Reading Time: 3 minutes DataWorks Summit (formelly Hadoop Summit) is the industry’s premier big data community event with both an European and US edition, organized annualy by Hortonworks Inc, an independent company, formed in June 2011 and funded by $23 million venture capital from Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital. The last European event was in Munich, during April 4-6, with over 1,400 attendees. This will be probably much bigger.