Presentation: Tweet"Realtime Big Data Analytics with Storm"

Time: Thursday 12:30 - 13:15 / Location: To be announced

Ron provides an overview of the open source Storm system for processing Big Data in realtime. The talk starts with an overview of the technology, different API options, and discusses integration with messaging systems and databases. It then reviews real world use cases for realtime Big Data analytics and discusses how Storm, Kafka, NoSQL databases, and Hadoop can integrate to provide solutions.

Ron Bodkin, TweetFounder and CEO at Think Big Analytics

Biography: Ron Bodkin

Ron founded Think Big to help companies realize measurable value from Big Data. Previously, Ron was VP Engineering at Quantcast where he led the data science and engineer teams that pioneered the use of Hadoop and NoSQL for batch and real-time decision making. Prior to that, Ron was Founder of New Aspects, which provided enterprise consulting for Aspect-oriented programming. Ron was also Co-Founder and CTO of B2B applications provider C-Bridge, which he led to a staff of 900 service consultants and a successful IPO. Ron graduated with honors from McGill University with a B.S. in Math and Computer Science. Ron also earned his Master’s Degree in Computer Science from MIT, leaving his PhD program after presenting the idea for C-bridge and placing in the finals of the 50k Entrepreneurship Award.