An Official Big Data Week festival event.
Join us on 7th May, at University College London, where the Big Data Week London team will host and chair a day of case studies, presentations, community showcases and debates with the UK data Community. We’ll have a community segment to the day, with speakers from across all the UK Data Meetup communities speaking about their passion and making this an interactive day for all.
Whether you’re a newbie to the concept of Big Data or you’re an experienced Data Scientist, this one day event will educate you in many aspects of this growing sector and demonstrate what’s really possible with data.
EVENT VENUE
The London Conference is being held at University College London.
UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Wilkins Building
UCL Main Campus
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
We’ll be hosting the event in the Wilkins Building. There will be Big Data signage on campus to guide all participants.
EVENT PARTNERS
Couchbase, O’Reilly Strata, ASI, Ketchum, Affectv and Bigstep are Official Partners of Big Data Week London conference
EVENT PROGRAMME
| 9.30am | Coffee and Registration |
| 10.00am | Welcome and introductions Ben Lorica Chief Data Scientist, O’Reilly Strata |
| 10.05am | Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor of The Economist |
| 10.30am | Internet of Things: Dave Starling – Chief Architect Picsolve |
| 10.50am | Quantified Self: Ruth Thomson, Cambridge Consultants |
| 11.10am | Future Cities: Edward Bryan, Vice President Smarter Cities Development, IBM |
| 11.30am | Coffee break |
| 11.50am | Future Cities: Karen Lomas Director of Smart Cities and buildings, EMEA Intel |
Session Theme: Quantified Self |
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| 12.10am | Pravin Paratey, CTO, Affectv |
| 12.30pm | Bigstep & Splunk joint presentation: Big Data and Social Media |
| 12.50pm | Toby Oliver, CTO Path Intelligence |
| 1.05pm | Lunch |
Session Theme: Internet of Things |
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| 2.00pm | Maarten Ectors, Strategy Director IOT, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu |
| 2.20pm | James Robinson, CTO OpenSignal |
| 2.50pm | Siraj M Tahir, Principal at RainTech – BigData in the Engineering sector |
| 3.10pm | BREAK |
Community Speaker Sessions |
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| 3.30pm | Phil Harvey – CTO DataShaka |
| 3.50pm | Michael Cutler – CTO Cofounder of data science startup TUMRA |
| 4.10pm | Eva Pascoe – Cybersalon, New Urban Informatics – balancing Innovation with Personal Privacy |
| 4.30pm | Closing comments |
| Event continues from 6pm at Ketchum. Join in the conversation with O’Reilly Strata host Ben Lorica at Ketchum for an evening drinks, food and lightning talks about the uses of data across retail, commerce, marketing, social and business. Event venue Ketchum: 35-41 Folgate Street E1 6BX |
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