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Bringing together business leaders and innovators for an event acclaimed for its interactive format; combining keynote presentations, interactive breakout sessions and open discussion. Click through to see the current agenda. Purchase an Access All Areas Pass to receive access to the co-located Apache Hadoop Innovation Summit and Data Science Innovation Summit.

Hear topics including:

• Taking Advantage of Structure in Data to Improve Predictive Models
• Better Consumer Experiences with Applied Machine Learning 
• Evolving Predictive Analytics from Score to Story 
• Models for the Performance of Big Data Systems 

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The Data and Information Management in Power and Utilities Conference taking place from 20 - 23 March 2016 in Abu Dhabi will focus on how power and utility companies can mitigate the above challenges and create value through efficient management of data. With smarter grids and meters being implemented, it has become crucial to take advantage of the readings and data received to forecast power flow, load and demand. Utility companies in the region will participate to understand how to reap the full benefits of new data analytics and management tools in order to improve report generation, enhance performance of their assets and better serve their customers. Learn more.

Join us for Couchbase Day on March 31 in Minneapolis. This FREE day-long educational event will feature a combination of hands-on workshops and presentations on Couchbase Server.

Couchbase experts will walk you through:

• Understanding distributed database architecture
• Scaling a distributed database and replicating data across multiple data centers
• Querying Couchbase Server
• Introduction to our new SQL-based language for JSON, N1QL ("Nickel")

Prerequisites:
To ensure you get the most out of the hands-on workshop, please bring your own laptop with VirtualBox, Vagrant and an SSH client installed. 

• VirtualBox 5.0
• VirtualBox Extension Pack
• Vagrant
• At least 10GB of free space on your local hard drive
• SSH client of some sort. For example, PuTTy.

*Help with Prerequisites:
Lab Environment Set Up: Between 8:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., our team will be available to help you get set up with VirtualBox/Vagrant and troubleshoot any set up or environment issues you may have.

Who should attend? If you’re a developer, architect, or operations expert who is new to Couchbase or wants to learn more, this is the event for you.

http://www.couchbase.com/nosql-resources/events/2016/march/couchbase-day-minneapolis

With the number of DDoS attacks resulting into an exponential rise in APTs, AVTs and SMTs apart from a wide complexity of these threats, especially in the GCC, organizations are focusing to build a comprehensive cyber security mechanism that will be using zero-day exploitation and SIEM scenarios to enhance preparedness. At the same time, ISO27001 implementation is being driven across in the GCC, especially in the UAE where companies have been setting deadlines to achieve these standards by next year. An equally important aspect driving companies is to bridge the gap between OT and IT security to bring the level of robustness required in the ever-evolving cyber landscape and improve operational cyber resilience of organizations.

IQPC is pleased to announce the 5th Edition of Cyber Security for Energy & Utilities Conference from 24–27 April 2016 at The Westin Golf Resort in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

RE•WORK will host it’s annual East Coast events on Deep Learning and the Internet of Things in Boston on 12 & 13 May. Over 300 machine learning and IoT enthusiasts and experts will come together to hear keynote presentations, panel discussions, fireside chats and to explore the startup showcase area.

The Deep Learning Summit brings together leaders from industry, academia and startups to explore advances in deep learning methods and techniques, as well as their business applications in areas including finance, manufacturing, healthcare & transportation. Confirmed speakers and presentations include Yoshua Bengio, Full Professor at Université de Montréal; Tony Jebara, Director of Machine Learning Research at Netflix; Vivienne Sze, Assistant Professor at MIT; Naveen Rao, CEO & Co-Founder of Nervana Systems, and more.

https://re-work.co/events/connected-home-boston-2016

The In-Memory Computing Summit 2016 is the only industry-wide event of its kind, tailored to IMC related technologies and solutions. It’s the perfect opportunity to reach technical IT decision makers, implementers and developers who make or influence purchasing decisions in the areas of in-memory computing, Big Data, Fast Data, IoT and HPC.

