NewCo Silicon Valley 2014: Full Schedule

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10:00am PDT

SurveyMonkey

Limited Capacity seats available

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Session Description: Finding Voice in Big Data: Today, it seems like everyone is in the business of data mining. From sports leagues trying to build dream teams to police forces trying to predict crime before it happens, organizations are trying to harness the power of big data. But, how much data does one really need to make a decision? In this session, we'll break down the concept of big data and talk about how to use it to move business forward, no matter the size of your data - or your business.

Presenters

Jon Cohen

Vice President, Survey Research, SurveyMonkey

Host Companies

SurveyMonkey

Wednesday October 22, 2014 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
SurveyMonkey 101 Lytton Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94303

Productivity-Tools

Company Description SurveyMonkey is the world's leading online survey platform, with more than 2 million survey responses every day. SurveyMonkey has revolutionized the way people give and take feedback, making it accessible, simple and affordable for everyone. The company was founded in 1999 with a focus on helping people make better decisions, and has built technology based on over 10 years of experience in survey methodology and web development. Customers include 99% of the Fortune 500, academic institutions, organizations and neighborhood soccer leagues everywhere. The company has more than 400 employees worldwide with headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. For more information, visit www.surveymonkey.com.

12:00pm PDT

Cloudera

Limited Capacity seats available

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Session Description: Explore the inner workings of Cloudera with Alan Saldich, vice president, Marketing. Follow Alan as he takes you through what a day in the life of a Cloudera employee is like. You’ll get a taste of the “secret sauce” behind the company’s continuous innovation in Big Data and Hadoop and experience its award winning culture during a tour of the HQ and Q&A session.

Presenters

Alan Saldich

Vice President, Marketing, Cloudera

Host Companies

Cloudera

Wednesday October 22, 2014 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Cloudera 1001 Portage Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94304

Productivity-Tools

Company Description Cloudera is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the first unified Platform for Big Data, an enterprise data hub built on Apache Hadoop. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, process and analyze all their data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data. Only Cloudera offers everything needed on a journey to an enterprise data hub, including software for business critical data challenges such as storage, access, management, analysis, security and search. As the leading educator of Hadoop professionals, Cloudera has trained over 22,000 individuals worldwide. Over 1,000 partners and a seasoned professional services team help deliver greater time to value. Finally, only Cloudera provides proactive and predictive support to run an enterprise data hub with confidence. Leading organizations in every industry plus top public sector organizations globally run Cloudera in production.

12:30pm PDT

HackerRank

Limited Capacity seats available

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Session Description: Please come join us at HackerRank as CEO and co-founder Vivek Ravisankar gives an investigative approach into how technologies today are democratizing the tech talent recruiting process by making the world flatter and faster!

Presenters

Vivek Ravisankar

CEO, HackerRank

Host Companies

HackerRank

Thursday October 23, 2014 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
HackerRank 215 Castro St, 3rd Floor, Mountain View, CA, 94041

Productivity-Tools

Company Description HackerRank is a platform where developers from all over the world come to solve interesting challenges in different domains of Computer Science for fun, learning, and jobs. It also revolutionizes technical hiring by providing an interactive platform for screening technical candidates with programming challenges. Resumes, GPA, education and work experience do not provide the full picture of a job applicant. By using the HackerRank platform, companies administer coding challenges to applicants during the hiring process and gain an objective metric that allow recruiters to automate early stage candidate screening and save hundreds of hours. Over 1000 companies worldwide, including some of the biggest names in the tech industry, use HackerRank to efficiently hire quality programmers.