Meet and Greet : 5:45 to 6:15 pm - Pizza and beverages
Lightning talks and speakers:
1) Title: "Data Democratized"; 
Speaker:  Ryan Brush, Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer at Cerner Corporation
The term "Big Data" implies value comes from the raw size of our data sets. However, systems designed to handle such volume tend to offer a more valuable feature: the ability to keep all available data indefinitely and allow users to tap into it for any need at any time. This talk looks at ways to democratize data, making it easily available to a broad set of users to solve novel problems.
2) Title :"Real time processing with Apache Storm";
     Speakers: Mahender Immadi, Senior Software Engineer, Cerner
                         Thirupathi Guduru, Senior Software Engineer, Cerner
One of the architectural components at Cerner has to do with real time processing. Apache Storm. Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for batch processing. This talk is about how Cerner has sucessfully adopted Storm for real time processing.
3) Title: "Combining SQL and NoSQL for Big Data applications"
Speaker: Shawn Moe, Architect, IBM Informix
The big data explosion from "Internet of Things" will require data management to be powered by intelligent databases. Unlocking the potential of this data proliferation lies in what your competition doesn't have: your enterprise transactional data.  Combining SQL and NoSQL data creates powerful, intelligent enterprise applications that can be leveraged across the latest technologies: cloud, mobile and big data.  Learn how to seamlessly combine and query SQL data with NoSQL (JSON) data within a single application