Content of the 4^th edition

Companies that incorporate Big Data improve the effectiveness of their decisions, thanks to the ability to understand what their customers want and how to optimise their processes.

Dates: 24-25 October 2018

Edition: 4^th

Experts analyse issues such as measuring the return on investment in Big Data, successful applications or privacy and ethics.

Big Data continues to lead growth in Information Technologies.

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Keynote speakers:

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, CTO, NTENT, & Program Director of CS programs at Northeastern University (Silicon Valley, EE.UU)

Ricardo Baeza-Yates has been the CTO of NTENT, a semantic technology research company based in California, since 2016. Since 2017, he has also been the part-time director of CS programmes at Northeastern University in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was vice president of research at Yahoo Research Labs from 2006 to 2016.

Krishna Gummadi, Head of the Networked Systems research group and Professor, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)

Krishna Gummadi is the head of the Network Systems research group at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) and professor at Saarland University. He completed his PhD in 2005 and received B. Tech. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering in 2000 from the University of Washington and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, respectively.

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24^th OCTOBER:

BIG DATA CoE PRESENTATION session:

Marc Torrent | BIG DATA COE

TOWARDS DDO – MEASURING ROI session:

Xavier Puig | GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA
Marius Boada | AJUNTAMENT DE BARCELONA
Manuel Carricano | ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

PITCH ELEVATOR session:

LESSONS LEARNT FROM SUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS session:

DATA SHARING FOR COMMON GOOD session:

Francesca Bria | AJUNTAMENT DE BARCELONA
Nacho Alamillo | ASTREA LA INFOPISTA
Jordi Vitrià | UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA

25^th OCTOBER:

KEYNOTE SPEAKER session:
Krishna P. Gummadi | MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY STACKS session:

BIG DATA TALENT AWARDS session:

Winners Category I “Master’s or postgraduate final project”: Pedro Herruzo, Laura Portell and Alberto Soto
Winner Category II “Doctoral thesis“: Rohit Kumar

EXPLAINABLE AI session:

Ricardo Baeza-Yates | NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

COOL DATA SCIENCE EXPOSED Session:

Daniel Ruiz and Pierdomenico Fiadino | ZEELO
Giovana Gavidia | EURECAT
Herman Vissia | BYELEX BV
Enrique Mora | NESTLÉ

Workshop FACE RECOGNITION WITH TENSORFLOW

Rubén Martínez | DATAHACK

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Content of the 4th edition