About Speaker

Josh Patterson is CEO of Patterson Consulting, a solution integrator at the intersection of big data, machine learning infrastructure, and applied machine learning. The Patterson Consulting team brings over a decade of big data experience and wide-ranging deep learning experience to Fortune 500 projects. At the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) / NERC, Josh drove the integration of Apache Hadoop for large-scale data storage and processing of smart grid phasor measurement unit (PMU) data. Post-TVA, Josh was a principal solutions architect for a young Hadoop startup named Cloudera, as employee 36. After leaving Cloudera, Josh was VP Field Engineering for Skymind, co-founded the (Eclipse Foundation) Deeplearning4j project, co-authored the book “Deep Learning: A Practitioner’s Approach” (O’Reilly, 2017), and co-authored the “Kubeflow Operations Guide” (O’Reilly, 2020)