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
Distinguished Engineer
Marcos Hernandez is a Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director of Technical Marketing with Isovalent@Cisco. In this role, he focuses on cloud connectivity, security, and observability using Cisco enterprise solutions. Marcos has a background in network modernization and cloud networking. His work involves platform engineering, infrastructure modernization, and he has experience with... 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