Uli Bethke is the co-founder of <a target='_blank' href='http://www.sonra.io'>Sonra</a>. Sonra is a Big Data consulting company in Ireland and a partner company of MapR, the only enterprise-ready Hadoop distribution. Sonra provide services and accelerators for data warehouse offload and data lake implementations on MapR. Uli is a data visionary and provides thought leadership in the architecture and implementation of data driven applications. He has led some of the largest and most complex data warehouse implementations in Europe. Uli is the chair of the <a target='_blank' href='http://www.meetup.com/hadoop-user-group-ireland/'>Hadoop User Group Ireland</a>. You can get in touch with Uli by connecting with him on <a target='_blank' href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulibethke'>LinkedIn</a> or <a target='_blank' href='https://twitter.com/ubethke'>Twitter</a>.
