Tuesday
Arts & Crafts with AWS Glue Workshop
Presented by: Lydia White, James Zhang
Time: Tuesday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PMConstructing and administering a big data scale Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) and Business Intelligence (BI) pipeline can be expensive and complicated. Fortunately, Amazon Web Services (AWS) simplifies this with Glue and QuickSight services. Glue, a fully managed, serverless and cloud-optimized...
Room: Salon HTrack: DataFormat: PreCompilerLevel: Introductory and overviewKidzMash: Human 3D Printer: a social STEM learning experiment
Time: Tuesday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AMAfter a brief overview where we explain what the teams will do, we will be dividing into 3 teams. A CAD team, a SLICER team, and a 3D printer team. The teams will try to manually replicate with the team each piece of the 3D object development and replication process! The CAD team will model the...
Room: Guava / TamarindKidzMash: A Kid’s World of 3D printing
Time: Tuesday 9:00 AM - 10:00 AMThis session is targeted for children. All ages of children are welcome (with a responsible adult). We will tour the maker lab and talk about the exciting world of 3D printing. We will look at the printers as well as models made on them and pass around lots of things. We will also go over basics of...
Room: Guava / TamarindKidzMash: A Kid’s introduction to 3D Modeling
Time: Tuesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PMThis second session we will work with a fully-featured CAD application called Rhino3d and walk through the process of building a basic model from geometric shapes. We will explain the XYZ coordinate system, and what the different views are for. We will also spend some time playing with the transform...
Room: Guava / TamarindKidzMash: Preschool Art Time
Time: Tuesday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMSimple exploratory art projects that teach creative thinking for the littler attendees. Ages: 2-5 *Projects require some assistance from an adult!*
Room: IronwoodHadoop Essentials
Presented by: Eric Richardson
Time: Tuesday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PMBig Data and Cloud platforms have their origins in Hadoop. Learn the fundamentals of HDFS, Map Reduce and Yarn the three core components of Apache Hadoop. You will start a sandbox cluster, interact with HDFS, learn how HDFS saves data and why it does it that way. MapReduce is an important...
Room: Salon HTrack: DataFormat: PreCompilerLevel: IntermediateFrom idea to physical series: A basic overview of the world of CAD and 3D printing
Time: Tuesday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThis session will talk about the exciting world of 3D printing with a bit of the history of the technology. We will look at the lab’s printers as well as models made on them. We’ll then cover choosing a CAD app and will briefly cover using curated 3D printer object libraries and different CAD...
Room: Guava / TamarindFrom idea to physical: A demo of how to make CAD models in Rhino3d
Time: Tuesday 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMThis lab is intended to be a fast-paced technology walk-through of the process of creating a 3D printed object. We will focus in on the process of using CAD to create our model with a NURBS modeler called Rhino3D and will walk through the UI and how Rhino uses basic curves and shapes to create more...
Room: Guava / TamarindFrom idea to physical series: Additional Castle project walk-through Rhino project
Time: Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMCan’t get enough model building? Want to make something more advanced than your basic cups/keychains/challenge coins? We’ve noticed we have some repeat students each year on our kids track that just love to build models, and we’ve also run several years of our introductory track for adults. We...
Room: Guava / TamarindKidzMash: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Time: Tuesday 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM1h 44m: PG
Room: AcaciaWednesday
Kafka: Build, Deploy, and Monitor Your First Real-World Application
Presented by: Justin Pihony
Time: Wednesday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PMCompanies nowadays are finding it critical to be able to gather and analyze massive amounts of disparately-sourced data, quickly and reliably. By diving into the fundamentals of Apache Kafka, you will learn how it can be more than a superior, distributed messaging system, but also a platform to...
Room: Salon HTrack: DataFormat: PreCompilerLevel: IntermediateKidzMash: Human 3D Printer: a social STEM learning experiment
Time: Wednesday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AMAfter a brief overview where we explain what the teams will do, we will be dividing into 3 teams. A CAD team, a SLICER team, and a 3D printer team. The teams will try to manually replicate with the team each piece of the 3D object development and replication process! The CAD team will model the...
