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ITPalooza: Register for FREE and Support the Toys for Tots Drive – Dec 3

ITPalooza: Register for FREE and Support the Toys for Tots Drive – Dec 3

Attendees Sign up here.

ITPalooza 2015 is about staying connected to our fantastic South Florida tech community. It’s about learning and experiencing insights from top local, national and international presenters and guests. It’s about sharing and giving as we honor local charities. But most of all, it’s about having some good old-fashioned FUN!

  • Hiring Fair
  • Vendor Exhibit
  • Tech Group Exhibit
  • Networking Opportunities
  • 9 tracks
  • 36 speakers
  • Toy Wall Photo Opportunity
  • After Dark Networking

 

Sponsors Sign up here

ITPalooza is a broad-based IT focused event that attracts a wide range of attendees:

Some of the industries represented at ITPalooza are:

  • C-Level executive
  • Senior level IT managers
  • Sales and Marketing managers
  • Developers
  • Designers
  • Database managers
  • Programmers
  • Project managers
  • UI/UX Designers
  • System administrators
  • Software testers
  • Mobil app developers
  • Cybersecurity managers
  • Compliance offices
  • Web masters
  • Infrastructure mangers
  • Network engineers

Some of the industries represented at ITPalooza are:

  • Travel and Tourism
  • Education
  • Healthcare
  • Tele-comms/Data-comms
  • Transportation
  • Financial Services
  • Retail
  • Hospitality
  • Construction
  • Aviation
Last Call for IT Palooza Pre-Con: Get a jump-start on Cortana Analytics Suite!

Last Call for IT Palooza Pre-Con: Get a jump-start on Cortana Analytics Suite!

Jumpstart Your Journey Into Advanced Analytics with CORTANA ANALYTICS SUITE

Join us for a full day workshop on the key concepts to get you a jump start on your journey to building advanced analytics solutions that harness data of any volume, variety, batch, or streaming and leverage Machine Learning algorithms to produce intelligent and actionable responses to events.

Presentation:
Jump Start on Advanced Analytics with Cortana Analytics Suite

Speaker: 
Luis Figueroa, Practice Lead, Data Platform and Analytics, Allegient, LLC

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Location:
Nova Southeastern University
Carl DeSantis Building
3301 College Av, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33314

Website:
www.msbisf.sqlpass.org

RSVP:
https://itpalooza2015-msbisf-precon.eventbrite.com

umpstart Your Journey Into Advanced Analytics

With

CORTANA ANALYTICS SUITE

12/02/2015 – 8AM-4PM

THIS CLASS IS SUITABLE FOR ALL EXPERIENCE LEVELS 

Over the last few decades, the world has transitioned from analog data to digital data thanks to the software revolution. In more recent years, software started to be delivered as a service through the cloud. This industry trend will intensify over the next few years. By 2020, there will be an estimated 45 zettabytes of data in the world, and approximately one half of it will be live, or flow through the cloud partially due to the Internet of Things.

This revolution calls for a new data processing platform that addresses the challenges of the cloud and opens opportunities for developers to focus on building solutions rather than wrangling ever evolving technologies. Microsoft has been part of this revolution since the beginning. It has invested heavily in developing the new Cloud Operative system for Intelligence, which revolutionizes analytics by supporting the most advanced technologies, and enabling your organization to harness all of your data and unlock new insights.

Cortana Analytics Suite is the set of such services powered by Microsoft’s Azure cloud that focuses on advanced analytics. This is the modern platform that powers solutions that transform data into intelligent actions.

This Pre-con will give you an overview of the following components of Cortana Analytics Suite:

Information Management:

Azure Data Factory: bring your data in
Azure Data Catalog: Catalog of all your data assets
Event Hub: Harness streaming data

Big Data Stores

Azure Data Lake: HDFS in the cloud
Azure SQL DataWarehouse: First true elastic data warehouse in the cloud. You can pause, resume and pause again.

