Agenda:
9:00am-9:05am – Welcome and Introduction
Speaker:
Canice Wu, President, Plug and Play Tech Center, AAMA Co-President
9:05am-9:30am – Keynote: The Big Data Impact
In this session we will explore how big data supports the today’s business and management with well-defined and perceptive examinations on data.
Nader Fathi, Executive in Residence at USC Stevens Institute for Innovation & Plug and Play Tech Center
Speaker:
Michael Abbott, General Partner, Kleiner, Perkins Caufield & Byers
9:30am-10:50am – Fireside Chat: Big Data in Real World
Moderator: James J. Masetti, Partner, Pillsbury Law
Session 1: Understanding Consumers with Big Data
In this session, industry leaders will share their views on the latest big data applications that are impacting the consumer industry and how they use big data to get closer to consumers and to improve profitability and customer service.
Speakers:
Alan Boehme, Chief of Enterprise Architecture, Business Innovation and Emerging Technologies, Coca Cola
Dr. Yan Chow, Director, Innovation & Advanced Technology Group, Kaiser Permanente
Dilawar Syed, President and CEO, Yonja Media Group; Commissioner, President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans
Session 2: Harnessing Big Data in Business-to-Business Frontier
This session will discuss how real time data analysis enhances decision making power in business to business interactions and what frontier industries are unlocking the value of big data.
Speakers:
Gerd Goette, Partner, Siemens Venture Capital
Radha Radhakrishnan, ex-VP of IT, Boeing, Board of Digital Intelligence Systems Corporation (DISYS)
Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, Director of the NSF's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), University of Southern California
10:50am-11:05am – Networking Break
11:05am-12:05pm – The Big Data Challenges
In this panel, we will hear from industry leaders about concerns companies have with the privacy and security on storing their data, the quality of structured versus unstructured data, and the natural language processing of human-computer interaction.
Moderator:
Dr. Jim Walsh, CTO, GlobalLogic
Speakers:
Martin Hack, CEO, Skytree
Wei Li, Chief Scientist, NetBase Solutions, Inc.
Chenxi Wang, Vice President, McAfee
Simon Zhang, Business Analytics Director, LinkedIn
Rich Ghiossi, VP of Marketing, Treasure Data
12:05pm-12:25pm – Fireside Chat with Andy Page
Moderator:
David Lam, Managing Director, WestSummit Capital
Speaker:
Andy Page, President, 23andme
12:25pm - 12:45pm – Break and Lunch Served
12:45pm-1:30pm - Lunch Fireside Chat: Big Data for Sports
Moderator:
Canice Wu, President, Plug and Play Tech Center
Speakers:
Rajiv Maheswaran, Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Yu-Han Chang, Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Kevin Lin, COO, Twitch.TV
1:30pm-1:50pm - Afternoon Keynote
Speaker:
Ashley Niblock, Senior Product Manager, Google Inc.
1:50pm - 2:05pm - Networking Break
2:05 - 3:05pm – Panel: Infrastructure Opportunity
In this session, industry leaders will share their experience and thoughts on the advantage of Big Data technology compared to the traditional database management tools. In addition, they will explore more about technologies serving different purposes, such as storage infrastructure, data visualization, analytics and security, private and hybrid cloud-based environment.
Moderator:
Doug Crisman, Partner, Morgan Lewis
Speakers:
Dixon Doll Jr., COO, Violin Memory
Tam Thao Pham, Head of Ecosystems & Strategic Initiatives, Deloitte Consulting
Nick Chang, Senior Director, Hitachi Data System
Jason Ruppert, Senior VP of Operations, OCZ Technology
3:05pm - 4:05pm – Panel: Investor Series
In this session, partners from leading venture capital firms will share their candid views on the latest trends that are impacting the high-tech investment landscape in Big Data and its related field: What’s the existing operational challenges business face today with the traditional database system and the need from industry to harness Big Data technology? What are the potential opportunities in this rapidly developing field? Who are the key players? Where are the hot deals?
Moderator:
Kelvin Chan, Managing Director, East West Bank
Speakers:
Evangelos Simoudis, Senior Managing Director, Trident Capital
Brendon Kim, Open Innovation Fund, Samsung Electronics
Michael Harries, Chief Technologist, Citrix Startup Accelerator
Jeff Richards, Partner, GGV Capital
Jerry Chen, Partner, Greylock Partners
4:05pm - 4:30pm – Closing Keynote
Speaker:
Lisa Lambert, Vice President and Managing Director, Software and Services Group, Intel Capital
4:30 – Post Conference Networking Reception
