Java 8 has been released with loads of exciting new features. To celebrate the release, bring your laptop and learn all these new features through hands on coding exercises. By the end of the day we promise that you will have written some Java 8 code and learned how to use Lambdas in Java. The tutorial will rapidly alternate between lecture style presentation and hands on coding exercises.

You’ve heard a lot of buzz about Spark - but have you seen it in action?

In this fast-paced coding tour I’ll show you Spark's ability to rapidly process Big Data. I'll demonstrate extracting information with RDDs, querying data using DataFrames, visualizing and plotting data, and show you how to create a machine-learning pipeline with Spark-ML and MLLib. We'll also discuss the internals which make Spark 10-100 times faster than Hadoop MapReduce and Hive.