Unified Data Analytics |  Azure Databricks Virtual Workshop

Tuesday, 21 April 2020
Virtual Workshop
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Singapore Time
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM India Time

Every enterprise today wants to accelerate innovation by building AI into their business. However, most companies struggle with preparing large datasets for analytics, managing the proliferation of ML frameworks, and moving models in development to production.

 

In this virtual workshop, we’ll cover best practices for enterprises to use powerful open source technologies to simplify and scale your data engineering and ML efforts. We’ll discuss how to leverage Apache Spark™, the de-facto data processing and analytics engine in enterprises today, for data preparation as it unifies data at massive scale across various sources. You’ll learn how to use a scalable compute engine for analytics and ML workloads, and how Databricks provides a common interface and tooling for all stakeholders (data engineers and data scientists), regardless of skill set, to foster strong collaboration.

 

Join this virtual workshop to learn how unified data analytics can bring data science, business analytics, and engineering together to accelerate your data and ML efforts. This workshop will give you the opportunity to:

 

  • Learn how to build highly scalable and reliable pipelines for analytics.
  • Deeper insight into Apache Spark and Azure Databricks, including the latest updates with Delta Lake. 
  • Use a popular programming language (Python, R, Scala, Java, SQL) to run your data and ML workloads at scale.


AGENDA AT A GLANCE

 

  • 2:00pm SGT / 11:30am IST - Azure Databricks Opening Remarks
  • 2:05pm SGT / 11:35am IST - Unifying Data Science, Business Analytics and Data Engineering
  • 2:20pm SGT / 11:50am IST - Customer Use Case
  • 2:40pm SGT / 12:10pm IST - Data Analytics Interactive Demo
  • 3:00pm SGT / 12:30pm IST - Q&A
  • 3:15pm SGT / 12:45pm IST - End


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Presenters:


 
Charles Verdon
Data Innovation Strategist – Asia, Microsoft
 
Charles Verdon (@chverdon) is a McGill MBA alum (2013), undergrad at Montreal Polytechnique in software engineering (2006). After his MBA, he joined Microsoft Canada’s sales team for data platform, business intelligence and analytics products. After 5 years, Charles moved to Singapore for the Asia regional role of Data Innovation Strategist focused on modernizing big data and data warehouse environments to help customers maximize value out of their data estates. Charles has experience in the Transport, Retail and Banking industries and he’s passionate about analytics, activating a data-driven culture and by interactive data visualization.



 
Mauricio Toledo 
APJ Senior Sales and Strategy Director, Databricks
 
Mauricio Toledo joined Databricks as APJ Senior Sales and Strategy Director from Microsoft where he spent 7 years covering EMEA and Asia.
 
With over 20 years of international experience in Europe, Americas, and Asia, Mauricio has worked for the software, telecommunications, and banking industries. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was the VP of Microsoft Global Alliance at Micro Focus, driving IBM mainframe modernization projects implemented on Microsoft’s technology. 
 
Mauricio received his MBA from the University of Bath in the UK.



 
Ben Sadeghi
APJ Partner Solutions Architect, Databricks
 
Ben Sadeghi is a Partner Solutions Architect at Databricks, covering Asia Pacific and Japan, focusing on Microsoft and its partner ecosystem. Having spent several years with Microsoft as a Big Data & Advanced Analytics Technology Specialist, he has helped various companies and partners implement cloud-based, data-driven, machine learning solutions on the Azure platform.
 
Prior to Databricks and Microsoft, Ben was engaged as a data scientist with Hadoop/Spark distributor MapR Technologies (APAC), developed internal and external data products at Wego.com, a travel meta-search site, and worked in the Internet of Things domain at Jawbone, where he implemented analytics and predictive applications for the UP Band physical activity monitor. Before moving to the private sector, Ben contributed to several NASA and JAXA space missions.
 
Ben is an active member of the open-source Julia language community. He holds an M.Sc. in computational physics, with an astrophysics emphasis.



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