In compliance with JPMorgan Chase & Co, Larry Feinsmith’s keynote presentation will not be made available as a Hadoop World 2011 resource.
Hugh Williams, eBay Keynote
Hugh Williams will discuss building Cassini, a new search engine at eBay which processes over 250 million search queries and serves more than 2 billion page views each day. Hugh will trace the genesis and building of Cassini as well as highlight and demonstrate the key features of this new search platform. He will discuss some of the challenges in scaling arguably the world’s largest real-time search problem, including the unique considerations associated with e-commerce and eBay’s domain, and how Hadoop and HBase are used to solve these problems
Larry Feinsmith Keynote
Larry Feinsmith will talk about the challenges and successes of embracing Hadoop in a large-scale global banking enterprise. Larry will map the path taken to introduce Hadoop to the firm’s technology environment and the obstacles that lie ahead for big enterprises.
Mike Olson Keynote
Now in its fifth year, Apache Hadoop has firmly established itself as the platform of choice for organizations that need to efficiently store, organize, analyze, and harvest valuable insight from the flood of data that they interact with. Since its inception as an early, promising technology that inspired curiosity, Hadoop has evolved into a widely embraced, proven solution used in production to solve a growing number of business problems that were previously impossible to address. In his opening keynote, Mike will reflect on the growth of the Hadoop platform due to the innovative work of a vibrant developer community and on the rapid adoption of the platform among large enterprises. He will highlight how enterprises have transformed themselves into data-driven organizations, highlighting compelling use cases across vertical markets. He will also discuss Cloudera’s plans to stay at the forefront of Hadoop innovation and its role as the trusted solution provider for Hadoop in the enterprise. He will share Cloudera’s view of the road ahead for Hadoop and Big Data and discuss the vital roles for the key constituents across the Hadoop community, ecosystem and enterprises.
Hugh Williams
VP, Experience, Search, and Platforms
eBay
Hugh Williams has spent nearly twenty years researching and developing search engines and web services. He is the Vice President of Search, Experience, and Platforms at eBay Inc., where his responsibilities include eBay’s search engine, most of eBay’s global user experiences, and eBay’s platforms. He previously managed a large R&D team at Microsoft’s Bing, and prior to that was a tenured professor in Australia. He has published over 100 works, mostly in the field of Information Retrieval, and including two books: “Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL” and “Learning Mysql” for O’Reilly Media Inc. He holds 5 patents and has 25 patents pending. He has a PhD from RMIT University in Australia.
Larry Feinsmith
Managing Director, Office of the CIO
JPMorgan Chase & Co
Larry is focused on driving JPMC’s firmwide technology and innovation strategy and works closely with the Venture Capital community in areas including cloud computing, information management, and mobile.
Larry has been involved in the information management domain for the last 25 years in various roles. Prior to JPMC, Larry was a senior member of Morgan Stanley’s CTO team focused on strategy development in the software sector in application infrastructure and information management. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Larry spent the majority of 13 years in senior management positions at Sybase, CrossWorlds Software and Vitria Technology. He was also an application developer utilizing various database technologies such as Oracle, Sybase and Focus.
Michael Olson
Chief Executive Officer
Cloudera
Mike is CEO of Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based software and services. Mike was formerly CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. He spent two years at Oracle Corporation as vice president for Embedded Technologies after Oracle’s acquisition of Sleepycat in 2006. Mike has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.