Sep 23–26, 2019

Shant Hovsepian
Cofounder and CTO, Arcadia Data

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

1:15pm–1:55pm Thursday, September 26, 2019

Location: 1E 09

Intelligent design patterns for cloud-based analytics and BI

Business Analytics and Visualization, Data Engineering and Architecture

Secondary topics: BI, Interactive Analytics and Visualization

Shant Hovsepian (Arcadia Data)

With cloud object storage (e.g., S3, ADLS) one expects business intelligence (BI) applications to benefit from the scale of data and real-time analytics. However, traditional BI in the cloud surfaces nonobvious challenges. Shant Hovsepian examines service-oriented cloud design (storage, compute, catalog, security, SQL) and how native cloud BI provides analytic depth, low cost, and performance. Read more.