Structure Data
Pier Sixty Chelsea Piers – | New York, NY
Jump to day 2 Day 1:
Opening Remarks
Emceed by
Joe Weinman — Analyst, Gigaom Research, Author, CloudonomicsWhat’s big, and what’s next, in data
The data landscape has evolved a lot and few people have better insights into where we’re headed than Hilary Mason and Matt Ocko.
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Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, GigaomSmart Machine, and What They Can Still Learn from People
For nearly half a century, AI has seemed just beyond reach.
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Gary Marcus — CEO, Geometric IntelligenceThe Hadoop era is just getting started
Seven years after Cloudera was founded, Hadoop is finally poised to become an IT mainstay.
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Tom Reilly — CEO, ClouderaModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomWhen you know you’ve mastered new media analytics
BuzzFeed is legacy media’s worst nightmare – and also it’s biggest source of innovation inspiration.
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Jane Kelly — Data Science Lead, BuzzFeedModerated by
Laura Hazard Owen — Managing Editor, GigaomMorning Break
Main StageIntel Sponsor Workshop: Groundhog’s Shadow: The long winter of predictive analytics apps
We all know that organizations will not get value from data without a wide array of analytics applications.
More…OceanicWSO2 Sponsor Workshop: Data Entitlement in an API-Centric Architecture
Information is delivered today in many forms, creating a value web through data-driven APIs.
More…Aquitania WestRyft Sponsor Workshop: Purpose-built Hardware: Changing Performance and Value Expectations in Big Data Analytics
Current large cluster solutions are too complex, expensive and hard to manage for most organizations.
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A look inside big data and analytics at Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin handles IT for some of the biggest federal agencies and most important federal programs, and now they’re making their moves into the world of big data.
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Ravi Hubbly — Senior Technology Manager, Growth and Innovation, Lockheed MartinModerated by
Cormac Foster — Research Director, Gigaom ResearchBuilding infrastructure for the internet of things
As we put sensors in more and more devices, the demands on processing and analyzing the data they produce are increasing as well.
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Matt Wood — GM, Data Science, Amazon Web ServicesModerated by
Jonathan Vanian — Staff Writer, GigaomHow new data is changing the business of sports
New types of data collection and new approaches to statistics are fundamentally changing the business of sports.
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Krish Dasgupta — VP, Data Platforms, ESPNBill Squadron — Executive VP, Pro Analytics, STATSModerated by
Barb Darrow — Senior Writer, GigaomBuilding the brains for the robot revolution
Robots, in their myriad forms, have the potential to reshape both business and our personal lives.
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Ashutosh Saxena — Assistant Professor, Cornell University and Stanford UniversityJulie Shah — Assistant Professor, MITModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomThe importance of machine learning at Microsoft
Data analysis has already become more accessible to non-experts thanks to new software and services meant to simplify areas such as business intelligence, but Microsoft is betting that’s just the beginning.
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Joseph Sirosh — VP, Corporate, Information Management and Machine Learning, MicrosoftModerated by
Barb Darrow — Senior Writer, GigaomLunch Break
OceanicAlpine Data Labs Sponsor Workshop: Advanced Analytics at Enterprise Scale: Panel with Morgan Stanley and Lockheed Martin
In this session, Jeff McMillan, Morgan Stanley, and Ravi Hubbly from Lockheed Martin will discuss how they are bringing advanced analytics straight to the business, and the importance of empowering an entire organization with data. Speakers Bruno Aziza – CMO, Alpine
More…Aquitania WestTamr Sponsor Workshop: The Scalable Data Unification Imperative
Organizations need a faster, simpler way to find, connect and prepare data from diverse data sources for analytics.
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Protecting privacy in an age of unbounded data
Between the web, smartphones and wearable technologies, Americans are handing over personal data at every turn.
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Julie Brill — Commissioner, U.S. Federal Trade CommissionModerated by
Jeff Roberts — Senior Writer, GigaomAquitania WestGigaom Research Mapping Session: Cloud-Based Data Warehousing
Mapping sessions are live, interactive, facilitated discussions with a small, focused participant audience.
