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Structure Data

Pier Sixty Chelsea PiersMarch 18 – 19, 2015 | New York, NY

Schedule
  • Jump to day 2

    Day 1: Wed, March 18 Wednesday, March 18

    8:00 AM

    Registration And Breakfast

    9:00 AM

    Opening Remarks

    Speakers

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, Gigaom

    Emceed by

    Joe Weinman — Analyst, Gigaom Research, Author, Cloudonomics
    9:05 AM

    What’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.

    More…

    Speakers

    Hilary Mason — Founder, Fast Forward Labs
    Matt Ocko — Co-Managing Partner, Data Collective

    Moderated by

    Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    9:25 AM

    Smart Machine, and What They Can Still Learn from People

    For nearly half a century, AI has seemed just beyond reach.

    More…

    Speaker

    Gary Marcus — CEO, Geometric Intelligence
    9:45 AM

    The Hadoop era is just getting started

    Seven years after Cloudera was founded, Hadoop is finally poised to become an IT mainstay.

    More…

    Speaker

    Tom Reilly — CEO, Cloudera

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    10:05 AM

    When you know you’ve mastered new media analytics

    BuzzFeed is legacy media’s worst nightmare – and also it’s biggest source of innovation inspiration.

    More…

    Speaker

    Jane Kelly — Data Science Lead, BuzzFeed

    Moderated by

    Laura Hazard Owen — Managing Editor, Gigaom
    10:25 AM

    Morning Break

    10:40 AM
    Main Stage

    Intel 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…
    10:40 AM
    Oceanic

    WSO2 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…
    10:40 AM
    Aquitania West

    Ryft 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.

    More…
    10:40 AM
    Aquitania East

    New Relic Sponsor Workshop

    11:25 AM

    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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Ravi Hubbly — Senior Technology Manager, Growth and Innovation, Lockheed Martin

    Moderated by

    Cormac Foster — Research Director, Gigaom Research
    11:40 AM

    Building 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Matt Wood — GM, Data Science, Amazon Web Services

    Moderated by

    Jonathan Vanian — Staff Writer, Gigaom
    11:55 AM

    How 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.

    More…

    Speakers

    Krish Dasgupta — VP, Data Platforms, ESPN
    Bill Squadron — Executive VP, Pro Analytics, STATS

    Moderated by

    Barb Darrow — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    12:15 PM

    Building the brains for the robot revolution

    Robots, in their myriad forms, have the potential to reshape both business and our personal lives.

    More…

    Speakers

    Ashutosh Saxena — Assistant Professor, Cornell University and Stanford University
    Julie Shah — Assistant Professor, MIT

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    12:35 PM

    The 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Joseph Sirosh — VP, Corporate, Information Management and Machine Learning, Microsoft

    Moderated by

    Barb Darrow — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    12:50 PM

    Lunch Break

    1:05 PM
    Oceanic

    Alpine 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…
    1:05 PM
    Aquitania West

    Tamr 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.

    More…
    1:05 PM
    Aquitania East

    Rackspace Sponsor Workshop

    1:55 PM

    Protecting privacy in an age of unbounded data

    Between the web, smartphones and wearable technologies, Americans are handing over personal data at every turn.

    More…

    Speaker

    Julie Brill — Commissioner, U.S. Federal Trade Commission

    Moderated by

    Jeff Roberts — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    1:55 PM
    Aquitania West

    Gigaom Research Mapping Session: Cloud-Based Data Warehousing

    Mapping sessions are live, interactive, facilitated discussions with a small, focused participant audience.

    More…

    Speakers

    George Gilbert — Principal, TechAlpha Partners
    Paul Miller — Founder, Cloud of Data

    Moderated by

    Andrew Brust — Research Director, Gigaom Research
    2:15 PM

    How to get the fastest analytics and optimize business

    Speaker

    Michael Greene — VP, Software and Services Group and General Manager, System Technologies and Optimization, Intel Corporation

    Moderated by

    Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    2:30 PM

    How 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Kalev Leetaru — Founder, GDELT Project
    2:50 PM

    Coming 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.

    More…

    Speakers

    Eugenio Culurciello — CTO and Founder, Teradeep
    Anthony Lewis — Senior Director of Technology, Qualcomm
    Naveen Rao — CEO, Nervana Systems

    Moderated by

    Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    3:10 PM

    Afternoon Break

    3:25 PM
    Oceanic

    CenturyLink 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.

    More…
    3:25 PM
    Aquitania West

    SoftLayer Sponsor Workshop

    3:25 PM
    Aquitania East

    Dell 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?

    More…
    4:10 PM

    A 20-year quest to recreate the brain in software

    Speaker

    Jeff Hawkins — Co-Founder, Numenta

    Moderated by

    Andrew Brust — Research Director, Gigaom Research
    4:30 PM

    A better diet through data science

    Hampton Creek has infiltrated grocery stores around the country with its egg-free mayonnaise and cookie dough.