Room: Guava / TamarindKidzMash: A Kid’s World of 3D printing
Time: Wednesday 9:00 AM - 10:00 AMThis session is targeted for children. All ages of children are welcome (with a responsible adult). We will tour the maker lab and talk about the exciting world of 3D printing. We will look at the printers as well as models made on them and pass around lots of things. We will also go over basics of...
Room: Guava / TamarindKidzMash: A Kid’s introduction to 3D Modeling
Time: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PMThis second session we will work with a fully-featured CAD application called Rhino3d and walk through the process of building a basic model from geometric shapes. We will explain the XYZ coordinate system, and what the different views are for. We will also spend some time playing with the transform...
Room: Guava / TamarindKidzMash: Preschool Art Time
Time: Wednesday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMSimple exploratory art projects that teach creative thinking for the littler attendees. Ages: 2-5 *Projects require some assistance from an adult!*
Room: IronwoodHelp Cure the #1 Leading Cause of Death in America
Presented by: Luther Hill
Time: Wednesday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PMThe number one leading cause of death in America is Cardiovascular Disease. Doctors often spend years researching cures for this disease without any results. In this highly interactive 4-hour tutorial attendees will build an image recognition model and then use it to build and deploy a web app to...
Room: Salon HTrack: DataFormat: PreCompilerLevel: AdvancedFrom idea to physical series: A basic overview of the world of CAD and 3D printing
Time: Wednesday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThis session will talk about the exciting world of 3D printing with a bit of the history of the technology. We will look at the lab’s printers as well as models made on them. We’ll then cover choosing a CAD app and will briefly cover using curated 3D printer object libraries and different CAD...
Room: Guava / TamarindFrom idea to physical: A demo of how to make CAD models in Rhino3d
Time: Wednesday 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMThis lab is intended to be a fast-paced technology walk-through of the process of creating a 3D printed object. We will focus in on the process of using CAD to create our model with a NURBS modeler called Rhino3D and will walk through the UI and how Rhino uses basic curves and shapes to create more...
Room: Guava / TamarindFrom idea to physical series: Additional Castle project walk-through Rhino project
Time: Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMCan’t get enough model building? Want to make something more advanced than your basic cups/keychains/challenge coins? We’ve noticed we have some repeat students each year on our kids track that just love to build models, and we’ve also run several years of our introductory track for adults. We...
Room: Guava / Tamarind“How would you print that?” interactive panel
Time: Wednesday 5:00 PM - 6:00 PMWe have a wealth of different perspectives reflected with our 3D printing room staff- including tinkering hobbyists, hardcore makers, and even that of using multiple printer types repeatably in a small business setting. We thought it would be fun to share these various perspectives on how we...
Room: Guava / TamarindLightning Talks
Time: Wednesday 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMThese are a series of (usually) really interesting talks, all of which are only 6 minutes each!
Room: Suite 1 / Suite 6Welcome Reception
Time: Wednesday 8:00 PM - 10:30 PMThe Welcome Reception is in and around Marrakesh (the bar/restaurant area in the Convention Center). It will sprawl into the hallway as well
Room: Grand HallThursday
Making Faces: Image Reduction and Recognition
Presented by: Steve Crow
Time: Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AMA 350px by 300px image contains 105,000 individual pixels. Comparing each pixel to tell whether or not two images are the same is not efficient. What if we could reduce the number of features, while still maintaining patterns and trends? What if we could perform this recognition by only comparing 25...
Room: Salon DTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewKidzMash: Human 3D Printer: a social STEM learning experiment
Time: Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AMAfter a brief overview where we explain what the teams will do, we will be dividing into 3 teams. A CAD team, a SLICER team, and a 3D printer team. The teams will try to manually replicate with the team each piece of the 3D object development and replication process! The CAD team will model the...
Room: Guava / TamarindKidzMash: A Kid’s World of 3D printing
Time: Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:00 AMThis session is targeted for children. All ages of children are welcome (with a responsible adult). We will tour the maker lab and talk about the exciting world of 3D printing. We will look at the printers as well as models made on them and pass around lots of things. We will also go over basics of...
