Join us for an evening of exciting talks from Data Science Industry leaders and experts, followed by enough time for beers, food and networking. We look forward to seeing you there!

5:00 – 5:15 PM: Introduction by the organizers

5:15 – 5:35 PM: John Easton, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Lead Cloud Advisor: United Kingdom, Ireland & Nordics, IBM Cloud Member, IBM Academy of Technology

Why infrastructure matters for Big Data and Analytics

5:35-5:55 PM: Rick Farnell, SVP and Co-Founder of Think Big, a Teradata Company

Big Data 2015: What we’ve learned in 5 years

5:55 – 6:15 PM: Matthias Korn, Technical Consultant at Data Virtuality

Beyond the Data Lake

6:15 – 6:35 PM: Francisco Webber, Inventor and Co-Founder of Cortical.io

Cortical.io – Spark implementation facing Big Text Data

6:35-8:00 PM: Drinks, Food & Networking

Just a quick reminder: if you haven’t done so, then please register on the IPEXPO website (http://goo.gl/KoYQMO) until Tuesday, the 6th of October, until 7PM BST, in order to have free access to our meetup.