It gives me great pleasure to share details of our keynote speaker at the Big Data Analytics for Smart Power Networks


Sean Owen, from Cloudera will present  How Data Science is transforming the Energy and Utilities market place

About the speaker:

Sean is Director of Data Science at Cloudera in London. Before Cloudera, he  founded Myrrix Ltd. (now the Oryx project) to commercialize large-scale  real-time recommender systems on Hadoop. He is an Apache Spark committer  and a co-author of O’Reilly Media’s Advanced Analytics with Spark. He was  a committer and VP for Apache Mahout, and co-author of Mahout in Action.


Previously, Sean was a senior engineer at Google. He holds an MBA from  London Business School and a BA from Harvard University.

Synopsis

The Energy & Utilities sector is on the cusp of a significant transformation: established Oil and Gas companies are adopting new strategies in order to adapt to the new economic reality of lower oil prices, and Utilities are having to transform the way they engage with their customers in order to survive. Here, Sean will showcase how some of the leading players across the Energy & Utilities market place are leveraging advanced analytics and data science to adapt, thrive and succeed in these rapidly changing market conditions.