The Strata Data Conference is where cutting-edge science and new business fundamentals intersect—and merge. A couple of us will be there in December, discussing data strategy and machine learning. Let us know if you’ll be attending and would like to chat.

The Data Architecture Summit provides in-depth education from leading experts specializing in data architecture. We will be there discussing data platform and data governance. Let us know if you you’ll be attending and would like to chat.

John Akred will be in Seattle for Data Day Seattle talking about how machine learning. Let us know if you are also attending!

John Akred will be in Seattle for TDWI’s Accelerate conference talking about how to apply data science in industry. We look forward to meeting up, so please let us know if you’ll be there.

The Strata Data Conference is where cutting-edge science and new business fundamentals intersect—and merge. Several of us will be there in September, discussing platforms, strategy, and tools. Let us know if you’ll be attending and would like to chat.

The Data Strategy track of our webinar series focuses on creating and continuously updating your data strategy. Register now!

The Data in Practice track focuses on modern techniques for efficient execution of your data strategy. Register now!

Sanjay Mathur, CEO and cofounder of SVDS and Scott Kurth, VP of Advisory Services, will discuss what you can do to begin leading a change in how data is used inside your organization.

Stephen O’Sullivan, VP of Data Engineering at SVDS, is the featured guest speaker at this event hosted by The Data Lab at the Balmoral Hotel.

We believe maturity is defined by the ability to derive value from data: we focus on outcomes, not simply grading base operational capabilities. The first of two online seminars about data maturity, this session will focus on what data is doing for your business to shape the way you assess your capabilities, as well as where you should invest in improvements.

Join us at our Spark Summit sessions in San Francisco, where we’ll be giving a tutorial on data platforms, as well as sessions on PySpark and Graph Algorithms. Find CTO John Akred, VP of Engineering Stephen O’Sullivan, or Principal Data Engineer and Spark Contributor Andrew Ray to talk more.

Strata + Hadoop World London focuses on how to make data-driven decisions across industries. Several of us will be there in May, discussing platforms, strategy, and tools. Let us know if you’ll be attending and would like to chat.

PyCon is the largest annual Python conference, and will be in Portland, OR this year. Our team will be there, talking about exploratory data analysis. Let us know if you’ll be there, or come say hi at our tutorial.

Interop ITX is for tech leaders, and we’ll be there talking about data strategy and how AI can benefit your business.

The DataEDGE conference at UC Berkeley will bring together senior industry and academic leaders for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. We will be there talking about how to overcome common pitfalls on the way to creating business value with data.

OSCON is a long-running conference focused on open source technology and communities. We’ll be there talking about our “push button” infrastructure tool.

This year we’re teaming up with Red Hat to discuss analytics frameworks, and how you can get the most out of your data.

DataEngConf features talks and workshops aimed at bridging the gap between data scientists, data engineers, and data analysts. We’ll be there, giving tips on choosing the right format for your data.

Sign up here for a highly interactive online seminar with SVDS Director of Communications Julie Steele and Ancestry Chief Data Officer Amy Gershkoff. They will discuss what it means to be a data-driven company—and how a Chief Data Officer can help make that a reality.

The DataWorks Summit focuses on how open source technology can benefit businesses in their efforts to make the best use of their data. VP of Growth Juergen Urbanski will be on a panel discussing how companies can shape a digital vision, sharing experiences and providing suggestions for next steps.

Thin Air focuses on high performance leadership, exploring how you can best achieve your goals. Director of Client Sales and Success Sean Stauth will be there, let us know if you will be too.

We’ll be in Boston covering a variety of topics—from running agile data teams, to visual storytelling with data. Let us know if you’ll be there, or sign up to receive all our slides.

Enterprise Data World focuses on data-driven business. Several of us will be there this year, talking about data platforms and enterprise data science. Let us know if you’ll be there, or you can sign up to receive our slides.

The Data Summit event is focused on how data is changing industries. CTO John Akred will be there, talking about agile data teams, and the role of the data leader.

Will you be at Big Data World in March? If so, come find Senior Director Matthias Funke. If not, use the form on this page to sign up for our slides to learn more about how to determine the value of your data.

Many of us will be at Strata in San Jose, and we’d love to see you there! Come learn more about data platforms, data strategy, business tools, and more.

Principal Engineers Richard Williamson and Andrew Ray will be on Pepperdata’s webinar panel of industry experts, talking about Spark trends and use cases. Sign up here to attend the webinar, or get the recording.

VP of Growth Juergen Urbanski will be in Germany discussing the role of the Chief Data Officer.

CTO John Akred will be in Panama talking about the Internet of Things and the importance of resiliency.