ML and Analytics:

Azure Machine Learning: Operationalize your machine learning models
Azure HDInsight: Hadoop as a service on demand. No installation or configuration required.
Azure Stream Analytics: Complex stream computations on flowing data

Dashboards and Visualizations:

Personal digital assistant: Human like interface with natural language processing and feedback
Perceptual Intelligence: analyzing image and speech data
On this day, you will get hands-on training with some of these technologies. Future proof your investments with a platform that is always evolving and is fully managed for you. This platform is elastic. It’s low risk because you pay as you go. It embraces the open source world and enhances it with Microsoft’s enterprise expertise.

If you are a Data Warehouse, BI professional, or Software Developer,  this pre-conference is for you. Don’t miss it!!!

The early bird rate of $99 is valid until November 24!

Regular admission goes up to $125 after this date.  Sign up now!

Breakfast, lunch, and snacks are included.

This full day pre-con is sponsored by Allegient, LLC

Global Big Data conference: Use Promotional code ALEX500 to receive $500 discount for 3 days event – Dec 7-9

Global Big Data conference: Use Promotional code ALEX500 to receive $500 discount for 3 days event – Dec 7-9

Big Data Bootcamp is on December 7th, 8th and 9th 2015.

Global Big Data Conference is offering 3 day extensive bootcamp on Big Data. This is a fast paced, vendor agnostic, technical overview of the Big Data landscape. No prior knowledge of databases or programming is assumed. Big Data Bootcamp is targeted towards both technical and non-technical people who want to understand the emerging world of Big Data, with a specific focus on Hadoop, NoSQL & Machine Learning. Attendees will experience real Hadoop clusters and the latest Hadoop distributions.

Register : http://globalbigdataconference.com/59/tampa/big-data-bootcamp/event.html
Agenda: http://globalbigdataconference.com/59/tampa/big-data-bootcamp/schedule.html
Speakers: http://globalbigdataconference.com/59/tampa/big-data-bootcamp/speakers.html

Corporate:

Why you should send your employees to BigData Bootcamp?

Unlike other big data training sessions, our boot camp is unique in the following aspects:

  • Experts in the Big Data from the US with hands on experience provide the training
  • Our training is vendor agnostic and provide hands-on exercise of installing and running jobs on Hadoop
  • We can customize our training to your corporate needs
  • 3 days of intense training (8 hrs/day) with multiple use cases to practice (equivalent to one full month’s training from other sources)
  • A Big Data Certification will be provided upon completion of the training

Individual:

Unlike other big data training sessions, our boot camp is unique in the following aspects:

  • Experts in the Big Data from the US with hands on experience provide the training
  • 3 days of intense training (8 hrs/day) with multiple use cases to practice (equivalent to one full month’s training from other sources)
  • Trainees will get a good overview of Big Data and be able to gain employment in highly lucrative Big Data industry
  • Top performers in the class will get placement assistance from the trainers
  • Our training is vendor agnostic and provide hands-on exercise of installing and running jobs on Hadoop
  • A Big Data Certification will be provided upon attending & completion of the 3 days training

Who Should Attend:

Engineers, Developers, Architects, Networking specialists, Managers, Executives, Students, Professional Services, Architects, Data Analyst, BI Developer/Architect, QA, Performance Engineers, Data Warehouse Professional, Sales, Pre Sales, Technical Marketing, PM, Teaching Staff,  Delivery Manager

Conference Location

 Tampa Convention Center,  333 S Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602 – MAP

Lab Requirements

Each student should bring their own 64bit laptop ( Windows 7/8 and Mac, Virtualization Enabled, Minimum 8GB Ram and Free 25GB-50GB hard disk ) with administrative privileges and wireless connectivity. If you have AMD laptop, it should be AMD-V enabled. If you have Intel laptop or Mac, it should support Intel-VTx( Preferred Quad Core i7 processor). An extra USB drive of 16gb minimum will be handy if you want to use your personal USB drive for all files and images.

