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Big Data Innovation Summit Seven Stages of Data-Driven Delight April 28 & 29, 2015 | San Jose Convention Center | California

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The Big Data Innovation Summit, San Jose is the flagship of the Big Data Innovation series. Featuring seven current & relevant data themed stages the summit is in tune with the latest developments & technologies in the space. With the right balance of speaker profiles Big Data Innovation promises to deliver the most unique case studies, implementations, lessons, challenges & data tales through inspiring, educating & insightful presentations. It’s time to take control of your data, this is the place to do so.

• 64+ industry expert keynote presentations

• 800+ of the global data community attending

• Multiple Stages covering todays hottest topics

• Interactive workshops with hands on approaches

• Over 14 hours of networking opportunities included

• Access to online presentations OnDemand post-summit

• 54+ case studies presented from Fortune 500 companies

• The largest & most important industry led Big Data summit

Big Data Innovation showcases some of the most interesting

Data Use Cases around

Multi-Stage TracksThe summit will cover tracks including: • Big Data Innovation Keynotes

• Big Data Analytics Track

• Data Science Track

• Apache Hadoop & NoSQL Track

• Machine Learning Track

• Data Architecture Track

• Cloud Technologies Track

co-located with the Chief Data Officer, Internet of Things & Data Visualization Innovation summits.

Attending Companies Annual Turn Over

59% Attending companies

annual turnover is $500+ million

Attendee’s Company Size

81% Attendees are

companies with 500+ employees

96% Attendees are Director

level or above

Attendee’s Job Title

Retail

Healthcare

Marketing

CPG

Telecommunications

Research

Public Sector

Entertainment

Manufacturing

Financial Services

Hi Tech

Computer Software Information Tech

Government

Big Data Innovation 2015

Big Data Innovation is now in its fourth year of delivering cutting-edge content in the Big Data realm, it has connected over 15,000 like-minded professionals brought together to explore, understand & be inspired by presentations from those leading the way in this fascinating space.

CIO/CTO’s

Business Analysts

Data Scientists

Data Engineers

DB Professionals

Product Managers

Researchers

Business Executives

Designers

Enterprise Architects

Incredible Data Minds

Cross Industry Population

Confirmed SpeakersCheck out the industry led speaker line-up consisting of 64+ leading data scientists, engineering, infrastructure, architecture & big data analytics leaders for 2015.

Principal Scientist, Spotify

Principal Data Scientist, Microsoft

Head of Intelligent Storage, Samsung

DVP, Data & Analytics, Walgreens

Senior Vice President, OfficeMax

Global Head of Commercial Analytics, Novartis

VP, Data Product Management, MasterCard

Senior Data Scientist, OpenTable

Data Scientist, Foursquare

VP, Data Science Engineering, Live Nation

Director, Engineering, Walmart Labs

Director, Data Science, Netflix

Data & Products, LinkedIn

Principal Data Scientist, Hirevue

Data Science Informatics Leader, GE

Data Science Lead, Trulia

Lead Software Engineer, Ancestry

Senior Analyst, Analytics, Dish Network

Chief Software Architect, Scientific Games

Chief Global Knowledge Officer, Hershey

Chief Data Scientist, Scholastic

Chief Technology Officer, Bitly

Director, Data Platform, Netflix

Director, Data Science, About.com

Solutions Architect, Sony

Global VP, Data Science, Citi

Assistant Chief, Data, US Census Bureau

Director, Corporate Measurement, Yahoo

VP, Brand Strategy, Allrecipes

Program Analyst, US Census Bureau

Manager, Device Analytics, Netflix

VP, Data & Strategic Analytics, TE Connectivity

Senior Data Scientist, Zions Bank

Director, Data Science, TiVo

VP, Data & Analytics, Tapjoy

Leader, Informatics, General Electric

President, AccuWeather

Industry Specialist, IBM

Senior Director, The Weather Channel

& so many more…for a full listing click here

The Speakers…

Bob GoodpasterChief Global Knowledge Officer The Hershey Company

Bob leads Hershey’s development and leverage of intellectual insights and proprietary tools to drive growth through fulfilling consumer and shopper demand. He is responsible for driving the company’s knowledge-based agenda by working with various functions to assess and develop their intellectual capital to gain competitive advantage. Bob’s organization consists of Hershey Knowledge Works, an entity which develops advanced capabilities including leverage of big data and Insights Driven Performance, Global Insights, Category Strategy & Insights, Advanced Analytics, Shopper Marketing, and Global eCommerce.

Juan LavistaPrincipal Data Scientist Bing.com (Microsoft)

Juan Lavista is a Principal Data Scientist for Bing.com at Microsoft, where he works with a team of data scientist searching for insights in petabytes of data. Juan joined Microsoft to work for the Microsoft Experimentation Platform (EXP) where he designed and ran control experiments across different Microsoft properties.

Before joining Microsoft, Juan was the CTO and cofounder of alerts.com. He has been a speaker at conferences in many countries including the US, Canada, Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay, and he also was a TedX Speaker in 2010 in Argentina.