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Andrew Brust — Research Director, Gigaom ResearchHow to get the fastest analytics and optimize business
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Michael Greene — VP, Software and Services Group and General Manager, System Technologies and Optimization, Intel CorporationModerated by
Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, GigaomHow to analyze the world. All of it
The GDELT Project (http://gdeltproject.org/) is a realtime index over global human society, inventorying the world’s events, emotions, and narratives as they happen.
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Kalev Leetaru — Founder, GDELT ProjectComing soon: smarter hardware for smarter computers
Whether they’re running on servers or smartphones, some believe that machine learning algorithms will require specially designed systems.
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Eugenio Culurciello — CTO and Founder, TeradeepAnthony Lewis — Senior Director of Technology, QualcommNaveen Rao — CEO, Nervana SystemsModerated by
Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, GigaomAfternoon Break
OceanicCenturyLink Sponsor Workshop: Data to Decisions
Organizations today are confounded by an avalanche of data that needs to be processed and managed on a daily basis.
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Aquitania EastDell Sponsor Workshop: 5 Things to Avoid in Big Data
What do a supply chain management company, retailer, large credit card company and research university have in common?
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Jeff Hawkins — Co-Founder, NumentaModerated by
Andrew Brust — Research Director, Gigaom ResearchA better diet through data science
Hampton Creek has infiltrated grocery stores around the country with its egg-free mayonnaise and cookie dough.
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Dan Zigmond — VP, Data, Hampton CreekModerated by
Kif Leswing — Staff Writer, GigaomDiagnosing disease with deep learning and AI
Deep learning has been heralded as a savior of computer vision and is a major focus of investment by web companies.
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Ahna Girshick — Head of Product and Partnerships, EnliticModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomUsing big data to improve patient care
Join Dr. Steven Horng for a session on how healthcare practitioners can use big data to retrospectively and prospectively improve healthcare.
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Steven Horng — Associate Director of Emergency Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical SchoolClosing Day 1
Emceed by
Joe Weinman — Analyst, Gigaom Research, Author, CloudonomicsAT&T Cocktail Reception
Day 2:
Registration and Breakfast
Opening Day 2
Emceed by
Joe Weinman — Analyst, Gigaom Research, Author, CloudonomicsHow to really make use of Twitter’s big, fast data
Twitter is becoming an increasingly rich source of data for everything from public health to business intelligence.
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Ted Bailey — Founder and CEO, DataminrSeth McGuire — Senior Business Development Manager, TwitterModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomGetting to the root of crime, using data
An economist by training, Jens Ludwig is leading a research effort to determine new methods for preventing crime.
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Jens Ludwig — Director, University of Chicago Crime LabWhy Wall Street is betting big on open source
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks pulled off a successful, and surprising, IPO in December.
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Rob Bearden — CEO, HortonworksModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomWhy Apache Spark is the fast, easy future of big data
Ion Stoica, one of the creators of Apache Spark and CEO of Databricks, will answer questions from the audience about what Spark is and why it’s being lauded as the best thing to happen to big data since Hadoop.
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Ion Stoica — CEO, DatabricksModerated by
Andrew Brust — Research Director, Gigaom ResearchMorning Break
Main StageJuniper Networks Sponsor Workshop: IT for the Next Century- How Do You Architect Your Network for the Future?
With 3 billion plus internet users worldwide creating roughly a billion terabytes of traffic in 2015 alone, as an Enterprise business, how do you architect your network for the future?
More…OceanicHP Sponsor Workshop: Your Big Data Roadmap: Past, Present and Future
Bank of New York Mellon, the New York Genome Center and adMarketplace will discuss their future visions, challenges and goals.
More…Aquitania WestQlik Sponsor Workhshop: It’s not you, it’s them: Responsive design and data analysis
Getting beautifully rendered data to people is not enough. It’s the active use of data that matters most.
More…Aquitania EastCrowdFlower Sponsor Workshop: Humanizing the machine: Why we need human intelligence to pick up where the machine leaves off
Social media provides a seemingly infinite stream of consumer opinions, ripe for brands to analyze and leverage.
More…Balancing open source and innovation in Hadoop
As CEO of one of the big three Hadoop companies, John Schroeder knows a lot about the business of big data.