Attendees include CEOs, CTOs, VPs, IT directors, IT managers, data scientists, senior engineers, senior developers, architects and more. It is a unique forum for networking, education and the exchange of ideas — ideas that power the new world and future of Fast Data.

http://imcsummit.org/

Join us for the 2nd Data Science Summit Europe, an event focused around machine learning implementation, including data science tutorials and case studies. Full agenda TBA. Expected audience: approximately 1200 data scientists, applied machine learning researchers, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, VPs of data analytics, professors and students.

This non-profit event is organized by Intel, IGTCloud, Dato and O’Reilly Media. The Summit brings together researchers and data scientists from academia as well as industry to discuss state of the art data science, applied machine learning and predictive applications. The conference agenda has been co-created with Dr. Ben Lorica, Chief Scientist of O’Reilly Media who serves as the content manager of the O’Reilly Strata Conferences.

http://conf.dato.com/2016/emea/

Newer technologies and data processing models have led to sharper insights, and increased return on investments

—big data has become a platitude across all industries, but the challenges are incessant. In an age where consumers demand more personalized communications, experiences and products; and internal stakeholders require more predictive intelligence to inform decisions, analytics and data science have emerged as silver bullets to unlock opportunity and growth.

The Marketing Analytics and Data Science conference is an inaugural conference that demonstrates how to deploy data science and analytics to drive business forward, and address the burning challenges in big data.

The holistic agenda, designed for executives across Big Data Analytics, Data Science, CRM, Marketing Analytics, Customer Experience & related fields will present actionable best practices, practical case studies, technology demos and visionary keynotes, as well as unprecedented opportunities to collaborate with key players from major sectors like retail, financial services, healthcare, technology, consumer goods/manufacturing, academia, hospitality, media and government.

use code MADS16IBD for a 20% discount

Retail Banking Analytics Europe is the place to gain an overall view on how to transform your data and analytics strategy as the retail banking industry prepares for digital overhaul. Learn from the experts on how to prepare your organization for analytics success.

Meet with 150+ analytics leaders and learn how analytics is transforming the retail banking sector. Click here for more information. 

Sensors, mobile devices and related technologies are presenting new opportunities and risks for business. Collectively known as the Internet of Things (IoT), this broad terms covers all non-computer and non-phone Internet connected devices.

Healthcare environments produce tremendous amount of information because of their process, engagement of multiple players and high volume of users. That data is only going to increase as baby-boomers reach retirement age, requiring better and more frequent healthcare services. With large cohorts of ageing population and ageing infrastructure, service delivery becomes expensive and difficult for cities and governments. Automating systems through utilization of IoT, Big Data, M2M tools and technologies presents great opportunity to reduce operating costs significantly, utilize those savings more effectively and provide better services to communities.

IoT Healthcare is an umbrella event which will encompass IoT, Big Data and Machine to Machine (M2M). The objective of the conference is to bring whole healthcare industry under one roof to understand the opportunities and challenges that IoT technologies and tools present. Physicians, health providers, staff and patients are one side of this prism. Hospitals, healthcare institutions and regulators are another. A third side is pharmaceutical, contractors, equipment manufacturers and operators. Needs and challenges faced by each of these are unique as are the opportunities to improve services, systems and to reduce or stabilize costs.

• Conservative estimates put IoT market at US $15 Trillion in 10 years time
• North America represents 26% of global IoT economy which puts Canadian market at around $17 billion and expected to grow to over $300 Billion in the next 10 years.
• Healthcare is worth $117 billion and expected to grow to over $1.7 trillion in the ten years.

In an increasingly globalized world the Canadian industrial sector is losing ground to cheaper, more technology driven regions. (However we can enhance our competitiveness) But we can become competitive by developing and adopting newer technologies and tools, thus innovating our way to the front.