Joel MyersFounder & President AccuWeather

Dr. Joel N. Myers, Founder, President and Chairman of AccuWeather, has been recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the greatest entrepreneurs in American history.

He is a proven visionary leader, founding the company in 1962 and successfully establishing AccuWeather as the largest and fastest growing weather media company in the world.

Beena AmmanathData Informatics Leader General Electric

Beena is the Data Science Informatics Leader at GE. She leads the data efforts to support data science at GE. She works across the GE businesses to drive advanced analytics development leveraging big data technologies. She is passionate about data and analytics to aid cross functional teams to derive data insights, aid teams in articulating questions they did not know they had and help view data in more effective ways.

Beena has over 20 years’ experience in the data arena with a number of international organizations including British Telecom, E*trade and Thomson Reuters. She holds a Masters in Computer Science and MBA in Finance.

Todd HollowayData Science Lead Trulia

Todd Holloway is a big data expert whose career has spanned two areas--artificial intelligence and data visualization. Most recently he built and leads the Data Science team at Trulia, which is applying machine learning, network science, NLP, and computer vision technologies to the large datasets found in the real estate domain.

Previously he worked on AI and data visualization projects at AT&T, Ingenuity Systems, TheFind, and Amazon. Examples of his visualization work can be seen at abeautifulwww.com.

Kirk BorneData Scientist & Astrophysicist George Mason UniversityPreviously NASA

Kirk Borne is a Data Scientist and Professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science in the George Mason University School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences. He has been at Mason since 2003, where he does research, teaches ,and advises students in the graduate and undergraduate Data Science, Informatics, and Computational Science programs.

Previously, he spent nearly 20 years in positions supporting NASA projects, including an assignment as NASA's Data Archive Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope, and as Project Manager in NASA's Space Science Data Operations Office. He has extensive experience in big data and data science, including expertise in scientific data mining and data systems.

The Speakers…

Jonathan RobertsDirector, Data Science About.com

Dr Jon Roberts has ten years of research experience in high energy physics and cosmic rays. He recently transitioned from academia to take a position as the Director of Data Science for About.com, where he leads a team of researchers pulling insight from 18 years of internet data across a swathe of topics.

He is consistently amazed by the cross-over in analysis problems from cosmic ray astrophysics to one of the world's largest content companies.

Ferris JumahData Scientist LinkedIn

Ferris Jumah is a data scientist at LinkedIn. In this position, he has analyzed and modeled relevancy and revenue impact for LinkedIn ads, and worked on developing large scale machine learning systems for email relevancy and frequency.

He has a background in statistics, with interests in network analysis, specifically community detection, and experience in applying methods to advertising, internet, and retail data.

Rajeeve KaulSenior Vice President OfficeMax

Rajeeve Kaul is Senior Vice President at OfficeMax. His education includes MS and MBA degrees from UMass (Amherst). In his prior role as Vice President, Pricing and Strategy at Cardinal Health he was responsible developing go to market and pricing strategy, for developing an understanding of the Cardinal customer portfolio and the overall deal management and compliance functions.

Prior to joining Cardinal, Rajeeve was Director, Price and Product Optimization, at AutoZone, a Fortune 300 where he developed next-generation solutions improving product assortment and deploying differentiated pricing capabilities.

The Speakers…

Arun JagatheesanHead of Intelligent Storage Samsung

Arun Jagatheesan leads multiple efforts at Samsung Research America to create new business opportunities in consumer electronics using large-scale data management and analytics (big-data). His current research interests, as part of Samsung’s new Cloud Research Lab, include application of big-data analytics in voice and healthcare/fitness applications (smartphones, wearables, smart TV).

He has received research merit awards from Samsung’s CEO (2013) and Samsung’s corporate CTO (2012). His research work has been invited to be demoed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Aaron CaldieroSenior Data Scientist Zions Bancorporation

Aaron Caldiero is a Senior Data Scientist in the Security Analytics Department at Zions Bancorporation. As a Data Scientist, Aaron performs data mining, statistical modeling, and analytics on Zion’s Security Data Warehouse (Hadoop cluster).

Using the tools of Data Science Aaron builds, implements, and maintains risk models for fraud and malware detection. Aaron has over ten years of experience in the Analytics and Financial Services industries. He has a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Utah, and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics from Penn State.

Phil O’NeillVP, Data Science & Analytics Tapjoy

Dedicated senior analytics executive with proven history setting strategic direction, executing tactical plans, building effective teams, and managing change across diverse industries. Entrepreneurial mindset focused on creating value, growing revenues, and containing costs.

Distinguished by ability to grasp and clearly community complex systems and models. Determined, highly-motivated, action-oriented self-starter who takes personal responsibility to get things done and remains focused under pressure.

The Speakers…

John TooheyChief Software Architect Scientific Games

With two billion in revenues, Scientific Games is a leading innovator in the global lottery and regulated gaming industries. The company acquired WMS gaming in 2013 and announced plans to acquire Bally Technologies in 2014.

As Chief Software Architect John is a member of the Company’s leadership team having primary responsibility to ensure the Company’s software solution is well engineered, operable, maintainable, delivered on schedule, aligns to product strategy/vision and provides the anticipated business value.