John Akred will be keynoting this conference, discussing the opportunities created by data science in business. Let us know if you’ll be attending and would like to talk.

We’re heading to Texas in January to talk about data pipelines with Kafka and Spark.

CTO John Akred and VP of Advisory Services Scott Kurth will be in Singapore this winter, talking about data strategy, and tools for your business. Let us know if you’ll be there, and we look forward to saying hi.

Come find us in Austin this December. Principal Data Strategist Colette Glaeser and VP of Strategy Edd Wilder-James will be discussing how to develop a data strategy. Director of Communications Julie Steele will provide insight into how to best leverage your data through visualizations.

VP of Strategy Edd Wilder-James will be keynoting Data Dialogs this year. He’ll speak about the realities of data prep, and the practical consequences, for both consumers and corporations.

Join us in Santa Clara as we talk about managing data science in the enterprise, data valuation, and best practices for data visualization.

CTO John Akred, VP of Data Science Jeffrey Yau, and Senior Data Scientist Cindi Thompson will teach a three-hour tutorial in which they will share our methods and observations from three years of effectively deploying data science in enterprise organizations. Attendees will learn how to be an effective member or manager of a data science team.

CTO John Akred will be at this Pepperdata event in NYC, talking about how to leverage your team to get maximum value from data science.

The SVDS crew will be in New York this year, talking about data platforms, data strategy, and making the business case for Spark. Come by our talks, or catch us in the hallway track.

Several of us will be in Chicago this year, presenting tutorials on data strategy, data platforms, and how to manage data science in the enterprise. CTO John Akred will also be taking part in a panel about how to strengthen your data strategy skills.

CEO Sanjay Mathur will be in Boston this year, talking about SVDS and meeting other executives. Let us know if you’ll be attending.

Data Scientist Jonathan Whitmore will be attending Astro Hack Week, please find him to say hi if you’ll be there.

We’ll be attending KDD, and are looking forward to an impressive program. Let us know if you’ll be attending and want to talk.

We’ll be at PyData, looking to learn more about how data scientists are using Python. Have a cool story, or questions of your own? Be sure to come find us.

Senior Data Engineer and Spark contributor Andrew Ray will be at the conference, giving a talk on structured streaming and datasets in Spark 2.0.

Join us as CTO John Akred gives a talk on alternative approaches to valuing data within an organization, and Data Scientist Chloe Mawer demonstrates the power of Jupyter notebooks using a real-world train-detection problem. We’ll also present a tutorial on building data pipelines with Kafka and Spark.

Director of Communications and author of “Understanding the Chief Data Officer: How Leading Businesses Are Transforming Themselves with Data” Julie Steele will be at the conference, attending sessions and researching the upcoming Second Edition of her report.

Several of us will be at Spark Summit West, manning our booth and checking in with the community. Please come by Booth E4 to say hi!

CTO John Akred will be on the “How Apache Spark is Uniquely Suited to Bring Data Science to the Enterprise” panel. If you’re attending Spark Summit, or just in town, come check it out!

Several of us will be presenting, talking about platforms, strategies, and tools. We’ve love to see you there! Join us for our tutorials and sessions, or come ask questions during our Office Hour.

Data Scientist Chloe Mawer will be in Portland giving a presentation about our Caltrain research. Our VP of Data Science, Jeffrey Yau, will also be attending the conference. Be sure to find us and say hi!

You can find Chloe’s slides here.

VP of Data Science Jeffrey Yau, along with Data Scientists Chloe Mawer and Daniel Margala, will be presenting on predicting train delays. See more about our train work here.

Several of us will be at Enterprise Data World 2016 in San Diego. We’d love to say hi, and hear your thoughts.

CTO John Akred will be giving a talk on building resilient systems in an IoT world.

CEO Sanjay Mathur will be presenting on how to build an Experimental Enterprise.

Many of us will be at the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2016 in San Jose, and we’d love to see you there!

Principal Engineer Mark Mims will be speaking at this online conference, presenting on how to identify user activity from streams.

We’re excited to have Senior Data Engineer Andrew Ray speaking about pivoting data with SparkSQL. Andrew contributed the Pivot Commit to Spark 1.6.0.

Join us as Senior Data Engineer Andrew Ray presents a talk called “Intro to Pregel and PowerGraph.”

Join CTO John Akred for a talk on Running Agile Data Science Teams, and VP of Engineering Stephen O’Sullivan for a talk on Choosing an HDFS data storage format (Avro vs. Parquet). Principal Engineer Mark Mims will hold Office Hours.

John Akred and Edd Dumbill will present a tutorial on Developing a Modern Enterprise Data Strategy, and will also be available to answer questions during Office Hours. Then, Edd Dumbill will present on Why You Need a Data Strategy.

