How Big is Big Data? 
With Bruce Pitt

Overview:
With so much hype about “big data” and the industry pushing everyone to support “big data”, the following questions arise, “How many people have big data”? “How big is big data really”? “Isn’t it all subjective”? and “Don’t we really care about the analytical and visualization tools no matter what we call our data size”?

Bio:
Bruce has been developing software for over 40+ years in the medical equipment, avionics, financial services/clearing/trading, defense, telephony, consumer computer hardware, and internet infrastructure markets along with many more. He has been an entrepreneur in residence at Claremont College along and an alumni member of Tech Coast Angels. His has been a driving force in company growth from concept through development, deployment, and revenue for ten funded startups, three with successful exits. He has held positions as CTO, CEO, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Acting Vice President of Business Development, along with a many other leadership and programming positions. He has been categorized as an ultra-stack developer since he is an expert in firmware, communications, device drivers, application  software through thick clients and internet based Browser/Server/Database/API architectures using mostly modern internet technologies always with an emphasis on high availability mission critical systems. He has built development teams from zero to 70+ strong.