On Oct. 2, in New York, Cloudera is hosting Hadoop World, the first real conference around the Apache Hadoop project. It will certainly be an interesting show. I've looked over the schedule, and there are only three or four talks that would qualify as Cloudera-specific marketing pitches. The rest of the talks look to be about Hadoop development, the Hadoop ecosystem and the use of Hadoop in various industries.
There will be some interesting talks at Hadoop World, and though I will not be attending (Jeff will be, as he is already on that coast), I'm hoping to watch any video of these talks that Cloudera posts online. Expect an interesting new product from Cloudera, also.
I thought I'd post some of the interesting talks that will be given at the show. Take a gander at just how varied Hadoop usage can be:
- Large Scale Transaction Analysis, Joe Cunningham, VISA
- Data Processing for Financial Services, Peter Krey and Sih Lee, JP Morgan Chase
- Protein Alignment, Paul Brown, Booz Allen
- Real-Time Business Intelligence, Bradford Stephens, Visible Technologies
- Understanding Natural Language, Charles Ward and Karthik Balaji, General Sentiment
- Matchmaking in the Cloud, Ben Hardy, eHarmony
- Hadoop for Bioinfomatics, Deepak Singh, Amazon Web Services
Sounds like a nice array of use cases to unvestigate. I must say, I can't even think of another conference where real langauge processing and protein alignment were discussed, and esspecially not a conference where those topics were covered within the same software platform.