Silicon Valley

Featured Speaker(s)

Moderator:
Laurie Robbins is President and CEO of Gems-N-Technology, a database consulting company. She has over 15+ years database experience focusing on Big Data Architecture, Business Analytics and database performance and scalability. She helps companies understand how their data is a vital component to their growth and success.

Speakers:
Anjul Bhambhri is the Vice President of Big Data. She was previously the Director of IBM Optim application and data life cycle management tools. She is a seasoned professional with over twenty-three years in the database industry. Over this time, Anjul has held various engineering and management positions at IBM, Informix and Sybase. Prior to her assignment in tools, Anjul spearheaded the development of XML capabilities in IBM's DB2 database server. She is a recipient of the YWCA of Silicon Valley's "Tribute to Women in Technology" award for 2009. Anjul holds a degree in Electrical Engineering. You may contact her at [email protected].

Aparajeeta Das has 16+ years of experience in the technical industry, primarily in the Business Analytics/Business Intelligence space. She is currently functioning as Co-Founder & Chief Delivery Officer of Third Eye Consulting Services overseeing all its Big Data related projects. She is also an active Big Data Trainer focusing primarily around Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc. She has launched Big Data analytics services like ClustersTogo.com & Power140.com. She is an active contributor to the Big Data community by hosting& managing meetups and events named Big Data Cloud (http://www.meetup.com/BigDataCloud) which has 2300+ members. She is a passive angel investor in companies like Aster Data, Xora, Efficient Frontier among others. Her goal is to contribute, achieve and make it happen.

Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn is President and (interim) CMO of Peritus Partners, a global business consulting group recognized for ensuring enterprises achieve robust growth with the highest market valuation. She was invited to speak at the United Nations and various symposiums, specializing in growth initiatives, monetization models, and best practices for optimizing Big Data and the social/mobile mash-up. She draws from over twenty years of marketing, sales, strategy, and operations experience as Chief Marketing Officer/Chief Revenue Officer at mid-size firms to Vice President of IBM, and corporate Board of Director roles. She also received the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal "Women of Influence" award and YWCA "Tribute to Women in Industry " award.

Annika Jimenez is a seasoned leader of analytics initiatives, coming to Greenplum after over six years in data leadership roles at Yahoo! At Greenplum, she has built the "Data Science Dream Team" - an industry-leading group of Data Scientists - representing a rich combination of vertical domain and horizontal analytical expertise - who are facilitating Data Science-driven transformations for Greenplum customers. During her time at Yahoo!, she led Audience and International data solutions for Yahoo!'s central data organization, Strategic Data Solutions, and led Insights Services - comprised of a team of 40 researchers covering Web analytics, satisfaction/brand health metrics, and audience/ad measurement. Annika is a recognized evangelist for "applied data" and well known for her acute focus on action-enablement.