Kinetica to Speak at Upcoming GPU Technology Conference and SC16

Kinetica, provider of the fastest, in-memory database accelerated by GPUs, today announced its executives will speak about accelerated analytics, simplifying streaming analytics and GPU databases at leading industry events at GPU Technology Conference and SC16.

Details about Kinetica’s participation include:

GPU Technology Conference

Presented by NVIDIA, the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) is the world’s most important event series for GPU developers. Experience two days of hands-on AI training, industry insights, and direct access to NVIDIA experts-all in one place.

When	Wednesday, October 26 at 3:00 PM ET
Where	The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Rotunda Theater
What	Geoff Lunsford, senior director, sales at Kinetica will participate with NVIDIA’s Jim McHugh, vice president and general manager, titled DCS16161 “Thor’s Hammer.” In this session, big data and analytics will be discussed, specifically how AI and Deep Learning are unleashing new business models and transforming everyday experiences and services including fraud detection, product recommendations, insurance pricing, athletic performance, and weather prediction to more advanced capabilities in agriculture, medicine, and investing.

When	Thursday, October 27 at 4:00 PM ET
Where	The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Amphitheater
What	Geoff Lunsford, senior director of sales at Kinetica, will participate in a panel discussion moderated by NVIDIA’s Jim McHugh, vice president and general manager, titled DCS16186 “Changing the Landscape with Deep Learning and Accelerated Analytics.” This panel session will cover the learnings and successes of real world customer examples for accelerated analytics. Attendees will learn how customers are leveraging Deep Learning and Accelerated Analytics to turn insights into AI-accelerated knowledge. The growing ecosystem of solutions and technologies that are delivering on this promise will be covered in this session.

SC16

SC16 will bring together the international supercomputing community—a gathering of scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and developers that is unequaled in the world.

When	Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 1:30 – 2:30pm PT
Where	Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek, 75 S W Temple (across the street from the Salt Palace Convention Center)
What	Marcus Holm, vice president of global field operations at Kinetica, will join Scott Soutter of IBM for the seminar “How HPC enables new advances in real time logistics: GPU Accelerated Databases”. Learn how some of the world’s most challenging analytics problems — at the intersection of HPC and Data Analytics — are being solved in real time through the use of accelerated database solutions on IBM Power Systems with NVLink. Register here.

When	Intermittently on Tuesday, November 15, Wednesday, November 16 and Thursday, November 17, 2016
Where	Salt Lake Convention Center, Cisco Booth # 3450
What	Chris Prendergast, director of Business Development, Kinetica will speak on “GPU-Accelerated Analytics Enable New Enterprise Solutions”

When	Intermittently on Tuesday, November 15, Wednesday, November 16 and Thursday, November 17, 2016
Where	Salt Lake Convention Center, Dell Booth # 1217
What	Chris Prendergast, director of Business Development, Kinetica will speak on “Simplifying Streaming Analytics with GPU-Acceleration”

Additionally, Kinetica will demo its software in both the IBM Booth #1018 and in the Dell Booth #1217.

About Kinetica

Kinetica is the creator of the real-time analytical database for time series and spatial workloads with the unrivaled scale, speed and specialized analytics required for harnessing value from sensor and machine data. Many of the world's largest companies across the public sector, financial services, telecommunications, energy, healthcare, retail, automotive and beyond rely on Kinetica to create new location-driven solutions to outperform the competition, including the US Air Force, USPS, Citibank, T-Mobile, and others. Kinetica is a privately-held company, backed by leading global venture capital firms Canvas Ventures, Citi Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, and Meritech Capital Partners. Kinetica has a rich partner ecosystem, including AWS, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Intel, Dell, Tableau, and Oracle. For more information and to try Kinetica, visit kinetica.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.