SANTA CLARA, CA — (Marketwired) — 07/26/16 —
Keynote and live demo from leading global financial institution, Macquarie Bank
Speakers from organizations including Netflix, Choice Hotels International, Target, Cisco, Spotify, The Weather Channel, Uber and more
O–Reilly Media and DataStax Apache Cassandra certification exam and hands-on training to help attendees master the stack and build disruptive cloud apps
Summit sponsors include Accenture, Mikan Associates, KPI Partners, Vormetric, Target, Pythian, and more
, the leading provider of database software for , today announced it will host the seventh annual from September 7-9, 2016 at the San Jose Convention Center. The event will feature keynotes from DataStax CEO, Billy Bosworth; Apache Cassandra Project Chair and DataStax Co-founder and CTO, Jonathan Ellis; and, Macquarie Banking and Financial Services Group Digital Architect, Rajay Rai.
Macquarie Banking and Financial Services Group Chief Digital Officer, Luis Uguina said Macquarie Bank is using to help power its digital banking transformation and develop a world class digital experience, which will be covered in Rajay Rai–s address. “Through our digital transformation, we are embracing the distributed computing and machine learning technologies used by the world–s leading digital companies and applying them to retail banking, as we work to deliver a truly intuitive and personalized digital banking experience for our customers,” he said.
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“Cassandra Summit is always a highlight for me, and I expect this year–s A-list speakers, interesting topics, and first-rate location should make it the best yet,” said Robbie Strickland, VP, Software Engineering, The Weather Company. —-In terms of technical depth and speaker quality, Cassandra Summit is truly one of the best tech conferences of the year.”
“There is no way I could miss Cassandra Summit 2016,” said Alexander Dejanovski, Consultant, The Last Pickle. “It is the only event where you meet the incredible community that makes Apache Cassandra the hottest database technology right now, learn from the experts, and discover how both small and big companies use Cassandra to run their business.”
The three-day event consists of one hands-on training day and two full conference days with more than 130 deep dive technical sessions for developers, administrators and executives. and tracks will cover topics including analytics, beginner and advanced development, beginner and advanced operations, internals and theory, and in-depth use cases. There will be numerous opportunities to learn about the world–s greatest Cassandra implementations from community users and DataStax experts and various community and networking opportunities. Additionally, attendees will have the opportunity to become certified as a Cassandra developer through the O–Reilly Media and DataStax Apache Cassandra Certification Exam.
Speaking session highlights include:
Roopa Tangirala Engineering Manager, Netflix
Prasanna Padmanabhan Engineering Manager, Netflix
Satoshi Konno, Manager, Yahoo! Japan
Shu Zhang, Director, Database Engineer, Symantec
Radovan Zvoncek, Backend Engineer, Spotify
Dikang Gu, Software Engineer, Facebook
To learn more about the event, please see Christian Hasker–s blog post.
To register to Cassandra Summit 2016 and for updates on the agenda, sessions, speakers and sponsors, please visit and follow #CassandraSummit on Twitter.
, the leading provider of database software for , accelerates the ability of enterprises, government agencies, and systems integrators to power the exploding number of cloud applications that require data distribution across datacenters and clouds, by using our secure, operationally simple platform built on .
With more than 500 customers in over 50 countries, is the database technology of choice for the world–s most innovative companies, such as Netflix, Safeway, ING, Adobe, Intuit, Target and eBay. Based in Santa Clara, Calif., DataStax is backed by industry-leading investors including Comcast Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Meritech Capital, Premji Invest and Scale Venture Partners. For more information, visit or follow us on @DataStax.
For more information, please contact:
Christina Wahl
DataStax
831.402.1896
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