Using Hadoop to Expedite Building Predictive Models<br />Hortonworks - San Jose Convention Center<br />Mike Gualtieri<br />Principal Analyst, Forrester Research<br />Apache Hadoop is the rising star of the business technology agenda for a simple reason - it disrupts the economics of data, analytics, and someday soon, all enterprise applications; it is secretly becoming an application platform too. Professionals like you will build and run smart applications on Hadoop that not only use analytics, but also become an integral part of many applications. Hadoop is the catalyst that lets you change the world. Forrester Research industry analyst, Mike Gualtieri, will explain the trends driving this breakneck adoption and how you can profit from it by accelerating your efforts.