Apache Spark’s rapid adoption by a wide range of enterprises, including Yahoo, Baidu and Tencent, has made it the largest open-source community in Big Data, according to The Apache Software Foundation. It now has more than 1,000 contributors from 250-plus organizations. And this week’s Spark Summit 2016, held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, plans to shine a light on data science, developers, enterprise research, use cases and the Spark ecosystem.

With a theme of “data science and engineering at scale” and huge buzz surrounding Spark 2.0, the event will feature keynotes from Matei Zaharia, CTO and cofounder of Databricks; Jeff Dean, senior fellow at Google; Doug Cutting, chief architect at Cloudera and cofounder of Apache Hadoop; Andrew Ng, chief scientist at Baidu; Marvin Theimer, distinguished engineer at Amazon; and Ali Ghodsi, CEO and cofounder of Databricks.

theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, will broadcast live from Spark Summit 2016 from June 7–8. theCUBE hosts John Walls and George Gilbert will talk with industry experts, including:

• Ram Sriharsha, Apache Spark product manager at Databricks and committer and PMC member, Apache Spark at The Apache Software Foundation
• Michael Armbrust, software engineer and lead developer of the Spark SQL project at Databricks, Inc.
• Ashish Thusoo, CEO and cofounder of Qubole, Inc.
• Rishi Yadav, president and CEO of InfoObjects, Inc.
• Ritika Gunnar, VP of Offering Management, Data and Analytics at IBM
• And many more!

Don’t miss out on these and other interviews live on theCUBE.

Where to watch

Watch theCUBE live during Spark Summit 2016 on SiliconANGLE TV.

Also, make sure to check in during the event with theCUBE hosts John Walls and George Gilbert (@ggilbert41) via Twitter.

Or you can watch on your Android device: theCUBE Mobile App for Android.

What to expect

During Spark Summit 2016, theCUBE hosts will discuss big advancements in “continuous processing,” the Spark versus Hadoop debate, numerous use cases, and the buzz around Spark 2.0.

Find out about these topics and much more on theCUBE.

Watch theCUBE at Spark Summit

Check out theCUBE interviews at Spark Summit 2016 by clicking here.

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