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PRODID:Expectnation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T094500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T090000
DTSTAMP:20110818T184516
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom 3
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21776
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-09:00--21776
SUMMARY:Using EMC’s Big Data Analytics Platform to Solve Real Business C
 hallenges
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Frank Mong (Silver Spring Network), Marco Pacel
 li (ClickFox). Frank Mong, from Silver Spring Networks, and Marco Pacell
 i, of ClickFox, will be discussing how their respective companies have u
 sed EMC Greenplum's Big Data Analytics platform to solve real business c
 hallenges.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T094500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T090000
DTSTAMP:20110916T145707
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom 4
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21771
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-09:00--21771
SUMMARY:The Changing Economics of Data: A View From Inside Amazon
DESCRIPTION:Presented by John Rauser (Amazon). A central story of the we
 b is how ubiquitous high-speed communication lowered the cost of group c
 reation and led to things we now call web 2.0 and the social web. There 
 is an analogous story happening in data science. The dual innovations of
  Hadoop and elastic utility computing have dramatically changed the econ
 omics of data processing.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T094500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T090000
DTSTAMP:20110920T185825
LOCATION:Belasco - Broadhurst
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21769
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-09:00--21769
SUMMARY:Where Did Your Marketing Dollars Go? Digital Marketing Optimizat
 ion & Social Network Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Randy Lea (Teradata Corporation). This session 
 sponsored by Aster Data.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T094500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T090000
DTSTAMP:20110929T211053
LOCATION:Imperial - Julliard
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21781
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-09:00--21781
SUMMARY:LexisNexis HPCC Systems Finds Potential Fraud and Collusion in H
 ealth Care
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bill Fox J.D., M.A.  (LexisNexis), Jo Prichard 
 (LexisNexis). A case study on how LexisNexis HPCC Systems detected poten
 tial health care fraud and collusion for a major health care organizatio
 n.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T102000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T101500
DTSTAMP:20110817T012013
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21606
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-10:15--21606
SUMMARY:Opening Remarks
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ), Alistair C
 roll (Bitcurrent). .
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T104000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T102000
DTSTAMP:20110916T160911
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21824
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-10:20--21824
SUMMARY:DATA: A Breakthrough Bill for Government Spending Transparency
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Darrell Issa (United States House of Representa
 tives), Alexander Howard (O'Reilly Media). One of the most technology- a
 nd data-savvy members of Congress, and co-sponsors of  the DATA (Data Ac
 countability and Transparency Act) bill, talks about his vision for maki
 ng  Federal Government spending data open, accessible and transparent.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T110000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T104000
DTSTAMP:20110825T213442
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21094
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-10:40--21094
SUMMARY:We're Measuring The Wrong Things
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Matthew Bishop (The Economist). Are 80 year old
  measures of the economy still useful, and can the age of big data offer
  us better indicators against which to benchmark economic performance?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T114000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T112000
DTSTAMP:20110907T210352
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/22049
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-11:20--22049
SUMMARY:Big Data In Banking
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Abhishek Mehta (Tresata), Roy E. Lowrance (New 
 York University), Richie Prager (BlackRock), Allen Weinberg (McKinsey). 
 Coming off the worst financial crisis of our generation, an entire indus
 try (and the global economy) is not just rebuilding the very foundations
  of a robust banking system, but also rethinking the 'new normal' for Ba
 nking. Data has rapidly emerged as a key lever for this reboot. Hear fro
 m some of the leading business practitioners in the industry.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T115000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T114000
DTSTAMP:20110826T220024
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21871
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-11:40--21871
SUMMARY:Money Talks (And What It Says)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Coco Krumme (MIT Media Lab). What billions of c
 redit card transactions can tell us about the nature of habits, patterns
  of human movement, and the structure of urban economies.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T120000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T115000
DTSTAMP:20110825T214215
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/20974
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-11:50--20974
SUMMARY:One Billion Rows per Second: Analytics for the Digital Media Mar
 kets
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Driscoll (Metamarkets). Digital media p
 ublishers sit astride torrents of data about their content, audiences an
 d advertisers.  Every day, the world's two billion internet users visit 
 millions of pages, and are exposed to more than one hundred billion onli
 ne advertising impressions.  Publishers of digital content need to crunc
 h this data to predict who will visit tomorrow, and how to price the ads
  those visitors see.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T121000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T120000
DTSTAMP:20110803T171817
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21614
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-12:00--21614
SUMMARY:Big Data Analytics Is Changing The World – And Your Business
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bill Cook (EMC Greenplum). The most important q
 uestion to ask about big data is: what’s in it for my organization? Does
  it create net-new economic value, increase enterprise agility, improve 
 collaboration, or enable new efficiencies? And if so, in which scenarios
 ? What are the implications for people, process and technologies in any 
 given organization?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T123000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T122500
DTSTAMP:20110826T203659
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21605
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-12:25--21605
SUMMARY:Remarks
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ). .
