Vancouver, BC
May 21-24, 2018

Event Details

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OpenStack at Progressive Insurance: Data Science and Machine Learning

Data Analytics is big business at Progressive Insurance. Data scientists are the engines behind every part of the business, from customer experiences and claims forecasting to product development and IT marketing optimization. They are like fortune-tellers; they model, predict, and even help Progressive anticipate natural disasters and respond to customers who are impacted. They make the products—and Progressive's status as an industry leader—even stronger. And, they have fun doing it!

In this session you will learn how this team is leveraging the open APIs of OpenStack to provide the instrumentation to lead Progressive into the next generation of data analytics.


What can I expect to learn?

In this session you will learn how this team is leveraging the open APIs of OpenStack to provide the instrumentation to lead Progressive into the next generation of data analytics.

Tuesday, May 22, 11:00am-11:40am (6:00pm - 6:40pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Principal Engineer - VMware
Marcos Hernandez is a Principal Engineer in the NSX and OpenStack teams at VMware. He is responsible for supporting large Global Enterprise accounts and providing technical guidance around VMware's suite of networking and automation products. Marcos has a background in datacenter networking design and expert knowledge in routing and switching technologies. Marcos holds CCIE certification #8283,... FULL PROFILE
IT System Engineer, Progressive Insurance
Jeff Maruschek is the Server Virtualization SME at Progressive Casualty Insurance. He is responsible for the support, planning, and maintenance of Progressive's vSphere infrastructure. Jeff's career crosses various Datacenter Compute, Wintel, x86, Virtualization, and SSL technologies. Jeff co-designed and fully implemented Progressive's first "pseudo-private cloud" with vCloud Director for... FULL PROFILE
Cloud Engineer, Progressive Insurance
Rick is a Cloud Engineer at Progressive Insurance tasked with delivering customer value alongside the Data Science and Analytics teams.  Main technologies include Hadoop, OpenShift / Kubernetes, and OpenStack.   FULL PROFILE