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BIWA Summit 2014 starts tomorrow ! While you are there (and yes you can still register for the event), you can earn your BIWA Oracle Data Scientist Certificate. In order to do this, you will have to attend the 4 recommended sessions. The suggested sessions to attend are (any 4): Tue Jan 14 How UK Universities Are Using Oracle Data Science to Protect Their Income Brendan Tierney, Oralytics Room 202 Introduction to Oracle's R Technologies Mark Hornick, Oracle Room 202 Hadoop and Oracle DW. What should You Use and When? Brian Macdonald, Oracle Room 202 Best Practices for In-Database Analytics Charlie Berger, Oracle   Room 202 Wed Jan 15 In-Database MapReduce for DBAs and  Developers, using SQL and Hadoop Kuassi Mensah, Oracle   Room 102 Supercharge Data Warehousing with an Enterprise Data Hub Clarke Patterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Cloudera  Keynote Big Data Analytics for the Industrial Internet of Things

The annual event - BIWA Summit is almost here.. The event takes place at Oracle HQ Conference Center from Jan 14-16, 2014. If you are not from Bay Area or out-of-state, then probably you would fly to San Francisco (SFO) airport which is close by. The SJC and OAK are the other airports in driving distance. The highlights of the event this year is a strong lineup of keynote and other speakers, many of which are Oracle ACE or ACE Directors in the  BI and related space. The keynote speakers include: Clarke Patterson from Cloudera Balaji Yelamanchili from Oracle James Taylor from DMS   and Philippe Lions from Oracle. The BIWA Summit will allow you plenty of networking opportunities, throughout the event as well as during the Reception on Jan 14 and Happy Hour at Jan 15. More to come...