Opening Remarks by:

Dr. Toa Charm
Founder and Chairperson
BI and Big Data SIG
Hong Kong Computer Society
Managing Partner
Big Data Elite Asia
Hong Kong

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
A Perspective on the Capacity and Performance of Big Data Today and Tomorrow

• Enriching companies on the essence of volume, variety, velocity and veracity to provide continuous speed and foresight in business operations
• Raising concerns about the real-world applications in yielding insights beyond numerical values
• Realising on the change unstructured data could instil towards achieving the relevancy of Big Data

Andrew Park
Head of Software Services for Big Data HPE
Asia Pacific & Japan
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Smart City Vision: An Opportunity for City Transformation

• Taking the advantage of new technologies and new thinking to drive the smart cities’ ambitions
• Delivering the real economic advantage to make the city a better place to live, work and invest
• Showcasing opportunities to attract local and global investments and businesses to boost the city’s transformation

Josep-Ramon Ferrer Escoda
Former Deputy CTO and Smart City Director
Barcelona City Council Spain

CASE STUDY
Quick Visualisation of Multi-dimensional Datasets: Structured and Unstructured Approaches

Multi-dimensional datasets, costly, heavyweight tools and discrete visuals are common challenges when it comes to sieving insights. This presentation proposes the use of simple design principles and flexible development tools so that even under the constraint of limited resources, we too can build quick visualisation and analytics products for analysing both structured and unstructured data that is integrated, interactive and ultimately insightful.

Johnson Poh
Principal Data Scientist
Defense Management Group (MINDEF)
Singapore

PANEL DISCUSSION
Cultivating Big Data and the Internet of Things in Public Sector for Excellent Service Delivery

This session will unveil data and sensor-driven economy to enhance competitive advantage between the government and public sector. Building Big Data capabilities to instigate change of the citizen is crucial in meeting potential needs, by initiating Smart Cities towards providing excellent facilities to citizen and businesses

Moderator:

Dr. Toa Charm
Founder and Chairperson
BI and Big Data SIG
Hong Kong Computer Society
Managing Partner
Big Data Elite Asia
Hong Kong

Panelists:

Josep-Ramon Ferrer Escoda
Former Deputy CTO and Smart City Director
Barcelona City Council Spain

Ir. Dr. Karl Ng
Director
Innovation Capital Division
Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC)
Malaysia

Dr.Jong-Sung Hwang
Vice President
ICT Policy Group
National Information
Society Agency (NIA)
South Korea

CASE STUDY
Optimising Data Generation with Self-Service Exploratory Business Intelligence (BI)

• Demonstrating simplification in data access to allow multiple analytical processes to take place
• Integrating existing data management and existing BI tools to obtain deeper insight
• Creating new data mart for dynamic business transitions and competitive advantage

Fredrik Ohlsson
Director
Global Information Management
Tetra Pak
Singapore

CASE STUDY
Disruptive Software is Eating the Business World

Marc Andreessen’s 2011 proclamation that software is eating the world has come true. But it’s actually open source software that is eating the world. Transforming your business leveraging open source software is the key. However, knowing that alone is not enough. In this presentation, why open source is gaining more and more popularity and how your organisation can evolve with the right open source choice for your projects to transform into a data-driven enterprise will be explained.

Brad Stratton
VP
Worldwide Sales
Talend
USA

Networking Lunch

CASE STUDY
Tap the ‘Gold Mine’: Incorporating Data Mining for Promising Business Decisions and Diversifying Revenue Streams

• Detecting customer behaviour patterns useful in formulating business strategies
• Unveiling the potential business solutions lying in the information systems to compete in the industry
• Improving data mining techniques and algorithms to obtain data from various platforms

Guy van den Berg
Director
Channels & Alliances
ASEAN & India
Cloudera
Singapore

PANEL DISCUSSION
Building Capabilities in Pervasive Connectivity and Technical Architecture to Support a Smart City Ecosystem

This session looks at placing essential policies suitable for the citizen and infrastructure to enable initiatives to develop a Smart City and providing real-time valuable data to generate solutions to curb real challenges. This panel also visualises the end results to best understand the large scopes of data for the benefit of the public.

