BIG DATA ANALYTICS TALENT ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA

28 July 2015

0930 – 1000 Registration and Breakfast

1000 – 1010 National BDA Initiative by Dr Karl Ng Kah Hou, Director of Innovation Capital, MDeC

1010 – 1020 Talent Initiatives for BDA by En. Muhammad Imran Kunalan Abdullah Director of Talent Division, MDeC

1020 – 1100 Feedback from Industry on type of BDA talent and skillsets required

1100 – 1130 Updates from Industry on Academic Initiatives available for Universities

1130 – 1200 Updates from IHLs on BDA courses offered both at undergraduates a post-graduates level

1200 – 1230 Discussions

1230 - 1300 Lunch and Networking

Agenda

Big Data Analytics Talent Round Table Discussion between Industry and Academia

Meeting Objective

- To provide inputs, insights and requirements in terms of skillsets required for data professionals

- To offer any expertise or curriculum to complement the planned curriculum by the relevant universities

National Big Data Analytics Initiative

by,

Dr Karl Ng Kah HouDirector Innovation CapitalMultimedia Development Corporation (MDeC)

BIG DATA IS THE NEW OIL“Information is the oil of the 21st century and analytics is the combustion engine”

– Gartner

ECONOMIC BENEFITS

GOVERNMENT BENEFITS

SOCIETAL BENEFITS

WE HAVE TO MOVE UP THE RANKS IN BDA MATURITYAP

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ity M

odel

Stage 1Ad Hoc

Stage 2Opportunistic

Stage 3Repeatable

Stage 4Managed

Stage 5Optimized

Business

Value

Indonesia

Thailand

Korea

Taiwan

India

China

Singapore

Australia

Hong Kong

2014

2020

Stage of maturityAd Hoco Limited business value o Projects unbudgetedo Process undefinedo Experimental and silo-ed

Repeatableo Business value realisedo Projects inherently

budgetedo Process documented o Consistent adoption

Malaysia

Where we want to be

Malaysia

Source: IDC (2014)

A STRUCTURED FRAMEWORK TO DRIVE MALAYSIA TOWARDS A LEADING REGIONAL BDA PLAYER

Malaysia as a Leading Regional BDA solution hub & deliver new value to all sectors

Create a national BDA ecosystem to enable the proliferation of use of BDA as a catalyst for further economic growth

ProductivityGain

ICT IndustryGrowth

Government Savings

Benefits for Rakyat

Catalyst of Game Changing Innovation

SPUR DEMAND FOR BDA IN ALL SECTORS

CATALYSE ADOPTION AND USAGE OF BDA IN PUBLIC SECTOR BUILD BDA INDUSTRY

GALVANISE MINDSET

PEOPLE & TALENT

DATA GOVERNANCE &

POLICY

TECHNOLOGYPLATFORM

INDUSTRY-DRIVENOPEN

INNOVATION

Cross Sector Collaborations – Public & Private

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OPEN DATA INTERNATIONAL OPEN DATA RANKING

MY

NA 50 TH

Target

2020

MY

2013 41ST

2014

MY

Source: Open Data Barometer Global Report, 2nd Edition

MY surpassed 2020 target(rank 50) due to recent efforts in driving Open Data initiatives

More focus and concerted efforts required to address the gaps

high in government readiness

Low in citizens & civil society readiness and impacts (social, economic, political)

2014 Result - Malaysia scores : 30TH

MY

New Target

2020

• Partnership with Open Data Institute (ODI), United Kingdom• Recruited 30 data champions from 6 ministries and 6

agencies• Outcomes – increase in quality datasets (machine readable,

open format)

IMPERATIVE 2 OPEN DATA:

UDATES

2 April – National Open Data Strategic Partnership with Open Data Institute (ODI), United Kingdom and launching of National Open Data Champions

PARTNERSHIP WITH OPEN DATA INSTITUTE, UK

OPEN DATA

OPEN DATA

Public, private and community engagement on Open Data Initiative 22nd June 2015

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

1. Open Data Initiative engagement with public sector, IHLs, private, startup companies and Big Data and Open Data communities to build strong relationship and identify supply and demand request on open datasets in transportation focus area.

2. 33 participants – 13 from 9 agencies/ministries (SPAD, MOT, DOSM, MBPJ, MIROS, LLM and JKJR) and 20 representatives from private, startup, IHLs and communities. (Prasarana, Sinar Project, Big Data Malaysia, TransitWatch, MapIT MSC, Agmo Studio, MMU, APU etc.)

Launched on 29th January 2015, to accelerate BDA adoption in Malaysia and a crucial step in realising MDeC’s vision for Malaysia to be a regional BDA hub.

OPEN INNOVATION NATIONAL BDA INNOVATION NETWORK

4o Center-of-Excellence (COE) createdo MIMOS, FUSIONEX,

TERADATA, SAS

8o BDA Innovation Network

partnerso Dell, SAP, IBM, TM,

Microsoft, Oracle, HP and SAS

6o High-impact BDA

proof-of-concepts indevelopment with COE partners

226 registered contest

participants

Technology Partners

21 Submissions

received

94 Ideation workshop

participants

What’s National Big App Challenge?The Big App Challenge is a competition to develop apps

utilizing Big Data Analytics in Malaysia. The challenge will showcase the importance of BDA in solving Malaysia’s

challenges pertaining to national issues and societal well-being through Open Data from the government.

