In sum, it was a great Spark Summit East with many inspiring talks.

The keynote talks ended with some use cases from companies such as Salesforce.com,

It was also interesting to see that the field of genomics is also embracing the Apache Spark project. The enormous volumes of data (see picture below) helped to convince them to move to this efficient big data environment.

Finally, Dr. Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley) talked about his vision on the future of Spark.

Next to the keynote talks, there were many breakout sessions. Below, you see picture of another interesting one on the topic of Clipper.

Another interesting development was Intel’s commitment to BigDL, a Deep Learning package for Spark.

Next morning, Intel also delivered a keynote talk about their BigDL project.

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