Join us for the 6th Annual Big Data Conference on Thursday, December 9, 2021, 2:00-5:00 PM, for an in-depth discussion of the effects of Big Data, blockchain, AI, and real-time analytics on organizational change with some of the top industry leaders in innovation, business, and technology from local, national, and international arenas. This year’s Keynote Speaker is Michael Mylrea. 

 Thursday 12/9, 2-5 PM | Register Now (free)

Big data, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, real-time analytics, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) are profoundly reshaping our organizations, institutions, and society at large. Besides changing the consumer-facing operations of firms, these technologies are changing supply chain design, operations management, human resource management, and product development. Entire new segments of the economy like the gig economy have sprung up. At the global level, these technologies are driving greater market efficiencies forcing companies big and small to adopt these technologies or be left behind. Businesses, nonprofits, health care providers, government agencies, entrepreneurs, and educational institutions all have responded to these changes and redesigned themselves to survive. Indeed, these technologies are ushering in an era of creative destruction.*

Big Data 2021 topics include:

• How Big data technologies are disrupting industries
• How Big data technologies are creating new opportunities
• How Big data technologies is changing the public sector
• How to retrain the current workforce for these new challenges
• How should educational institutions adjust to ensure that people entering the workforce are trained for the AI-driven economy
• How are augmented and virtual reality technologies going to change:
  • Our homes?
  • Our entertainment?
  • Our work?
• Will extended reality be a force of good in society?

The Big Data Conference is free and open to the public.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER  Michael Mylrea, PhD  |  Senior Distinguished Engineerat National Resilience and Fellow for Industrial Cybersecurity at the University of Miami IDSC.  
TOPIC: "Manufacturing in the Metaverse: From Digital Twins to Distributed Ledgers of Vulnerable Things in Era of Pandemic & Cyberwar"

PLENARY SPEAKER  Alex Moura, MBA  | Vice President, Insights and Analytics, Advisors Product Management, Mastercard
TOPIC:  “Big Data in Banking: How the Data and AI Revolution is Changing Financial Services”  

BIG DATA 2021 PANEL 
TOPIC:  “Transformation of Institutions, Industries, and Government by Big Data, AI, and Extended Reality (XR) Technologies”

MODERATOR  Nick Tsinoremas, PhD  |  Director,  Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) and Vice Provost for Research Computing and Data, University of Miami

PANELISTS

• Lt. Joel Bello, Esq. |  Miami-Dade Police Department Homeland Security Bureau
• Diego Berta  | Vice President of Business Development, Magic Leap 
• Margaret Brisbane  |  CIO/Director of the Information Technology Department, Miami Dade County
• Matthew Denesuk, PhD  |  Senior Vice President, Data Analytics & AI, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
• Rodolphe e-Khoury, PhD  | Dean, University of Miami School of Architecture and Partner, Khoury Levit Fong (KLF)
• Arthur Kordon  |  CEO, Kordon Consulting, LLC

GUEST SPEAKER  Ashwin Kumar  | Associate Vice President, Jackson Health System
TOPIC: “ANNOVA—Prediction & Prevention of Negative Outcomes” 

Full Speaker Talk Topics, Bios, and Agenda at https://idsc.miami.edu/big-data-2021/