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City of Atlanta and Metro Atlanta Chamber Partner with Software Company Emcien to Host Atlanta's Big Data Week in 2014
[April 15, 2014]

City of Atlanta and Metro Atlanta Chamber Partner with Software Company Emcien to Host Atlanta's Big Data Week in 2014


ATLANTA --(Business Wire)--

Analytics software company Emcien was selected for the second consecutive year to organize Atlanta's Big Data Week initiative, a weeklong series of events founded by Media140 in London and organized locally in more than 30 cities globally on May 5-11, 2014.

The Atlanta events range in experience level, industry and business case, and are taking place around the Metro area with many of them located in and around Georgia Tech's Midtown campus. The full agenda can be viewed here: meetup.com/atlantas-big-data-week-2014/.

"The City of Atlanta is thrilled to be a sponsor of Big Data Week," said Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. "All across our city, we are using data to streamline and improve government services. Big Data Week offers our city a national platform to showcase our innovative approaches to creating an efficient and effective government."

Confirmed speakers for the conference include technology leaders from Delta, The Weather Company, Home Depot, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, AirWatch (News - Alert), SunTrust and many more. The focus this year is around high value use cases and near-future potential from enterprise-side executives who are leading big data initiatives in their companies.

Emcien, an Atlanta software provider specializing in pattern-based analytics, has been chosen to organize and host the events because of their innovative approach to data analysis and their ties to the city government and Georgia Tech, as well as Big Data executives around the state acros all sectors. Due to the growth and momentum of the technology industry in the Southeast, this has truly become a community effort thanks to major partners such as the City of Atlanta, Metro Atlanta Chamber and Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau.



Among those involved are several technology media giants including Bloomberg (News - Alert), GigaOM and VentureBeat. Several Big Data publications, including Data-Informed, BigData-Startups.com and Datanami, have joined as media partners. In addition, dozens of companies are sponsoring the Atlanta series including LexisNexis (News - Alert), Equifax, MapLarge, MailChimp, Brickstream and more. The full list of sponsors and speakers will be released one week prior to the event.

Among the partners this year are some of the state's leading universities including Georgia Tech and Kennesaw State University. "Our world-class universities and colleges are one of the main drivers of entrepreneurship and innovation in the city," said Mayor Reed.


Big Data Week in Atlanta was an historic event in 2013, with over 1,000 unique registrants, 22 events and more than 50 speakers. This year, the event has garnered more attention than before, with some of the most innovative companies in the country sending their data experts from all over the Southeast and even as far as Palo Alto (News - Alert), Calif. to speak to Atlanta's technology leaders.

"The first Atlanta Big Data Week in 2013 was a success because Atlanta is rapidly growing in importance as a technology hub in the Southeast," said Andrew Wilson, SVP and General Manager, Atlanta.net at Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau. "We support this event because it attracts the kind of people that can fuel the future growth of the city, be it through increased transient business visiting tech companies, or through relocation of technologists and businesses into this vibrant city."

"Once again Big Data Week gives us the opportunity to come together and share what we've accomplished and what's on the horizon," said Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Big Data analytics company Emcien and organizer of Atlanta's Big Data Week. "Emcien is organizing this event to grow the community, to learn together about new opportunities for improving how the entire world works and lives."

Atlantans of all industries, business functions and sectors are encouraged to review the Meetup (meetup.com/atlantas-big-data-week-2014/) to find the most relevant sessions and panels to them. Many events will be free to attend, and are either casual networking mixers or panels and sessions focused on educational and unique content around solving business problems. There are a variety of topics to choose from including:

  • What Atlanta's biggest brands are doing with data
  • The intersection of business intelligence and Big Data
  • How artificial intelligence is transforming business
  • Technical discussions on coding for data science
  • What tools and methods are leading in Big Data analytics

...and more. Join the conversation using #bdw14, the official hashtag of the events worldwide.

About Emcien

Emcien's software automates data analysis, allowing users to work faster and smarter by revealing valuable patterns from many forms of data. The software uses advanced algorithms to eliminate the burden of manual analysis and detect the connections your team needs to formulate insight.

Our patented algorithms accept raw data and evaluate all possible combinations, recognize what's important, defocus what's not, and deliver the optimal results automatically through an API or intuitive User Interface.

Emcien's engine, the result of highly competitive NSF grants and years of research at Georgia Tech and MIT (News - Alert), is delivering unprecedented value to organizations across sectors that depend on immediate insight for success-banking, healthcare, insurance, retail, Intelligence and others.

Visit emcien.com to learn more.


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