Jason Kolb
Chicago
Formerly a technology executive in the contact center industry where I started working with highly scalable Big Data by mining phone and email contact records (before the NSA). A published author and subject matter expert on Big Data, I have published best-selling books and write a widely-followed blog (www.jasonkolb.com) on data strategy and technical vision. I have worked with many Fortune 500 companies to design and implement analytics and insight strategies and technology vision. I founded the provider of the first Web-based analytics platform which was subsequently acquired by Cisco. As a Technical Leader at Cisco (their version of an architect), I was part of the technologist team responsible for creating and vetting Big Data core technology and strategy. Now as the CTO of Uptake Technologies, I lead product roadmap and strategy, vision, architecture, and distributed systems development.