BIG - NESSI Networking Session, Talk by Helen Lippell, Press Association and Sonja Zillner, Siemens at the European Data Forum 2014, 20 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: The BIG Project-Sector Forums overview.

1. Helen Lippell, Press Association and Sonja Zillner, Siemens
European Data Forum, Athens, 20 February 2014

2. ▶Aims of the sector forums:
▶Understand the state-of-the-art
▶Identify gaps and opportunities for Europe
▶Provide industrial leadership to engage stakeholders
▶Develop Big Data application scenarios
▶Investigate and capture sector needs and requisites

3. BIG COVERS MAJOR INDUSTRIAL
SECTORS, WITH NEEDS RIGHT ACROSS
THE BIG DATA VALUE CHAIN
Health Public Sector
Finance &
Insurance
Telco, Media&
Entertainment
Manufacturing,
Retail, Energy, T
ransport
Needs Offerings
Value Chain
Technical Working Groups
Industry Driven Sectorial Forums
Data
Acquisition
Data
Analysis
Data
Curation
Data
Storage
Data
Usage
• Structured data
• Unstructured data
• Event processing
• Sensor networks
• Protocols
• Real-time
• Data streams
• Multimodality
• Stream mining
• Semantic analysis
• Machine learning
• Information
extraction
• Linked Data
• Data discovery
• ‘Whole world’
semantics
• Ecosystems
• Community data
analysis
• Cross-sectorial data
analysis
• Data Quality
• Trust / Provenance
• Annotation
• Data validation
• Human-Data
Interaction
• Top-down/Bottom-up
• Community / Crowd
• Human Computation
• Curation at scale
• Incentivisation
• Automation
• Interoperability
• In-Memory DBs
• NoSQL DBs
• NewSQL DBs
• Cloud storage
• Query Interfaces
• Scalability and
Performance
• Data Models
• Consistency, Availabil
ity, Partition-
tolerance
• Security and Privacy
• Standardization
• Decision support
• Prediction
• In-use analytics
• Simulation
• Exploration
• Visualisation
• Modeling
• Control
• Domain-specific
usage

4. SECTOR FORUM ACTIVITIES -
OVERVIEW
Identification
of sectors’
requisites
Applicability
of Big Data
technology to
each sector
Elaboration of
consolidated
sector roadmap
▶Requirements and objectives from
each sector
▶Big Data technologies and their
capabilities, in conjunction with:
▶Technical Working Groups
▶Technical White Papers
▶Roadmap for each sector
▶Contributing towards an
integrated roadmap (cross-
sectorial)

5. ▶Interviews
▶Webinars
▶Questionnaires and surveys
▶Dissemination at events
▶Desk-based research
▶Digital channels
▶Compiling industrial use cases

6. ▶ Massive opportunities available to those who can exploit
them…
▶ …but many businesses playing ‘wait and see’
▶ Some sectors already advanced in Big Data usage
▶ Big Data technologies enable exploitation of existing and
future data sets and streams
▶ Regulatory framework may be a blocker for data access
▶ Data sharing and interoperability (both within and
between organisations) is a common issue
▶ Skills and training gap may hold Europe back

7. ▶ Collaboration between Press Association and Insight Centre
▶ Jointly analysed business objectives, workflows, technologies
▶ PA competing in a complex, fast-moving media landscape
▶ Processing and creating many heterogeneous data assets
▶ Key takeaways:
▶ Great potential in combining algorithmic and human curation approaches
▶ High quality curated data is a significant competitive advantage
▶ Data variety and velocity important for media
▶ Ecosystem of technologies is emerging

8. Get involved in the SRIA process:
▶Give us your business cards
▶Visit us at the EDF exhibition (stand 3)
▶Tweet us @BIG_FP7
▶Keep an eye on our website http://www.big-project.eu/
▶Join the bigdatavalue.eu mailing list