| Speaker Details |
 | Tom Fastner Senior Member of Technical Staff and Architect, eBay.com Tom Fastner is a Senior Member of Technical Staff, Architect with eBay. In this role Tom works on the architecture of the analytical platforms and related tools. Currently he spends most of his time driving innovation to process Big Data, the “Singularity” system.
Tom joined eBay coming from Teradata, working in various positions in Sales, Pre-Sales and Post-Sales for 11 years.
He holds a Masters in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and is a Teradata Certified Master, and member of the Teradata Product Advisory Council. |
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Tuesday
9:30 AM
- 10:00 AM
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Keynote Perspectives
Keynote: What does Big Data mean in the context of eBay?
The analytical use of transactional data became part of the corporate DNA over the last decade. Platform, processes and people are well equipped to master it’s requirements. Competing in tomorrow’s economy will require more – much more! Just adding User Behavior Information into the mix creates a multidimensional challenge for hardware, software, tools, and processes. This session discusses eBay’s Analytic needs and the approach to manage and process complex data for a new generation of analytics.
• What kind of analytics use cases are leveraging Big Data?
• What does Big Data look like?
• How is it done – important architecture considerations handling Big Data?
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