Announcing a great panel of speakers for the February kdb+ on the cloud & on demand Meetup! Check out the agenda:

6:30-7:00 -- Networking

7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Rebecca Kelly, Kx Core Pre-Sales Engineer
Title: What is kdb+ 64-bit on-demand & how does it work in the cloud?
Synopsis: Rebecca will present an overview of how to deploy kdb+ on-demand & describe relevant use cases.

Glenn Wright, Kx Systems Architect & Rebecca Kelly
Title: Migrating kdb+ applications to the cloud
Synopsis: Glenn & Rebecca will recap recent kdb+ cloud developments & will give a live demo of AWS & on-demand allocation.

7:20 pm - 7:40 pm
Ian Lester, Senior Principal Developer, Nomura
Title: Planning for a kdb+ implementation on AWS
Synopsis: Ian will give a high-level overview of the planning process for implementing a kdb+ application in AWS. He will discuss key issues he has come across relating to EC2 & data migration.

7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
Peter Williams, AWS Global head of financial services partner technology
Balaji Gopalan, AWS Senior Solutions Architect
Title: Cloud Adoption in Financial Services
Synopsis: Peter & Balaji will discuss the cloud adoption journey in financial institutions & highlight new services in AWS that will deliver business value to our kdb+ users.

8:00 pm -8:30 pm
Open Q&A & Free Beers!
The presenters will stay after the talks for an informal cloud discussion led by Rebecca Kelly.