Conference Topics
Data ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Speakers will address how data acquisitions and data-driven strategies are creating new markets and driving company innovation in customer acquisition-marketing-personalization, analytics as a service, new analytics management platforms, connected sensors and devices (IoT), and new applications in machine learning and robotics.
Valuing DAta
Billion dollar data sales demonstrate that data assets are marketable assets of significant value. How can companies best determine the business value of their data?
Speakers will present different valuation methodologies and discuss how “data valuation-as-a-service” models drive monetization strategies, risk mitigation and new market opportunities.
Speakers will present different valuation methodologies and discuss how “data valuation-as-a-service” models drive monetization strategies, risk mitigation and new market opportunities.
THE NEXT INTERNET
The current Internet architecture was never designed to handle the communications and information-centric networking envisioned by the Internet of Things. Speakers will address the development of new architectures such as Named Data Networking (NDN) and the Industrial Internet as options for a more secure communications and networking architecture for the future.
IndustryTech
Data West will feature breakout work sessions focusing on how data technology advancements affect specific industry verticals, including FinTech, EnergyTech, Advanced Manufacturing, MobilityTech, InsuranceTech and SecurityTech. Speakers will address how data and software innovation is restructuring industry competition and defining new business models and partnership strategies.
Smart Cities and CivicTech
Civic leaders, data scientists, technologists and companies are joining forces to build “Smart Cities” – communities building new digital infrastructures to improve the collection, aggregation, and use of data to improve city life. Speakers will describe test beds for IoT applications and new multi-sector collaborative agreements, civic tech movements, intercity collaborations, and international partnerships
World Data
Access to data and data sharing presents organizational, economic, legal and educational challenges to the community of data professionals worldwide. International organizations are working to foster the open sharing of data across technologies, disciplines and countries to address economic and social concerns. For example, the Wheat Data Interoperability Working Group (WDI), part of the European Commission’s Research Data Alliance (RDA). Speakers will address the development of national and international data sharing organizations and their importance in food policies, rural development and natural resources management among others.
Democratizing Data Science
Data science promises dramatic gains in business, economic and organizational performance. Like promises have been made before in industrial engineering, behavioral economics and decision sciences. Early Data Science adoption is often confined to a few specialized groups in marketing or product engineering where business value can be demonstrated in customer tracking or asset productivity. How this expertise will devolve into the larger organization is less clear. Is every worker an analyst? Speakers will address the pros and cons of democratizing data science, from specialized teams tied to functional units to “big-picture” widespread adoption in the anticipated data-driven communities of practice.
Cybersecurity and Data Governance for IoT
The convergence of data science and cyber security promises to help deliver intelligence and the security protections needed with automation and accuracy to thwart the next cyber-attacks and threats. Speakers will address innovations in Threat Analytics, Data Security and IoT that are being applied to today’s and future security and data protection challenges.