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Panel of Speakers

Satya Ramchandran

SVP, MarketShare

Satya is the SVP of Engineering at MarketShare and is responsible for all product development. He brings more than 15 years of knowledge and experience in distributed computing and real-time analytics to MarketShare. Prior to working at MarketShare, Satya co-founded JovianDATA and was the VP of Engineering. JovianDATA's technology was based on distributed computing and large scale analytics. At JovianDATA he created an engineering team composed of the top talent in India that delivered a complex technology on the AWS cloud at a low cost.

Title: End-to-end analytics workflow presenting results in terms of predictions and performance.

David Talby

SVP, Atigeo

David is Atigeo’s Senior Vice President of Engineering and leads engineering, product management and operations. Prior to Atigeo, David was a principal group manager at Microsoft, running business operations teams for Bing Shopping in the US and Europe, and before that he was a senior manager at Amazon, building and running distributed teams which scaled Amazon’s financial systems. David holds both a PhD in Computer Science and an MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has 25 published papers & patents to date.

Title: A reference architecture for petabyte-scale, self-learning, business critical apps


Quan Vu

Director of Technical Marketing, Tableau Software

Quan Vu is the Director of Technical Product Marketing at Tableau Software, where he works with customers around the world to help people see and understand data. He’s an industry leader in GIS, business intelligence, navigation, and location-based technology innovation with a 25-year track record of first-to-market business development and next-generation conver¬gence across multiple industry and market sectors. Prior to his role at Tableau Software, he held executive roles at Infogroup, Broadmap, TomTom and Tele Atlas. He has a history of success in fast-paced, changing markets through tenacity and calculated risk-taking to capitalize on emerging market and technology trends, and he has global expertise developing uncharted consumer, enterprise and government opportunities.

Title: 7 Tips to Succeed with Big Data


Luan Dang

CTO, Phunware

Luan is a successful serial entrepreneur, author, inventor and technologist, with post Internet and technology bubble exits to such companies as Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ:LVLT) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ). Previously he was President of Strategic Investments for Curo Capital LLC and President of Alternative Investments for Trymetris Capital Management LLC. He was also a Director of Engineering at Linksys, a subdivision of Cisco Systems, overseeing the development of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) products and strategies.

Title: Phunware's Multi-screen-as-a-service


Dr Gunjan Gupta

Principal Lead Engineer, Atigeo

Gunjan received a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, with specialization in Data Mining and ML. He wrote his first ML program in 1992 as an undergraduate CSE student that won an IEEE contest against humans for the game of Plot4. Since then he has published over a dozen peer-reviewed publications including two award-winning papers (ICDM 2006 and ICML 2009). Over the past 15 years he has also worked in the industry on a diverse set of ML problems such as transactional fraud detection, bankruptcy and late-payment prediction, weather-related risk estimation, recommendation systems, airline price prediction, NLP, image classification, bioinformatics, and Search, at companies such as S&P, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Title: Hybrid analytics in action – a healthcare case study


Ted J. Wasserman

Senior Product Manager, Tableau Software

Ted J. Wasserman, who is a Senior Product Manager at Tableau Software and leads Tableau's data strategy and execution. This includes product planning, setting the strategic vision, and leading the execution of new features and integration with technology vendors. Prior to joining Tableau, Ted worked at IBM for seven years in the Information Management division in a number of different roles including technical consulting, channel marketing, and business development. Ted holds a bachelor's degree and master's degree in computer science from Queen's University.

Title: 7 Tips to Succeed with Big Data


Sean Mulvihill

Vice President of Sales and Marketing, DataRPM

Sean is responsible for the overall strategy and execution of DataRPM’s sales and marketing activities. Prior to DataRPM, he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing Operations at Monitise, a pioneer in mobile banking and payments that serves 7 of the top ten banks in the United States and over 350 financial institutions worldwide. Previously, Sean led inside sales for AppStream (acquired by Symantec) and founded American Hopper, a small business intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. Sean began his career as a stockbroker in 1994, focusing on emerging technology companies at the dawn of the Dot Com boom. He holds a degree in finance from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

Title: Instant Discovery for Big Data


Arpit Gupta

CTPO & Co Founder, Actionable Analytics

Arpit is now CTPO of Actionable Analytics and advisor to Independent Think Tank. He is a ground breaking, innovative thought leader; he founded the Big Data Analytics Group at RAX. His team helps customer adopt Big Data, build custom solutions to improve ROI. Arpit runs the strategy, engineering, product and marketing for unified data platform, business analytics, and customer enablement. At AMZN Arpit launched two services (enterprise and consumer) and his team led improvement of the retail website performance. With his servant leadership style he kick started an IP initiative that led to over 100 patents at YHOO. As the founding member of a new BU at ORCL, Arpit scaled it to a successful operating unit of 250 people, winning quality accolades in the first year of its establishment. Work has taken Arpit across the globe resolving customer pains and establishing high performance geographic distributed teams. Starting as an embedded software engineer he graduated into eCommerce, search, Ads, Big Data, cloud, CRM, OSS/BSS, mobile, risk, networking, predictive analytics etc. He holds 33 patents and publications in aforementioned areas. Arpit enjoys continued learning and keeping at the bleeding edge of technology being associated with academia or pursuing a PhD* (AI, not awarded due to international travel to Japan). Arpit actively speaks and hosts our RealTalks1 Podcast, where you can intereact with him on live sessions

Title: Internet of Everything - Next big thing