Karthik VishDirector, Data Marketing Macy’s

A dynamic leader, strategist and accomplished retail executive with 12+ years of experience in omni-channel marketing, online merchandising, web analytics, database marketing (Email, SMS), CRM, A/B testing methodologies and customer engagement (CEM). Currently heading up Macys.com's Paid Search program to deliver topline growth that are aligned with maximizing marketing investments, leveraging Big Data and Analytics to drive marketing intelligence and advancing the organization’s omni-channel strategies. Successful track record of building high performing teams that deliver exceptional results, be it as products, platforms/business solutions or strategy, within aggressive 'time to market' and efficient budgets.

Matthew BurrisGVP, Data Science Citi

Matthew is Global Assistant Vice President of Data Science at Citi. In his role he primarily engages and guides various business sectors how to make a data driven mindset part of their strategic skills. This is done through designing and building prototype Big Data solutions for key strategic initiatives on multi-terabyte datasets using machine learning algorithms, data mining insights, data visualizations or statistical models.

Matthew has gone on to develop and provide Citi with Big Data & Analytics shared service capabilities to meet the needs of various LOBs including testing analytics and data science related products.

The Speakers…

Shiva K.Lead Machine Learning Researcher General Electric

Machine learning researcher working on designing novel data-driven analytic solutions for modeling and analysis of data resulting from industrial machines. Developing big-data solutions that will lead to new efficiency gains for the industrial sector.

This work is playing an important role in fulfilling GE's vision of the Industrial Internet.

George CorugedoChief Technology Officer RedPoint

A mathematician and seasoned technology executive, George Corugedo has over 20 years of business and technical expertise. As co-founder and CTO of RedPoint Global, George is responsible for leading the development of the RedPoint Convergent Marketing Platform™. A former math professor,

George left academia to co-found Accenture’s Customer Insight Practice, which specialized in strategic data utilization, analytics and customer strategy. Previous positions included director of client delivery at ClarityBlue, Inc., a provider of hosted customer intelligence solutions to enterprise commercial entities.

Krishnan SaranathanMD, Customer Data & Optimization United Airlines

Krishnan Saranathan is the Managing Director of Customer Data and Optimization at United Airlines, the United States leading airline provider. In his role Krishnan defines and leads investment in customer data, leveraging customer data to drive customer engagement, improve operational efficiency and enable smarter interactions through CRM systems in place.

As well as this a day to day role of Krishnan’s is leading the Business Intelligence & Insight Generation functions of United Airlines.

The Speakers…

& so many more…for a full listing click here

Big Data Innovation 2015 will feature seven stages across the two days including:

Big Data’s Seven Stages…

Data AnalyticsThe Data Analytics track offers presentations on the process of examining large data sets containing a variety of data types to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, trends, customer preferences and other useful information driven by data.

Hadoop & NoSQLThis track is designed for the more technical type of attendee, the track will discuss how Hadoop changes the economics and dynamics of large scale computing, looking at how Hadoop can bring power to Big Data allowing data to become scalable, cost-effective, flexible and fault

Data ScienceThe Data Science track will give insights on how to best extract knowledge from data, getting meaning from data & producing data products. There will also discussion on the role of the data scientist and building a successful data science team.

Data & the CloudCloud Computing has taken leaps & bounds in the last 12 months allowing organizations to deploy groups of remote servers and software networks that allow centralized data storage and online access. Big Data plays a crucial role in this including the applications, platforms and infrastructure cloud is shaped by.

Machine LearningAnother technical track that explores the design of algorithms that can make use of data. Content to include how to master the most effective machine learning techniques allowing computers to act without explicit programming.

The KeynotesThe Big Data Innovation keynotes will provide a holistic view on the Big Data landscape identifying emerging technologies and exploring fascinating use cases. The keynotes will provide you with both industry case studies and solutions and services for your every need.

Data ArchitectureData Architecture will look into how data is composed of policies, rules and standards that govern which data is collected, how it is stored & arranged then distributed in data systems across organizations.

The Venue

San Jose Convention CenterWelcome to bustling San Jose, where Silicon Valley meets Spanish history and modern edifices sit alongside meticulously restored 19th-century buildings. San Jose is the largest city in Northern California and the capital of Silicon Valley, home to several high-tech companies.

Address150 West San Carlos Street, San Jose, CA 95113 1-800-SAN-JOSE http://www.sanjose.org

Room Reservation Information The Innovation Enterprise have a preferential room rate at the nearby Fairmont Hotel located 170 South Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113. The rate is $259 per night. To make a room reservation please call 1-800-346-5550 quoting Innovation Enterprise. To make an online reservation please click here.

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10.30am Coffee Break

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12.30pm Lunch

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ScheduleBig Data Innovation Summit,April 28 & 28, San Jose Convention Center

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Day 1 - April 28

7am Registration & Light Breakfast

8.30am Big Data Innovation Keynotes

10.30am Coffee Break

11am Big Data Innovation Keynotes

12pm Lunch

1.30pm All session tracks begin

3pm Coffee Break

3.30pm Session tracks continue

5pm End of Summit

Day 2 - April 29

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