Room: Guava / TamarindKM: Alexa Scavenger Hunt
Time: Thursday 9:00 AM - 12:00 AMReady for a digital adventure? There is an Alexa Scavenger Hunt throughout the Kalahari that you can play using your phone or tablet, and your voice! The hunt starts at the giant bronze gorilla (at the entrance to the convention center). You can do it entirely at your own pace or schedule, and there...
Room: Giant Bronze GorillaIntro to Machine Learning on the cheap and without a PhD in math: Overview
Presented by: Jim Wilson
Time: Thursday 9:15 AM - 10:15 AMMachine learning has traditionally required a command of advanced mathematics, years of university training, and expensive hardware to implement. Now with better open source tools and online resources it’s easier than ever to create your own robust neural networks. Be it image recognition,...
Room: CypressTrack: Programming PrinciplesFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewSupport Emoji 💁♀️ and Go Worldwide 🌐 with Unicode
Presented by: Joe Sewell
Time: Thursday 9:15 AM - 10:15 AMAs the world becomes more and more connected, the way people communicate becomes more and more important. A prominent example is emoji: those little icons that are popular in text messages 📱 and on social media 🤝. Proposals for new emoji will often make the news. But did you know that emoji...
Room: RosewoodTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewKidzMash: A Kid’s introduction to 3D Modeling
Time: Thursday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PMThis second session we will work with a fully-featured CAD application called Rhino3d and walk through the process of building a basic model from geometric shapes. We will explain the XYZ coordinate system, and what the different views are for. We will also spend some time playing with the transform...
Room: Guava / TamarindKM: Sponsor Scavenger Hunt
Time: Thursday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PMPick up a Scavenger Hunt Sheet In Hangoutz / Crown Palm and walk through the sponsor booths to find the answers. Remember this is not a race! Once completed return to check your answers. All of the answers are names of Sponsors. All of the Answer Sponsors who participated volunteered to be a part of...
Room: Hangoutz[CANCELLED] Adding Search Capabilities to your Applications with Elastic Search
Presented by: Rod Paddock
Time: Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMThis session has been cancelled. We apologize for any trouble this causes.
Room: Sagewood / ZebrawoodTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateKidzMash: Preschool Art Time
Time: Thursday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMSimple exploratory art projects that teach creative thinking for the littler attendees. Ages: 2-5 *Projects require some assistance from an adult!*
Room: IronwoodHOW TO HACK AN ELECTION
Presented by: Gary Short
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThink your democracy is safe? Better think again. In this session I'll demonstrate the techniques that the 'black hat data scientists' use to get the result they want from any election or referenda. In this entertaining talk, I'll demonstrate techniques, both at the macro level - how to attack an...
Room: NileTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewFrom idea to physical series: A basic overview of the world of CAD and 3D printing
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThis session will talk about the exciting world of 3D printing with a bit of the history of the technology. We will look at the lab’s printers as well as models made on them. We’ll then cover choosing a CAD app and will briefly cover using curated 3D printer object libraries and different CAD...
Room: Guava / TamarindFrom idea to physical: A demo of how to make CAD models in Rhino3d
Time: Thursday 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMThis lab is intended to be a fast-paced technology walk-through of the process of creating a 3D printed object. We will focus in on the process of using CAD to create our model with a NURBS modeler called Rhino3D and will walk through the UI and how Rhino uses basic curves and shapes to create more...
Room: Guava / TamarindLearning R through sports, or learning sports through R
Presented by: Mike Roznik
Time: Thursday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMBig data has been a buzzword for years, but it’s only recently been hitting the world of professional sports. How do sports teams use this big data? Why with R! Together we’ll learn what kind of data they look for and how they present it. Along the way we’ll look at real world examples of R...
Room: Salon HTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewFrom idea to physical series: Additional Castle project walk-through Rhino project.
Time: Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMCan’t get enough model building? Want to make something more advanced than your basic cups/keychains/challenge coins? We’ve noticed we have some repeat students each year on our kids track that just love to build models, and we’ve also run several years of our introductory track for adults. We...
