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SAN DIEGO, CA (February 1, 2017) – The Leverage Big Data + EnterpriseHPC 2017 Summit, a live hosted event dedicated to exploring the convergence happening as enterprises increasingly leverage High Performance Computing (HPC) to solve modern scaling challenges of the big data era, today announced its lineup of keynote speakers. The summit, which aims to foster a deeper understanding of the advanced scale solutions increasingly being employed to solve Big Data challenges across industries and achieve performance beyond the capabilities of their traditional IT environments, will have topics ranging from HPC environments, real-time security analysis, emerging technologies and more. The keynotes will feature The BioTeam, Inc.’s Asya Shklyar, IDC’s Bob Sorensen, Ford’s Sanjeev Kapoor, and Capital One’s Sagar Gaikwad.

The summit, scheduled for March 19-21, 2017 at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, will focus on bridging the challenges that CTOs, CIOs, database, systems & solutions architects, and other decision-makers involved in the build-out of scalable big data solutions face as they work to build systems and applications that require increasing amounts of performance and throughput.

The theme of the combined summit will be “Integrating High Performance Computing in the Enterprise and Building Big Data Solutions that Scale,” and will feature the following keynote sessions (with more announcements on further keynotes and panels to follow):

• “Are All High Performance Environments Created Equal?”
  • Keynote Presenter: Asya Shklyar – Senior Scientific Consultant for Infrastructure, The BioTeam, Inc. (formerly SpaceX)
• “A Transformational Journey to Autonomous Vehicles through Big Data Analytics and Technology Lenses
  • Keynote Presenter: Sanjeev Kapoor – Senior Project Manager, Emerging Technologies for Digital Transformation, Ford Motor Company

• “Cyber Security Strategies & Approaches and the Emerging Role of HPC in Cyber Security”
  • Keynote Presenter: Bob Sorensen – Research Vice President, High Performance Computing Group, IDC

• “Approaches to Achieving Realtime Ingestion and Analysis of Security Events”
  • Sagar Gaikwad – Manager, Big Data CyberTech, Capital One

Through this collection of keynotes, the converged Leverage Big Data + EnterpriseHPC 2017 Summit is uniting leaders in overcoming streaming and high-performance challenges across industries who drive their organizations to success. Attendees of this invitation-only summit will engage with luminaries faced with similar technical challenges, build dialogue and share solutions to delivering both systems and software performance in this emerging era of computing.

The summit will be co-chaired by EnterpriseTech Managing Editor, Doug Black, and Datanami Managing Editor, Alex Woodie.

ATTENDING THE SUMMIT

This is an invitation-only hosted summit that is fully paid for qualified attendees, including flight, hotel, meals and summit badge. Targets of the summit include CTOs, CIOs, database, systems & solutions architects, and other decision-makers involved in the build-out of scalable big data solutions. To apply for an invitation to this exclusive event, please fill out the qualification form at the following link: Hosted Attendee Interest Form

SUMMIT SPONSORS

Current sponsors for the summit include Amazon Web Services, ANSYS, ASRock Rack, Birst, Caringo, Cray, DDN Storage, HDF Group, Impetus, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Paxata, Quantum, Redline Performance, Striim, Verne Global, with more to be announced. For sponsorship opportunities, please contact us at [email protected].

The summit is hosted by Datanami, EnterpriseTech and HPCwire through a partnership between Tabor Communications and nGage Events, the leader in host-based, invitation-only business events.