Come hear from practitioners and scholars who are designing new data science tools and applications and using data in meaningful and beneficial ways, including CTO John Akred and VP of Data Science Jeffrey Yau.

Joy Bonaguro, first Chief Data Officer for the City and County of San Francisco, joins Julie Steele, SVDS Director of Communications and author of Understanding the Chief Data Officer for this interactive online seminar.

SVDS Principal Engineer Richard Williamson presents a session on “Leveraging Multiple Persistence Layers in Spark to Build a Scalable Prediction Engine.”

Join us for a demo and talk on our Caltrain Rider app, which presents an intuitive view of the Caltrain systems using data from our own sensors (video, audio) combined with publicly available data from Twitter and the Caltrain API.

H2O World brings together a community of H2O users, customers and experts to share their knowledge and know-how. SVDS Data Strategist Chen Huang will present “Machine Learning for non data scientists” with Jessica Lanford.

SVDS presents two tutorials: one on Data Strategy and one on building a Data Platform. In addition, Edd Dumbill participates in a panel, “The Data-Driven Organization – New Roles and Relationships.”

Our own Edd Dumbill will be a featured speaker during IBM’s “power of data science” session, where we’ll talk about data science as an emerging role with high expectations around smarter applications.

Joins SVDS CTO John Akred and other panelists from Amazon, Match.com, and eBay for a fireside chat on recommendation engines. Then catch data scientist Chloe Mawer’s talk on figuring out how much your data is actually worth.

Several of us will be at the Strata + Hadoop World 2015 Conference in New York in September and we’d love to see you there. Join us for our tutorials and sessions, or come visit us at our booth in the Expo Hall.

DAMA (Data Management Association) Edmonton, a non-profit vendor independent professional association, is proud to present its first-ever conference in Edmonton. This 3-day event is the only event in Edmonton dedicated entirely to business intelligence and data analytics.

SVDS presents two sessions at the Cassandra Summit: a look at the migration of our client Allant’s CDI-keying engine from Oracle to Cassandra; and a how-to on using Cassandra as a platform for building a custom distributed system.

What are the essential components of a data platform? SVDS presents a tutorial that will explain how the various parts of the Hadoop and big data ecosystem fit together in production to create a data platform supporting batch, interactive and real-time analytical workloads.

Modern data architectures look radically different as we move towards a new idea of data platforms. During this “ask us anything” webinar we will discuss our experiences building new data architectures and take your questions.

SVDS presents two sessions at the Open Source Convention: A tool-agnostic tutorial for those who want to elevate the look and feel of their data visualizations; and a talk that will explore some overall best practices for sharing IPython Notebook code within a data science team.

SVDS presents two sessions at StampedeCon: one that examines the benefits of using multiple persistence strategies to build an end-to-end predictive engine; and a look at how to choose an HDFS data storage format: Avro vs. Parquet and more.

Because of its flexibility, working with the Jupyter Notebook on data science problems in a team setting can be challenging. We present here some best-practices that SVDS has implemented after working with the Notebook in teams and with our clients.

We will present two talks at #DDSea: one on creating visual hierarchies in data visualization, and another on running data science teams. Plus, hear from Idibon about a project we did together for Edmunds.com.

Join fellow data scientists at Galvanize for a Spark community event and hear how IBM and Spark are changing data science and propelling the Insight Economy forward, featuring a panel moderated by Edd Dumbill.

We’re happy to be a sponsor of Spark Summit this week. If you’re going, please visit us at table K23 and come say hello: we’ve plenty of real world Spark experience we’d love to share our thoughts.

At this intimate day-long forum for data science practitioners, SVDS participates in a panel on data strategy moderated by O’Reilly Media’s Tim McGovern and gives a talk on running data science teams.

SVDS presents two sessions at Hadoop Summit: one that maps the central concepts in Spark to those in the SAS language, including datasets, queries, and machine learning; and a look at how to choose an HDFS data storage format: Avro vs. Parquet and more.

CEO Sanjay Mathur takes part in a panel with other leading experts from both within and outside the EDA industry, who will share their perspectives on Big Data strategy and implementation.

This highly interactive online seminar, led by John Akred and Scott Kurth, explains how we work to solve real business challenges with data, and build a platform for the future.

On this episode, “The Chief Data Officer—A New Leader for Data Management?” host Eric Kavanagh interviews Julie Steele of SVDS, Brad Peters of Birst, Bruno Aziza of AtScale, and Rado Kotorov of Information Builders.

Several of us will be presenting and we’d love to see you there. Join us for our tutorials and sessions, or come visit us at our booth in the Expo Hall.