The document outlines the speaker's presentation on big data technologies and trends at Shire Pharmaceuticals. It states that the speaker is an employee of Shire but the views expressed are his own. It also notes that Shire is not obligated to implement any approaches discussed. The bulk of the presentation discusses characteristics of big data systems and outlines Apache Hadoop, mobility/social data generation, and a data service approach using technologies like HDFS, YARN, Spark and HBase to handle different data workloads and delivery channels at scale.