Barack Obama visiting Bay Area for invitation-only event at tech company

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On the heels of U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to the Bay Area on Tuesday, former President Barack Obama will be making a San Francisco appearance.

Obama is scheduled to be the featured speaker at a small, invitation-only event hosted by the San Francisco tech company Splunk at an undisclosed location downtown on Wednesday morning. Splunk's headquarters are on Brannan Street in SoMa.

Splunk produces software for searching and analyzing big data sets. The focus of the half-day conference titled "The Beginning of Everything" is on innovations in big data.

"Splunk executives, customers and partners from a variety of industries" will be attending, according to a statement from the company.

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CEO Doug Merritt will interview Obama, and, according to Market Watch, the two will be discussing responsible practices in data management and decision making, including the information-gathering habits and business practices of big tech.

Market Watch reports Merritt will not be asking Obama about the federal government's ongoing investigation of Alphabet, Google, Amazon and Facebook and their use of customers' data "because Obama has shown restraint in commenting on the current administration."

Obama has been called the "big data" president. His 2008 and 2012 election campaigns relied heavily on data analysis, and during his leadership the federal government's clearinghouse of information Data.gov was launched and made available to the public.

Splunk chose to not comment on what Obama is being paid to appear at the event.

Amy Graff is a digital editor for SFGATE. Email her at agraff@sfgate.com.