The 3-day event filled with knowledge and networking opportunities

November 12-14, 2015

Ameristar Casino & Resort
One Ameristar Blvd
St. Charles, MO 63301 (Map)

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Jim Welch

Principal
Piquant Software Solutions
St. Louis, MO
@JimPiquant

Jim started Piquant Software Solutions 8 years ago and has been loving it ever since. He has over 20+ years of software development and project management experience and before starting Piquant Software worked 8.5 years as Architect, consultant and product expert for Microsoft Consulting Services.


Introduction to Hadoop and HDInsight

In this session we will introduce HDInsight, the HortonWorks Hadoop distribution on Azure. We will talk about what Hadoop is, review HDFS, Hive, Spark, Flume, and talk about why it is gaining popular ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Jim Welch

Topics: Azure & Cloud   Database/SQL  


IoT and Azure – Better Together

Easily the most over-used buzzword of the year, IoT is everywhere. It is a big deal and Microsoft is making big bets on IoT for both Azure and Windows. We will go through this strategy and talk abou ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Jim Welch

Topics: Azure & Cloud   IoT