1 BIG DATA WEEK KUALA LUMPUR 2-11 MAY 2014 HARNESSING VALUE FROM YOUR DATA VARIETY POST-EVENT REPORT 2 Page What is Big Data Week?3 BDWKL 2014 overview4 MDeCs anchor event: Big Data: Endless Possibilities 6 BDWKL 2014 KL partner events18 Big Data Week 201541 Table Of Content 3 What Is? One of the most unique global platforms of interconnected community events focusing on the social, political and technological impacts of data Brings together a global community of data scientists, data technologies, data visualizers and data businesses spanning six major commercial, financial, social and technological sectors Events are designed to provide a platform to educate, inform and inspire organized by people who are passionate and knowledgeable about data 4 Big Data Week KL (BDWKL) 2014 Overview Organized and facilitated by MDeC, 18 key events (highest number of among 30 cities), more than 1500 participants in all events consisting of workshops, hackathons and seminars Anchor/Keynote event on 6 May officiated by YB Deputy Minister KKMM, and received an overwhelming response 10 sponsors, 25 speakers and over 200 senior-level (out of 600) attendees 3 breakout tracks (Business, Technology & Public Sector) on a vast array of BDA subject matters and case studies Big Data Roundtable jointly organized with IBM and attended by TKSU1, KKMM and other ministry reps who discussed the BDA Framework and Open Data 5 Big Data Week KL 2014 Schedule 6 BIG DATA: ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES MDECS ANCHOR EVENT 6 MAY 2014 7 Sponsors & Supporters 8 Event Highlights 10 sponsors, 25 speakers and over 200 senior-level (out of 600) attendees from over 388 unique organizations Breakout tracks (Business, Technology & Public Sector) on a vast array of BDA subject matters and case studies A panel discussion that provided industry insights Networking opportunities during tea-breaks and lunch that saw vendors and end-users connect. An opportunity to speak with BDA industry leaders and peers Lucky draw prizes sponsored by Seagate Presentation slides can be downloaded from: http://bit.ly/1jYs0Ba 9 Attendee Profile 80% 15% 5% Sector Breakdown PrivatePublicEduAttendees from IHLs UTAR, MUST, INTI, MONASH, APU, MMU, IMEC, UM, UPM, IIC, MPM, NOTTINGHAM, HELP, TARC, LEG, QUIP, IIUM, APIIT, UITM, UTP, USIM, UTM, MARA, UTHOM, UUM, HELP, LKW, MSU, TAYLORS Public Sector Attendees MIMOS, MDeC, PEMANDU, MPIC, JPA, MOD, WATER, DBP, EPF, IDFR, JKR, MOH, KLN, MPIC, MOSTI, KETTHA, KPDNKK, MCMC, MIROS, MIDA, MAMPU, MARDI, KKMM, MOE, MOHA, RURALLINK, MOTAC, MOHR, MYIPO, JPN, KELANTAN, PERAK 39% 25% 17% 14% 5% 1% Job Function CxOs, Directors, Chairmans,VPsManagersSoftware architects,scientists,developersExecutivesLecturersMedia10 Companies Attended 11 Companies Attended 12 Photo Gallery 13 Photo Gallery 14 Photo Gallery 15 Customer Survey Results How helpful were our representatives in providing their assistance during the event? 4.20/5.00 How do you rate the coordination and organisation of the event? 4.25/5.00 How do you rate the overall event content and was the information useful to you? 4.18/5.00 How would you rate the overall event? 4.20/5.00 Will you attend event of this nature again in the future? YES: 98% NO: 2% Overall customer satisfaction 4.2/5.00 16 Some Wonderful Testimonials Interesting speakers, well organized, short and sweet informatics Good topics, good location, well-run event with great speakers Takes marketing research to another level with technology An eye opener good information sharing New ways of data manipulation and data analytics! MDeC did a good job in organizing this event [This event] turns data into intelligence 17 There Were Also Lessons Learned To have buffets instead of sit-down meals so everyone can choose what they want or can eat To enforce slide submission deadline so that we have enough time to check all presentations for relevancy and potential topic overlaps To have longer technology track sessions To start promoting the BDW earlier so more people know about it 18 BDWKL 2014 KL PARTNER EVENTS 2-11 MAY 2014 19 KL Partner Event Highlights 2 hackathons on Big Data Analytics, resulting in 23 proof-of-concepts: One hackathon had a team from Taiwan who flew in to participate. Another one had oil-palm genome datasets from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board