This document outlines an agenda for a workshop on SparkR, which is an interface for R that allows users to leverage Apache Spark's distributed processing capabilities. The agenda includes an introduction to Spark and DataFrames, an overview of SparkR, and a machine learning demo. It also provides background on the speaker and his company, which uses data analytics to help businesses make decisions. Spark can process diverse data formats across various launch modes and platforms, and SparkR allows R users to take advantage of Spark's performance benefits while retaining R's interactive environment.