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T142000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T135000
DTSTAMP:20110908T224620
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21538
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-13:50--21538
SUMMARY:Google+ — The Power of Social Data
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bradley Horowitz (Google), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reil
 ly Media, Inc.). An interview with Bradley Horowitz, VP Product for Goog
 le+
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T143500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T142000
DTSTAMP:20110908T162106
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21317
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-14:20--21317
SUMMARY:Atmospheric Analytics
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Ferrari (Computer Sciences Corporation)
 . This is not your father's weather forecast.  Businesses can be positiv
 ely and negatively affected by weather conditions in deep and sometimes 
 unanticipated ways.  Whether they are surprise acute weather events or p
 rolonged patterns that slowly enhance or curtail product demand, it is h
 ard to find an industry that does not have some sort of operational or f
 inancial exposure to the atmosphere.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T144500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T143500
DTSTAMP:20110912T211926
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21554
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-14:35--21554
SUMMARY:Startup Launch Pad
DESCRIPTION:The remaining two of the five startups that were selected as
  Launch Pad finalists will deliver their pitches to the Strata Summit au
 dience, to be judged later on Wednesday afternoon.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T152000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T145500
DTSTAMP:20110818T150754
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21766
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-14:55--21766
SUMMARY:Big Data -- Strategies For Generating Money In Data-driven Start
 ups
DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Schwab (Sierra Ventures), Paul Kedrosky (
 Kauffman Foundation), Todd Papaioannou (Battery Ventures), Robert D Thom
 as (IBM Software Group), Clint Johnson (Alpine Data Labs). Startups are 
 in it to make money—whether by breaking even, being acquired, or finding
  some other exit. But for data-driven startups, turning bits into dollar
 s can be a challenge. There are privacy issues, data ownership concerns,
  and questions about how to monetize the business. This panel of investo
 rs and entrepreneurs will look at strategies for generating money in dat
 a-driven startups.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T145500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T144500
DTSTAMP:20110913T175043
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21237
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-14:45--21237
SUMMARY:Understanding Sentiment: The Future of Natural Language Processi
 ng
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jennifer Zeszut (Scout Labs). Consumers are gen
 erating an immense amount of text-based data via social and other channe
 ls. That's a treasure trove of insight IF we can can unlock intention, e
 motion and meaning.  How well do computers do it today and what are some
  of the cutting-edge ways to improve accuracy in the near future?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T122500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T121000
DTSTAMP:20110920T133118
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21753
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-12:10--21753
SUMMARY:Creating a National Data Utility: Dodd-Frank Financial Reforms
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mark Bolgiano (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
 , Donald F. Donahue (The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation ), John
  Bottega (Federal Reserve Bank of New York). Donald F. Donahue, Presiden
 t and CEO of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and P
 aul Sforza, CTO of the US Treasury Department, will discuss America’s fi
 rst public financial services data utility. This project is being incorp
 orated into our country’s existing information infrastructure to provide
  consistent, quality data to investors, institutions, and regulators.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T160000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T155000
DTSTAMP:20110912T212025
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21556
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-15:50--21556
SUMMARY:Startup Launch Pad Judging
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gamiel Gran (Sierra Ventures), Roger Ehrenberg 
 (IA Ventures), Alistair Croll (Bitcurrent). Five startups will be select
 ed to deliver their pitches to the Strata Summit audience, to be judged 
 on Wednesday afternoon.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T161000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T160000
DTSTAMP:20110825T215406
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21159
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-16:00--21159
SUMMARY:Data At The Scale Of The Universe
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kyle Cranmer (New York University). Even the bi
 ggest commercial datasets can't rival those produced at CERN, home of th
 e Large Hadron Collider. As scientists research the conditions that crea
 ted our universe, the volume of data captured is truly staggering.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T162000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T161000
DTSTAMP:20110908T181737
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21849
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-16:10--21849
SUMMARY:Why Dirty Data Loves A Crowd
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ariel Seidman (Gigwalk). We all need clean, use
 ful, validated data-- but most of us don't have an easy way to gather it
  and the data we do have is messy. Hear some of the numbers behind these
  crowds and how startups like Gigwalk are changing the way we work.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T170000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T163500
DTSTAMP:20110913T153545
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21550
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-16:35--21550
SUMMARY:Towards a Global Brain
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.). At the sam
 e time as we’re seeing breakthrough after breakthrough in artificial int
 elligence, we’re also seeing the fulfillment of the vision of Vannevar B
 ush, JCR Licklider, and Doug Engelbart that computers could augment huma
 n information retrieval and problem solving. AI turned out not to be a m
 atter of developing better algorithms, but of having enough data.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T173000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T170000
DTSTAMP:20110721T101519
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21551
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-17:00--21551
SUMMARY:Recapitulation and Closing Remarks
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ), Alistair C
 roll (Bitcurrent). A look back over Strata Summit, and forward to the fu
 ture of data.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T193000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T183000
DTSTAMP:20110916T200204
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21579
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-18:30--21579
SUMMARY:Ignite Strata NY
DESCRIPTION:If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if
  you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds?
  Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’ll find 
 out again this year at the New York edition of Ignite Strata.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T091000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T090000
DTSTAMP:20110825T172239
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21603
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-09:00--21603
SUMMARY:Welcome & Opening Remarks
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Alistair Croll (Bitcurrent), Edd Dumbill (O'Rei
 lly Media, Inc. ). .
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T093000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T091000
DTSTAMP:20110923T145459
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21320
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-09:10--21320
SUMMARY:Big Data: The Next Frontier
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Chui (McKinsey Global Institute). McKin
 sey's influential Big Data report has helped define and explain the oppo
 rtunity created by the torrent of data flowing daily through business. M
 ichael Chui outlines the big picture of data innovation, challenges and 
 competitive advantage.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T095000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T093000
DTSTAMP:20110923T145738
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/22008
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-09:30--22008
SUMMARY:Making the World's Data Computable
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research). How does on
 e take thousands of data domains, and tens of thousands of models and al
 gorithms, and make it so that anyone can get answers to their natural la
 nguage questions? Stephen Wolfram, the creator of Wolfram|Alpha and Math
 ematica, will describe how this works in Wolfram|Alpha and what the para
 digm of computational knowledge is now making possible.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T104500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T103500
DTSTAMP:20110923T133730
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21539
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-10:35--21539
SUMMARY:Move Over Nielsen: Rethinking TV Ratings
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jodee Rich (PeopleBrowsr). By using social medi
 a metrics, TV networks can now get ratings for their programs in real ti
 me.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T105000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T104500
DTSTAMP:20110923T140818
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21780
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-10:45--21780
SUMMARY:Managing IT Operations and Analyzing Big Data With HPCC Systems 
 From LexisNexis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Armando Escalante (LexisNexis). Mr. Escalante w
 ill cover how to streamline IT operations (eliminating mainframes, grids
 ) and analyzing large volumes of data with HPCC Systems.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T110500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T105000
DTSTAMP:20110923T135711
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/20989
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-10:50--20989
SUMMARY:Turning Their Data Into Your Money (And Vice Versa)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Robert Lefkowitz (Self). People correctly assum
 e that in order to profit from big data, you have to acquire the data. W
 e look at some cases of profiting from exploiting innovative ways of acq
 uiring data.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T111500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T110500
DTSTAMP:20110923T141106
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/20987
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-11:05--20987
SUMMARY:UN Global Pulse
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Robert Kirkpatrick (United Nations). The time h
 as come for policymakers to begin using innovative technologies to analy
 ze data exhaust, in order to protect communities from multiple slow-onse
 t crises that threaten to reverse hard-won progress in human development
 .