that challenged the participants to identify and determine the location of certain oil palm genes in the oil palm genome 6 hands-on workshops with 280 participants trained 3 university partner events More than 30 media mentions on BDWKL 2014 The Malaysia webpage in Bigdataweek.com was # 1 in terms of traffic, beating the US and UK. 20 MDeC Value-Added By Sourcing for sponsors: Connected Experian (sponsor) to VLTs BDW opening party Connected Fusionex (sponsor) to UTARs event Secured prize sponsorship from: Seagate for 3 events (MDeC, F-Secure and Teradata-MMU events) Reapfield Technology (MDeC & VLT events) Amazon (F-Secure event) We had our 8 PCF recipients, Data Storage Asean (DSA) and IT Enterprise News promote the BDW2014on their website Engaged with our campaign partner, DSA, to develop the Big Data Guide which was released during the BDWKL 2014. The guide is downloadable at http://bit.ly/UrnzDh Facilitated the availability of the MPOB oil palm genome sequence datasets for the Teradata-MMU hackathon 21 KL Partner Event Statistics Event NameOrganizerActual Attendees Target Attendees Performance Transit:Distillation (BDW 2014 Opening Party)VLT383300 128% Get Started with R! Strateq-Revolution Analytics 5640 140% Teradata-MMU-MDeC Big Data Discovery Hackathon Teradata-MMU-MDeC6545 144% Technology & Marketing: How to Collect & Analyze Data to Make Informed Business DecisionsMindvalley100100 100% Creating More Headroom for your Big Data SGI-MDeC-MIMOS6675 88% Homegrown Malaysia: Malaysias Contribution to Advancing Big Data MDeC-DSA116200 58% Surfing the Big Data Wave (Closed-Door)Abyres5050 100% Mining FB to Discover Yourself Sunway University20 (>50 RSVPs) 20 100% Making Sense in Journalism through Big Data Taylors University200200 100% UTAR Big Data Workshop: A HOW-TO for Mining Big Data UTAR (Kampar)8060 133% Roundtable on Big Data Analytics with Govt. Officials (Closed-Door) MDeC-IBM4040 100% Big Data Info Retrieval and Representation in Telcos TM R&D7170 101% Large-Scale File Systems for Big Data Analytics SNIA2640 65% DSA CxO Roundtable (Closed-door) MDeC-DSA1015 67% F-Secure Hackathon F-Secure2550 50% Create Your Own Business Analytics Apps In Just Half A Day! Qlik3030 100% BDW 2014 Closing Party: Unleashing the Power of Big Data (Closed-Door) FusionexNANA NA 22 Transit: Distillation Big Data Week KL 2014 Opening Party By VLT The opening party boasted 350 attendees from various industries - technology, design, art and music. Advertising was sponsored by Experian and Wall Tailor, and Malaysia SME was the official media partner. The opening party was held at the semi-outdoor space of PJ Trade Centre. This Transit featured a mixture of debutants from various industries such as KakaoTalk, ZALORA Malaysia, MyTeksi, Abah & Sons Co. Motoworks, Piktochart, Thyme Out, Barista Guild Asia, EPIC ARMY, Serviceclicks Malaysia, ZENO Group, EnSurvey, Smooshie Juice, Mile High Sounds and Skyward.23 Technical R Workshop By Strateq & Revolution Analytics The Get Started with R workshop was hosted by Revolution Analytics and Strateq in Kuala Lumpur at Connexion @ Nexus. Revolution Analytics' data scientists, Mr Julian Lee and Mr William Tjhi shared Big Data Analytics from an infrastructure neutral perspective and covered all the layers hardware, databases, analytics engines, presentation - of the most innovative, or rather 'hottest' data mining / analytics platform in town. During this workshop, Strateq provided their cloud infrastructure for online demos to participants. Strateq also shared its COVEO solutions - a single interface for users to search and perform deep levels of business analytics.24 Big Data Discovery Hackathon By Teradata-MMU-MDeC For the first time ever, an open dataset consisting of oil palm genome sequences from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), a government agency, was used in the Teradata-MMU hackathon.UM.25 Big Data Discovery Hackathon By Teradata-MMU-MDeC 26 The event was successful! We had Arzumy from says.com talking about scaling and infrastructure and how they cope with the amount of data they process everyday.

Then we had Damien and Tim from Geomash talking about Geo services and strategies for summarizing and presenting data so access time is fast.

Finally, we had Yongho from Mindvalley discuss how to use data to drive good business decisions.