    More…

    Speaker

    Dan Zigmond — VP, Data, Hampton Creek

    Moderated by

    Kif Leswing — Staff Writer, Gigaom
    4:50 PM

    Diagnosing 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Ahna Girshick — Head of Product and Partnerships, Enlitic

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    5:10 PM

    Using 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Steven Horng — Associate Director of Emergency Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
    5:30 PM

    Closing Day 1

    Emceed by

    Joe Weinman — Analyst, Gigaom Research, Author, Cloudonomics
    5:35 PM

    AT&T Cocktail Reception

  • Day 2: Thu, March 19 Thursday, March 19

    8:15 AM

    Registration and Breakfast

    9:15 AM

    Opening Day 2

    Emceed by

    Joe Weinman — Analyst, Gigaom Research, Author, Cloudonomics
    9:20 AM

    How 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.

    More…

    Speakers

    Ted Bailey — Founder and CEO, Dataminr
    Seth McGuire — Senior Business Development Manager, Twitter

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    9:40 AM

    Getting 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Jens Ludwig — Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab
    10:00 AM

    Why Wall Street is betting big on open source

    Hadoop vendor Hortonworks pulled off a successful, and surprising, IPO in December.

    More…

    Speaker

    Rob Bearden — CEO, Hortonworks

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    10:15 AM

    Why 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Ion Stoica — CEO, Databricks

    Moderated by

    Andrew Brust — Research Director, Gigaom Research
    10:30 AM

    Morning Break

    10:45 AM
    Main Stage

    Juniper 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…
    10:45 AM
    Oceanic

    HP 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…
    10:45 AM
    Aquitania West

    Qlik 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…
    10:45 AM
    Aquitania East

    CrowdFlower 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…
    11:30 AM

    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.

    More…

    Speaker

    John Schroeder — CEO, MapR

    Moderated by

    Caroline McCrory — Senior Director, Gigaom Research
    11:30 AM
    Aquitania West

    Gigaom Research Mapping Session: SaaS BI Solutions

    Mapping sessions are live, interactive, facilitated discussions with a small, focused participant audience.

    More…

    Speakers

    Lynn Langit — Architect, Lynn Langit Consulting
    William McKnight — President, McKnight Consulting Group
    Jen Stirrup — Principal, Data Relish

    Moderated by

    Andrew Brust — Research Director, Gigaom Research
    11:50 AM

    Big 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Jock Mackinlay — VP, Visual Analysis, Tableau Software
    12:05 PM

    The 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Eric Brewer — VP, Infrastructure, Google

    Moderated by

    Barb Darrow — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    12:25 PM

    The internet of big, expensive, important things

    The internet of things is not just about fitness trackers and smart thermostats.

    More…

    Speakers

    Nancy Hersh — VP, Analytics, Opower
    William Ruh — VP and Corporate Officer, GE Software, General Electric

    Moderated by

    Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    12:45 PM

    Smarter 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Lee Redden — CTO and Co-Founder, Blue River Technology

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    1:00 PM

    Lunch Break

    1:15 PM
    Oceanic

    Pivotal 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…
    1:15 PM
    Aquitania West

    Looker 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…
    1:15 PM
    Aquitania East

    Cambridge 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…
    2:05 PM

    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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Rob Fergus — Research Scientist, Facebook

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    2:25 PM

    Reinventing 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Brian Whitman — Principal Music Scientist, Spotify

    Moderated by

    Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    2:45 PM

    Building a better web platform through data science

    Yahoo is still an engine of innovation when it comes to creating, storing and monetizing online content.

    More…

    Speaker

    Ron Brachman — Chief Scientist, Yahoo and Head, Yahoo Labs, Yahoo

    Moderated by

    Barb Darrow — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    3:05 PM

    Revolutionizing 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.

    More…

    Speaker

    Davide Venturelli — Science Operations Manager, NASA Ames Research Center, Universities Space Research Association

    Moderated by

    Jonathan Vanian — Staff Writer, Gigaom
    3:25 PM

    Afternoon Break

    3:40 PM
    Oceanic

    Bottlenose Sponsor Workshop

    4:25 PM

    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?

    More…

    Speaker

    Don Duet — Co-Head, Technology Division, Goldman Sachs

    Moderated by

    Barb Darrow — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    4:45 PM

    Gigaom 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.

    More…

    Speakers

    Eugenio Culurciello — CTO and Founder, Teradeep
    Paul Duan — President, Bayes Impact
    Ahna Girshick — Head of Product and Partnerships, Enlitic
    Ann Johnson — CEO and Founder, Interana
    Neha Narkhede — Head of Engineering, Confluent
    Andy Palmer — CEO and Co-Founder, Tamr
    Naveen Rao — CEO, Nervana Systems
    Sven Strohband — CEO, MetaMind

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    5:25 PM

    Closing Remarks

    Speaker

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom
    5:30 PM

    Cocktail Reception

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