The first Big Data, Analytics and Machine Learning (Israel Innovation) conference was a resounding success. Kudos to the organizers Danny Bickson, Assaf Araki, and Avner Algom. I was happy to help them invite speakers, publicize the event, and give the opening keynote. The conference was sold out and I heard a lot of ethusiastic feedback from the attendees I spoke with. I think next year’s edition will be even better and I can’t wait to take part. A tweet summary can be found below.
One side benefit of speaking and attending the conference was I got to meet with a few members of the SparkBeyond team (full disclosure: I’m an advisor), and an update and product walk-through from co-founder Ron Karidi. I really like what they’re doing and I expect many companies will benefit from the tools that they’ll start unveiling in short order.
Conference Tweet recap:
In Israel you can use Spark on your #bigdata and to clean your #dishes pic.twitter.com/KopP4j2gsq
— Ben Lorica (@bigdata) May 9, 2015
excited to give a keynote to Israeli Innovation Conf on #BigData, Analytics & Machine Learning http://t.co/Cf1cNYxT39 pic.twitter.com/g4hPEoJx7F
— Ben Lorica (@bigdata) May 9, 2015
Minutes away from the start of what is hopefully the first of many #biganalyticsisrael pic.twitter.com/xiHFAQkbw9
— Ben Lorica (@bigdata) May 11, 2015
Packed house, listening to keynotes at the first #biganalyticsisrael – great venue, high-energy crowd pic.twitter.com/r801kRRnrv
— Ben Lorica (@bigdata) May 11, 2015
.@shivon keynotes at #biganalyticsisrael – great overview of #bigdata and machine intelligence pic.twitter.com/yCHYNqGU4S
— Ben Lorica (@bigdata) May 11, 2015
Packed hall for lunch at #biganalyticsisrael pic.twitter.com/jJygWsiyGG
— Ben Lorica (@bigdata) May 11, 2015
Ira Cohen co-founder of @teamanodot on large-scale anomaly detection #biganalyticsisrael pic.twitter.com/BwSxwcTkzW
— Ben Lorica (@bigdata) May 11, 2015
Full house for @gwenshap's presentation on designing agile data pipelines at #biganalyticsisrael pic.twitter.com/SIqL2gtali
— Smerity (@Smerity) May 11, 2015
Awesome talk by @Smerity on common crawl dataset and all the wonderful things people did with it. #biganalyticsisrael
— Gwen (Chen) Shapira (@gwenshap) May 11, 2015
Useful data science production tips from @davidtalby at #biganalyticsisrael
— Gwen (Chen) Shapira (@gwenshap) May 11, 2015
A trip back to the Old City (and Lina’s), a hike up to Masada, and a visit to the Dead Sea rounded up this whirlwind and memorable trip:
Required hummus stop whenever we're in Israel pic.twitter.com/8Mye4uHS9K
— Ben Lorica (@bigdata) May 9, 2015