This document summarizes an agenda for the 2015 LexisNexis Risk Solutions HPCC Engineering Summit on September 29, 2015 in Delray Beach, FL. The agenda includes welcoming remarks, a vision presentation, an update on progress made in the past year to improve community resources and HPCC Systems capabilities, and presentations from community members on applications of HPCC Systems. It highlights growth of the HPCC community to over 300 members, engagement of academic institutions, and grants/projects awarded.

1. HPCC Systems Community Day
2015 LexisNexis® Risk Solutions HPCC Engineering Summit
Presenter: Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology
September 29, 2015
Delray Beach, FL
Accelerating the
Pace of Innovation

2. Agenda
• Welcome
• Vision
• One year later
• Community engagement
• What’s on Tap for Today?
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#HPCCSummit

3. HPCC Systems Vision
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Vision
Continue to grow the community to drive adoption and innovation
of HPCC Systems in the marketplace and throughout RELX Group
to keep the technology relevant and sustainable, by leveraging
innovation and collaboration in the open source community.

4. One year later
We have been busy…
• Improved community resources
• Revamped Web portal
• New training courses and materials
• Better documentation
• Additional capabilities
• Improved ECL Watch
• Additional embedded languages (CQL)
• Memcached and Redis integration
• Dmetaphone for phonetic matching
• JAVA API
• Dynamic ESDL
• Visualization framework
• Numerous performance improvements
• New community members and activities
• Wright State
• ICHEC
• Imperial College London
• Harvard Medical School
• Google Summer of Code
• And more…
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5. Lab Dedication
Community engagement in pictures
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Testimonials
More events
Certification program
Growing international demand
More than 300 members!
Badges

6. • Dynamic Provisioning of Data
Intensive Computing Middleware
Frameworks
• Unsupervised Learning and Image
Classification in High Performance
Computing Cluster
• Text, Topics, and Turkers: A
Consensus Measure for Statistical
Topics
• Deep learning applications and
challenges in big data analytics
Other interesting factoids
• Over 1,000 people completed MOOC
HPCC Systems training
• Research projects have been
awarded grants from the NSF and
DoE
• First time Google Summer of Code
received more than 50 student
proposals
• Joint work with IBM to port HPCC to
the OpenPower platform
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Papers (just some examples…)
More community achievements

7. Some advice
• Network – go beyond your table
• Jump right in – ask questions
• Pace yourself
• Breaks
• Lunch
• Social Media
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8. And now….
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Our first speaker……