Hi Suneel,

I just (yesterday) submitted a proposal for Hadoop Summit Tokyo in October.
Here is the information:

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Title: Scalable Private Information Retrieval — Introducing Apache Pirk
(incubating)

Abstract: Querying information over TBs of data where no one can see what
you query or the responses obtained? It sounds like science fiction, but it
is actually the science of Private Information Retrieval (PIR). This talk
will introduce Apache Pirk - a new incubating Apache project designed to
provide a framework for scalable, distributed PIR. We will discuss the
motivation for Apache Pirk, its distributed implementations in platforms
such as Spark and Storm, it’s current algorithms, the power of homomorphic
encryption, and take a look at the path forward.  Any scenario in which a
user wishes to ask completely private questions of a dataset to which they
have been granted access is a great application for Apache Pirk - we will
discuss such scenarios as well.
Bio: Ellison Anne Williams is a creator and PMC member of Apache Pirk, a
pure mathematician by training, and a practical computer scientist in real
life. Her passion is doing cool stuff with massive amounts of data.

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I was considering submitting the same for ApacheCon under the 'incubating'
section and am happy to do so -- I will tweak it according to some specific
questions ApacheCon wants addressed in their CFP. I think that we can have
two 'Introducing Pirk' talks in rapid succession (Hadoop Summit is late
October, ApacheCon is mid November). From that point, I think that we have
to move beyond the introductory talks.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Ellison Anne

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Suneel Marthi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Are we considering submitting a Pirk proposal for ApacheCon Europe 2016?
> The CFP closes Sep 7.
>
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-europe
>
> Suneel
>

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