IMPERATIVE 2 OPEN DATA

NATIONAL BIG APP CHALLENGE 1.0 (2014)OPEN INNOVATION

NATIONAL BIG APP CHALLENGE 2.0

ENVIRONMENT, FOOD & CULTURE

SMART TRANSPORTATION

OPENGOV HACKSSolving challenges affecting the citizens, govenrment

and businesses through Government Open Data

IDEATION & VALIDATION5 Sept

HACK & PITCH12 Sep – 13 Sep

VIDEO SUBMISSION18 Sep

WINNERS IDENTIFIED21 Sep

VIDEO SUBMISSION28 Aug

WINNERS IDENTIFIED31 Aug

IDEATION & VALIDATION15 Aug

HACK & PITCH22 Aug-23 Aug

CYBERJAYA CITY HACKS Improving City Life with Open Data

SMART CITY

Individuals, Developers, ISV, Tech start-ups, Students WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE

OPEN INNOVATION

Cyberjaya City Hack

Top 3 winners will have access to BDA Accelerator program worth RM50K

SPONSOR PRIZECyberjaya SmartCity App Pilot worth RM10K

NATIONAL BIG APP CHALLENGE 2.0

GRAND PRIZE

Trip for 2 to visit London’s vibrant startup scene and have private session with

leading startups and open data experts

OpenGov Hack

Top 3 winners will have access to BDA Accelerator program worth RM50K

PRIZE MONEYChampion : RM10,0001st Runner Up : RM5,0002nd Runner Up : RM3,0004th – 10th Prize : RM1K

Supporting Organizations

Organizing Partners

PRIZE MONEYChampion: RM10,0001st Runner Up : RM5,0002nd Runner Up : RM3,000 4th – 10th Prize : RM1K

OPEN INNOVATION

TALENT DATA PROFESSIONALS DEMAND

DEMAND2014 2020

Data Professionals* 4,088 16,000

*Data Professionals includes:1. Data Scientists2. Data Modelers3. Data Analysts4. Data Miners

2,500140,000-190,000

US

DATA PROFESSIONALSUNFULFILLED DEMAND (2018)

Source: McKinsey (2013) SGSource: Singapore 2013 Budget

DATA PROFESSIONALSSUPPLY (2018)

Over whelming response with 2,500

participants (60 speakers, 5 breakout

tracks

43 Media Mentions (4 regional, 39 local)

with PR value of RM1,201,334.66

GALVANIZING MINDSET

BIG DATA WEEK KL (BDWKL) 2015(20 – 22 APRIL 2015)

BDA FORUM WITH INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY PANEL

Focus on creating data scientists from a business skill set point of view. It is more impactful to build data science skill sets among industry individuals and those who have business acumen

SME are an important pillar to drive BDA adoption

Highlight BDA uses cases via the Centers-of-Excellence to spread greater awareness

BDWKL CONFERENCE & EXPO

THANK YOU

MDeC BDA Talent Initiatives

by,

Muhammad Imran Kunalan AbdullahDirector Talent DivisionMultimedia Development Corporation (MDeC)

MDeC BDA Talent Initiatives

Undergraduates Working Professionals

Universities

Employers

Data Science MOOC for non –ICT undergraduate Pilot

Internship via UGRAD SIP

Finishing School via Job Camp and GEMS

Competition via Innovate Malaysia

MyProCert (SRI) - EMC, SAS, SAP,

Oracle, Cloudera, Rapid Miner,

Hortonworks & IIBA

MyProCert (SRI) Coursera Data

Science MOOC

The Data Science Incubator *

MyBrain15 post graduate BDA scholarship

Master Class Series

BDA Reference Lab @KDC

Legend Ongoing Upcoming * External Programme

MSC Malaysia MyProCert (SRI) – Data Science Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)

Programme Details:- Open to all Malaysian- Priority will be given to those with 2-8 years of experience- 9 courses and a Capstone Project- Blended Learning - Participants are required to attend 6 out of 24 sessions of Learning Hub

+ +

MyProCert (SRI) Big Data Analytics Certifications

Objectives- to train participants to become more informed users of analytics and business data- to utilize insights derived from Big Data to make better business decisions- to share the best practises and case studies on adoption of BDA by companies

Tentative Date Proposed Speaker Designation

3rd Sept 2015 Dr. Alfie Abdul Rahman Research Associate from Oxford University

8th Sept 2015 Mr Raju Chellam Head of Big Data and Cloud, Dell Enterprise Solutions South East Asia

6 -7th Oct 2015 Dr. Muthu Kumaran Head of Big Data and General Manager for Training, HTC India Pvt Ltd

Master Class Series

Data Science MOOC for Non-ICT Undergraduates

Objectives:- to sharpen the undergraduates skills in data science- to facilitate and accelerate Big Data and Analytics training

through MOOC- to enhance the employability of the graduates by having

Data Science Certificate- to offer Data Science course across other non-ICT related

undergraduates and encourage them to pursue a career as a Data Scientist

- to increase BDA pipeline from other non-ICT graduates

THE DATA INCUBATORA 2 month intensive training and development of Academia and Industry Experts with advanced degree on Data Science

Real ExpertReal Platform

Real Use Cases

BE A DATASCIENTIST

HIRE A DATASCIENTIST

Next registration will commence from 1st Sept – 1st Oct 2015. For more information, please visit www.ibigmaxe.com

MyBRAIN15 Big Data Analytics Post Graduate Scholarship Campaign

- MDeC would like to collaborate with MyBRAIN15 in promoting Big Data Analytics Post Graduate Scholarships

- Requesting each IHL to nominate 2 lecturers to be the supervisors for BDA post graduate degree under MyBrain15 scholarship by 7 Aug 2015.

- The campaign will highlight the lecturers area of expertise in BDA

Survey on Big Data Analytics Courses Offered by Universities

- Request for cooperation from Universities to participate in this survey

- The purpose of this survey is to keep stock on the number of Big Data Analytics Talent produced and trained by University

- MDeC will email the survey form to the respective Universities

- Please respond to this survey by 25th September 2015

Institutions of Higher Learning offering Big Data Analytics Courses

2015 2016

Thank You