DataBeat 2013 is VentureBeat’s inaugural event focused on the significant opportunities afforded to enterprise in the area of big data. Companies are harnessing their data — 2.5 quintillion bytes of it — to gain a competitive advantage in the market, and companies that don’t do this will fall behind.
Recent enthusiasm for ‘big data,’ and for enabling technologies such as Hadoop has helped raise awareness of the fundamental ways in which data underpins almost every aspect of modern society.
Data is improving healthcare, education, and government. Increasingly nuanced analysis of data is transforming logistics and optimizing supply chains. Careful combination of data points from multiple sources is improving the targeting of online and offline marketing, increasing returns for advertisers at the same time as minimising ‘irrelevant’ advertising to consumers. Smart sensors in the power grid, in pedometers, and in urban traffic networks stream vast volumes of data for analysis. In aggregate, these sensors help shape broad national policies for energy, health and urban planning. At the local level, a new generation of tools use the same sensor data to let individuals make more informed choices about their own power consumption, their health, or their route to work.
Increasing data volume and complexity creates opportunities for existing businesses to become smarter and for new businesses to arise, disrupting incumbents or pursuing entirely new markets. At the same time, the increasingly powerful insights afforded by combination of data from multiple sources create new challenges around privacy and the complex relationships between government and citizen, employer and employee, seller and buyer. Can public policy and the attitudes of individuals keep up with the pace of change?
At DataBeat, we move past the current obsession with ‘big’ data and away from an emphasis on any single tool or technology. Instead, we focus upon the ways in which data is being used to change real businesses and real lives. We will hear from those on the front line who are seeing measurable change driven by their use of data. More profitable products, faster decisions, cheaper processes, stronger communities, better outcomes. All of these are measurable, and all of these offer lessons from which others can learn.
We will prioritise real customer experiences, bringing those with compelling stories to tell on stage in a series of fireside conversations that get to the heart of what worked… and what didn’t. We’ll dig behind the hype, to understand the ways in which a range of new tools and technologies are transforming the data landscape. We’ll peel back the covers to examine the benefits that more data brings to individuals, and consider this alongside the very real concerns regarding erosion of privacy… and the threat of over-reaching government regulation.
Join us in December for DataBeat, and learn how data will be transforming your business in the years to come.
Event Details
It’s what you do with data.
Interest in data science has exploded in 2013. Organizations have realized that data science and data analytics represent perhaps the biggest opportunity to drive dramatic change and opportunity in their businesses today. And with the speed at which data science is evolving, they are working hard to not only understand the potential and inspire their teams—but to make smart bets on people, technology and vision.
VentureBeat’s DataBeat 2013 event is moving past the current obsession with “Big Data” and making its own bet on data science by presenting the Data Science Summit 2013, a renowned third year event exploring the biggest challenges and opportunities in data science.
Join us and…
Gain an understanding of how data science has evolved in 2013 and plug into the important conversations of 2014
Be inspired by real world use cases directly from the most innovative companies that are seeing measurable value from data science
Learn about the data science innovations those companies leverage, the insights they’ve gained, and the competitive advantage they’re seeing
Meet the new breed of data scientists — to understand where they come from, what they do, and why you need them working for you
Hear how leading organizations are shifting to better leverage data science opportunity, and what lessons they’ve learned
Get a clear picture of the true business value that modern data science brings
By blending VentureBeat’s strength in covering the business opportunity offered by disruptive technology, together with the Data Science Summit community, this event will offer an unparalleled cross-section of ideas from top data scientists, executives, academics, and journalists.
Join us for a two day roadmap that will take you give you an understanding of how you need to be approaching data science today to create real business value. Check out the working agenda here.
Jim Baer, Senior Director of Data Science, LinkedIn
Josh James, Founder & CEO, Domo
Monica Rogati, VP of Data, Jawbone
John Henry Clippinger, Founder & Executive Director, ID3, MIT Media Lab
Michael Driscoll, Co-Founder & CEO, Metamarkets
Peter Skomoroch, Entrepreneur, Data Scientist & Product Leader
Roger Magoulas, Director of Market Research, O’Reilly Media
Steven Hillion, Chief Product Officer, Alpine Data Labs
Ashok Srivastava, Chief Data Scientist, Verizon
John Mattison, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente
Richard Snee, Event Co-Chair, CMO, Pivotal
Matt Marshall, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, VentureBeat
Diego Klabjan, Director of Master of Science in Analytics Program, Northwestern University
Vinod Khosla, Partner,Khosla Ventures
John Foreman, Chief Data Scientist, MailChimp
Chris Pouliot, Head of Data Science, Lyft
Joseph Hellerstein, Prof.of Comp. Science, UC Berkeley, Founder, Trifacta
Vineet Singh, VP Data Science & Analytics, Intuit
Vikram Somaya, GM, WeatherFX, The Weather Company
Scott Yara, SVP of Products & Platform, Pivotal
Steve Hirsch, SVP of Products & Platform, Pivotal
Jeremy Howard, Data Science Faculty, Singularity University
Tim Guleri, Managing Director, Sierra Ventures
Pete Warden, CTO, Jetpac
Anil Varma, Data Science COE Head, GF Software Center of Excellence
Sebastian Thrun, Co-Founder & CEO, Udacity
Annika Jimenez, Global Head of Data Science Services, Pivotal
Alon Halevy, Researcher, Google
Joel Dudley, Director of Biomedical Informatics, Icahn School of Medicine, Mt. Sinai
Pek Lum, Chief Data Scientist & VP of Solutions, Ayasdi
Tarek Kamil, Executive Director, InfoMotion Sports Technologies
Rohan Deuskar, Co-Founder & CEO, Stylitics
Ari Gesher, Senior Software Engineer, Palantir
Jason Fass, CEO, Zepp Labs
Sean Gourley, CTO, Quid
Jure Leskovec, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Robert W. Wrubel, EVP & CIO, Apollo Group, Inc.
Adam Ghobarah, PhD, Google Ventures
David Gerster, VP of Data Science, BigML
Mike Dauber, Partner, Battery Ventures
Ping Li, Partner, Accel Partners
Sean Knapp, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Ooyala
Stephen Sorkin, CSO, Splunk
When & Where
The Sofitel Hotel
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City, CA 94065
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 8:00 AM – Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 6:00 PM (PST)