Manchester Informatics (University of Manchester) & OCF Big Data Symposium

Manchester Informatics (University of Manchester) and OCF present a one-day Big Data Symposium to showcase the diversity of big data analytics in higher education, research and the public sector. Featuring presenters from Future Cities/Manchester City Council, SKA, ARM, Oracle and the University, the day aims to highlight the latest projects and themes currently being undertaken and discussed in this rapidly growing field.

Agenda:

Time

Presentation

9.30am – 10am

Registration and coffee

10am

Welcome

10.15am

Keynote Presentation

Prof Magnus Rattray, Professor of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Manchester – “Biology in the era of Big Data”

11am – 12pm

• Mark Elliot, Senior Lecturer in Social Statistics, University of Manchester – “Big Data, Privacy and all that stuff”

• Miles Deegan, Engineering Project Manager, SKA - “21st Century Radio Astronomy and its data challenges – a progress report on the SKA”

• Norman Paton, Professor in School of Computer Science, University of Manchester- "Data Wrangling: The Elephant in the Room of Big Data"

12pm – 1.30pm

Lunch, networking and posters

1.30pm – 2.30pm

• John Goodacre, Director of Technology and Systems, Arm Ltd – “EUROSERVER: Riding the perfect storm”

• Michael Gleaves, Head of Business Development, Hartree – “Hartree Centre – Data one of the four forces of change”

• Chris Brown, OCF – “The Connected World”

2.30pm

Coffee

3pm – 4pm

• Sarah Bridle, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Manchester- "Big Data in Astronomy: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope"

• Tim Harris, Architect, Oracle Labs – “Can Big Data be In-Memory”

• Steve Turner, Manchester City Council – “Data in the Urban Environment”

4pm

Panel session

4.30pm

Wrap up

4.35pm

Drinks, networking and posters

For more information including speaker abstracts please visit the event webpage.