• Mr. Michael Leung, President, Hong Kong Computer Society
• Mr. Andrew Young, Chief Commercial Officer, Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation
• Mr. Alex Lee, Assistant GCIO, Office of Government CIO, HKSAR Government

Synopsis:

While most of the world cities are making use of big data to gain their competitive advantages and have strategically positioned themselves as the leading big data hubs in their respective regions, Hong Kong has just started in this journey. How can the key stakeholders of big data ecosystem, including users, data scientists, researchers and startups, work together to help Hong Kong’s private and public sectors effectively leverage on big data and strategically establish Hong Kong to be a world-class big data hub in Asia Pacific? The speaker will share his thoughts on this theme with the audiences and set the scene for the 4 discussion forums in the conference.

Speaker:

Dr. Toa Charm, Chairperson, BI & Big Data SIG, Hong Kong Computer Society

Synopsis:

As the largest internet Chinese search platform in the world, Baidu has accumulated a large number of customers’ footprint.  Based on these trails, Baidu has precipated a number of relevant models and solutions to solve critical marketing and customer questions.  In this session, the speaker will talk about these big data driven analysis from Baidu including User Portrait Model, Celebrity Spokesman Selection Model, Competitive Analysis Model,  Brand Digital Equity Model and Data Visualization.

Speaker:

Mr. Roy Zuo, Big Data Marketing Director, Marketing Institute, Baidu

Synopsis:

In this forum, users from different industries will discuss how they make use of big data in their businesses and operations, what business values they gained from these investments, what challenges they have been facing, how they resolved these hurdles, and what’s next in their big data journey.

Moderator:

Dr. Toa Charm, Chairperson, BI & Big Data SIG, Hong Kong Computer Society

Panel Speakers:

• Mr. Dave Chan, Regional Director, Business Intelligence, UBM
• Mr. Matthew Chan, Assistant General Manager, Digital Marketing and CRM, K-11
• Mr. Steve Illingworth, Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific & Japan, Pivotal Software Inc.
• Mr. Anil Raparthi, Business Intelligence Lead, APAC, Fossil
• Mr. Vandia Yang, IT Solution Director, Enterprise Business Group, Hong Kong, Huawei
• Mr. Michael Chong, Solution Manager, Enterprise Group, Microsoft

Synopsis:

In this forum, big data researchers from leading universities and research labs will discuss what research they are working on, what advanced research the world-leading scientists are working on, and the latest trends in big data technologies and applications.

Moderator:

Dr. Eric Lo, Director, Big Data Lab, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Panel Speakers:

• Mr. Jia Zeng, Senior Research, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab
• Prof. Helen Meng, Director, Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Mr. Yu Tao, Head of ASTRI-HP Information Technology Research Center (AHITRC) & Principle Engineer, The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute
• Dr. Michael Zhang, Associate Professor, HKUST Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Mr. Daniel Chui, Technology Manager, Enterprise Group, Microsoft

Synopsis:

We live in a period where it is possible to instrument and collect information on most socio­technical process in near real­time. This growth in information capture and analysis is happening at a time when computation, storage and networking have become services that can be rapidly provisioned in the cloud. In this session, we will understand the basics of the big data revolution and how we got here. We will look at actual cases of how it is being used in the wider marketplace.

Studying the influence of externalities on customer interactions is a topic that involves both big data and creativity. This requires marketing analysts to combine publicly available datasets with enterprise log information to arrive at new insights. Google’s Cloud Platform allows such mashup analytics to be performed quickly and rapidly. Mine terabytes of data, rapidly identify customer usage patterns and make effective outreach campaigns ­ without massive hardware and software investments.

Speaker:

Mr. Karthikeyan Rajasekharan, Lead Technical Architect, Cloud Platform, Asia, Google

Synopsis:

In this forum, big data startups in Hong Kong and other countries will discuss what brought them into big data market, what opportunities they see and what challenges they have been facing as big data startups in Hong Kong, and what’s next in their plans.

Moderator:

Mr. Ian Huang, Chairman, EXCEL Capital Strategy

Panel Speakers:

• Mr. Edmund Lee, CEO, K-Matrix Ltd
• Mr. Francis Kwok, CEO, Radica Systems Ltd
• Mr. Ivan Ng, Founder, Lively Impact Technology Ltd
• Dr. Phil Tian, Senior Solution Architect, Cloudera
• Big Data startup from mainland China (TBC)

Synopsis:

Data scientist is being called as the sexiest job in the 21st century. What does a typical data scientist do? Why is it so important to enterprises, society, government and even the whole nation? In this session, world-class data scientists will explain who they are, how they make an impact to their companies, what it needs to be a great data scientist.

Moderator:

Dr. Daniel Eng, Vice Chairperson, BI and Big Data SIG, Hong Kong Computer Society

Panel Speakers:

• Ms. Money Chin, Strategic Marketing Manager, Siemens Building Technologies Group, International Headquarters
• Mr. Steve Illingworth, Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific & Japan, Pivotal
• Mr. K Y Lo, Acting Deputy Director (Business Strategy & Planning), CLP
• Mr. Phil Tian, Senior Solution Architect, Cloudera
• Mr. Jacob Wai, Committee Member of BI & Big Data SIG, Hong Kong Computer Society