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Make Data Work
21–22 May 2018: Training
22–24 May 2018: Tutorials & Conference
London, UK
Shant Hovsepian

Shant Hovsepian
Cofounder and CTO, Arcadia Data

Website | @superdupershant

Shant Hovsepian is a cofounder and CTO of Arcadia Data, where he’s responsible for the company’s long-term innovation and technical direction. Previously, Shant was an early member of the engineering team at Teradata, which he joined through the acquisition of Aster Data, and he interned at Google, where he worked on optimizing the AdWords database. His experience includes everything from Linux kernel programming and database optimization to visualization. He started his first lemonade stand at the age of four and ran a small IT consulting business in high school. Shant studied computer science at UCLA, where he had publications in top-tier computer systems conferences.

Sessions

16:35–17:15 Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Executive Briefing: BI on big data
Executive Briefing, Strata Business Summit
 Location: Capital Suite 17 Level: Beginner
Mark Madsen (Teradata), Shant Hovsepian (Arcadia Data)
Average rating: ****.
(4.33, 6 ratings)
If your goal is to provide data to an analyst rather than a data scientist, what’s the best way to deliver analytics? There are 70+ BI tools in the market and a dozen or more SQL- or OLAP-on-Hadoop open source projects. Mark Madsen and Shant Hovsepian discuss the trade-offs between a number of architectures that provide self-service access to data. Read more.
12:05–12:45 Thursday, 24 May 2018
Ask Me Anything: Architecting a data platform for enterprise use
Ask Me Anything
 Location: Capital Suite 14
Mark Madsen (Teradata), Shant Hovsepian (Arcadia Data)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 6 ratings)
Join Mark Madsen and Shant Hovsepian to discuss analytics strategy and planning, data architecture, data management, and BI on big data. Read more.