Tag: Big Data Track

Ben Morss, Google

From Cake to Google: Musician-turned-tech leader composes career between keyboards

By Tommy Felts / October 25, 2018

Well into a music career — but noticing friends who were still trying to find gigs to make ends meet — Ben Morss faced a life-altering pivot. “I got sick of it and I turned to programming full time,” said Morss, a developer advocate at Google. “As a musician, I was trying to call people…

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Big Data Summit returning to Techweek KC; organizer lauds refreshed content for 2018

By Tommy Felts / September 27, 2018

Enhanced leadership, along with the Big Data Summit Track, is bringing the “tech” back to Techweek KC, said Don Peterson. The Big Data Summit, Kansas City’s annual convergence of data, technology and analytics, founded by Peterson and the KC Big Data Group in 2012, had stopped working with Techweek KC after the 2016 event, he…

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