Matthew O'Keefe
I am a husband, pet owner, technologist and cyclist. I work at Morningstar as a Senior Technology Architect. Cloud, DevOps, Open Source.

BigDataCamp is an unconference for users of Hadoop and related technologies to exchange ideas in a loosely distributed format. Attendees are encouraged to share thoughts in open discussions with pre-defined and majority-vote topics, including best practices in application development and advanced analytics.   Data engineers, enterprise architects,...

Dear attendees (and everyone else),

On november 11, 2011 at 11:11 the date will be 11/11/11 11:11. Since 11:11 is the best time for wishing, this day will be pretty epic.

yes we know, it is not for a while, but we're excited so we made this early.

also, this is just an event fan page, not a party, a gathering, a convention, or anything...

Chicago Ideas Week ("CIW") is the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers, and interested members of the Chicago and greater Midwestern area. With a goal to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to connect to achieve...

If you are heading out to Dreamforce in San Francisco, CA, we would like to invite you to join Innoveer for an evening of cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and lively Cloud2 CRM discussions with Salesforce.com and Innoveer customers and consultants. Take advantage of the opportunity to be one of: 10 recipients to win an iPod Shuffle by dropping off...

Are you achieving maximum value out of salesforce.com? The Cloud has not only changed the business model and implementation cycle for projects, it has changed the approach companies need to manage these applications post go-live. Yet 80% of customers do not have an effective strategy to manage change and innovate ongoing. See how leading companies...

Dev-ing. Mobile. Good food. Awesome prizes.  Mobile App Hackathon is an event for mobile developers to come together, network, learn about new technologies, build mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly: meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects.  Mobile App...

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we conduct our second Ignite event at OSCON.

TechWeek is a week-long festival that showcases everything new in the technology, web and interactive industries.

From mobile apps and enterprise software to consumer products and greentech innovations, from advertising and product design to robotics and nanotechnology, TechWeek covers it.

- TechWeek Conference & Expo, July 22-25, 2011,...

API Hack Day brings developers together for an all-day coding fest focused on building apps and mashups with APIs. Developers of all experience levels can share ideas, collaborate on existing projects, start new ventures and find out about great tools and new APIs to play with. Free admission, food and drink provided! API Hack Day attendees will...

May the 4th (be with you)

This is the second annual National Star Wars Day event. Last time we made it to 4.5K
This time I am shooting for 10K!!!!
A lot of people have been asking me questions such as "where is the event?" and other things. This is not some event where you meet other Star Wars fans and do special activities. Just...

Sunday, April 17, at 3 and 6 p.m. Advance tickets are $15 for Adults ($18 at door) and $10 for Children age 13 and under ($12 at door), and can be purchased at the Theatre's website. www.skokietheatre.com

Abstract:



Enterprises are drowning in data that they can't find, access, or use.

For many years, enterprises have wrestled with the best way to combine all that data into actionable information without building systems that break as schemas evolve. Approaches like warehousing and ETL can be brittle in the face of changing data sources...

The goal of the Flourish Conference is to promote the use and adoption of Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) by demonstrating the practical applications of FLOSS in the business and academic world. While everyone is familiar with businesses that focus on creating non-free proprietary software, the same cannot be said for those who specialize...

Configuration Management is a pillar of DevOps, and Puppet is one of the leading CM tools out there. Join us downtown Chicago for a Saturday hack-a-thon with Puppet Labs. Teyo Tyree, one of the founders of Puppet, and Jacob Helwig of Puppet Labs have graciously agreed to join us to lead us in a Chicago DevOps style two track hackathon.



Track...

Spend a Saturday hacking on Chef with an expert Chef developer from Opscode. This will be an informative hands on session that should have us all leaving with a real understanding of Chef even if some us walk in with absolutely none! Many thanks to John Willis for offering to help us.

We will have two distinct groups one for experts and one...

The Facebook Obsession" is the real story behind the rise of the largest social media site in the world, told through Facebook's founders, friends and foes. Correspondent Lester Holt delivers a comprehensive look at how this internet phenomenon, with half a billion users, is affecting society in ways most people are unaware of. From a...

Attend Interop's comprehensive IT Expo and Conference to see what's new, learn about cutting-edge technologies and connect with technology experts and vendors.

Topics include:
- Application Delivery
- Cloud Computing
- Data Center
- Enterprise 2.0
- Governance, Risk and Compliance
- Green IT
- IT Security
- Mobile...

Abstract:
John Ferguson Smart's book Java Power Tools, introduces many powerful tools for unit testing, build, and deployment activities. How do these tools relate to the cloud? During this session, we'll review tools in the jclouds ecosystem that connect to build, test, deploy concerns: Arquillian runs your testng or junit tests in any...

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http://midventureslaunch.eventbrite.com/

midVentures LAUNCH is the largest startup conference in the Midwest,
showcasing new and innovative startups and apps in the technology
space. Bringing together entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, the
media, and members from all parts of the Midwest tech community, LAUNCH is...

For 67 days, starting on July 17 in San Francisco, Alzheimer researchers from across America are cycling cross-country to promote a petition making Alzheimer's Disease a national priority. Their epic ride will end at Capitol Hill on September 21, World Alzheimer's Day, when the riders will present congress with over 50,000 petition...