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Paul Z

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Toronto

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@BigData_paulz

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Paul C. Zikopoulos, B.A., M.B.A.,is the Vice President of Technical Professionals for IBM Software Group’s Information Management division and additionally leads the World Wide Competitive Database and Big Data Technical Sales Acceleration teams. Paul is an award winning writer and speaker with more than 19 years of experience in Information Management. Paul is seen as a global expert in Big Data and database - independent groups often recognize Paul as a thought leader in Big Data, with nominations to SAP’s “Top 50 Big Data Twitter Influencers”, Big Data Republic’s “Most Influential”, and Onalytica’s“Top 100” lists. Technopedialisted him a “A Big Data Expert to Follow” and he was consulted on topic of Big Data by the popular TV show “60 Minutes”. Paul has written more than 350 magazine articles and 16 books, some of which include “Harness the Power of Big Data”, “Understanding Big Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data”,“Warp Speed, Time Travel, Big Data, and More: DB2 10 New Features”,“DB2 pureScale: Risk Free Agile Scaling”,“DB2 Certification for Dummies”,“DB2 for Dummies”,and more. In his spare time, he enjoys all sorts of sporting activities, including running with his dog Chachi, avoiding punches in his MMA training, and trying to figure out the world according to Chloë—his daughter. You can reach him at paulz_ibm@msn.com.

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