CommPRO.biz Editorial Staff

For the sixth year in a row, London will play host to the Big Data Week Anchor Conference, on October 13.

Last year, more than 300 people gathered to explore use cases in retail, finance, healthcare, entertainment, travel, and IoT.

As the conference has grown over the past six years, the London anchor city conference event is now spinning a more elaborate yarn in terms of topics and content. The event focuses on a horizontal approach, which encompasses a vast array of domains, bringing on stage topics covering a wider range of industries. This year’s tracks will offer the latest discoveries and showcase best practices that you can take away for direct implementation.

This year, the Big Data Week London Conference will stage three main tracks, tackling the hottest technologies and tech trends:

• Data Science, Analytics, and Visualisation
• Big Data Architectures: Spark, Hadoop, Security, Cloud1. Data Science, Analytics, and Visualisation
• AI, Real-Time, and IoT Projects

“We've put together a terrific agenda, tending to our delegates big data curiosity: seasoned professionals from data-driven companies such as Uber, TransferWise, Financial Times, Thomson Reuters, First Utility, Microsoft, Exterion Media, and Transport for London will showcase innovative technologies and use cases, and will share their findings and expertise,” said Lavinia Bucur, Big Data Week Programme Director.

Here are some of the speakers featured in the Big Data Week London 2017 lineup:

• Lauren Sager Weinstein – Chief Data Officer / TfL
• Abed Ajraou – Data & Insight Director / First Utility
• Andrew Fryer – Evangelist / Microsoft
• Tom Woolrich – Data Intelligence Manager / Financial Times
• Andy Boura – Senior Information Security Architect / Thomson Reuters
• Totte Harinen – Data Scientist / Uber
• Jed Dougherty – Lead Data Scientist / Dataiku
• Tug Grall – Chief Technical Evangelist EMEA / MapR
• Steve Bradburry – Head of Fraud and Data Division / GRSC Group
• Mick Ridley – Chief Data Officer / Exterion Media
• Alex Bordei – Director of Product and Development / Bigstep

The event will be held at the etc. venues 155 Bishopsgate. Tickets are still available here.