Spark Summit 2016 by the Numbers
Enhance Your Apache Spark Skills
Join more than 2,500 engineers, analysts, scientists, and business professionals for three days of in-depth learning and networking.
With over 90 sessions and five tracks to choose from, there’s content for every level and role.
LEARN ABOUT:
- Structured Spark, Spark Streaming, and related projects.
- The future of Apache Spark.
- How to use the Spark stack in a variety of applications.
- Best practices for deploying Spark at Scale.
Apache® Spark™ is a powerful open source processing engine built around speed, ease of use, and sophisticated analytics. It was started at UC Berkeley in 2009 and is now developed at the vendor-independent Apache Software Foundation. Since its release, Spark has seen rapid adoption by enterprises across a wide range of industries. Internet powerhouses such as Yahoo, eBay and Netflix have deployed Spark at massive scale, processing multiple petabytes of data on clusters of over 8,000 nodes. Apache Spark has also become the largest open source community in big data, with over 1000 contributors from 250+ organizations.
Day 1: Spark Training
A 3-day registration pass includes one full day of Apache Spark training from Databricks.
Classes offered at Spark Summit 2016
Apache Spark Essentials (Sold Out)
for beginners
Data Science with Apache Spark (Sold Out)
for data scientists
Exploring Wikipedia with Apache Spark (Sold Out)
for advanced Spark developers
Days 2 and 3: Main Conference
Spark Summit has something for everyone, from developers and data scientists to researchers and business executives.
Find out what’s in store for:
Developer Day •
June 7
Who it’s for:
- Apache Spark Developers
- Data Scientists
- Infrastructure or Site Reliability Engineers
- Researchers
Why you should attend:
- Learn what’s ahead for the open source Spark project.
- To hear from Spark committers on performance and memory optimization.
- To see how others deploy Spark at scale.
- To learn how data scientists deploy in R and discover machine learning at scale.
- To hear researchers share their knowledge about spatial analyses and GPU support in Spark.
Enterprise Day •
June 8
Who it’s for:
- Data Practitioners
- Key Decision Makers
- Business Executives
Why you should attend:
- To learn how Apache Spark is deployed in enterprises and best practices.
- To find out how Spark is employed in a variety of applications.
- To hear how leading enterprise Spark users solve business problems.
Venue
Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Conveniently located in the heart of San Francisco, the Hilton Union Square makes it easy to see what the city has to offer after the sessions close.
333 O’Farrell St
San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
+1 (415) 771-1400
+1 (855) 827-1009 (reservations only)
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