The Chief Analytics Officer Forum Africa is the premier event for CAOs and senior analytics professionals.

Providing top-level strategic advice and discussion the forum brings the senior analytics community together to discuss the most critical data and analytics challenges faced by their organisations and the wider industry as a whole.
Research conducted by Corinium shows that South African companies are beginning to realise the value that lies within their data but face numerous challenges to realising this value.

A recent Chief Analytics Officer (CAO) Roundtable highlighted that companies are not yet mature enough in their data & analytics journey to move to a CAO structure.
What does analytics mean to your organisation and how can you harness its power to improve and modernise process, performance and profitability?

Confirmed speakers:
- Yudvhir Seetharam , Head of Analytics: Business, FNB
- Annie Symington , HOD: Analytics, Multichoice
- Pieter Vorster , CAO, Absa Capital
- Eugene Liebenberg , Head: Client Analytics, MMI Holdings
- Ruschka Raidoo , Head: Strategic Initiatives, Customer Insights & Analytics, Standard Bank
- Morne van der Westhuizen , Head of Data Analytics, Zoona

View the latest agenda http://www.caoforumafrica.com/agenda
Delegate registration http://www.caoforumafrica.com/registration
For more information, contact Laurence Allen, Marketing Manager
Email: Laurence.allen@coriniumintelligence.com

The Chief Data Officer Forum Insurance 2016 which will establish a focal point of discussion for Insurance specific CDOs, CAOs and senior data professionals to evaluate the evolving demands of big data and analytics in the Insurance space and importance of championing data/analytics evangelism at an enterprise level.

This highly interactive forum, will tackle some of the insurance’s industry’s most crucial topics including price optimisation, fraud analytics, predictive modelling, customer data management, disruptive innovation, embedding a data culture within your organisation and data quality.

It will provide you with the tools needed to empower your data and analytics initiatives to bolster your business outcomes. No matter the maturity of your organisation, the two day conference will enable you to shift the cultural mindset to a data-centric approach to problem solving

Website: http://www.chiefdataofficerinsurance.com/
View the latest agenda http://www.chiefdataofficerinsurance.com/agenda
Delegate registration http://www.chiefdataofficerinsurance.com/registration

For more information, please contact Laurence Allen, Marketing Manager Laurence.allen@coriniumintelligence.com

The webinar will focus on the key issues that businesses are facing today when using data, their associated legal challenges and the initiatives planned by the European Commission to overcome existing bottlenecks.

When: 20 July 2016 from 14:00 - 15:00 CEST (12:00 - 13:00 UTC)

Agenda:
• Welcome & Introduction (Katarzyna Jakimowicz, Open Evidence)
• The business viewpoint: business challenges about data ownership issues (Giorgio Micheletti, IDC)
• A lawyer’s viewpoint: legal challenges related to data ownership issues (Arthur van der Wees, Arthur’s Legal)
• The EC Free flow of data initiative (David Osimo, Open Evidence)
• Questions & Answers
• Wrap-Up and Conclusions

Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6827516784499628804

The European Data Forum (EDF) is one of the key European events for industry professionals, researchers, policy makers, and members of community initiatives to discuss the challenges and opportunities of data-driven innovation in Europe. The Forum will address all facets of data-driven innovation: infrastructure, tools, applications (including, new products and services reaching out to multilingual European audiences) as well as societal and economic impact.
This event is relevant for all stakeholders involved in the data value chain: engage with a carefully selected mix of cutting-edge innovative industrial applications of Big Data technologies, to upcoming innovation breakthroughs. Be on top of on-going policy debates and get inspired by future-looking talks. Ideas exchanged at the European Data Forum have impact on the design of future research challenges and policy decisions both at the EU and Member State level. This will drive data-driven innovation further and strengthen the European data economy as well as enhancing its positioning worldwide.

The EDF2016 conference will consist of three parallel tracks comprising: more than 40 talks by executive level leaders, an exhibition and poster presentations. More than 600 visitors are expected. This audience consists of big data professionals from industry, academia and policy makers as well as talent from the organizing universities.

EDF2016 is organized by the Data Science Center Eindhoven of the Eindhoven University of Technology in cooperation with Amsterdam Data Science and the European Commission.

EDF2016 is part of the Dutch presidency of the EU in 2016.

As of now free registration for EDF 2016 is open through https://www.aanmelder.nl/edf2016.
The current programme is available at http://2016.data-forum.eu/programme/ which will be updated regularly.
Information regarding the venue, reachability and hotels is available at http://2016.data-forum.eu/venue/ and http://2016.data-forum.eu/venue/hotels/.
More information regarding sponsoring and exhibition options is available at http://2016.data-forum.eu/sponsors/.
The call for posters is published at http://2016.data-forum.eu/calls/.

