Watch recordings of all presentations made during our Community Day Summit held during October 2023. Find out more about this event and read our blog review of the event.
In addition to these presentations, we also held a Technical Poster Competition for students to present work they have completed on projects leveraging HPCC Systems. See our poster contest wiki to find out more about our 2023 Poster Contest participants and winners.
Resources
- See the full Agenda
- Go to the Video Library and listen to sessions
- Watch videos of students talking about their posters
- 2023 Poster Contest - Meet the students, read abstracts and view posters
Presentation Tracks and Content
Plenary Sessions
Join us as Gavin Halliday, SVP and Head of Platform Engineering, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, kicks off the 10th annual HPCC Systems Community Virtual Summit. We welcome our community keynote speakers Bill Franks, Director of the Center for Data Science and Analytics, Kennesaw State University, followed by Bahar Fardanian, Manager, Solutions Engineering, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, with an introduction to Gus Cawley, Chief Executive Officer, ZipApply, to discuss how his company uses HPCC Systems in industry. Gavin will conclude with a keynote on the latest HPCC Systems platform progress and developments before sharing key highlights of the day ahead.
- Welcome & Plenary Keynotes
Gavin Halliday, SVP and Head of Platform Engineering, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Bill Franks, Director of the Center for Data Science and Analytics, Kennesaw State University, Bahar Fardanian, Manager, Solutions Engineering, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, with an introduction to Gus Cawley, Chief Executive Officer, ZipApply
Bill Franks will provide a keynote address on Generative AI: Moving Beyond The Hype & Hysteria. Rarely has a topic rocketed from obscurity to everyday discussion point as fast as generative AI has. Only going mainstream in late 2022, it has captured the attention of not just the data science and data engineering communities, but the world at large. With that attention has come a lot of hysterical discussions about how it will ruin society, equally unrealistic discussions of how it will transform everything, and a mix of both facts and misinformation all around. This talk will provide some sober and realistic discussions about what generative AI is, how it is being misunderstood, the strengths and pitfalls that it has, and how it might realistically change our world both in the near future and the long term. After the talk, attendees should walk away with a better feel for what’s real and what’s hype, as well as tangible ideas for how generative AI can play a role in both their personal and professional lives.
Bahar Fardanian will be joined by Gus Cawley from ZipApply for a discussion on How HPCC Systems is being used in Industry and how this dynamic startup is utilizing HPCC Systems and big data analytics to hep job seekers get hired faster.
Gavin Halliday will close with the latest HPCC Systems Platform Update including the 9.x roadmap and sharing with attendees a high level overview of the day.
- Awards Ceremony & Plenary
Trish McCall, Sr Director Program Management, Hugo Watanuki, Manager Community Tech Programs, George S Foreman, Prod Dev Technical Writer II, Bob Foreman, Software Engineering Lead LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Join us for the long-awaited announcement of the 2023 Community Awards and Poster Competition winners, followed by our afternoon keynote honoring our academic community and engagement.
Cloud Strategies with HPCC Systems
The latest techniques in optimizing the Cloud Native HPCC Systems platform
- HPCC Systems Deployment using K3D instance
Aryaman Gautam, Sidharth Ganesan, Srinivasan Kothandam, LexisNexis Risk Solutions ITTC
D - A Better Understanding of Thor and Roxie Configurations for the Containerized HPCC Systems Platform
Godji Fortil & Krishna Turlapathi, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
D - How to Enable Azure Log Analytics for the Containerized HPCC Systems Platform Using Terraform
Godji Fortil, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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Productivity with HPCC Systems
Leverage the improvements and innovative features in the latest HPCC Systems 9.x release
- Roxie Performance: A Deeper Technical Dive into 9.x
Gavin Halliday, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
D - HPCC Systems Landing Zone Security
Russ Whitehead, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
D - ECL Watch: Redefining Progress
Kunal Aswani, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
D A Threat Detection and Mitigation Framework: HPCC Systems and Azure at the core
Sowmya Myneni, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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Programming with HPCC Systems
Extend your ECL with powerful language tools
- Building a Scalable and Efficient Bitcoin Blockchain Parser on the HPCC Systems Platform / Optimization of Learning Trees using ECL on HPCC Systems
Jyothi Shetty, RVCE / Manonmani S & Sudershan K S, RVCE
D - Building Trustworthy and Auditable Digital Human Readers Superior to Humans with NLP++
David de Hilster & Ashton Williamson, LexisNexis Risk Solutions & Clemson University
D - Digital Human Readers Making History with NLP++ and HPCC Systems
Charvi Dave, Kruthika Pinnada, Pedro Rodrigues, Dheemonth Kodali, Shyamaa Karthik, David de Hilster LexisNexis Risk Solutions, RVCE, USP Brazil, St Andrews School
D Parquet Support for ECL
Jack Del Vecchio, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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HPCC Systems in Action
Real World Use Cases with HPCC Systems
- An Understanding of HPCC Systems Platform Metrics
Ken Rowland, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
D - Robots, Drones and Generative AI: Exploring cutting edge technologies with HPCC Systems in a school campus environment
Tai Donovan, Carlos Caceres, Nick Schwartz, American Heritage School
D - Tombolo - Opensource Tools for Interacting with HPCC Systems Clusters
Matt Fancher & Yadhap Dahal, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
D Vulnerable Victim Monitoring Connecting the Dots to Find Missing Children Quickly
Pasqua Ruggiero, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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Remote ECL Training Workshops
The HPCC Systems Training and Support team has been very busy this year visiting universities and trade show events to promote HPCC Systems and ECL through Code Days, Hackathons, and Workshops. This year’s Community Summit workshop presents an in-depth look at these events in three 1-hour sessions:
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