Room: Guava / TamarindHorizontal Scaling of Graph Databases
Presented by: Ryan Hendrickson
Time: Thursday 4:45 PM - 5:45 PMA very real problem is choosing what data to prioritize when storing it in a graph database. Most graph databases, including Neo4J, the number 1 graph database according to db-engines.com, do not scale horizontally. This leaves the size of the database constrained to how much disk space and ram is...
Room: Salon ETrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate“How would you print that?” interactive panel
Time: Thursday 5:00 PM - 6:00 PMWe have a wealth of different perspectives reflected with our 3D printing room staff- including tinkering hobbyists, hardcore makers, and even that of using multiple printer types repeatably in a small business setting. We thought it would be fun to share these various perspectives on how we...
Room: Guava / TamarindSuper Smash Bros Ultimate Tournament
Time: Thursday 7:00 PM - 11:00 PMA tournament... where folks play Super Smash Bros
Room: IronwoodDessert Bar, Karaoke, and Photo Booth
Time: Thursday 8:00 PM - 11:00 PMDessert Bar is only until 9PM
Room: Grand HallWaterpark Party
Time: Thursday 10:00 PM - 1:00 AMIf you still have energy, come on down to the Waterpark Party! Swimming is optional. Having fun is mandatory. Sherwin-Williams is hosting a Waterpark Cabana, located near the wave pool! Late night snacks and drinks will be available while they last. Come by and grab a slice or two and meet some new...
Room: WaterparkFriday
KM: Alexa Scavenger Hunt
Time: Friday 7:00 AM - 1:00 PMReady for a digital adventure? There is an Alexa Scavenger Hunt throughout the Kalahari that you can play using your phone or tablet, and your voice! The hunt starts at the giant bronze gorilla (at the entrance to the convention center). You can do it entirely at your own pace or schedule, and there...
Room: Giant Bronze GorillaEvent processing without breaking production
Presented by: Nathan Zender
Time: Friday 8:30 AM - 9:30 AMTransactional systems are built with the primary focus of processing many concurrent events, only keeping the current state of data. What if I told you there was a way to capture all the events that led to that current state? Capturing all events would allow for deeper analytics/machine learning,...
Room: OrangeTrack: ArchitectureFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewWell.. that's ONNX-pected
Presented by: Ron Dagdag
Time: Friday 8:30 AM - 9:30 AMThe world of machine learning frameworks is complex. What if we can use the lightest framework for inferencing on edge devices? That’s the idea behind ONNX format. Attend this session and find out how to train models using the framework of your choice, save or convert models into ONNX, and deploy...
Room: RosewoodTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateKidzMash: A Kid’s World of 3D printing
Time: Friday 9:00 AM - 10:00 AMThis session is targeted for children. All ages of children are welcome (with a responsible adult). We will tour the maker lab and talk about the exciting world of 3D printing. We will look at the printers as well as models made on them and pass around lots of things. We will also go over basics of...
Room: Guava / TamarindAPI Design for ETL - Lessons from Nearly 100 Data Integrations in the Wild
Presented by: Dan Mosora
Time: Friday 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMIn the API Economy, users increasingly want to analyze and connect more of their business data, from small startup shops to multinational corporations. Thinking about making data available through an API? There are innumerable ways to slice the problem. How do you implement pagination? What data...
Room: Sagewood / ZebrawoodTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateKidzMash: A Kid’s introduction to 3D Modeling
Time: Friday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PMThis second session we will work with a fully-featured CAD application called Rhino3d and walk through the process of building a basic model from geometric shapes. We will explain the XYZ coordinate system, and what the different views are for. We will also spend some time playing with the transform...
Room: Guava / TamarindKidzMash: Preschool Art Time
Time: Friday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMSimple exploratory art projects that teach creative thinking for the littler attendees. Ages: 2-5 *Projects require some assistance from an adult!*
Room: IronwoodKidzMash: Mad Science
Time: Friday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMIt is always sad to come to the end. To ease our parting Mad Science is coming to the close and bringing Fire and Ice! One last scientific exploration into matter and pressure before we send you home until 2021
Room: Suite 1 / Suite 6