Content of the 1st edition
Companies such as Open Evidence, Amazon Web Services, Yahoo Labs, ESADE Business School, Carto DB, DIMA Group and others were involved in the first edition of the Congress, where there were 40 speakers.
Dates: 3-4 November 2015
Edition: 1st
The first edition of Big Data Congress had a complete theoretical and practical programme where relevant leaders were analysing the main trends in the field of Big Data & Data Analytics, showing the attendee’s new tools to be more agile and competitive. Several success stories were also reviewed.
Keynote speakers:
Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, Co-Founder, Open Evidence
Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva is a co-founder of the Open Evidence spin-off of the Open University of Catalonia, where he also works as a professor.
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Vice President of Research, Yahoo Labs
Ricardo Baeza-Yates has a PhD in Computer Science (University of Waterloo, Canada, 1989). He also has an Engineering degree and two Master’s degrees from the University of Chile.
Check the presentations:
Click on the title of each session to see the presentations
** Some presentations are not available on the speakers’ demand.
3th NOVEMBER:
Keynote speaker: Big Data in Europa: new context, new opportunities Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva | Open Evidence
Big Data, building data-driven organitzations Marc Torrent | Big Data CoE
Serious games Mikael Journo | King Entertainment
From data to decision making Luis Esteban | Caixabank
Amazon Web Services Antonio Álvarez | Amazon Web Services
Data Driven Cities: managing cities from data Marc Garriga | desideDatum Data Company, s.l.
4th NOVEMBER:
The challenges of Big Data on the web Ricardo Baeza-Yates | Yahoo Labs
How can we transfer knowledge of digital analytics to the physical world? | Alberto López – Beabloo
How to cause harm with Data Dani Villatoro | Databeers
Attract the right customers and then anticipate customer chum early Robert Roxin | Social point
Are we ready ti communicate the knowledge extracted from Big Data? Alberto González | Bestiario
The democratisation of Business Analytics Xavier Bonany | Microstrategy
L’aportació de valor del Big Data Analytics José Luis Gálvez | Oracle
SmartMonkey, where Small Data can become Big Data Xavier Ruiz | Incubio
An international accelerator in Barcelona: the sucess stories of Teraki, eNovalys and Datumize Angel García | Startupbootcamp Internet of Things & Data Barcelona
ALOJA: a Systematic Study of Hadoop Deployment variables to enable Automated Characterization of Cost-Effectiveness David Carrera | Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Big Data research in Berlin Tilmann Rabl | TU Berlin | DIMA group