Moderator:

Dr. Yap Ghim Eng
Deputy Director and Lead Scientist
Agency for Science, Technology
and Research (A*STAR) Singapore

Panelists:

Dr. Fabien Pfaënder
Head of Data Exploration & Visualisation
Sino-European School of
Technology of Shanghai China

Ir. Dr. Karl Ng
Director
Innovation Capital Division
Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC)
Malaysia

Mike Singh
Advisory Board
The Smart Cities Council
Global Advisory Board
Start‐Up Village India
India

Afternoon Break & Networking Session

The promise of Big Data is huge, yet many projects fail to deliver on expectations. As organisations look to their data to drive revenue, streamline operations and manage risk, the challenge becomes even greater to manage that data and deliver value to the business as quickly as possible.  Hear how organisations are using a data-centric approach to integrate new data sources and deliver projects faster.

Jim Driscoll
Principal Technologist
MarkLogic
Singapore

CASE STUDY
Building Gov3.0 based on Big Data and Smart City : Korea’s Latest Development

• Defining Gov3.0 and looking at the critical differences between it and other
  forms of government innovations
• Identifying ways to make use of the recent development of intelligent
  technologies like Big Data and Smart City for Gov3.0
• Recognising what has been achieved and what have been the constraints of Gov 3.0

Dr.Jong-Sung Hwang
Vice President
ICT Policy Group National Information Society Agency (NIA)
South Korea

CASE STUDY
Developing Iskandar Malaysia as a Smart City with Big Data Initiative

Safuan Yusof
CIO and Director of Corporate Service
Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA)
Malaysia

Welcoming Remarks by:

Dr. Toa Charm
Founder and Chairperson
BI and Big Data SIG
Hong Kong Computer Society
Managing Partner
Big Data Elite Asia
Hong Kong

CASE STUDY
IoT as a Necessary Enabler of Secured Digital Collaboration in the Real World

This presentation involves the inclusion of IoT devices in a Smart office building environment, which is a facilities project for delivering a new office environment for up to 600 staff. The selected office space is located in the new King Abdullah Financial District in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that has LEED Silver certification as a minimum requirement for construction and energy efficiency.

David Smart
Programme Director
Facilities & Data Centre Developments
Saudi Arabia Monetary Agency (SAMA)
Saudi Arabia

CASE STUDY
IoT-Enabled Care Provisioning for Sustainable Ageing-in-Place: A Singapore Example

In 2014, 12.4% of the population in Singapore were above 65 years of age and this is projected to  increase to 19% by 2030. Among them, those living alone is likely to increase to 83,000 by 2030, up from 35,000 today. The ability to “age in place” –  living where you have lived for years with reasonable quality of life, is especially important for the latter group. While Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled ambient intelligence environments that allow caregivers to remotely monitor a loved one’s activities 24/7 are emerging, most of the above systems are technology-centric, operate in silos and do not tie in with end-to-end care provisioning. Moreover, the elderly community exhibit huge variations in their living patterns and behaviour and a one-size-fits-all system will probably not work for all.

This presentation explores SHINESeniors, an SMU-initiated effort to tackle the above issues through the integration of ambient intelligence with care provisioning, and the personalisation of such systems.

Dr. Tan Hwee Pink
Associate Professor and Academic Director of SMU-TCS iCity Lab
Singapore Management University (SMU)
Singapore

PANEL DISCUSSION
Healthcare’s Future as a Focused Industry: The Global Disease Research and Prevention

This session gathers healthcare professionals in identifying influential factors towards the aggressive growth of patient data. There is an absolute need to discover regulatory and industry changes to improve the quality and efficiency of data through healthcare service personalisation, alongside valuating decision supports with Big Data Analytics and IoT to cultivate patient centricity.

