Doug Ortiz is an experienced enterprise cloud, big data, data analytics, and solutions architect who has designed, developed, re-engineered, and integrated enterprise solutions. His other expertise is in Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, business intelligence, Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL databases, and SharePoint, to mention just a few.

He is the founder of Illustris, LLC, and is reachable at [email protected].

Paraskevas V. Lekeas received his PhD and MS in CS from the NTUA, Greece, where he conducted his postdoc on algorithmic engineering, and he also holds degrees in math and physics from the University of Athens. He was a professor at the TEI of Athens and the University of Crete before taking an internship at the University of Chicago. He has extensive experience in knowledge discovery and engineering, having addressed many challenges for startups and for corporations using a diverse arsenal of tools and technologies. He is leading the data group at H5, helping H5 advancing in innovative knowledge discovery.