Our community came out in force for our latest international kdb+ conference on May 18th, making it the largest gathering of kdb+ programmers to date. Exciting announcements included the addition of kdb+ to the Google Cloud Launcher and to Anaconda’s distribution platform, as well as the news that Magnitude/Simba is creating a new, more powerful kdb+ ODBC driver.
A highlight of the day was the release of kdb+ 3.6. This latest version of kdb+ includes a number of impressive features, including the ability to analyze unstructured data. You can find documentation about kdb+ 3.6, as well as other exciting additions to the kdb+ tool box announced in the past few months like kdb+ on-demand, the Jupyterq notebooks, embedPy and free PyQ on code.kx.com.
We had a terrific panel of presenters, and want to particularly thank our speakers from Intel, Google, Anaconda, Quantitative Brokers, Citadel, BitMEX, Simba, Nick Psaris and Aston Martin Red Bull Racing! You will find slides from many of the talks in the agenda section below, accompanied by video where feasible. The first video of the presentation, featuring Robert Almgren of Quantitative Brokers is also residing on our Kx Youtube channel. Please subscribe to the Kx Youtube channel so you don’t miss any other videos as they are posted.
We hope you enjoyed the event and look forward to more kdb+ events and conversations with you in the years to come. While kdb+ has been the foundation for exceptional programs for decades, today, more than ever, it is finding a role in the changing computing landscape. We look forward to exploring with you, our Kx community, its potential for machine learning applications, IoT, cloud computing and more.
THE AGENDA
- 8:00 am – 8:45 am
- Sign-in
- Breakfast, networking and video poster sessions
- 8:45 – 9:00
- Mark Sykes
- Chief Operating Officer, Kx
- Looking to the future at Kx
- 9:00 – 9:20
- Robert Almgren
- Co-Founder and Head of Research, Quantitative Brokers
- Real Time Trading Signals
- 9:20 – 9:40
- Nicolle Eagan
- Data Scientist, Kx
- Solar Storm project at NASA FDL
- 9:40 – 10:00
- Nadia Dobrianskaia
- Computer Scientist, Simba Technologies, a Magnitude Software Company
- Connecting to kdb+ with ODBC
- 10:00 – 10: 20
- Mike Thomas
- SVP Cyber, Kx
- Kdb+ and Cyber Security
- 10:20 – 11:00
- Morning refreshment break
- Video poster sessions open
- 11:00 – 11:20
- Alan Rozet
- Brainpool and Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Capital One
- Machine learning and AI: The future possibilities in business
- 11:20 – 11:40
- Nick Psaris
- Author of Q Tips: Fast, Scalable and Maintainable Kdb+
- Decision Trees in Q: From Stump to Forest
- 11:40 – 12:00
- Andrew Wilson, Esperanza Lopez Aguilera and Fionnuala Carr, Kx
- Update from Kx Machine Learning Team
- 12:00 – 1:30
- Lunch
- Video poster sessions open
- 1:30 – 1:50
- Simon Garland
- Chief Customer Officer, Kx
- Update on kdb+ 3.6
- 1:50 – 2:20
- Antonio Zurlo
- Cloud Engineer HPC + ML, Google
- Google Cloud Platform for Data Analysis
- 2:20 -2:40
- Peter Wang
- CTO, Anaconda
- The Life of Py: My first 20 Years of Python
- 2:40 – 3:00
- Fintan Quill
- Engineer, Kx
- Snakes on Planes
- 3:00 — 3:30
- Afternoon refreshment break
- Video poster sessions open
- 3:30 – 3:50
- Evgueny Khartchenko, Software Application Engineer, Intel
- Rob Sornson, Director Network Storage Division, Intel
- Next decade memory and storage paradigm for kdb+ financial services users
- 3:50 – 4:10
- Nick Maslavets
- Head of Surveillance Design, Methodology and Analytics, Citadel
- Compliance and Regulatory Reports with kdb+
- 4:10 – 4:30
- Ben Delo
- Co-founder of BitMEX
- Building a Bitcoin derivatives exchange in kdb+
- 4:30 – 4:50
- Brian Jones
- Head of Software Development, Aston Martin Red Bull Racing
- Q&A on how Aston Martin Red Bull Racing uses kdb+ in sensor analytics
- 4:50 – 5:00
- Mark Sykes
- Chief Operating Officer, Kx
- Kx wrap up
- 5:00 – 6:00 pm
- Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres
EVENT SUPPORTERS
Kx25 GALLERY
MONTAUK 2016
