Digital London schedule

Tuesday 13th March 2012

• Enabling digital futures: Linking social, mobile, and cloud

  by Richard Edwards

  The growth and use of communication technologies and content make it certain that the future of the digital enterprise will depend extensively on key enablers such as mobile to keep pace with social, technology and business trends. This session will discuss how current and aspiring digital and mobile enabled enterprises can enable their digital futures by constantly innovating, adapting and exploiting the latest communication technologies. Innovating and Enabling Digital Futures. · 60% of the workforce can benefit from mobile communication technologies and content-integrated collaboration solutions. · "Social" and "mobile" are changing the way that businesses and institutions interact with their customers and constituencies. · The combination of social business, enterprise mobility, and cloud-scale solutions presents a real opportunity to do things differently. · Upgrades to technical infrastructure are required in order to benefit from the latest social, mobile, and cloud opportunities. · Barriers must be removed in order for new ways of working to flourish and for organizations to innovate. · The cost model of the "new world of work" is very different from that of the past.

  At 10:00am to 10:20am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room D, ExCeL London

• Introducing Apache Hadoop: The Modern Data Operating System

  by Amr Awadallah

  Sophisticated data instrumentation and collection technologies are leading to unprecedented data growth. Data-driven organizations need to be able to scale their data storage and perform complex data processing on the collected data (i.e. not just "queries"). Given the unstructured nature of the source data and the need to stay agile, organizations must also be able to change their schemas dynamically (at read-time versus write-time). Apache Hadoop is an open-source distributed fault-tolerant system that leverages commodity hardware to achieve large-scale agile data storage and processing. In this presentation, Dr. Amr Awadallah will introduce the design principles behind Apache Hadoop and explain the architecture of its core sub-systems (the Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce). Awadallah will also contrast Hadoop to relational database systems and illustrate how they truly complement each other. Finally, he will cover the Hadoop ecosystem at large, which includes a number of projects that together form a cohesive Data Operating System for the modern data center, and he will outline how this fits into existing data infrastructures.

  At 10:00am to 10:50am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room B, ExCeL London

• The Microsoft Sessions

  A series of seminars by experts from Microsoft on how the latest technologies can enable and digitise your business.

  At 10:00am to 12:00pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room A, ExCeL London

• Why success is still a people issue

  In this session we look at the personnel issues that underpin a social workplace and how a new way of connecting your enterprise can make you do more with less.

  At 10:00am to 10:20am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room D, ExCeL London

• Digital Cities - Smart and Connected Communities

  by Amr Salem

  Cities and National Infrastructure, Cisco Systems The Sustainability Advantage of Smart+Connected Communities Environmental, Social, and Economic Benefits of Smart infrastructure Citizens Smart Services Platform What does it take to build a Smart Digital City?

  At 10:30am to 10:55am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Summit Room A, ExCeL London

• Forrester: Top Tech Trends 2012 – 2014

  by Brian Hopkins

  In his presentation, Forrester Principal Analyst Brian Hopkins talks about the four themes that broadly influence this year’s technology trends: 1) Empowerment challenges IT to leverage the technology users bring to work, 2) the app Internet provides a new architecture for mobile app interactions, 3) XaaS fundamentally changes IT economics, and 4) big data presents new challenges for information architects. Looking at business impact, Forrester notes that IT executives expect business intelligence (BI), mobile, and business process management (BPM) technologies to deliver the most value from 2012 to 2014.

  At 10:30am to 10:30am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Summit Room B, ExCeL London

• Platforms for Innovation

  by Matt Brittin

  Speaker: Matt Brittin, VP Northern & Central Europe, Google Looking to the future of the web, Matt Brittin will give Google's take on the economic opportunity that the internet represents for businesses large and small.
  - why what we today think of as a ‘technological revolution’ is in fact only just a beginning
  - the growing importance of using data in business decisions
  - how Governments and regulators can help innovation to thrive

  • Google
  • Innovation
  • Web2.0

  At 10:30am to 11:00am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Summit Room C, ExCeL London

  Coverage video

• Smart Cities: Why They Matter and What They Mean for Digital Innovation

  by Lean Doody

  Cities are recognized as places where innovation and growth naturally occur. However they face a significant number of challenges including:

  Providing sufficient job opportunities for their citizens Providing an attractive place to live in terms of health, education and environment Meeting and exceeding sustainability goals

  While ICT has been applied within city departments for decades, a fundamental shift has occurred. New technologies such the Internet of Things now have a maturity and availability that can impact key city infrastructures including transport, supply chains, waste and food production. This talk will describe the economic, social and environmental value argument for Smart Cities and discuss their significance as a platform for digital innovation. Finally discuss the organizational and governance steps needed to effect change.

