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Cloudera Co-Founder Mike Olson shares his insights on the present landscape and possible future of big data and the data management industry. In conversation with Ping Li of Accel Partners, Olson also discusses the advantages of building a business on top of open source technologies and the many surprising benefits of competition.

Mike Olson, Ping Li - Opportunities Abound in the Big Data Space

Social Science, Small worlds and Big Data

"Machine learning is to big data as human learning is to life experience," says Christopher Nguyen, the co-founder and CEO of big data intelligence company Adatao. Sure, but then, what IS big data? (especially as it's become a buzzword that captures so many things)... 

On this episode of the a16z Podcast, Nguyen puts on his former computer science professor hat to describe 'big data' in relation to 'machine learning' -- as well as what comes next with 'deep learning'. Finally, the former Google exec shares how Hadoop and Spark evolved from the efforts of companies dealing with massive amounts of real-time information; what we need to make machine learning a property of every application (why would we even want to?); and how we can make all this intelligence accessible to everyone.

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a16z Podcast: Making Sense of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Big Data is evolving. It’s moving from the sole domain of the high priests of data science, to something that practically every organization -- big and small -- and every group within that organization can get its hands on. So what happens now? The implications of the democratization of Big Data are bigger than just big, says Prat Moghe, CEO and Founder of Cazena.

And it’s not just the corporate world that will benefit, he adds, having access to Big Data tools will change how all kinds of organizations, including government agencies and other social services, operate and solve their particular problems

Joining Prat on the pod to describe this changing world of Big Data in the Cloud is a16z’s Peter Levine. If every company, and every organization is becoming a data-driven company, it makes sense to start to put that data to work, Levine says.


a16z Podcast: Big Data Goes Really Big

Guest 1: Kirsten O. Wolberg
Title: CIO, Salesforce.com

Guest 2: Jeff Sutherland
Title: Co-creator of SCRUM, Chairman of Scrum Training Institute, CEO of Scrum Inc.

To realize the full potential of "going Agile," the enterprise must also leverage Agile values, principles, and practices throughout the entire company.  Organization-wide, "Going Agile" requires broad technical, organizational, and process changes. Done properly, adoption provides improved project visibility and offers great benefits: accelerated time-to-market, increased productivity and quality, reduced risk and project costs. However, organizations often underestimate the tremendous amount of effort and change required to adopt Agile processes. What does it take to get Agile successfully adopted throughout the enterprise?

Enterprise-wide Agile Adoption...Art or Science?

With rampant use of legacy further compounded by isolated use of best-of-breed point solutions (often Software-as-a-Service), we may be unintentionally losing the enterprise perspective much needed to realize the Patient Centered Care (PCC) dream. Do/should you have a “Best-of-breed OR Enterprise Strategy” or a “Best-of-breed AND Enterprise Strategy”? How do you manage and govern?

Maintaining Health IT Toolset For Patient Centered Care

Guest 1: Torri Martin
Title    : Director of SMARTATL, City of Atlanta

Guest 2: Otto Doll
Title     : Chief Information Officer, City of Minneapolis

Guest 3: Scott Cardenas
Title      : Chief Information Officer, City and County of Denver's
                Technology Services

Smart City initiatives are pervasive globally and a lot of tax dollars are being invested. How measurably smart have such cities become? What are the lessons for the cities that are just getting started?

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How is Big Data — the information generated from Google searches, GPS, online shopping and more — changing our lives? Kara Miller asked a panel of experts about the benefits and downsides of the international information database.

Big Data Special: Part 1

The year 2020 taught us a lot. We became candid and openly vulnerable among our peers. While bearing enormous stress, we came together, came up with more new ideas, and tried new things than ever before. How can we sustain this creativity and persistence and emerge from the crisis to build a long-term advantage for the business?

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Title: Chief Information Officer, Reckitt Benckiser (RB)

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