100+ attended the event and the majority were from outside the KL Ruby Brigade and NoSQL groups. Technology & Marketing: How To Collect & Analyze Data To Make Informed Business Decisions By Mindvalley27 Home Grown Malaysia: Malaysias Contribution To Big Data By MDeC-DSA28 Home Grown Malaysia: Malaysias Contribution To Big Data By MDeC-DSA29 Home Grown Malaysia: Malaysias Contribution To Big Data By MDeC-DSA30 Mining Facebook to Discover Yourself By Sunway University Mine your Facebook workshop was organized by the Faculty of Science and Technology in Sunway University on the 7th of May 2014. This workshop was an introductory hands-on session to text mining which allowed participants to identify their Facebooks content and social conversations. The workshop also featured the use of social network analytical tools which are able to highlight the strength of ties and closeness of friends in a social media platform. Participants of the workshop were from a diverse range of organizations including GPS research, Farseer Consulting, Millenium Radius, Maxis, UTeM and the Home Ministry. 31 Making Sense In Journalism Through Big Data By Taylors UniversityAbout 200 students participated in the Making Sense of Journalism through Big Data forum at Taylors University Lakeside Campus on the 7th May. Ahmed Kamal, founder of Politweet, talked about data journalism. He spoke about how he retrieved data from Twitter updates during Bersih 3.0 rally.Dr. Wong Chin Huat, who is a political activist, explained how data journalism can help to investigate the countrys political activities.The next speaker was Irene Jay Liu, a reporter from Thomson Reuters who is based in Hong Kong. If you want a career in media, you have to deal with data journalism, she said. The final speaker was Professor Zaharom Nain, who is a lecturer at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. 32 Roundtable on Big Data Analytics With Govt. Officials (Closed-Door) By MDeC-IBM A Roundtable Discussion was organized by MDeC in collaboration with IBM Malaysia with the purpose of creating awareness among government officials on the impact of Big Data in the public sector. The theme was Big Data Analytics, a blue print for success.The event was chaired by Datuk Badlisham Ghazali, CEO of MDeC, and was attended by a total of 40 representatives from 15 different government ministries and agencies. Mr. Amish Patel gave a presentation on Big Data, which covered topics such as Developing the National Big Data Framework, Open Data.gov and public sector BDA implementation case studies in other countries.The Roundtable discussion provided a better insight and understanding among government officials on the potential and benefits of Big Data to the public sector and how IBM can contribute to the building of the National Big Data Framework. 33 Big Data Info Retrieval And Representation In Telcos By TM R&DTM Research & Development (TM R&D) organized the 5th Big Data in Telecommunication in conjunction with Big Data Week Kuala Lumpur 2014.Big Data Analytics in Malaysia is emerging as datasets are becoming so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using conventional database management tools or traditional data processing applications. Thus, TM R&D has taken this challenge to lead the big data trend in Malaysia. The objective of this gathering was to provide exposure and detailed explanation on Big Data technology from a telcos viewpoint and to support the Big Data Week.The event saw five key speakers share their insights on respective expertise related to the Big Data Information Retrieval and Representation in the Telco Domain theme.34 Large-Scale File Systems For Big Data Analytics By SNIA In this event, the topics covered were: 1) Massive scale file system for Big Data Analytics - SNIA Malaysia 2) Converged systems/Software Defined Storage for Big Data - Nutanix 3) Object filesystem - HDSThe crowd found the topics revolving around storage interesting because it was never presented the way it should be appreciated. Based on the interactive conversations, there is much interest leading towards requirements and advisory services. And this Big Data Week is a good platform to inject many opportunities toward the storage networking industry.35 DSA CxO Roundtable By MDeC-DSA 36 DSA CxO Roundtable By MDeC-DSA Roundtable objectives: Feedback: 37 DSA CxO Roundtable By MDeC-DSA 38 F-Secure Hackathon By F-Secure With the slogan "Big Data - Big Ideas", F-Secure Malaysias hackathon started at 10:00 am on 9 May. After 24 hours of intense programming, the participants demonstrated their apps. The jury consisted of representatives from Big Data Malaysia, MDeC, and F-Secure. A total of three prizes were awarded. The Best Big Data analysis reward was given to the Project-F-team and their F-Secure production analysis app. Taiwanese TMU-team won the Best usage and visualization category for their Android app. The Best overall app award was given to a young developer, Mustapha Taiwo, for his cross-platform app which filters out potentially harmful search results.Mustapha Taiwo Taipei Medical University team Organizer, contestants & judges Low Chin Kian, Then Yao Bin, Tan Yen Ken & Wayne Chew 39 Media Mentions (Partial List) Pre Big Data Week Connecting data professionals, Business Today, 25 April 2014 MDeC to host Big Data Week Kuala Lumpur in May 2014, SC Cyberworld, 25 April 2014 Big Data Week 2014, Max-IT Online, 25 April 2014 MDeC to host Big Data Week Kuala Lumpur 2014, IT-Sideways, 26 April 2014 MDeC to host Big Data Week Kuala Lumpur in May 2014, SME Magazine online, 28 April 2014 MDeC anjur Minggu Data Besar, Kosmo, 28 April 2014 MDeC to host Big Data Week KL, Digital News Asia, 29 April 2014 Big Data Week, pertaruhan segmen BDA, Interview with Dr Karl (MDeC) and Ivan Teh (Fusionex), Astro Awani, 2 May 2014 During Big Data Week MDeC to host Big Data Week Kuala Lumpur in May 2014, Enterprise IT News, 5 May 2014 Government To Build Malaysia's Big Data Analytics Capability, Bernama, 6 May 2014 Big Data Week 2014 @ Kuala Lumpur, TechViewAsia, 6 May 2014 ICT industry gets help to build big data analytics capability, The Edge Malaysia, 6 May 2014 MDeC Raises the Game for Malaysian Businesses with Big Data Week Kuala Lumpur 2014, SC Cyberworld, 7 May 2014 Use big data analytics to enhance productivity, MDeC tells Malaysian businesses, Computerworld Singapore, 7 May 2014 40 Sample Media Clipping 41 And By The Way We will be hosting BDWKL 2015! (20-26 April)