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BIG DATA SUMMIT
November 5, 2014, 8:00AM-4:30PM
i-Hotel, University of Illinois Research Park, Champaign, IL
8:00-8:30 am
8:30-8:40 am
30m
10m
8:40-9:30 am
50m
9:30am 9:40am
9:40 – 10:40am
10m
1h
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Welcome and Opening Remarks – UIRP Big Data Summit
Laura Frerichs, RP Director and Michael Welge UIRP EIR *
Morning Keynote Address: Moorea Brega, Agro-Physical Modeling Team Lead for Climate
Corporation
BREAK
Room: Innovation
Room: Alma Mater
Room: Quad
Panel A: Personal
Panel B: Going Big With
Panel C: Big Data Better Health
Quantification – Quantified Visualization
Care
Self
Moderator: Deana McDonagh, Moderator: Bryan White, Director
Moderator: Jerry Sheehan,
Designer in Residence,
of Microbiome Programs,
CIO, Montana State University University of Illinois Research Institute for Genomic Biology,
Park
UIUC
10:40-10:50am
10m
BREAK
10:50am – 11:50pm 1h
Room: Innovation
Panel D: Powering
Advertising & Finance with
Big Data
Moderator: Sultan Meghji,
Executive in Residence,
University of Illinois Research
Park
Room: Alma Mater
Room: Quad
Panel E: Improving and
Panel F: How We Succeed – Case
Optimizing Cities with Big Data Studies
Moderator: Tom Schenk,
Moderator: Raj Echambadi,
Director of Analytics and
Associate Dean of Outreach and
Performance Management, City Engagement, College of Business,
of Chicago
UIUC
11:50-12:20 pm
12:20-1:05 pm
1:05 – 1:15pm
1:15 -2:15 pm
30m
45m
10m
1h
Buffet Lunch in ballroom
Lunch Keynote: Kush Varshney, Data Kind Ambassador
BREAK
Room: Innovation
Room: Alma Mater
Panel G: Security Centered on Big Data
Panel H: Big Data Technologies You Cannot
Moderator: Randy Butler, Co-Director of
Live Without
Cyber Security, National Center for
Moderator: Mark Nolan, Director of IT and
Supercomputing Applications, UIUC
Economic Development, Office of Corporate
Relations, University of Illinois
2:15-2:20 pm
2:20-3:20 pm
5m
1h
Break
Room: Innovation
Panel I: Big Data in Social Media
Moderator: Scott Althaus, Professor of
Communication, UIUC
3:20-3:25pm
3:25 – 4:25pm
5m
1h
BREAK
Room: Innovation
Panel K: Weather Drives Our Economy
Moderator: Charlie Linville, President,
Ploughman Analytics
Room: Alma Mater
Panel J: Big Data in Agriculture
Moderator: Hank Roark, Manager of Decision
Analytics, John Deere
Room: Alma Mater
Panel L: Marketing Meets Big Data
Moderator: Mike Shaw, Professor of Business
Administration and Information Systems, College
of Business, UIUC