• The global Internet of Things market will grow to $1.7 trillion in 2020 from $655.8 billion in 2014
• The firm predicts that the number of “IoT endpoints,” connected devices will grow from 10.3 billion in 2014 to more than 29.5 billion in 2020.
• Industrial Internet of Things spans industries representing 62% of G20 nations GDP. Industries including Manufacturing, Mining, O&G, Agriculture, Utilities etc.
• Predictive maintenance of assets can be reduced by up to 12%
• Production efficiency can be increased by 30%

If a mining operation, where the ability to quickly conduct an assay of the ore when a drill bit unexpectedly hits hard rock enables miners to resume work in a fraction of the time required before. That if the global oil industry improves pump performance by even 1 percent, it would increase oil production by half a million barrels a day and earn the industry an additional $19 billion a year. If incumbents do not identify and exploit these opportunities, new entrants and start-ups will begin to influence and capture their customers.

The Data Science Summit is the premier event for data scientists and developers to learn the latest innovations and research from industry innovators and academic experts in data science, applied machine learning and building intelligent applications.

• 2 days & 3 tracks packed with 60 talks, tutorials, a startup showcase & a hackathon.
• 1,400 fellow data scientists, developers and business leaders for networking.
• Hands-on trainings: gain practical skills using the best tools in the industry.
• Business leaders at Uber, Tableau, StitchFix, Salesforce, Kaggle, Google, Quora, Deepart, Cloudera and more reveal the art and science that drives their unique business value.
• Machine learning advances from professors at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley & University of Washington.
• Book signings by scikit-learn’s Andreas Mueller & Pedro Domingos, author of “The Master Algorithm”.

http://conf.dato.com/2016/us/

This year’s Big Data Innovation Summit will feature keynote speakers from the likes of Spotify, Tesla Motors, Twitter and the Dept of Homeland Security, discussing areas including Product Innovation, Data Science & Machine Learning, Big Data Strategy and Business Intelligence/Data Architecture.

The summit allows attendees to enjoy proactive and organised networking opportunities, whilst getting to grips with the world’s latest and most advanced data tools and technologies, and also bench marking your data initiatives against other organizations in your industry. Coming to Boston, this September. Get 10% off passes with code INSIDE10. Learn more. 

Flink Forward is the premier conference on Apache Flink. Organized by data Artisans and taking place in Berlin from September 12-14, Flink Forward will bring together the open source stream processing community with more than 40 sessions featuring deep dives into Flink’s production use cases, new applications, developer insights, and hands-on trainings.

Topics at Flink Forward range from using Flink and other Apache projects to build scalable streaming infrastructure for IoT and global internet services to in-depth technical talks on the internals of stream processing technologies. Learn more.

The Chief Data Officer Forum  Insurance 2016 which will establish a focal point of discussion for Insurance specific CDOs, CAOs and senior data professionals to evaluate the  evolving demands of big data and analytics in the Insurance space and importance of championing data/analytics evangelism at an enterprise level.

This highly interactive forum, will tackle some of the insurance’s industry’s most crucial topics including price optimisation, fraud analytics, predictive modelling, customer data management, disruptive innovation, embedding a data culture within your organisation and data quality.

It will provide you with the tools needed to empower your data and analytics initiatives to bolster your business outcomes. No matter the maturity of your organisation, the two day conference will enable you to shift the cultural mindset to a data-centric approach to problem solving.

Programme highlights:

• Hear perspectives from Louis DiModugno, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, AXA USA and Mark Pitts, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield on measures CDO and CAOs in Insurance need to take to successfully leverage the Big Data revolution as well as building the case for Data and Analytics as a corporate strategic asset.
• Understand the latest strategies being employed by senior data leaders at National Life Group, Zurich North America and Gen Re to resource, recruit and retain data and analytics talent within the Insurance sector
• Learn strategies from  John Hancock, Nationwide Insurance, Aflac and Trupanion on how you can better leverage your customer data and develop consumer-centric initiatives which will optimize your ROI on customer interaction through better targeted marketing, pricing, risk assessment, claims and ultimately lead to greater acquisition and retention.
• Build a culture of mature analytics with case studies from Eric Huls, SVP, Chief Data Science Officer, AllStat and Kimberly Holmes, SVP, Global Head of Strategic Analytics, XL Catlin
• Examine best measures to manage state-to-state regulation and gain insight into the future regulatory landscape within insurance with the inclusion of NAIC.
• Review the latest trends in the technological landscape and assess the impact of IoT, machine learning, telematics and automated vehicles in disrupting the established working practices of Insurances businesses whilst examining the opportunities to facilitate evidence-based decision making at all levels of the organisational hierarchy.

