/ Business Analyst at Molina Healthcare

Nithin Reddy
Senior Software Engineer at Enplug, Inc.

Oswald Jones
Lead Engineer at Griddy

Oszie Tarula
Digital Media Director at UCLA

Paul Rusk
Senior Account Executive at Rimini Street

Prathibha Muralidharan
Graduate Student at USC

Raj Babu
CEO at Agilisium

Rajeev Mehrotra
Director of Data Engineering at LegalZoom

Ravin Kumar
Supply Chain Systems Engineer II at SpaceX

Rich Ung
Data Engineer at Disney ABC Television Group

Richard Ye
Associate Software Engineer at Riot Games

Ruben Barrios
Datawarehouse Analyst at Tigo Guatemala

Ruchi Singh
Global Information Security Analyst Intern at Disney

Saavi Gupta
Datascience Intern at Netgear

Sabitha Arputham
Software Professional

Sabrina Xie
Universal Store Guardians Teams at Microsoft

Sanjeev Sehgal
SVP Sales Satwic

Saritha Ivaturi
Director of Data Systems at Dollar Shave Club

Sean Randle
Scrum Master at Independent Consulting

Shehreen Dheda
Data Platforms Trainer at Qubole

Siddharth Jain
MS in Business Analytics at USC Marshall

Siva Kumar Rajagopal
Sr. Data Acquisition Specialist at FNG

Sonali Galhotra
Technical Project Manager at Sony Pictures

Sooraj Akkammaddam
ETL Architect at Core Digital Media

Spencer Huang
Director, Strategic Accounts at Qubole

Stefanie Davis
Business Intelligence Consultant at Claraview, a division of Teradata

Stevie Rhim
Applications Engineer at Infineon Technologies

Subash D’Souza
Director of Big Data at Warner Bros

Suryakiran George
Graduate Student at USC

Susan Kelley
Semantic Web Researcher

Swapnil Kanani
Tech Lead at eInfoChips

Sylvia Tran
Data Scientist at Gracenote

Tianyi Deng
Designer at RTKL

Tiffany Tse
Front End Engineer at Stainless Code

Tony DiPietra
Data Science Manager at loanDepot

Travis Huang
Data Scientist at AlgoLIFT

Wei Qi
MBA Candidate at the University of San Diego

William Rivera
Full Stack Developer in Residence at Coding Dojo

Xi Wang
Senior Data Scientist at Fama

Xu Liu
Graduate Student at UCLA

Yuan Ma
Student at UCLA

Yvonne Coit
Director at Capgemini

Zia Khan
VP Business Development at Allsite IT