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Dan Sutherland is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO in the Big Data & Analytics Global CoC organization. He also is an IBM Senior Certified IT Architect and an Open Group Distinguished IT Architect. He is an influential technologist and recognized technical leader in large, complex Analytics and Digital projects with extensive experience and significant contributions in the Communications, Insurance and Banking industries. Mr. Sutherland holds several architecture patents and exhibits an exceptional acumen to applying innovation and bridging strategic business vision. In addition, he is highly sought after by customer executives as their technical consultant and trusted advisor, and his contributions are demonstrated through superior leadership and an outstanding track record of successful engagements.

ODC was one of the principal adaptors of Qubole back in 2014, and has grown to be one of Qubole’s largest customers in big data processing. Justin works with over 100 analysts & developers within ODC using Qubole for their workloads and has helped grow Qubole into their primary processing platform over the last three years. Currently, ODC runs approximately 100 Hadoop & Spark clusters totaling nearly 3 million processing hours per month in Qubole.

Erik is an Advanced Analytics and AI Architect on Microsoft’s Global Black Belt team where he helps companies from all over the US and Canada build out AA and AI solutions. He has over 10 years of experience in statistics, analytics, and other data disciplines at companies such as Medtronic, Target, and Microsoft. He’s a self-proclaimed geek who once wrote a Python version his sons’ favorite board game – just because it sounded fun.

Saba El-Hilo is a data engineer at Mapbox, where she builds data pipelines, infrastructure and tooling for large scale distributed data. Prior to Mapbox, Saba has worked as a data engineer at multiple startups such as Signal Sciences, Rocana and Hootsuite which have given her tremendous experience in building data infrastructure and pipelines from the ground up. She holds an M.S in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University with an emphasis on Computer Vision and Machine Learning.