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T114000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T111500
DTSTAMP:20110923T135016
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21547
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-11:15--21547
SUMMARY:Personal Data For Public Good
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Robert Kirkpatrick (United Nations), Jane Yakow
 itz (Brooklyn Law School), Bill Hoffman (World Economic Forum). Personal
  data is a an exploding asset class that is currently not being leverage
 d to inform public policy decisions or mitigate risk. This panel, sponso
 red by United Nations Global Pulse, will examine the value of private se
 ctor data and consider some of the challenges inherent its use.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T120000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T114000
DTSTAMP:20110923T134835
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/22185
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-11:40--22185
SUMMARY:Aneesh Chopra: Government's Big Data Opportunity
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Aneesh Chopra (Federal Office of Science and Te
 chnology Policy), Chris Vein (Office of Science and Technology Policy), 
 Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.). Aneesh Chopra, the US Federal Chief
  Technology Officer, and deputy CTO Chris Vein, in conversation with Tim
  O'Reilly, founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T100000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T095000
DTSTAMP:20110923T150352
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21546
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-09:50--21546
SUMMARY:Lies, Damned Lies, And The Data Scientist
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Monica Rogati (LinkedIn). When it comes to big 
 data insights, how do you know you’re asking the right questions? Hiring
  data scientists is a good start - we’re seeing their growth both on Lin
 kedIn and at LinkedIn. But even data scientists are not immune from the 
 myriad of hidden pitfalls that keep your key insights out of sight.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T135000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T133000
DTSTAMP:20110923T135147
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/20995
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-13:30--20995
SUMMARY:Designing For Human Sensors, Not Human Barcodes
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Cory Doctorow (Happy Mutants LLC). As they sayi
 ng goes, "If you're not paying for a product, then you're the product." 
 But the world is a better place when human beings are enlisted as sensor
 s -- as distributed mechanisms for mapping, understanding, and connectin
 g the world and the data it generates -- and not treated as barcodes, me
 re bits of data to be read, logged and analyzed.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T141000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T135500
DTSTAMP:20110923T134638
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21521
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-13:55--21521
SUMMARY:Data-Driven Journalism At The Guardian
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Simon Rogers (Guardian). Data increasingly driv
 es news reporting, and the Guardian has been at the front of this change
 . Simon Rogers, editor of the Guardian's award-winning Datablog, will ta
 lk about how data is directing its coverage.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T142000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T141000
DTSTAMP:20110923T140129
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21318
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-14:10--21318
SUMMARY:Generating Stories From Data
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kristian Hammond (Narrative Science). As the wo
 rld of data expands, the challenge of understanding it expands as well. 
 Narrative Science is addressing this challenge with a software platform 
 that uses data to drive the generation of compelling narratives that tel
 l the stories contained within it. The technology tells the stories that
  are hidden in the numbers.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T143000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T142000
DTSTAMP:20110923T134508
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21765
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-14:20--21765
SUMMARY:Transparency and Strategic Leaking
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Nelson (Leading Edge Forum (CSC)). Ther
 e's never been a better time to reconsider transparency and talk about s
 trategic leaking. In this talk, Michael Nelson—whose career has taken hi
 m from the White House to the boardrooms of the Fortune 500—looks at the
  naked corporation and what information can do when it flows intentional
 ly between companies and their ecosystems.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T144000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T143000
DTSTAMP:20110923T140234
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21093
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-14:30--21093
SUMMARY:The New Corporate Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sean Gourley (Quid). Today's high tech industri
 es are fast-paced, with value created and destroyed at speed. Data can h
 elp where traditional intelligence approaches are expensive and slow.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T150000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T144000
DTSTAMP:20110907T212258
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21850
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-14:40--21850
SUMMARY:Data and Investigative Journalism
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Marshall Kirkpatrick (ReadWriteWeb), Francis Ir
 ving (ScraperWiki Ltd.), Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine.com), Michael Nelson (
 Leading Edge Forum (CSC)), Simon Rogers (Guardian). The data age is havi
 ng a radical effect on investigative journalism. Reporters need to know 
 how to find stories in data and social media. What are the opportunities
  in data for journalists, and what does the investigative reporter of to
 morrow look like?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T155000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T153000
DTSTAMP:20110919T173628
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21856
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-15:30--21856
SUMMARY:Data-Driven New York
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Carole Post (City of New York). Under Mayor Mic
 hael R. Bloomberg's leadership, New York City government has demonstrate
 d an unyielding commitment to transparency and accountability. Today, th
 at commitment is manifested in the next phase of the open government mov
 ement.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T160500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T155000
DTSTAMP:20110923T140334
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/20960
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-15:50--20960
SUMMARY:Big Data: Keep It Small Stupid!
DESCRIPTION:Presented by James Kobielus (Forrester Research, Inc.). Big 
 Data can become an unmanageable business burden if you’re not careful. A
 s your company’s analytics initiatives rapidly grow, you’re going to max
  out your IT budget if you don’t keep the data as compact, compressed, a
 nd storage-efficient as possible. This session will help you understand 
 how to keep your company’s data as small and nimble as practical while s
 caling it out into the petabytes.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T163000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T160500
DTSTAMP:20110825T202947
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/20981
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-16:05--20981
SUMMARY:Consumer Data and Decisions: How the Social Data Revolution Tran
 sforms Everything from Travel to Retail
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Andreas Weigend (Stanford University), Will Smi
 th (Euclid), Marty St. George (JetBlue Airways). .
