Somappa Srinivasan of sparrowanalytics.com presents their goal of creating a scalable recommendation engine using Hadoop and real-time analytics. Their system will acquire data from various sources into a data lake stored on Hadoop. A real-time engine will then process user requests, select predictive models, score items, and recommend contextual options to users browsing movies. The system components include data acquisition, ingestion into a data hub of Hive and HBase tables, a real-time engine for validation, modeling, scoring and recommendations, and a UI dashboard.