Program

Program 9 Aug
8:30-9:00 Registration (Level 2 – State Room)
9:00-9:05 Prof Longbing Cao, UTS, Australia
Welcome Speech
9:05-9:10 The Hon. Victor Dominello, Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation, NSW Government
Opening Speech
9:10-10:10
John Sheridan
Australian Government
It doesn’t have to be that big: Data based decision making at the coalface
10:10-10:30 Tea break
10:30-10:50
Warwick Graco
ATO
Analytics Centre of Excellence: Roles, Responsibilities and Challenges
10:50-11:30
Sofus Macskássy
Facebook
An overview of (some) Machine Learning at Facebook
11:30-12:00
Paul Toohey
HP
Analytics in Australia – The gaps and opportunities for business
12:00-1:00 Lunch on your own
1:00-1:40
Rajesh Parekh
Groupon
Powering Local Commerce Using Big Data Analytics
1:40-2:10
Pia Waugh
Australian Government
2:10-2:40
Brenton Cooper
Data to Decisions CRC
Big Data use cases in defence and security
2:40-3:10
David Willingham

MathWorks
Bringing Big Data Modelling into the Hands of Domain Experts with MATLAB
3:10-3:30 Tea break
3:30-4:00
Sang Kyun Cha
Seoul National University
How Can In-Memory Database Paradigm Revolutionize Real-Time Data Mining and Learning?
4:00-4:30
Christopher White
Microsoft
The Changing Roles of Information for Defense and Business Intelligence
4:30-5:00
Balaji Krishnapuram
IBM Watson Health
Rapid Learning using Privacy-Preserving Distributed Data-Mining
5:00-5:30
Stefan Mozar

IEEE NSW Section
Data Analytics in Electronics Manufacturing
5:30-5:35 Closing the day
Program 10 Aug
8:00-8:30 Registration(Level 2 – State Room)
“Data Science in India” Forum
8:30-8:35 Welcome Remarks
8:35-9:15
Rajeev Rastogi
Amazon
Machine Learning@Amazon
9:15-9:35
Prateek Jain
Microsoft Research
9:35-10:10 Tea Break
10:10-10:30
Partha Talukdar
Indian Institute of Science
10:30-11:10
Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
Indian Institute of Science
Learning Labels on Graphs using Orthonormal Embeddings
11:10-11:55 India Panel Discussion: Data science innovations in India
11:55-12:00 Concluding Remarks
12:00-1:00 Lunch on your own
“Big Data in China” Forum
1:00-1:20
Qiang Yang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
User Modeling in Telecommunications and Internet Industry
1:20-1:40
Wenwu Zhu

Tsinghua University
Cyber-Physical-Human Big Data Computing
1:40-2:00
Hui Xiong
The State University of New Jersey
Sequential Pattern Analysis with the Right Granularity
2:00-2:20
Xiaoru Yuan

Peking University
Urban Big Data Visualization
2:20-2:40
Jie Tang
Tsinghua University
Toward Understanding Big Scholar Data
2:40-3:00
Xiaolong Jin
CAS
Network Big Data: Facing and Tackling the Complexities
3:00-3:10 Tea break
3:10-3:25
Baofeng Zhang

Huawei
Challenges and Opportunities in Telco Big Data
3:25-3:40
Wanli Min
Alibaba
An Analytical Path from Law of Large Number to Big Data
3:40-3:55
Shuo Shen

CAS
Big Data in Public Service in China
3:55-4:10
Jidong Chen
Ant Financial
Big Data Based Network Security and Fraud Risk Management at Alipay
4:10-5:00 China Panel Discussion: Big Data in China
“Big Data in Asia” Panel
5:00-6:15 “Big Data in Asia” Panel Discussion

Moderator:

Usama Fayyad
Barclays Bank, UK

Panelists:

Amr Awadallah
Cofounder and CTO, Cloudera Inc., USA
Nejhdeh Ghevondian
Principal Data Scientist, Advanced Analytics & Data Management, HP, Australia
Rao Kotagiri
Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
Kyuseok Shim
Professor, Seoul National University, South Korea
Gautam Shroff
Chief Scientist, TCS, India
6:15-6:20 Closing the day

Presentation Slides can be downloaded now.
Thank MathWorks for sponsoring 2015 Big Data Summit.
IEEE NSW Section sponsors 2015 Big Data Summit, all IEEE NSW members are welcome to attend BDS2015.
The 2015 Big Data Summit received strong support from IEEE and ACM through its relevant task forces and chapters, and especially Chinese and Indian professional bodies and institutions.
HP sponsors Big Data Summit 2015
2015 Big Data Summit is co-located with 21st ACM SIGKDD in Hilton Sydney Hotel
“Big Data in ANZ” Forum will be held in the afternoon of 9 August 2015 in Hilton
“Data Science in India” Forum will be held in the morning of 10 August 2015 in Hilton
“Big Data in China” Forum will be held in the afternoon of 10 August 2015 in Hilton
“Big Data in Asia” Panel will be held in the afternoon of 10 August 2015 in Hilton
Big Data Summit 2015