
Its slogan may be “Mining Big Data for Big Profits,” but if the pressure to boycott Indiana continues gaining steam, the Indy Big Data conference might have trouble turning its own profit. The conference is set to be held next month in Indianapolis at the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium.
Now, along with several other data-industry firms, Amazon won’t be there. “We are not participating in the conference,” a spokeswoman told Ad Age. According to the event site, AWS Database Services Business Development Manager Greg Khairallah, is set to speak about “Agile Big Data Analytics powered by Amazon Web Services.”
The spokeswoman continued, “Nobody will present. Our speaker’s photo will be gone by the end of the day. They are fielding multiple requests.”
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