  At 10:55am to 11:20am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Summit Room A, ExCeL London

• Advanced Reporting & Analysis for Big Data

  by Jaspersoft Corp.

  NoSQL, Hadoop, and MPP Analytic Databases Big Data systems are generally recognized as those that provide massive scale out capabilities, frequently with terabytes or petabytes of data, and are too expensive and unwieldy to manage with traditional systems. Attend this presentation learn how architecture is data source agnostic architecture is a requirement to enable native reporting for multiple data source including Big Data systems. See some live examples of how Jaspersoft's vision goes well beyond Big Data and how our modern architecture and agnostic data source support is tailored for the cloud, from IaaS to PaaS either public or private variations.

  At 11:00am to 11:20am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room B, ExCeL London

• Agile Measurement, Management and Feedback

  In this session we look at new measurement and management frameworks needed to deliver an agile social business that can react in real time to internal and external trends as they arise.

  At 11:00am to 11:20am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room D, ExCeL London

• Future Outlook

  by Anastassia Lauterbach

  Qualcomm Technology rarely sits still. Wireless communication in particular seems to experience a revolutionary innovation every few months. In this session Anastassia Lauterbach will look at the effects on consumers, as well as cities, countries and economies, from enabling ultra-personal mobile devices; shaping relevant, next-generation mobile experiences; and inspiring transformative new business models and services.

  At 11:00am to 11:30am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Summit Room C, ExCeL London

• The Future of Digital Solutions, Content & Services

  by R Ray Wang

  A dizzying array of disruptive technologies are transforming how we approach business value. From augmented reality, social business, mobile, cloud, big data, and gamification, brands and enterprises must find out which technologies to apply to their business. Technology on its own is not the solution. Gain insight and understanding from the CEO of the world's leading disruptive technologies analyst firm as he shows how these technologies deliver business value for the Future of Work, Next Gen Customer Experience, Cross Channel Commerce, and Digital Marketing Transformation. Join the conversation in an interactive dialogue online and offline!

  At 11:10am to 11:10am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Summit Room B, ExCeL London

• Cities and Technology

  by Sean Dolan

  Cities investing in technology are creating value and accelerating business success in the new and ever-changing global environment. This in turn creates the need to consolidate and enable shared services and to facilitate government transparency. In this session Sean Dolan will explore why city innovators have the largest and most demanding networks today, what this means for cities and their service providers and how to drive innovation and value for digital cities and communities.

  At 11:20am to 11:45am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Summit Room A, ExCeL London

• Cassandra – ready for enterprise

  This session looks at how Apache Cassandra can be used to deliver highly saleable environments fit for the digitally connected world.

  At 11:30am to 11:50am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room B, ExCeL London

• Innovation and Business Agility the Social Way

  by Mike Grafham

  Social platforms enable new ways of driving innovation. This session will look at ways in which your organisation can link with internal and external advocates to create innovation platforms which can significantly reduce traditional R&D and deliver new routes to market.

  At 11:30am to 11:50am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room D, ExCeL London

• Laying Digital Paths and Gathering Digital Breadcrumbs – On Social, Data Science and New Business Models

  by monkchips

  James Governor, RedMonk analyst and co-founder will explore how new technologies, platforms and skills are transforming the information landscape. New skills are emerging, and old ones are being superseded, as we move into a world where every action is tracked, stored and available for research and analysis. The new landscape creates both opportunities and threats, and working out how all this information should be governed is one of the biggest challenges currently facing society. How does Social technology change who we are? How does checking in change what we consume? Who are the new tastemakers, and who are the companies set to emerge as global behemoths of social analytics?

