TopIX – Annual Conference 2011
Also this year TopIX amazes us with a sublime conference, very current and attentive to the challenges of the market and information technologies.
Big Data in a Living Web
Is it possible to predict the onset of a conflict? Or anticipate famines and droughts in order to implement preventive interventions?
We are on the threshold of a new revolution.
Humanity’s great dream, the ability to predict the future and anticipate the evolutionary lines of society, is getting closer to becoming reality.The web: a limitless pool of data
New vision and new tools
With an agenda and speakers of extreme depth:
9.00 Registration & Welcome Coffee
9.45 Kick-off; Riccardo Luna, Journalist
10.00 Introduction to Complexity, Big Data and Living Web; Alessandro Vespignani, Scientific Director, ISI Foundation;
10.25 Systems challenges in online social media; Alan Mislove, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
10.50 Economic Complexity and The Wealth of Nations; Cesar Hidalgo, Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory and a faculty associate at Harvard’s University Center for International Development.
11.15 RoundTable – Models: Complex, big and (r)evolutionary; chairman Riccardo Luna
Alessandro Vespignani, ISI Foundation;
Alan Mislove, Northeastern University;
Cesar Hidalgo, MIT/Harvard University
11.50 42: Life, the Universe and Everything; Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
12.10 RoundTable-Infrastructure: Big Data as call for opportunity; chairman Riccardo Luna
Nicola Villa, Senior Director and Global Lead, Urban Innovation Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco;
Michaela Kraft, Open Source Lead for Western Europe, Microsoft;
Gabriele Elia, Head Future Internet Technology and Research at Telecom Italia;
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Video – Tech@State; Richard Boly, Director, Office of eDiplomacy, U.S. Department of State
14.40 Turning data into dollars; Jaime Fitzgerald, Founder and President of Fitzgerald Analytics
15.05 From data visualization to data interfaces; Marco Quaggiotto, ISI Foundation/Politecnico di Milano
15.25 Video – Data as a Medium: A Human-Centered Perspective; Alejandro Jaimes, Director of the Social Media Engagement Group Yahoo! Research Barcelona
15.50 RoundTable – Socioeconomics Impact: Should we care about data complexity?; chairman Riccardo Luna
Roberto Moriondo, Director of the Innovation, Research and University Directorate of the Piedmont Region;
Jaime Fitzgerald, Föunder and President of Fitzgerald Analytics;
Alejandro Jaimes, Director of the Social Media Engagement Group Yahoo! Research Barcelona;
Raffaele Cirullo, Head of New Media – Corporate External Relations at Enel s.p.a.
16.35 Wrap-up & Farewell Coffee
The theme of the conference makes me think about a recent start-up funded by Google and the CIA, Recorded Future : the business model is to resell alerts about
future
events or news that can be detected by the analysis of content published on the entire internet. You can define Keywords or select specific topics of interest and schedule daily alarms via email. A complex and interesting platform for Big-Data analysis.
