How To Understand What Big Data Is

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1 The Business Side of Big Data The world s first conference to focus on how Big Data is improving the productivity of business and government. Smart Cities Health Productivity Everything October Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Plenary Speaker: Ray Kurzweil, world-renowned futurist

2 A Business Focused Big Data Conference Focusing on the Business Side of Big Data Almost all Big Data conferences to date have focused heavily on the technologies that enable Big Data to work. This conference takes a different approach, We are focused on the business end of Big Data; how it can be applied to business and government to make a difference. It s What Senior Leaders Want and Need In both industry and government, executive and senior management outside the technology sphere have been seeking a way to understand what Big Data is and how it can be applied to improve productivity. Why Big Data for Productivity? Our anticipated delegates are primarily senior decision and policy makers. This conference is about making Big Data work, not the underlying technology. Big Data can provide critical new insights into issues and opportunities that can affect productivity in manufacturing, marketing, healthcare, government services and more. Insights that increase profitability, manage cost or avoid costly decisions.

3 A Truly Global Big Data Event The Big Data for Productivity Congress is truly a global meeting of minds. Through our partnership with the World Confederation of Productivity Science and with Atlantic Canada a recognized global centre of excellence for Big Data, attendees in industry and government leadership roles from around the world will be attending. It may well be that this is the largest international conference on the business side of Big Data in the world.

4 Plenary Speaker Futurist - Ray Kurzweil Ray Kurzweil is one of the world s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called the restless genius by The Wall Street Journal and the ultimate thinking machine by Forbes magazine, Kurzweil was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the rightful heir to Thomas Edison. PBS selected him as one of the sixteen revolutionaries who made America. Kurzweil was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Among Kurzweil s many honours, he recently received the 2015 Technical Grammy Award for outstanding achievements in the field of music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, holds twenty honorary Doctorates, and honours from three U.S. presidents. Ray has written five national best-selling books, including New York Times bestsellers The Singularity Is Near (2005) and How To Create A Mind (2012). He is a Director of Engineering at Google heading up a team developing machine intelligence and natural language understanding.

5 Global Thought Leaders on Big Data and our Global Society Zheng Changdong CEO China Southern Railway Louise Clements President MRM/McCann East Hillary Mason, Ph.D. Data Scientist in Residence, Accel Partners Founder at Fast Forward Labs John Mattison, MD Assistant Medical Director, CMIO, and Chief Health Information Officer. Kaiser Permanente Anil Yilmaz Director General Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology Dan Russell Űber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness Google Zheng Xinli Former Deputy Director, Central Policy Research Office, CPCC participant Tim McGuire Senior Partner, Consumer Marketing Analytics Centre McKinsey Eugene Roman Chief Technology Officer Canadian Tire Corporation David Kasik Senior Technical Fellow, Visualization & Interactive Techniques Boeing Brett Trusco, Ph.D. Professor, Bio Informatics Texas A&M University and NYU Sara Iverson, Ph.D. Scientific Director, Global Ocean Tracking Network

6 An Internationally Recognized Lineup of Speakers Big Data for Productivity Congress Everything Changes October 19 October 20 October 21 Technology Track Oct 21 Networking over Coffee Congress Opening and Keynote: David Kasik Senior Technical Fellow, Boeing Keynote: John Heap President, World Confederation of Productivity Science Keynote: Dan Russell Senior Research Scientist, Google Attend Google Keynote Coffee and Networking Digitial Marketing Panel Cisco, Adobe, MRM/McCann Smart Cities Panel icanada, IBM, TBD World Seafood Panel UNIDO, Humber, Ocean Tracking Network Health Panel Kaiser Permanente, NYU, NB Dept of Health Areospace Panel Boeing, Lockheed Martin, CARIC Security and Privacy Panel IBM, McInnes Cooper, TBD Technology track Lunch and Trade Meetings Keynotes: Bill Hutchison Chair, icanada and Chen Shengchang Vice Chairman, CAPS Congress Plenary Speaker: Ray Kurzweil Big Data Student Day Organized by the Nova Scotia Community College Keynote: Hilary Mason Founder at Fast Forward Labs Track: Internet of Everything Track: Connected Citizen Track: Health Analytics Track: Business Productivity Track: Internet of Everything Track: Connected Citizen Track: Health Analytics Track: Business Productivity Gavin Umha CTO GoInstant at Salesforce.com Eugene Roman CTO, Canadian Tire Hari Harikrishnan Vice President, Services Platform Group Cisco Paul Lewis, CTO Canada and Jay McGloin, VP Social Innovation, Hitachi TBD Margie Kennedy, Associate Managing Partner, Gevity Brett Trusko Professor, Biomedical Informatics at Texas A&M Anil Yilmaz Director General, Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, Turkey Coffee and Networking Louise Clements President, MRM/McCann East TBD Speaker TBD NTTData Zheng Xinli, Vice Chairman, CPPCC and Zheng Changhong, Chairman, China South Railway David Fraser Partner, McInnes Cooper and Cathy Simpson VP Public Sector, T4G John Mattison CMIO, Kaiser Permanente Steve Shaha Professor, Center for Policy and Public Administration Don Hathaway Chairman, Compute Canada Tim McGuire Senior Partner, McKinsey Brilliant Labs and Volta High School Superpower Challenge Technology Track Fellow Induction Ceremony World Confederation of Productivity Science Big Trade for Big Data Networking and Cultural event hosted by Nova Scotia Business Inc. Industry & Academic Connector Event Springboard Atlantic and NSERC Note: Program is current as of July 16. Speakers and sponsors continue to be added. Please visit bigdatacongress.net to see the latest.

7 Build Relationships for Business Trade Track Connect Trade Profit Through our partnership with the World Confederation for Productivity Science, we are expecting a significant number of international attendees. As a result, we ve developed a special Trade Track to bring Canadian and international delegates together. A free downloadable mobile app will enable you to find matches ahead of time. We will have private and semi-private meeting areas where you can talk in confidence. On the opening evening, October 19th, there will be a networking reception as well. During registration you can indicate your interest in taking part in networking opportunities. If you do you will receive further information regarding the Trade Track. Trade Track coordinated by: With the help of:

8 Interest Points for You Health Sector Big Data is changing the way we deliver not just health services, but patient management, pharmaceutical development, hospital operations and emergency care. In this Congress we focus on the business end, not the technology side. Smart Cities With over 50% of the world s populations living in urban centres, Big Data analytics will play a critical role in delivering effective services. We can provide insights from Turkey, Canada and China into the application of Big Data in a real-world reality. Retail Industry Big Data is having a massive impact on how large retailers deliver products and services. From downstream to upstream, from predictive analytics to localisation. we ll look at the business end of Big Data as it applies to retail. Manufacturing Big Data can play a key role in increasing productivity in the manufacturing sector. Smart analytics can reduce time to market, improve quality and speed to market among many other advantages. We ll look at how from a business perspective. Perhaps we can help shape some stories in advance with you? Security In a hyperconnected world filled with risk and low grade conflicts, Big Data can make a difference in ensuring global, regional and local peace. Oceans Management We need to manage our oceans better, from fishing to transportation and security. We ll be looking at how Big Data can play a key role in this regard. Perhaps we can help drive some preliminary discussions for your audience? Transportation & Infrastructure Who better to hear from than the world s largest railway (China) on how they use Big Data to keep people and products moving? Perhaps we can help you gain some valuable insights?

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