The team at GraphLab has partnered with the MLconf team for the third year to create a symposium for a projected over 800 data scientists, software engineers and big data analytics thinkers from the startups, academic institutions and organizations leading the way in this space.

The agenda of The GraphLab Conference has been carefully curated by committee to ensure a highly informative, productive and enriching experience. Talks begins on July 21 with Carlos Guestrin, the co-founder and CEO of GraphLab, who will reveal exciting new details on the company's strategy and road map. Other featured talks include leaders from companies such as: Cloudera, Trifacta, Databricks, Google Research NYC, DataPad and several others. This event offers discounted student tickets and low ticket fares, thanks to the sponsoring companies that have contributed to the event including: Google, Sqrrl, ExxonMobil, Pandora, StumbleUpon, Rackspace, Neo Technology, SYSTAP, Franz, dataiku, Atigeo, Oracle, Yarc Data, Objectivity, Senzari and Adobe.

The conference will also feature nearly 40 demonstrations from firms, scientists and academics around the world who will showcase their projects and work in the areas of machine learning and predictive analytics. For those wanting to go deeper, a full day of training on July 22 is devoted to hands on training with GraphLab Create, software to build data products. Nearly the entire GraphLab development team will be onsite to provide valuable insights and contacts.

Readers of Gigaom save 15 percent of the price of tickets when they mention "GO15" when registering for the conference and training, at gl3.eventbrite.com. Follow @graphlabconf for event updates and discount codes.