CO N FERE N C E P R E V I E W S
INFORMS Big Data
Conference
New event, set for June 22-24, to focus on the business of big data.
How do you get from data discovery
to return on investment and real business value? The INFORMS Big Data
Conference, set for June 22-24 in San
Jose, Calif., aims to help you discover
just that. This newly launched topical
conference will put the focus squarely
on the business of big data. A major
component of the conference will be
case studies of big data projects that illustrate the complete journey from business problem to analytics solution.
The conference committee is being spearheaded by Margery Connor,
CAP, senior operations researcher-Advanced Analytics at Chevron, and Diego
Klabjan, CAP, professor and director
of the Master of Science in Analytics
Program at Northwestern University.
Other conference committee members are practitioners in the data arena, hailing from organizations such as
Humana, IBM, Booz Allen Hamilton,
SAIC, Intel, SAS, Alcatel-Lucent, and
UPS. The talks are being arranged into
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tracks on Case Studies, Big Data 101,
and Emerging Trends. Other talks will
address topics such as:
• expediting the journey from business
problem to analytics solution;
• bridging the gap between decisionmakers, IT managers and analytics
professionals; and
• selecting and using the right big data
technologies.
Speakers are handpicked by the
committee from an impressive list
of “who’s who” in the field of big data.
Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle, Ion
Stoica of UC- Berkeley, Paul Kent of
SAS and Simon Zhang of LinkedIn
have all confirmed they will share their
best practices, success stories and lessons learned on real implementation of
big data analytics. The Big Data 101
track will offer tutorials on how to navigate the big data ecosystem, how to select and use the right technologies, as
well as the challenges of building data
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