Big Data, MITEFnw, Jan. 16

Big Data, MITEFnw

When: Wednesday, January 16, 5:00pm-8:15pm

Where: Washington State Convention Center, 800 Convention Place, North Galleria (Room 3A / 3B / Foyer area), Seattle

What: We have entered the age of Big Data. According to some studies, as much as 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. Big data comes from everywhere – sensors used to gather climate information, user posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone transactions to name just a few. Join on Wednesday, January 16th to hear about the impact and opportunities created by the growth of Big Data.

Big Data is somewhat of a marketing term (remember “Cloud”?) that is being overused, but it represents a whole group of related technologies which revolve around the collection, analysis and usage of very large volumes of data.  These things are happening in ways that have only become feasible due to various technical breakthroughs in the last 2-3 years.

This program will attempt to cut through the marketing hype and present a framework for discussing Big Data which breaks it down into segments with unique characteristics and clearly defined opportunities.

Key discussion areas:

• Big data is evolving into three layers: infrastructure, analytics & applications, with the infrastructure layer starting to reach maturity with the development of standards and commoditization of services
• Big data is being used in a wide range of applications, but not all of these applications represent areas where potential customers are willing to spend large amounts of money on marginally better solutions
• Big data have proven difficult to successfully implement without access to skilled resources that are in limited supply

Who: Moderated by Managing Partner of Madrona Venture Partners, Len Jordan:

• Brian Lent, Chairman, CTO & Co-Founder, Medio Systems
• Stephen Purpura, CEO & Co-Founder, Context Relevant
• Paul Sanford, General Manager, Splunk

How Much:

• Early Registration-$40
• Regular Registration-$60
• Student Price-$40

Early Registration Will End on January 7th, 2013

How: Register online