The GPU Open Analytics Initiative (GOAI) was formed to create common data frameworks enabling developers and statistical researchers to accelerate data science on GPUs.
GOAI will foster the development of a data science ecosystem on GPUs by allowing resident applications to interchange data seamlessly and efficiently.
Special thanks to the NVIDIA for hosting this meetup.
Speaker Bios:
Vinod Iyengar is the Director of Business Development and Partnerships at H2O.ai. Vinod comes with over 7 years of marketing and data science experience in multiple startups. He was the founding employee for his previous startup, Activehours, where he helped build the product and bootstrap the user acquisition with growth hacking. He has seen the user base for his companies grow from scratch to millions of customers. He’s built models to score leads, reduce churn, increase conversion, prevent fraud and many more use cases.
When he is not busy hacking, Vinod loves painting and reading. He is a huge foodie and will eat anything that doesn’t crawl, swim or move.
Bill Maimone is the VP of Engineering at MapD. Bill is responsible for leading the engineering team in architecting and delivering the the company’s suite of database, visualization and GIS solutions. Prior to MapD, Bill was the VP of Engineering at Anaplan and held similar roles with Salesforce and Actian. Bill began his career at Oracle, where he spent two decades, finishing as a Vice President with responsibility for over five hundred members of the R&D team across four continents. He holds a M.S. and a B.S. in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.