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T164500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T163000
DTSTAMP:20110825T172105
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21524
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-16:30--21524
SUMMARY:Analytics and Witch-Doctoring
DESCRIPTION:Presented by J. C. Herz (Batchtags LLC). Too often analytics
  are seen as a black box by executives. JC Herz explores how to demystif
 y the process and make analytics business-driven vs. technology-driven.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T170500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T164500
DTSTAMP:20110825T172827
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21549
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-16:45--21549
SUMMARY:The Changing Role Of The CIO
DESCRIPTION:Presented by J. C. Herz (Batchtags LLC), Doug Harr (Splunk I
 nc.), Jim Golden (Accenture), Norman Nie (Revolution Analytics). As orga
 nizations take charge of their data—on their networks or in the cloud—th
 e role of the CIO is changing. This panel will discuss how the shifts in
  the kind of business intelligence they are able and asked to provide, a
 nd shifts in the tempo of those activities, are changing their organizat
 ional role
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T173500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T170500
DTSTAMP:20110825T172125
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21651
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-17:05--21651
SUMMARY:Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paul DePodesta (New York Mets). Keynote by Paul
  DePodesta, The New York Mets VP of Player Development and Scouting, Ent
 repreneur & Subject of Moneyball.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T174500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T173500
DTSTAMP:20110825T172142
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21548
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-17:35--21548
SUMMARY:Recapitulation
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Quentin Hardy (New York Times). A critical look
  at the day's proceedings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T112000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T110000
DTSTAMP:20110912T211849
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21552
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-11:00--21552
SUMMARY:Startup Launch Pad
DESCRIPTION:The first three of the five startups that were selected as L
 aunch Pad finalists will deliver their pitches to the Strata Summit audi
 ence, to be judged later on Wednesday afternoon.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T163500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T162000
DTSTAMP:20110923T150623
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/20975
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-16:20--20975
SUMMARY:The Business Of Illegal Data: Innovation From The Criminal Under
 ground
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Marc Goodman (Future Crimes, Singularity Univer
 sity). While businesses around the world struggle to understand the how 
 to profit from the information revolution, one class of enterprise has s
 uccessfully mastered the challenge—international organized crime. Global
 ly crime groups are rapidly transforming themselves into consumers of bi
 g data.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T135500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T135000
DTSTAMP:20110923T140009
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/22057
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-13:50--22057
SUMMARY:GE Announces New Data Platform To Assist In Fight Against Breast
  Cancer
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paul Marcum (GE). This keynote is sponsored by 
 GE. More information coming soon.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T103500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T103000
DTSTAMP:20110923T134330
LOCATION:Westside Ballroom
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/22147
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-10:30--22147
SUMMARY:Strata Vizathlon Contest Winner
DESCRIPTION:The winning entries and Best in Show winner are showcased fo
 r Strata Vizathlon, a data visualization contest produced in partnership
  with Juice Analytics.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T183000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110921T173000
DTSTAMP:20110817T222038
LOCATION:5th Floor Foyer
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21731
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-21-17:30--21731
SUMMARY:Closing Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us immediately following the sessions to celebrate two 
 fantastic days of delving into the future of data - in business and beyo
 nd. Enjoy a beverage or two, and then join us for Ignite Strata immediat
 ely afterward!
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T184500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T174500
DTSTAMP:20110909T185125
LOCATION:5th Floor Foyer
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21730
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-17:45--21730
SUMMARY:Cocktail Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the immediately following sessions at Strata Summ
 it. Have a drink and some delectable nibbles, network with other Summit 
 attendees, and visit our Sponsors who are leading the charge in the data
  revolution.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T220000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20110920T190000
DTSTAMP:20110920T182337
LOCATION:Eyebeam -- 540 W. 21st Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
URL:http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/21980
UID:http://strataconf.com/summit2011--s2011-09-20-19:00--21980
SUMMARY:Explore Data After Dark!
DESCRIPTION:Join us to kick-off a week of activities with a festive even
 ing of creative cuisine, signature drinks, and the sharing of innovative
  ideas in our visualization showcase at Eyebeam.
END:VEVENT
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