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TimothySpann · ‎12-19-2018

First off, this was an amazing year for Big Data, IoT, Kafka, AI, Streaming, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. So many cool events, updates, new products, new projects, new libraries and community growth. I've seen a lot of people adopt and grow Big Data and streaming projects from nothing. Using the power of Open Source and the tools made available by Apache, companies are growing with the help of trusted partners and a community of engineers and users.

I had a fun year travelling to various conferences showing how to use Open Source technologies for IoT, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Streaming, Big Data, Computer Vision and microservices.

First up close to home was Iot Fusion in Philly:

http://iotfusion.net/session/enterprise-iiot-edge-processing-with-apache-nifi-minifi-and-deep-learni...

It was a very cool event run by my friends at Chariot Solutions. We focused on some great technology from 2018 including MiniFi, Apache NiFi, TensorFlow and Apache MXNet.

After that I headed to Europe and spoke at an awesome meetup in Prague. https://www.meetup.com/futureofdata-prague/events/248994531/ https://www.slideshare.net/bunkertor/deep-learning-on-hdp-2018-prague.

A short train ride up to Berlin for a meetup https://www.meetup.com/futureofdata-berlin/events/249190513/ https://www.slideshare.net/bunkertor/minifi-and-apache-nifi-iot-in-berlin-germany-2018.

Then I was in Berlin for Dataworks Summit and did two talks. https://dataworkssummit.com/berlin-2018/session/iot-with-apache-mxnet-and-apache-nifi-and-minifi/ and https://dataworkssummit.com/session/apache-deep-learning-101/.

https://dzone.com/articles/apache-nifi-at-dws

In June it was off to San Jose for the Big DataWorks Summit and I had a talk on Computer Vision. https://dataworkssummit.com/san-jose-2018/session/open-source-computer-vision-with-tensorflow-apache... https://www.slideshare.net/Hadoop_Summit/open-source-computer-vision-with-tensorflow-apache-minifi-a... I also helped out with some TensorFlow in Apache Zeppelin at the Deep Learning Crash Course https://dataworkssummit.com/san-jose-2018/crash-courses/.

Come August, I joined the IoT Webinar https://hortonworks.com/webinar/iot-war-stories-challenges-solutions-best-practices/ which was a lot of fun and then got to speak with the awesome Data Scientist, John Kuchmek at the NJ Shore.

Fall quickly followed and it was time for Strata in NYC. https://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/strata-ny-2018/public/schedule/speaker/185963 Again I spoke on IoT with AI https://github.com/tspannhw/StrataNYC2018

After Strata it was a quick flight up to Montreal for ApacheCon. It was great seeing all the Apache speakers and my friends from Apache MXNet. https://apachecon.dukecon.org/acna/2018/#/scheduledEvent/7058e0d4f5ab28836 https://feathercast.apache.org/2018/10/02/apache-deep-learning-101-timothy-spann/

In October I was down in Orlando with my AI buddies AppOrchid to speak about AI, IoT and Big Data for Utilities. http://www.utilityanalyticsweek.com/cr3ativspeaker/tim-spann/ https://www.slideshare.net/bunkertor/the-best-of-both-worlds-delivering-digital-transformation

In November I got to be the first speaker at Philadelphia's first Open Source Conference hosted by Comcast! https://phillyopensource.splashthat.com/ What an amazing event and awesome people running this. Hats off to the Comcast team for support Open Source and having great projects. They also were big sponsors of Apache Con.

To round it out, in December I reunited with my AI friends on a webinar for utilities https://utilityanalytics.com/webinar/providing-ai-solutions-to-break-the-data-silos-and-accelerate-u....

The year was great for meetups and I got to talk at a few around the world, plus Milind and my meetup in Princeton grew to 1,100 members! Check us out: https://www.meetup.com/futureofdata-princeton/ My friend Paul restarted the https://www.meetup.com/futureofdata-philadelphia/ meetup and we will do some fun stuff in 2019 around the new Camden tech region.