Conference on "The power of Big Data Analytics"

The power of Big Data Analytics: Prospects, Skills and Opportunities

International Hellenic University

The International Hellenic University and the School of Science & Technology organised a very successful event on "The power of Big Data Analytics: Prospects, Skills and Opportunities" on Wednesday, 26 February 2014. The audience was addressed by Prof. M. Vazirgiannis (Professor in LIX, Ecole Polytechnique) who focused on Big Graph Mining, Mr N. Molfetas (Server Business Group Lead, Microsoft Hellas) and Mr G. Bourmas (Master Principal sales consultant and Engineered Systems Specialist, Oracle Hellas S.A) who shared business insights in the area of big data analytics.

The audience comprised students, young researchers and staff from various Universities and their level of interest in the topic was high, as evidenced by the large number of questions at the end.

The event was successfully coordinated by Assist. Prof. C. Tjortjis of the International Hellenic University.

Event Programme and Presentations

18.00 - 18.05	Welcome Prof. I. Vlahavas, Dean of the School of Science and Technology
18.05 - 18.15	Introduction Assist. Prof. C. Tjortjis, School of Science and Technology
18.15 - 18.45	Big Graph Mining with Degeneracy Prof. M. Vazirgiannis, LIX, Ecole Polytechnique
18.45 - 19.00	Coffee break
19.00 - 19.20	Big Data: Commercially-available systems and case studies Mr N. Molfetas, Microsoft Hellas
19.20 - 19.40	Big Data: Are you Ready? Mr G. Bourmas, Oracle Hellas S.A
19.40 - 20.00	Q&A, discussion and closing remarks