Doug Cutting
February 2016
Creator of Hadoop
Jen Underwood
June 2016
Tackling Data Gravity with Hybrid Solutions
Surfing the Analytics Technology Waves
Jen Underwood is a Senior Director at DataRobot and founder of Impact Analytix, LLC. She has a unique blend of product management and “hands-on” experience in data warehousing, reporting, visualization, and advanced analytics. In addition to keeping a constant pulse on industry trends, she enjoys digging into oceans of data to solve complex problems with machine learning. Over the past 20 years, Jen has held worldwide product management roles at Microsoft and served as a technical lead for system implementation firms. She has experience launching new products and turning around failed projects. Most recently she provided advisory, strategy, educational content development, and marketing services to 100+ technology vendors through her own firm.
Jen Underwood is a Senior Director at DataRobot and founder of Impact Analytix, LLC. She has a unique blend of product management and “hands-on” experience in data warehousing, reporting, visualization, and advanced analytics. In addition to keeping a constant pulse on industry trends, she enjoys digging into oceans of data to solve complex problems with machine learning. Over the past 20 years, Jen has held worldwide product management roles at Microsoft and served as a technical lead for system implementation firms. She has experience launching new products and turning around failed projects. Most recently she provided advisory, strategy, educational content development, and marketing services to 100+ technology vendors through her own firm.
Stephen Brobst
August 2016
Extracting Maximum Value from the Social Media Revolution
Four Trends in Business Intelligence that Cannot Be Ignored
Bill Inmon, best known as the “Father of Data Warehousing”, has become the most prolific and well-known author worldwide in the big data analysis, data warehousing and business intelligence arena. In addition to authoring more than 50 books and 650 articles, Bill has been a monthly columnist with the Business Intelligence Network, EIM Institute and Data Management Review. In 2007, Bill was named by Computerworld as one of the “Ten IT People Who Mattered in the Last 40 Years” of the computer profession. Having 35 years of experience in database technology and data warehouse design, he is known globally for his seminars on developing data warehouses and information architectures.
Stephen Brobst is the Chief Technology Officer for Teradata Corporation.Stephen performed his graduate work in Computer Science. At theMassachusetts Institute of Technology Stephen performed his graduate workin Computer Science where his Masters and PhD research focused on high-performance parallel processing. He also completed an MBA with joint courseand thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Stephen has been on the faculty of The Data WarehousingInstitute since 1996. During Barack Obama's first term he was also appointedto the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in the working group on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD). He was recently ranked by ExecRank as the #4 CTO in the United States (behind the CTOs from Amazon.com, Tesla Motors, and Intel) out of a pool of 10,000+ CTOs