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John Schroeder — CEO, MapRModerated by
Caroline McCrory — Senior Director, Gigaom ResearchAquitania WestGigaom Research Mapping Session: SaaS BI Solutions
Mapping sessions are live, interactive, facilitated discussions with a small, focused participant audience.
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Lynn Langit — Architect, Lynn Langit ConsultingWilliam McKnight — President, McKnight Consulting GroupJen Stirrup — Principal, Data RelishModerated by
Andrew Brust — Research Director, Gigaom ResearchBig data for people
Jock Mackinlay has been studying data visualization since his days at Xerox PARC and is now heading up research within Tableau Software.
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Jock Mackinlay — VP, Visual Analysis, Tableau SoftwareThe secret behind the world’s biggest systems
If you’ve built or bought a distributed computing system in the past decade, its design was probably informed by Eric Brewer’s CAP Theorem.
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Eric Brewer — VP, Infrastructure, GoogleModerated by
Barb Darrow — Senior Writer, GigaomThe internet of big, expensive, important things
The internet of things is not just about fitness trackers and smart thermostats.
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Nancy Hersh — VP, Analytics, OpowerWilliam Ruh — VP and Corporate Officer, GE Software, General ElectricModerated by
Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, GigaomSmarter machines mean smarter farming
Roboticist Lee Redden struck a nerve in the agriculture industry with his startup Blue River Technology, which uses computer vision to optimize farming operations right in the field.
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Lee Redden — CTO and Co-Founder, Blue River TechnologyModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomLunch Break
OceanicPivotal Sponsor Workshop: The Virtuous Cycle of Storage, Analytics and Applications
Hear how companies are now transforming into data-driven enterprises using a single open-source platform that combines flexible data storage systems, advanced analytics and agile app-dev PaaS frameworks.
More…Aquitania WestLooker Data Sponsor Workshop: How Donorshoose.org Centralized Data on Redshift and Democratized Access to Visual Insights
At DonorsChoose.org, we decentralize our tools (Zendesk, Optimizely, Heap) and centralize our data (Redshift, Looker).
More…Aquitania EastCambridge Semantics Sponsor Workshop: Making Big Data Smart with Business Friendly, Graph Based Semantic Models
IT departments and business users face daunting challenges to securely, quickly and flexibly link, manage and analyze their diverse data.
More…Deep learning 101: How and why it’s taking the world by storm
There is no hotter field in machine learning and big data than deep learning, and Rob Fergus is one of the leading researchers in the space.
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Rob Fergus — Research Scientist, FacebookModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomReinventing the music industry with computers that can hear
The co-founder of music data specialist the Echo Nest, Brian Whitman specializing in analyzing the sounds and meaning of music.
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Brian Whitman — Principal Music Scientist, SpotifyModerated by
Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, GigaomBuilding a better web platform through data science
Yahoo is still an engine of innovation when it comes to creating, storing and monetizing online content.
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Ron Brachman — Chief Scientist, Yahoo and Head, Yahoo Labs, YahooModerated by
Barb Darrow — Senior Writer, GigaomRevolutionizing space travel and AI with quantum computing
If deep learning is the AI revolution of this decade, the next decade might belong to quantum computing.
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Davide Venturelli — Science Operations Manager, NASA Ames Research Center, Universities Space Research AssociationModerated by
Jonathan Vanian — Staff Writer, GigaomAfternoon Break
OceanicBottlenose Sponsor Workshop
What big data means to businesses and consumers
Of course web companies have embraced big data, but what about the world’s biggest financial institutions?
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Don Duet — Co-Head, Technology Division, Goldman SachsModerated by
Barb Darrow — Senior Writer, GigaomGigaom Structure Data Awards
Senior Writers from the editorial team will present their selections of the best and brightest big data startups with an award and the chance to talk about how they are changing the game.
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Eugenio Culurciello — CTO and Founder, TeradeepPaul Duan — President, Bayes ImpactAhna Girshick — Head of Product and Partnerships, EnliticAnn Johnson — CEO and Founder, InteranaNeha Narkhede — Head of Engineering, ConfluentAndy Palmer — CEO and Co-Founder, TamrNaveen Rao — CEO, Nervana SystemsSven Strohband — CEO, MetaMindModerated by
Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomClosing Remarks
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Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, GigaomCocktail Reception