View the latest agenda http://www.chiefdataofficerinsurance.com/agenda

Delegate registration   http://www.chiefdataofficerinsurance.com/registration

For more information, please contact  Laurence Allen, Marketing Manager Laurence.allen@coriniumintelligence.com

In its third year, The Security of Things™ Forum (SECoT 2016) is a high-impact day of learning, discussion and debate focused on the pre-eminent challenge of our time: securing the Internet of Things.

The event brings together players from across industries with a stake in the future of the Internet of Things. SECoT Forum presents leaders in the areas of information security and privacy, developers of IoT devices and platforms, as well as investors, entrepreneurs and policy makers. The 2016 event, scheduled for September 22, 2016 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, promises to be exciting. Learn more about attending

The Chief Analytics Officer Forum Africa is the premier event for CAOs and senior  analytics professionals.

Providing top-level strategic advice and discussion the forum brings the senior analytics community together to discuss the most critical data and analytics challenges faced by their organisations and the wider industry as a whole.

Research conducted by Corinium shows that South African companies are beginning to realise the value that lies within their data but face numerous challenges to realising this value.

A recent Chief Analytics Officer (CAO) Roundtable highlighted that companies are not yet mature enough in their data & analytics journey to move to a CAO structure.

What does analytics mean to your organisation and how can you harness its power to improve and modernise process, performance and profitability?

Why you should attend:

• Gain insight into how to evangelise the power of analytics across your business through case studies by Absa Capital, Multichoice, Standard Bank and Zoona
• Understand how FNB Business has built a great analytics team and addressed the analytics skills shortage
• Engage in discussion groups that will cover how to encourage enterprise-wide data sharing as well as how to attach value to data through experimental use cases
• Learn how to tell the analytics story more effectively to ensure insights really do turn in to action
• Network with over 100 analytics, data and data science professionals at the only senior level analytics event in South Africa that allows you to engage with the experts most relevant to your field in neutral forum

Confirmed speakers:

• Yudvhir Seetharam , Head of Analytics: Business, FNB
• Annie Symington , HOD: Analytics, Multichoice
• Pieter Vorster , CAO, Absa Capital
• Eugene Liebenberg , Head: Client Analytics, MMI Holdings
• Ruschka Raidoo , Head: Strategic Initiatives, Customer Insights & Analytics, Standard Bank
• Morne van der Westhuizen , Head of Data Analytics, Zoona

View the latest agenda http://www.caoforumafrica.com/agenda

Delegate registration http://www.caoforumafrica.com/registration

For more information, contact Laurence Allen, Marketing Manager

Email: Laurence.allen@coriniumintelligence.com

Lessons from the Front Line of Implementing Successful Big Data Strategies

New flexible data lakes and pattern recognizing software allows a whole new approach to analytics that favors experimentation and application of large amounts of data over carefully curated databases and warehouses – do you have sufficient talent that can operate under this new paradigm? Applications in big data IT infrastructure and analytics software tools are proliferating but it’s more than a bunch of tools, where a lot of conferences and events have focused. It’s time for attention to turn to strategies and investing in organizations.
Join us for the Big Data Seminar on September 27-28 in NYC. Over the two days of this seminar we aim to help close the gap between promises and practice by providing participants with a planning approach and guidance on how to drive change in their organizations, including:
• A framework for evaluating their own big data maturity
• Process for prioritizing big data capabilities that would have the most ‘bang for the buck’ in their organizations
• A review of the vendor landscape for big data apps and what fits where
• Extensive experience sharing with big data experts and executives who are leaders in the space