Next Week! ITPalooza: Executive Sessions, Hiring Fair, Expo, Talks – Dec 3

Next Week! ITPalooza: Executive Sessions, Hiring Fair, Expo, Talks – Dec 3

Thanks to our friend Don Silver of Board Room PR for assisting me with the article and thanks to Nanacy Dahlberg, Miami Herald for the great coverage.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • The homegrown event will be held Dec. 3 at Nova Southeastern University
  • About 2,500 tech professionals, entrepreneurs and students are expected for the event, which includes a hiring fair
  • A survey showed high demand for mobile app developers and network security engineers

Are you looking for tech talent for your business? Do you want to find out who is hiring or learn more about the tech community? It will all be in one place.

More than 2,500 IT professionals,corporate executives, tech entrepreneurs and students are expected to turn out for a day of learning and networking at ITPalooza on Dec. 3 at Nova Southeastern University.

The fourth annual event will offer a hiring fair, IT Expo, an after-party and nine education tracks on subjects such as agile technology, cybersecurity, women in IT, the Internet of Things, professional development and the startup lifecycle, among others. “This is a great opportunity for the IT community to gain critical knowledge, make new contacts or explore new career opportunities,” said Rick Sebaly, event leader and vice president of the South Florida Technology Alliance. “It will be a day of learning and a night of celebration and networking.”

A big focus of the event is the hiring fair and educational sessions on technologies and trends. In conjunction with the upcoming event, ITPalooza co-founder Alex Funkhouser administered an online survey of 200 South Florida-based chief information officers and IT professionals.

With the virtualization of many IT jobs, local employers must now compete for talent with companies from higher-paying regions, the survey showed.

“Companies based in Silicon Valley and New York are paying 25 percent salary premiums to hire local South Florida talent – and they are remote work jobs. We’re in a candidate-driven market and local companies must pay more than ever to hire tech talent,” said Funkhouser, CEO of the tech-focused staffing firm SherlockTalent.

For example, a web application developer in South Florida makes about $110,000, but in Silicon Valley, $140,000. A network security engineer makes about $115,000 in South Florida but his or her counterpart working for a Boston-based company commands $145,000.

The survey showed high demand for mobile application software developers, network security engineers and now, in its infancy, virtual reality and augmented reality software developers. “There is also high demand for chief information officers from larger corporations and tech startups,” said Funkhouser.

There could be plenty of matchmaking going on: About 37 percent of respondents said their companies are hiring new IT personnel, while 33 percent said they are considering new hires. About 65 percent of IT professionals surveyed said they are seeking new career opportunities or are unsure.

The homegrown event that involves more than a dozen tech organizations is hosted by NSU’s College of Engineering and Computing and will be held in the Carl DeSantis Building at 3301 College Ave. in Davie. Admission is $35, which will be reduced to $20 if attendees bring at least one unwrapped toy or free with two toys, to be donated to Toys for Tots. Register online at at itpalooza.com or on Eventbrite. Student tickets are $10.

Since its inception, ITPalooza has raised more than $125,000 in cash and toys for various South Florida non-profits including Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ STEM Advisory Board, The Stockdale Foundation, Marine’s Toys for Tots and others. Last year, about 2,000 people attended the event.

On Friday, AT&T and ITPalooza will host a two-day hackathon at NUS for software developers, engineers and students interested in gaining additional skills in software and mobile application development.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article45552231.html#storylink=cpy

$150K Top Job Pick: Senior .NET Backend Developer/Architect – Boca Area

$150K Top Job Pick: Senior .NET Backend Developer/Architect – Boca Area

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We’re assembling the “A Team” of C# .NET developers based in South Florida for this Google Ventures funded cutting edge software platform company.  Backend development expertise required, including a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science.

Demonstrated ability to work on large scale and high performance distributed systems.

Salaries range from $90K-$110K for mid level developers and $110K-$150K for senior level developers  – plenty more detail available upon request.

Great benefits:  STOCK, 100% paid insurance for employee, 50% paid for spouse/family

Unlimited vacation time, Bonuses, 401K, and more

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