In April 2016, a series of surveys were opened to all ERTICO partners in order to express interest and ideas for the different 2017 H2020 calls. The answers were collected by the ERTICO office up to mid May 2016. During this period, ERTICO programme leaders organised a series of information webinars to encourage partners engagement.

On the basis of the partners inputs, the programme leaders have identified possible approaches to the identified calls. They have interacted with the different partners who have expressed strong interest and innovative ideas. Whenever needed, the programme leaders have organised additional webinars dedicated to specific calls.

In the context of this Workshop, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, in the person of Alfredo Favenza, will introduce the activities of the BDVA in order to create a link between ERTICO and the Big Data Value PPP in the framework of the H2020 Calls at the convergence of ITS and Big Data technologies (ICT-15, MG-8.2)

Registration Link: http://goo.gl/forms/kSjEgNsuK47O7Smu1

The OI2 Forum will welcome innovation experts, policy-makers, people from Academia and citizens inthe vibrant city of Amsterdam, on 23rd and 24th May 2016!

The OI2 Conference will be held under the label of the Dutch EU Presidency, and it is co-organised by the European Commission DG CONNECT's Open Innovation Group (OISPG) together with Intel Labs Europe, Committee of the Regions, CGI, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, City of Amsterdam, and kindly supported by Dublin City Council.

The 2016 edition of the event is expected to gather more than 350 people around the following action oriented themes: Open Innovation 2.0 and Digital Single Market, ePlatforms, Data Driven Innovation, Urban Agenda, Future Cities, Living Labs and Business Challenges as cross-cutting themes, just to list a few, we have Power of Crowds; Experimentation and Prototyping; and Citizen Engagement in practise.

BDVA will be well represented in several workshops and speeches.

Link to the event: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/open-innovation-20-co...

The Workshop is co-located with ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers.

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a fertile ground for collaboration between research institutions and industries and in analytics, machine learning, and high performance computing.

Topics of interest are:
- High performance data analytics
- Machine and deep learning
- Data search and representation
- Architecture and system design
- Cloud-based big data solutions
- Software infrastructures

Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline extended: February 25, 2016
- Decision Notification: March 11, 2016
- Camera-Ready Copy: March 25, 2016

More information: http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2016/index.html

This conference brings together scientific experts on Computer Science, Statistics and Economics as well as other professionals offering solutions to secure current data management from the perspective of Big Data, Data Mining and predictive classical Statistics. From these disciplines all stages of the Data Management process are addressed: data collection, integration, storage, pre-processing, analysis and visualization.

Conference Webpage: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2016/big-data-2016

In an increasingly networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information driven world, the ability to
efficiently process data sets using traditional technology is becoming more challenging as data sets take on varied properties such as volume, velocity, variety, variability and veracity. "Big Data" is the broad term given to address these emerging challenges. There is a broad agreement among industry, academic, and government stakeholders about the remarkable potential of Big Data to spark innovation, fuel commerce, and drive progress. Innovation in this space opens up a wealth of applications and ability to answer questions previously out of reach.
While there is also broad agreement on the ability of Big Data to overwhelm traditional approaches, the ability to create consensus-based vendor-neutral, technology and infrastructure agnostic solutions to enable Big Data stakeholders is essential.
The ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 9 Working Group on Big Data would cordially invite Big Data experts to speak and participate in this International Workshop on Big Data Standards: European Initiatives.

The goals for the workshop is to:
● Introduce and overview ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 9
● Promote global Big Data standardization with European partners
● Leverage existing expertise to augment the EU Standardization initiatives
● Explore public and private perspectives in Big Data
● Share European communities' Big Data initiatives and research results

The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:
● Big Data Use Cases – provide application scenarios that require either mixed legacy system
and/or horizontal scalable from the analytics, platforms, and infrastructures environment;
● Big Data Analytics Processing – provide well-defined generic algorithms for distributed
computing, metadata extraction, search and retrieval, and data exploration;
● Big Data Architecture/Infrastructure – provide effective provision and configuration of
horizontal applications, databases, distributed resources and computing clusters.
● Big Data Security and Privacy – deal with infrastructure security, data privacy, data
management, integrity and reactive security;
● Big Data Management – monitor scalable distributed high-performance systems to ensure
Big Data applications are efficiently and securely executed; and
● Big Data Challenges and Opportunities – explore approaches to address heterogeneity,
scale, timeliness, complexity, security, and privacy problems in Big Data that can create value.

More information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/international-workshop-in-big-data-standards...