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2015 Northwest Arkansas Technology Council Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday Oct 14, 2015
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM CDT
Meeting is the second Wednesday of each month.
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Meeting Schedule
7:30 Networking
8:00 Meeting begins
8:10 Speaker
8:50 Q & A
9:00 Meeting adjourned
Location
Bentonville/Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce
200 E. Central
Bentonville, AR
Fees/Admission
No charge for Technology Council members. Guest may attend one time at no charge.
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Contact Information
Debbie Griffin
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Description
"Small Panel about Big Data"
The "Big Data" terminology gets thrown around as the latest buzzword, though there are local technologists taking a deep dive into building solutions, products and companies to serve the needs of companies to try to learn something, learn anything, with the gobs of data the world is generating.
3 Locals data junkies will take questions from the audience about their work and the magic of machine-learning.
Casey Kinsey is the President at Lofty Labs, LLC, has over 8 years experience with web programming, architecture, and design, focusing on open source web programming and strategic consulting for all size web applications. His primary area of expertise is open source web application development leveraging Python and the Django framework.
Sloan Ahrens is the Founder & Engineer at Ahrens Software. His background includes web application development, front-end integration of third-party back-end tools, data management and analytics. Sloan co-founded and served as CTO of Qbox, Inc (previously StackSearch, Inc). Experience with various machine learning, data mining, and optimization algorithms, as well as graph analytics methods, and statistical analysis and modeling methods.
Brian Sage is the Product Manager at Qbox.io. He joined Qbox.io to manage products for business intelligence and database developers. In the past, Brian was instrumental in the launch of several Acumen Brands e-commerce stores including the highly-successful CountryOutfitter.com. In early 2011 he joined Acumen as a development team manager and was necessary part of Acumen development for four years. Now, as Qbox.io Product Manager, Brian bridges the gaps between executive strategy, marketing intuition, and technology execution.
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