Alvaro Costa, CEO of Synthetic Data, a software house with clients such as Daimler, Santander, Telefónica, Alkol Biotech, etc. He’s the author of 4 books, the last on Big Data, and a professor of Big Data at Madrid’s EOI – Escuela de Organización Industrial. He holds a Master´s Degree in Computer Engineering from USF – University of South Florida. and has developed a two-way transmission architecture based on Spark Streaming and the AMQP messaging system called Roundabout.