Christine A. Donnelly
VP
Nursing and Patient
Care Services
Makati Medical Centre
Philippines

Professor Pierce Chow Kah Hoe
Senior Consultant
Division of Surgical Oncology
National Cancer Centre
Singapore

Norvan Vogt
CIO
Townsville Hospital and Health Service
Australia

Lawrence Wee
Deputy Director
Data Analytics Institute for
Infocomm Research (i2r) Singapore

CASE STUDY
Galvanising the Use of Big Data and Cloud for the Aggressive Growth of a Smart Society

• Supplying strong data stream to map and understand traffic patterns in congested cities
• Enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of mobile revolution to accelerate connectivity among societies
• Allowing digital platforms to be integrated and managed both at the organisational and individual consumer levels

Ir. Dr. Daniel Ng
Head of Research
China Big Data and Smart City
Research Institute (Guangdong Centre) China

CASE STUDY
A Collaborative Economy for Data and Algorithms

Data is inherently dumb and algorithms are the “secret sauce” for data refinery. There is huge potential for cities’ big problems to be more effectively tackled when the prized data and algorithms are released from silos and become increasingly accessible.

Dr. Yap Ghim Eng
Deputy Director and Lead Scientist
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Singapore

12.30

CASE STUDY
The Complex Path to Energising Cities: How IoT Data Fosters Innovation for
Smart and Sustainable Cities

IOT products and services are blooming, fuelled by better infrastructure provided by smart cities initiatives and an exploding market for connected devices. Creating more local, personal and real-time data doubled with smart grids promises, IOT-ready devices provide excellent opportunities for cities to achieve a better energy management and become more sustainable. But if this goal is to be achieved to its full potential, one needs to embrace a complex situation where all stakeholders (energy providers, distributors, clients, third parties, city government, citizens) have different agendas, sometimes with opposite interests.

Dr. Fabien Pfaënder
Head of Data Exploration & Visualisation
Sino-European School of
Technology of Shanghai China

1.00

Networking Lunch

2.00

CASE STUDY
IoT and BigData: Driving Business Decisions through Real-Time Data

• Improving ROI on campaigns
• Getting the ‘right content, right person, right time’
• Experiencing the transition from digital to real world analytics
  

Deenu Abhishek Wayte
VP
Glueck Technologies
Malaysia

2.30

PANEL DISCUSSION
Tackling Potential Challenges of Data Privacy in Deploying Big Data and IoT

This session gathers industrial experts in diagnosing perpetual threats in the process of keeping valuable data and strengthening security. We will also identify how the confidentiality of data is established and preserved to overcome any violation, alongside enforcing real-time analytics as part of security monitoring purposes.

Moderator:

Dr. Toa Charm
Founder and Chairperson
BI and Big Data SIG
Hong Kong Computer Society
Managing Partner
Big Data Elite Asia
Hong Kong

Ir. Dr. Daniel Ng
Head of Research
China Big Data and Smart City
Research Institute (Guangdong Centre) China

David Smart
Programme Director
Facilities & Data Centre Developments
Saudi Arabia Monetary Agency (SAMA)
Saudi Arabia

3.10

Afternoon Break & Networking Session

3.30

CASE STUDY
DHL Logistics Trends Radar: Big Data and IoT Use Cases

DHL, as the global leader in logistics, is committed to driving innovation in the industry, towards meeting rapidly evolving needs and creating greater value. In this presentation, DHL will share on its approach towards research of these trends, and specifically deep-dive into three examples of Big Data and IoT use cases in logistics.

Tamanna Dahiya
Head of Innovation
Asia Pacific Solutions & Innovation Centre
DHL Singapore

4.00

CLOSING KEYNOTE

Dr. Toa Charm
Founder and Chairperson
BI and Big Data SIG
Hong Kong Computer Society
Managing Partner
Big Data Elite Asia
Hong Kong

4.30

Closing Remarks and End of Day 2