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Wednesday, October 3
 

11:30am

Power Panel 3: Where’s the Big Data Talent?

Moderated by: Jim Kaskade

Where’s the Big Data Talent?

 A recent report from McKinsey predicted that there will be a shortage of talent necessary for organizations to take advantage of big data. The United States alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills by 2018, and a shortage of as much as 1.5 million managers and analysts to analyze big data and make decisions based on their findings. Learn how system integrators are planning to help enterprises close the predicted gap between supply and demand.

 

2012 Keynote & Breakout Sessio...

Ron Bodkin

CEO, Think Big Analytics
Ron founded Think Big Analytics, the leading professional services firm that's purpose-built for Big Data. Ron leads a team of experts who work with premium customers to create sustained competitive advantage from data science applications built on Hadoop and real-time Big Data technologies. | | Previously, Ron was the VP of Engineering for Quantcast where he led the data science and product development teams which processed two petabytes of data daily using Hadoop. Prior to that Ron was a...
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Jim Kaskade

CEO, Infochimps
CEO, Infochimps Jim Kaskade serves as CEO of Austin-based Infochimps, the leading Big Data Platform-as-a-Service provider. Jim is a visionary leader within both large as well as small company environments with over 25 years of experience building hi-tech businesses, leading startups in cloud computing enterprise software, software as a service (SaaS), online and mobile digital media, online and mobile advertising, and semiconductors from their founding to acquisition.  | | Jim joined...
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Nitin Narkhede

General Manager of Technology Strategy and Innovation, Wipro
Nitin Narkhede is General Manager of Technology Strategy and Innovation at Wipro Technologies. He is responsible for services strategy, academia and industry collaboration and concept to market activities for services and solutions based on new technology areas. Nitin’s current areas of focus include Big Data, Smart Systems, Digital world transformation, Mobile Enterprise and Web scale systems. He also incubated solutions and services in areas of Cloud computing, Sustainability and...
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Ben Sharma

Principal, Zaloni, Inc.
Ben Sharma is the Principal and Co-founder of Zaloni. Ben focuses on Go-to-Market strategy and Business Development for Large Enterprise Accounts. He has over 19 years of experience with Infrastructure and Enterprise Software Development. Prior to Zaloni, Ben was managing development of Storage and Network Management applications with NetApp and Ciena. Ben holds two patents on Infrastructure Provisioning and Management of Optical Networks. Ben has a Masters degree in Computer Science from...
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Wednesday October 3, 2012 11:30am - 12:00pm
Ballroom West
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