The first DeNormalised NoSQL conference at Skills Matter is now in progress! Today, there will be talks on Cassandra, Neo4J, Riak, CouchDB, MongoDB and other NoSQL solutions. Tomorrow we'll have hands-on workshops... Follow #denormalised for tweets and announcements of SkillsCast video recordings of all the talks (which we will be publishing throughout the day).

Join us online or at Skills Matter and dive deep in the world of Big Data. The first day of DeNormalised NoSQL sees our NoSQL experts share their NoSQL solutions such as Cassandra, Neo4j, MongoDB, CouchDB and Riak with you. At the end of the day, you can put your NoSQL related questions to our panel of experts in the Park Bench discussion. Day two lets you pick a track and work closely with our experts in hands-on workshops. In between, there's plenty of time informal networking over a coffee or - eventually - a beer.

Thursday 20th September 2012
Track 1 08:30-08:50    REGISTRATION DeNormalised NoSQL 2012 opens at 08:30 with registration and breakfast     08.50-9:00    INTRODUCTION AND OPENING Jon Dickinson welcomes you to DeNormalised!        COMING SOON ....       09.40-10:20    SCALABILITY WITH COUCHBASE MC Brown: In this talk MC covers the challenges of scalability, where Couchbase fits in a document database world, how Couchbase have approached the scalability issue, and how you can index and query your database using views and map/reduce queries. more...     10.20    BREAK Coffee, Tea & Refreshments     10:40-11:20    APACHE CASSANDRA Apache Cassandra is a next generation database originally conceived at Facebook. In this talk, Dr Richard Low will cover the features unique to Cassandra and explain how it achieves things such as tuneable consistency, write-optimisation, and high availability. more...     11.20 -12:00    GIVING CASSANDRA THE X FACTOR Malcolm Box: Live Talkback uses Cassandra to power live audience interaction on some of the biggest shows in television, including Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor. Find out why, how it works and some of the challenges in handling TV-triggered usage bursts. more...     12.00    LUNCH Lunch and informal networking for DeNormalised NoSQL 2012     13.00-13:40    INTRODUCTION TO RIAK Casey Rosenthal gives an introduction to Riak, the key value database from Basho, by covering the core features and use cases of the technology. He will then move on to discuss how to identify whether Riak is a good fit for a given project. more...     13.40-14:20    SHAKE IT OUT Jameel Syed: Jameel Syed: Musicmetric collects and analyses online data to present a complete picture of how people are engaging with artists online. Data is collected and combined from social media (activity timeseries, demographics), peer to peer filesharing (geographic fan activity) and reviews (NER, sentiment analysis). more...     14:20-14:40    COFFEE, TEA & REFRESHMENTS Tea, Coffee & Refreshments     14.40-15:20    DEEP DIVE INTO MONGODB Julian Browne: Julian Browne: MongoDB has found a sweet spot in enterprise adoption due to its ease of use, powerful query model and natural progression for those coming from a SQL mindset. But under the hood it has some unusual design approaches that can trip up the unwary. more...     15.20-16:00    SPRING DATA: NOSQL NO PROBLEM Spring Data makes it easier to build applications that use new data access technologies such as NoSQL databases and Hadoop. It provides a familiar and consistent Spring based programming model while retaining store-specific features and capabilities. more...     16.00-17:00    LEARNING TO BUILD DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS TH Theo Hultberg: He has learned how to build distributed systems the hard way; he's failed, and failed again. He's made many of the common mistakes and tried a few other things that turned out to be a disappointment. You shouldn't have to make those mistakes too... more...     17:00    BEER & PIZZA : We wrap up Day 1 of DeNormalised over some slices & brews before taking it onwards in the pub! more...	Track 2            COMING SOON ....                                  COMING SOON ....              COMING SOON ....
Friday 21st September 2012
Track 1 08:30 - 9:00    WELCOME & REGISTRATION Doors open for DeNormalised NoSQL 2012 day 2 at 08:30 with registration and breakfast     09:00-12:00    REAL-TIME ANALYTICS WITH CASSANDRA Tom Wilkie: In this workshop we will step you through constructing an application to do real time analytics on the twitter firehose, using Apache Cassandra, and its advanced, distributed counters. With this application you will be able to see what trends of mentions of common phrases, words or people. more...     12:00    LUNCH Lunch at the DeNormalised NoSQL Roadshow 2012     13:00-16:00    HANDS-ON WITH RIAK Casey Rosenthal: The Riak Overview provides a high-level view of Riak, its features, and its architecture as well as a look at applicability and capacity planning. With a sound grounding we'll move onto the business of Running Riak, including installation, building a cluster, back-up and recovery and monitoring.Matt Heitzenroder delves into RIAK. Details TBC. more...     16:00    DRINKS AND CLOSE Drinks and informal networking	Track 2     09:00-12:00    HANDS ON WITH NEO4J Alistair Jones: In this workshop for the DeNormalised NoSQL Roadshow, Alistair Jones will give a hands-on tutorial to Neo4j. more...         13:00-16:00    HANDS ON WITH MONGODB Norberto Leite: Norberto Leite a Senior Solutions Architect for EMEA from 10Gen delivers a hands-on, intensive 4-hour NOSQL tutorial. more...