We are pleased to present the following special event at the University
of Maryland, featuring Christophe Bisciglia of Cloudera and Deepak Singh
of Amazon Web Services...
Investing in the Cloud: A Breakfast Conversation
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Co-hosted by:
Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL), The iSchool
University of Maryland
Sponsored by Redshift Ventures and Pillsbury
URL:
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/cloud-computing/2009-05-13-breakfast/
= Overview
Cloud computing, whether in reference to utility computing, software as
a service, or the ability to perform analytics on large datasets with
emerging technologies such as Hadoop, represents tremendous market and
investment opportunities.
Established organizations are leveraging cloud technologies to provide a
path to greater efficiencies in data center operations, through
centralized management and economies of scale. Even more exciting,
however, are the yet-to-be-exploited new business opportunities in the
cloud space. Already, organizations are using Hadoop for Web-scale
analytics, tackling problems that only a few years ago seemed
intractable to all but a few. Similarly, organizations are taking
advantage of utility computing services, converting capital costs into
operational costs and reaping the benefits of on-demand computational
resources.
Join us as we explore the intersection of investment, entrepreneurship,
and cloud computing with Christophe Bisciglia, representing Cloudera,
whose mission is to provide enterprise-level support to users of Hadoop,
and Deepak Singh, representing Amazon Web Services, a major provider of
utility computing and cloud infrastructure. The discussion will be
moderated by Prof. Jimmy Lin, who leads Maryland's cloud computing
efforts in the Google/IBM Academic Cloud Computing Initiative.
= Schedule and Logistics
8:00 am – 8:30 am Breakfast and Networking
8:30 am – 9:30 am Plenary session by invited speakers
9:30 am – 10:00 am Panel session moderated by Jimmy Lin
The event will take place at:
Robert H. Smith School of Business
2505 Van Munching Hall
College Park, Maryland
Directions at http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/about/directions.aspx
This event is free and open to the public. However, please register for
the event at
http://www.slyreply.com/Event/EventDetails.aspx?eid=kwIpwWNRrO8%3d
= Speaker Bios
Christophe Bisciglia joins Cloudera from Google, where he created and
managed their Academic Cloud Computing Initiative. Starting in 2007, he
began working with the University of Washington to teach students about
Google's core data management and processing technologies—MapReduce and
GFS. This quickly brought Hadoop into the curriculum, and has since
resulted in an extensive partnership with the National Science
Foundation (NSF) which makes Google-hosted Hadoop clusters available for
research and education worldwide. Beyond his work with Hadoop, he holds
patents related to search quality and personalization, and spent a year
working in Shanghai. Christophe earned his degree, and remains a
visiting scientist, at the University of Washington.
Deepak Singh is a business development manager at Amazon Web Services
where he spends a lot of time working with developers and organizations
looking to leverage Amazon EC2 for a variety of applications, especially
in the areas of scientific research and data analytics. Prior to his
time at Amazon Web Services Deepak spent time at a number of life
science informatics and software companies; as a strategist at Rosetta
Biosoftware, a product manager and consortium director at Accelrys, and
a scientific programmer at GeneFormatics. He has a PhD in physical
chemistry from Syracuse University. Deepak is also an active blogger and
podcaster. At business|bytes|genes|molecules (http://mndoci.com) and
Coast to Coast Bio (http://c2cbio.com) he writes and talks about a
variety of topics at the interface of the biosciences and technology,
with special interests in open data, computing, and the web as a
platform for science.
Jimmy Lin is an Associate Professor in the iSchool at the University of
Maryland, with affiliations in the Department of Computer Science and
the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, as well as the National
Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of
Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He received a
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2004.
Dr. Lin's research primarily lies at the intersection of information
retrieval and natural language processing, but his interests extend to
human-computer interaction, bioinformatics, medical informatics, and
large-scale distributed systems.
