Business information provider UBM Tech, US, has announced The Big Data Conference, the event which is designed to help both business and technology professionals capitalise on the boom in big data. The focus includes strategy (both business and technology), governance and operations, plus the latest in tools and technologies.
The Big Data Conference is a global brand and its sister event, The Big Data Show, takes place annually in London each spring. The Big Data Conference will be held alongside Cloud Connect in Chicago's McCormick Place, October 21-23.
The Big Data Conference is partnering with Nemertes Research, the research-advisory and strategic-consulting firm specialising in analysing and quantifying the business value of emerging technologies, to provide three days of comprehensive content for every technology, marketing seeking to benefit from the boom in data volume, variety and velocity.
Attendees will learn about new business models and how to use big data to shape and determine the future of their businesses. The conference is seen as a critical event for marketing and other lines of business executives, technology executives including CIOs and CTOs, enterprise architects, and data warehousing professionals tasked with the responsibility of capitalising on the big data opportunity.
Spanning three days, the conference offers in-depth educational programmes, workshops, case studies, demonstrations and real-world technology implementations. Topics addressed at the event include Large enterprise case studies in key verticals covered including manufacturing, retail, healthcare, financial services; The big picture: A lifecycle for big data management; Structuring the organisation to take advantage of big data; Setting a big data strategy; Data visualization & interfaces; Domain-specific data types centered on people, money, time, and location; and Hadoop and other big data platforms & architectures.
The Advisory Board members include Johna Till Johnson, President & Founder, Nemertes Research and Conference Co-Chair, The Big Data Conference; Paige Pires de Almeida, GM & Conference Co-Chair, The Big Data Conference; Doug Henschen, Executive Editor, Informationweek; John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research; Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management; Marc Seybold, CIO, SUNY Stonybrook; and Ashok Joshi, Director, Berkeley DB Development, Oracle.