  At 11:30am to 12:00pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Summit Room B, ExCeL London

• Smarter City Outcomes

  by Rick Robinson

  In the UK and other developed economies, a combination of demographic, economic and environmental pressures are beginning to drive transformative changes. In many cases, City and Regional authorities are at the heart of these changes. "Smarter" economic, operational and infrastructure solutions, enabled by rapid advances in communications and analytic technologies, are being implemented as a result to meet objectives for economic development, sustainability and community wellbeing. This presentation will describe some examples of IBM's engagements around the world with city, regional and national leaders to help them shape strategies and deliver solutions to meet the challenges they face.

  At 11:45am to 12:10pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Summit Room A, ExCeL London

• Communicate. Grow. Innovate. Transform.

  by David King

  In this session David King will talk about using technology to deliver information, growth, innovation and transformation. He will discuss how and why organisations are increasingly looking at better business / IT alignment to be the great enabler and will present ways to deliver competitive advantage in the most effective way possible.

  At 11:50am to 12:10pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Summit Room C, ExCeL London

• Massively parallel data analytics

  This session gives you an insight into the data analysis which can be performed and how these can be used in business.

  At 11:50am to 12:30pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room B, ExCeL London

• ROI metricises – measures of success

  This session looks at the delivery of social and collaboration solutions into the business how to put in place the right success measures and measure what is important.

  At 12:00pm to 12:20pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room D, ExCeL London

• Socially Connected, Learning and Collaboration

  In this session we look at how socially connected platforms can turn the organisational knowledge base or intranet into a platform to accelerate employee integration and project effectiveness.

  At 12:00pm to 12:20pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room D, ExCeL London

• Panel Discussion: Digital Cities

  by Lean Doody, Amr Salem, Sean Dolan and Rick Robinson

  At 12:10pm to 12:45pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Summit Room A, ExCeL London

• Big Data: Driving Efficiency and Fueling Innovation

  by John Morton

  The Economist Intelligence report titled "Big Data: Harnessing a Game-Changing Asset." found a strong link between effective data management strategy and financial performance. Fifty-three percent of respondents said their organizations achieve higher financial performance than their peers, 10 percent of respondents said it had completely changed the way they do business. This session looks at the key factors needed to drive such value.

  At 12:30pm to 12:50pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room A, ExCeL London

• Moving on – storage for the big data world

  Legacy storage is slow and shackles your applications, this sessions shows you how to move to storage fit for the world of large data and big insight.

  At 12:30pm to 12:50pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room B, ExCeL London

• "Big Data" versus "Lots of Data"

  In this presentation, we will argue that what really differentiates "big data" sets from regular data sets is not their size, but their complexity; that the industry should really make a distinction between large, relational data sets ("lots of data") and large, non-relational data sets ("big data"); and that a different approach to the management and exploitation of these new, large and complex data-sets is required.

  At 1:00pm to 1:20pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room A, ExCeL London

• Framer Session: How social can transform your data and give new insight

  by bolarotibi

  This session shows how companies are combining their structured and unstructured data in innovative ways to gain new customer insights as well as delivering apps and online experiences.

  At 1:30pm to 1:50pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room D, ExCeL London

• One size fits all? - Platforms for mobile application delivery

  How to create a data based platform and device agnostic mobile applications delivery platform allowing you to open up your enterprise data top mobile and app innovation.

  At 1:30pm to 1:50pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room B, ExCeL London

• Simulation engines next generation analytics

  In this session you can see how you can move beyond analytics to real-time simulation of organisational scenarios taking some of the guesswork and risk out of organisational decision making

  At 1:30pm to 2:00pm, Tuesday 13th March

• Simulation engines next generation analytics

  In this session you can see how you can move beyond analytics to real-time simulation of organisational scenarios taking some of the guesswork and risk out of organisational decision making

  At 1:30pm to 1:50pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Seminar Room A, ExCeL London

• Building the Internet of Things

  by Rob Parkes

  In the Smart City context, the Internet of Things promises ways of improving our Quality of Life through the ubiquitous connectivity of inanimate objects in conjunction with a City “central nervous system” to control the information, processing the ambient intelligence it receives and acting accordingly. But what is the reality of today’s Smart Cities? What life-improving capabilities exist today and what do the citizens of these pioneer Smart Cities want? This presentation will attempt to answer these questions with a peek at the Alcatel-Lucent primary market research on Smart Cities and how it relates to everyday lives.

  At 2:00pm to 2:25pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Summit Room A, ExCeL London