Introducing the 2017 Data Heroes – APAC!

At the beginning of the year we announced the Hortonworks Data Heroes initiative. It’s our way of recognizing the Data Visionaries, Data Scientists, Data Architects, and Innovators transforming their businesses and organizations through Big Data.

Hortonworks has over 1,000 total customers spanning every industry, each with a unique Big Data journey. Our Data Heroes program lets us highlight a few individuals who are helping create radical change in their organizations.

The categories include:

• Data Visionary – recognizes the potential of Big Data to transform their organization, and leads the business to turn that vision into reality.
• Data Scientist – studies the data, tests and re-tests hypotheses, and creates modern data applications that deliver insights to the business and its customers.
• Data Architect – seamlessly and creatively integrates Hortonworks Connected Data Platforms into their infrastructure.
• Hortonworks Innovation – Our newest added award, highlighting business leaders implementing Hortonworks solutions leading to innovation in their industry.

We have our winners, announced at DataWorks Summit Sydney 2017, it is my honor to present to you:

Michael Renton – BHP (Data Visionary)

BHP is a world-leading resources company headquartered in Australia. The company is investing in technology to develop safer and environmentally friendly mines to drive the next wave of productivity. BHP has been able to accelerate the build of NiFi and open source Hadoop environments to support its technology vision, with support from Hortonworks and other partners.

Mark Moloney – Telstra (Data Scientist)

Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company, offering a full range of communications services and competing in all telecommunications markets. The objectives of the company’s Big Data platform include building and operating data products that enable applications in customer understanding, service, and artificial intelligence. Additionally, Telstra is creating a more holistic view to improve customer experience, advancing the adoption of data-driven decisions processes and machine learning, and enhancing the data asset to increase levels of security, privacy, and data governance.

Tareq Amin – Reliance Jio (Hortonworks Innovation)

Reliance Jio has become the world’s first and only Exabyte telecom network with more with more than 130M subscribers in one year. Jio Foresight has been built leveraging open source technologies like Apache Hadoop and streaming analytics. It provides extensible application modules for network analytics, customer management, social collaboration and performance management. This transformation relies on Big Data to transform all telecommunication data sets into an advanced centralized analytics and visualization platform. The convergence of these datasets through custom algorithms and advanced data models provided engineers a 360-degree view of the networks characteristics at any given point in time.

Congratulations to the winners!

To learn more about our Data Heroes program, visit https://hortonworks.com/data-hero/