HPCC Systems Community Day 2020

Watch recordings of all presentations made during our Community Day Summit held  during October 2020. Find out more about this event and read our Fly on the Wall blog.

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 2020 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
• 2020 Poster Contest - Meet the students, read abstracts and view posters

Plenary Sessions

1. Welcome
   Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology & CISO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
2. HPCC Systems & the Cloud
   Richard Chapman, VP Head of R&D, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
3. Data Lake Overview
   Roger Dev, Sr Architect, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
4. Community Recognition & Poster Awards
   Trish McCall & Lorraine Chapman, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
5. Machine Learning Advancements
   Lili Xu & Roger Dev, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
6. 2021 Platform Vision
   Gavin Halliday, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
7. Wrap-up & Adjourn
   Flavio Villanustre, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group

HPCC Systems Breakout Sessions 

1. Data Lake Deep Dive
   Roger Dev, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
2. Optimal Lockdown Control for COVID-19
   Yuting Fu, Researcher, Oxford University, UK
3. Smart Learning & Market Insight in Hospitality
   David Dasher, CTO, CPL Learning
4. NLP++ Plugin - David de Hilster, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
5. COVID-19 Data Lake
   Arjuna Chala, Lili Xu, & Roger Dev, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
6. Managing Data Pipelines
   Adwait Joshi, Chief Seer, DataSeers
7. Scaling Data Science & Analytics
   Bill Franks, DataSeers Advisor, Chief Analytics Officer, IIA
8. Leveraging and Evaluating Kubernetes Support on Microsoft Azure
   Yash Mishra, Clemson University
9. Using the HPCC Systems Generalized Neural Network (GNN) Bundle with TensorFlow to Train a Model to Find Known Faces Leveraging the Robotics API
   American Heritage School of Boca/Delray Robotics Team
10. Distributed GPU Accelerated Neural Networks with GNN
    Robert Kennedy, Florida Atlantic University
11. The Making of an Agriculture Data Lake
    Dr Vincent Freeh, Kelly Zering and Gurman Singh, North Carolina State University
12. Athlete 360: Leveraging HPCC Systems for Player Performance and Return during COVID-19
    Christopher Connelly, North Carolina State University
13. Virtual CodeDay and the Big Data Challenge – Bringing Students Together to Raise Awareness and Talent in the Big Data Analytics Field
    Tyler Menezes, Executive Director, CodeDay
14. A HAT Story - HPCC Analytics Tool
    Apaar Sinha, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group