Met Office & Alibaba Cloud Present: The True Value of Big Data @ Oxford University

Billions of internet users and connected devices are generating quintillions of data bytes every single day… but so what?

‘Big Data’ as a term is hot property but what does it actually mean… to you? To business? To society?

Join Met Office and Alibaba Cloud as we cut through the ambiguity of Big Data and demonstrate the real-life value of analytics, algorithms and balloons(!) at Somerville College on Friday, 19th January.

Speakers include Alberto Arribas, Head of UK Informatics Lab at Met Office, Dr Wang Ning, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University and Data Scientists from Alibaba Cloud.

Includes drinks & canapes and a chance to win $8,000*

Agenda

15:30. Welcome Reception

16:00 – 17:45. Presentations by Oxford University, Met Office & Alibaba Cloud

17:45. Introduction to Future Challenge data mining contest plus Q&A

18:10 – 19:30. Contest registration, Drinks & Networking

*Interested?? To give yourself a head-start, sign up for our Future Challenge’ data mining skills contest at https://www.alibabacloud.com/campaign/bigdatacontest.

Registrations are closed

The True Value of Big Data @ Oxford University