For more information and to register, visit www.conference-board.org/bigdata

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The first and only customer data event focused solely on the life sciences industry, CBI’s Enterprise Customer Data Innovation Summit is the most comprehensive conference covering strategies on process improvements for how customer and master data is acquired, validated and integrated throughout the entire commercial organization. Don’t miss your opportunity to benchmark with the industry leaders at the forefront of innovating and improving global and U.S. customer data management for the life sciences industry

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.  ARM YOURSELF TO EXCEL IN THE BRAVE NEW DATA-DRIVEN WORLD.

The conference is focused on the business and technology of artificial intelligence (AI). The 3–day conference and exposition is designed to enable business and technology executives learn about the state-of-the-market and state-of-the-practice in designing and deploying AI and intelligent systems in the enterprise.

AI World is the nation's largest AI business conference! More than 80 speakers (including 65+ CxO's) and dozens of sponsors and exhibitors will help you learn how to successfully harness intelligent technologies to build competitive advantage, drive new business opportunities and accelerate innovation efforts. Learn more. 

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis takes place Nov. 13-18 in Salt Lake City. As the world's largest gathering of supercomputing professionals, the annual SC conference continues to grow steadily in size and impact each year. Approximately 5,000 people participate in the technical program, with about 11,000 people overall.

SC has built a diverse community of participants including researchers, scientists, application developers, computing center staff and management, computing industry staff, agency program managers, journalists, and congressional staffers. This diversity is one of the conference's main strengths, making it a yearly "must attend" forum for stakeholders throughout the technical computing community.

The technical program is the heart of SC. It has addressed virtually every area of scientific and engineering research, as well as technological development, innovation, and education. Its presentations, tutorials, panels, and discussion forums have included breakthroughs in many areas and inspired new and innovative areas of computing. Learn more.

The inaugural Chief Data Scientist Forum launches November 16^th-17^th 2016 at the Hilton, Financial District, San Francisco and will be the premier event for high-level data science practitioners, containing essential content  and new ideas to develop the leadership role for data science.

Attendees can also network and discuss their work utilizing data in an exploratory, scientifically rigorous manner to meet strategic and tactical organizational goals.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Ashok Srivastava, Chief Data Scientist, Verizon
• Yael Garten, Director of Data Science, LinkedIn
• Esteban Arcaute, Senior Director, Head of Data Science, WalmartLabs
• Rahul Todkar, Vice President, Enterprise Data Science, Charles Schwab
• Chul Lee, Head of Data Engineering & Science - Connected Fitness, Under Armour

Programme highlights:

• Winning the Talent War - Attracting and Retaining Top Data Scientists in a Hyper-Competitive Market: Understanding their motivations and discovering the key to ensuring your organizations’ data science projects excite your team
• The IT Implications of a Data Science Approach Identifying a balance between proprietary software and open source tools plus measuring impact of the shift from highly curated data to ‘data in the wild’
•  Democratizing Data Science: Empowering non-technical analysts to use data science tools and make better informed judgements which lead to a greater data-driven culture
• Securing Buy In at the Highest Level to ensure that data science is trusted throughout the organization by delivering business value
• The Data Scientist as a Partner in Success - Building Positive Relations with Internal Stakeholders how can we convince other teams to work constructively with data science?

View the latest agenda http://www.chiefdatascientistusa.com/agenda

Delegate registration http://www.chiefdatascientistusa.com/register

The Inside BigData / Inside HPC  community is entitled to a 10% discount on the delegate registration fee. Please quote the booking code INSIDE10 when registering.

For more information, contact Laurence Allen, Marketing Manager

Email: Laurence.allen@coriniumintelligence.com

DSI’s Big Data for Intelligence Symposium is designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum that will provide members of the Intelligence Community, US military commands, government agencies, academia, and technology providers the opportunity to explore more effective and efficient ways of leveraging the power of big data for intelligence processing and exploitation purposes

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