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Welcome

Sarah Novotny (Meteor Entertainment), Bradford Stephens (Drawn to Scale)
9:00am Tuesday, 07/26/2011
Location: Oregon Ballroom 203/204

Opening remarks by the OSCON Data program chairs, Sarah Novotny and Bradford Stephens.

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Sarah Novotny

Meteor Entertainment

Sarah Novotny is the CIO of a video game production house, Meteor Entertainment. She regularly talks about infrastructure automation and geek lifestyle. She is a founder and board member of Blue Gecko which does remote administration and management of databases around the world.

She is additionally a Program Chair of Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. Her technology writing and adventures as well as her more esoteric musings at sarahnovotny.com. For twittery things, check out twitter.com/sarahnovotny. To connect with her on LinkedIn, wander over to linkedin.com/in/sarahnovotny.

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Bradford Stephens

Drawn to Scale

Bradford is the founder and CEO of Drawn to Scale, creators of the Spire database. Spire is a SQL database built on Hadoop and HBase, similar to Google F1. Drawn to Scale has customers powering large web apps, mobile infrastructures, telecoms, social networks, and more. A long-time user of Hadoop and HBase, Bradford has built large infrastructures at various startups and enterprises, and worked on Microsoft SQL Server. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Political Science, and spent several years as a Campaign Manager in politics at the Presidential and U.S. House levels.