Below please find our regularly scheduled quarterly update about where to find tech talks by Cloudera employees this year – this time, for October through December 2013. Note that this list will be continually curated during the period; complete logistical information may not be available yet.
As always, we’re standing by to assist your meetup by providing speakers, sponsorships, and schwag!
Date | City | Venue | Speaker(s) |
Oct. 1 | Aarhus, Denmark | GOTO Aarhus | Eva Andreeason on Hadoop use cases |
Oct. 8 | Sunnyvale, Calif. | Hadoop Happy Hour | Kathleen Ting and Jarek Cecho sign books! |
Oct. 9 | Santa Clara, Calif. | IEEE BigData Conference | Amr Awadallah on Hadoop use cases |
Oct. 9 | San Francisco | SF Hadoop Users | Eric Sammer on Hadoop app development (panelist) |
Oct. 10 | Sydney | DataCon | Sean Owen on data science |
Oct. 15 | Durham, NC | TriHUG | Mark Miller on Solr+Hadoop |
Oct. 15 | Mountain View, Calif. | Oracle NoSQL & Big Data Meetup | Mike Olson on virtues of key-value stores |
Oct. 15-17 | Burlingame, Calif. | Big Data TechCon | Apache Hive workshop with Mark Grover |
Doug Cutting on the Hadoop revolution | |||
Hadoop app development (CDK) workshop with Ryan Blue | |||
Jonathan Seidman on extending data infrastructure with Hadoop | |||
Jonathan Seidman on the Hadoop ecosystem | |||
Himanshu Vashishtha on HBase use cases | |||
Kate Ting on Apache ZooKeeper | |||
Kate Ting on 7 Deadly Hadoop Misconfigurations | |||
Oct. 16 | Dallas, Tex. | DFW Big Data | John Ringhofer on Impala |
Oct. 17 | Milwaukee, Wis. | Cloudera Sessions | Hadoop app development lab (on CDK) with Ryan Blue |
Oct. 17 | St. Louis, Mo. | St. Louis HUG | Tom Wheeler on Parquet |
Oct. 18 | Munich | HUG Munich | Lars George on Impala |
Oct. 22 | London | UK HUG | Sean Owen on Scalable Big learning |
Oct. 23 | Seattle | Seattle Scalability Meetup | Ronan Stokes on Cloudera Search |
Oct. 24 | Palo Alto, Calif. | Bay Area HBase User Group | Michael Stack on HBase 0.96 |
Oct. 24 | Raleigh, NC | All Things Open | Josh Wills on open source innovation |
Oct. 28-30 | New York | Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013 | Mike Olson on Hadoop’s impact on data management |
Doug Cutting on the future of Hadoop | |||
Henry Robinson on workload diversity in Hadoop | |||
Hadoop app development (CDK) workshop with Eric Sammer | |||
Matt Brandwein on leveraging mainframe data with Hadoop | |||
Aaron T. Myers and Shreepadma Venugopalan on Hadoop security | |||
Jayant Shekar on machine data analytics | |||
Amandeep Khurana on Monsanto’s use case for Hadoop & HBase | |||
Philip Zeyliger on debugging distributed systems | |||
Greg Rahn on Impala performance tuning | |||
Jon Hsieh on HBase roadmap | |||
Oct. 28 | New York | NYC HUG | Arvind Prabhakar on Apache Sentry (incubating) |
Oct. 28 | New York | Sqoop User Meetup | Abe Elmahrek on the Sqoop2 app for Hue |
Oct. 29 | New York | Impala + Parquet Meetup | Greg Rahn on Impala+Parquet performance tuning |
Oct. 29 | New York | Cloudera Manager Meetup | Aditya Achara on Cloudera Manager success stories |
Oct. 30 | New York | Apache Sentry User Meetup | Arvind Prabhakar and Shreepadma Venugopalan with a Sentry overview |
Oct. 30 | Philadelphia | Chariot Data IO Conference | Lars George on HBase sizing as well as on Parquet |
Nov. 6 | Chantilly, Va. | Open Source Search Conference | Alex Moundalexis on Search+Hadoop |
Nov. 6 | Munich | JAX Munich | Lars George on HBase and Impala |
Nov. 7 | Tokyo | Cloudera World Tokyo | Kiyoshi Mizumaru on CDH |
Sho Shimauchi on Cloudera Manager | |||
Tatsuo Kawasaki witha Hadoop 101 | |||
Daisuke Kobayashi on Hadoop ops | |||
Nov. 11 | London | UK HUG | Marcel Kornacker on Impala |
Nov. 12-13 | London | Strata London | Sean Owen on Scalable Big Learning; Tom White on Hadoop app development with CDK |
Nov. 12 | San Francisco | QCon SF | Josh Wills on machine learning |
Nov. 13 | Washington DC | LISA 2013 | John Ridley on Hadoop 101 for sysadmins |
Nov. 14 | Seoul | Tech Planet Korea | Michael Stack on HBase roadmap |
Nov. 14 | Tokyo | Cloudera Manager Meetup | Sho Shimauchi, Kiyoshi Mizumaru: What is Cloudera Manager? |
Nov. 14 | Antwerp | Devoxx Belgium | Tom White on building Hadoop apps with CDK |
Nov. 16 | Los Angeles | Big Data Camp LA | Alex Behm on Impala |
Nov. 20 | Boulder, Colo. | Boulder/Denver Big Data Meetup | John Darrah on Hadoop 101 |
Dec. 2 | Tokyo | Cloudera Manager Meetup | Sho Shimauchi, Kiyoshi Mizumaru: What is Cloudera Manager? |









