Big Insight—Making Sense of Big Data in Seattle, Xconomy, Nov. 19

Big Insight—Making Sense of Big Data in Seattle, Xconomy

When: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM

Where:415 Westlake Ave N, Seattle

What: It’s not about the data, it’s about the insight. Entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors in Seattle and the broader Northwest are finding innovative ways to harness the raw data rushing at us from an ever-widening array of sources and put it to profitable, impactful use. Building on Northwest strengths such as cloud computing and enterprise software, startups and established technology giants alike are defining a new regional specialization here with the potential to transform virtually every field of human endeavor. And investors are taking note: some 15 local companies working on some facet of big data have raised more than $80 million in venture capital in the last year alone.

Join Xconomy for a half-day forum on the challenges and opportunities facing the Northwest as it establishes itself as a center for development of next-generation big data platforms and tools and adds to its legacy of data-driven killer apps in everything from real estate to traffic to the electrical grid and the frontiers of scientific research and artificial intelligence. Come ready to learn from and network with Seattle-area business and technology leaders working on new ways to create, gather, manage, analyze, and ultimately draw insight from big data.

Who: 

Roger Barga, Principal Group Program Manager, Microsoft Research
Andrew Beers, Vice President of Engineering, Tableau Software
Olly Downs, SVP of Data Sciences, Globys
Oren Etzioni, Executive Director, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Peter Godman, CEO, Qumulo
Carlos Guestrin, CEO, GraphLab; Amazon Professor of Machine Learning, University of Washington
Joseph Hellerstein, Manager of Computational Discovery, Google
Stan Humphries, Chief Economist, Zillow
Jeremy Jaech, CEO, SNUPI Technologies
Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering; Founding Director, eScience Institute, University of Washington
Matt McIlwain, Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group
Emily McReynolds, Managing Fellow, University of Washington Tech Policy Lab
Kevin Merritt, CEO, Socrata
Bryan Mistele, CEO, INRIX
Bill Pike, Technical Group Manager of Visual Analytics, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
John Slitz, CEO, SpaceCurve
Steve Sliwa, Founder and CEO, Seeq Corporation
Leo Spiegel, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development, Pivotal

How Much: $30-$175

How: Register here.