In the past I've attended multiple events hosted by NECINA . Recently the Director of NECINA-DIG invited me to speak in two events. On May 4, 2017 I was invited to be the sole speaker of a NECINA-DIG meetup event . The title of my talk was "Big Data Platform Landscape by 2017". The talk slides are available at https://BigAnalyticsPlatform.com . There were around 40 professionals who attended. On May 14, 2017 I was invited to be a panelist of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Financial Technology at 2017 Boston FinTech Forum with Ant Financial . My co-panelists included Peng Xu ( Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence, Ant Financial), Charles Wang ( AI and Big Data Scientist/Entrepreneur), and Greg Woolf ( Founder & CEO, Coalesce.Info). There were around 200 people who attended. NECINA stands for New England Chinese Information and Networking Association. Founded in 1996 (the year I came to the United States), it is a non-profi