ORGANIZERS IN 2017 EDITION

ORGANIZERS

Evention

Evention is a company that specializes in increasing the value of ICT business meetings. We strongly believe that business events are integral and irreplaceable factor when it comes to the creation and maintanance of relations and improvement of communication between companies and people that create them. We are constantly searching for innovative business meeting formulas to adress current needs, expectations and aspirations of ICT managers.

GetInData

GetInData was founded by former Spotify data engineers in 2014. We are experienced and passionate Big Data experts with proven track of records.
Our mission is to help data-oriented organizations to succeed using open-source Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Flink, Spark, Kafka by providing outsourcing, consulting and training services.
We’ve been already contracted by tens of companies ranging from fast-growing European startups to global corporations in pharmacy, FMCG, banking and media sectors.

GENERAL PARTNER

SAS Institute

SAS Institute is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Incorporated in 1976, SAS employs over 14 000 employees in more than 400 offices spanning the globe. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 80,000 sites in 149 countries improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. SAS serves every industry and government activity with targeted business solutions.  The SAS office in Poland has been in operation since 1992. According to independent market analyses SAS is the leading vendor of the analytics and  BI solutions on the global and Polish market. www.sas.com/poland

STRATEGIC PARTNER

Google Cloud

Companies come to Google Cloud to transform their businesses. Our comprehensive portfolio — from infrastructure to apps to devices — helps enterprises innovate faster, scale smarter, stay secure, and do more with data than ever before.  Powerful data and analytics solutions and machine learning of Google Cloud Platform deliver real-time insights for more informed, more effective decisions.

CONTENT PARTNER

Ab Initio

Ab Initio Software is the top supplier of enterprise data and metadata management software. Numerous leading global corporations use the Ab Initio software for the development of enterprise mission-critical applications with unmatched performance and full scalability. The apps encompass the full spectrum of data processing tasks – from the real-time operating systems to batch processing analytical systems, from data warehouses to transactional systems.
Core to Ab Initio is a simple idea that everything should be graphical. Applications should be graphical. Rules should be graphical. Orchestration, metadata, data management, and so on – no matter how big or complex, all should be graphical.
With this in mind, we think that our experience supporting the mass scale and data volume, combined with our proven Hadoop capabilities, forms the basis of your needs today and in the future.

Alterdata

Together with partners, co-founders and our team we created Alterdata company. We focus on big data analytics and its monetisation for digital transformation. At the age of data driven transformation, digital disruption and massive connectivity growth there are new challenges coming. Our team is experienced in business, with deep market knowledge and long experience in B2B space. In our team we have great analytics, data scientists, IT engineers, software developers and project managers. With this team we create Big Data analytics solutions for our customers. We offer custom project approach for big organisations and Big Data as a Service platform which is analytics PaaS for those who would like to use best in class analytics without their own IT resources and infrastructure.

We turn data into value. We make it easy to begin your big data journey. Rely on experts.
Connect the dots and find the best way to transform your business.

The Boston Consulting Group

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm and the world’s leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients from private, public and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises. Our customized approach combines deep insight into the dynamics of companies and markets with close collaboration at all levels of the client organization. This ensures that our clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organizations, and secure lasting results. Founded in 1963, BCG is a private company with more than 81 offices in 45 countries. For more information, please visit bcg.com.

Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that has been making the Internet work since 1984. Our people, products, and partners help society securely connect and seize tomorrow’s digital opportunity today, www.cisco.com

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

Vertica

We live in a world where data is the compass and data-driven companies require atomic-level analytics to chart their course. We live in a world where constant change brings new opportunities in the moment. We live in a world where the future belongs to the fast.
At Vertica, we had a vision to build the analytics platform that would meet the unprecedented speed and scale of the data we saw coming, and that’s just what we did. We delivered performance at Exabyte scale. We built analytics functions into the core of the HPE Vertica database. We integrated with open source innovation and key complementary offerings through an adaptive, ecosystem-friendly architecture.
But we saw even more. On-premise data centers remain core to global enterprises but the elasticity of the cloud is equally important. Hadoop data lakes keep all the data at a manageable cost. The ability to optimize when new options arise, when market economics shift, and when business priorities demand change is just as important as the speed and scale of analytics. An analytics database that can only run on premise, or only in a specific cloud platform, or only for limited data formats is not enough.
We built HPE Vertica to run in enterprise data centers on commodity hardware, across multiple cloud platforms and natively on Hadoop nodes. We built HPE Vertica to analyze all forms of data, wherever it is stored. We built HPE Vertica to provide a best-in-class, unified analytics platform that will forever be independent from underlying infrastructure. We believe in fast, and we believe in freedom.

Luxoft

Luxoft is a top quality Software company providing high-end business solutions to clients across the globe. With deep domain expertise in the finance, telecom, energy, automotive, travel and aviation industries, the company consistently goes beyond its clients’ expectations by bringing together technology, talent, innovation, and the highest quality standards. We have built long-lasting partnerships with Boeing, IBM, Deutsche Bank, Harman, Avaya, Alstom, Sabre, Ford, Hotwire and many others by providing seasoned business and technology professionals, software imaginers, who deliver high-quality, innovative technology solutions that fit the client’s needs.

If you are ready to engineer your future and join us on our journey, then please visit career.luxoft.com

Specialties

Application Software Development, Product Engineering, Testing, Software Quality Assurance, IT Infrastructure Management, Architecture Consulting, Security Consulting, Automotive Software, Energy Software, Telesom Software

Teradata

The closer you look at the world around you, the more data you see, and the more you need Teradata. We help companies unify and analyze massive amounts of data, so they can discover more of the things that matter most in the world around them.

Teradata helps more companies get value from data than any other company. Our big data analytic solutions, integrated marketing applications, and team of experts can help your company gain a sustainable competitive advantage with data.

We work with leading businesses in over 75 countries worldwide. Our clients include many of the top performers and best-known brands in telecom, transportation, consumer packaged goods, financial services and manufacturing.

We focus on turning the most complex and challenging data sets into high-value assets that produce high-impact insights and tangible value for the business.

SUPPORTING PARTNER

Allegro

At Allegro we make apps that thanks to their scalability and reliability has gained fans all over Central and Eastern Europe. It was not an easy task. Every day we face challenges in architectural and design area, as well as in process of choosing the right technology, providing code quality, and in further phase: implementing and maintaining a product.
Allegro tech is our idea for sharing our experience by organizing conferences, workshops, meetups and hackathons.
You can find more information on our website: www.allegro.tech
Follow us https://www.meetup.com/allegrotech/ and join our meetups https://www.facebook.com/allegro.tech

Ataccama

Ataccama integrates data quality, master data management, data governance, and big data processing in a single technology platform. We build software products that help companies do hundreds of compelling things with data: make sense of airport codes and flight numbers, analyze terabytes of communication with clients, or organize millions of product codes. Our data processing engines are powerful, flexible, and ready for large enterprises. Our applications scale seamlessly from traditional databases to the likes of Hadoop and Spark. We are happy to host a regular Hadoop User Group meetup that features big data experts, and that has grown to be one of the biggest tech communities in Prague. Join our develolment team, we are hiring!

CodiLime

CodiLime provides professional IT consulting and software engineering services for global clients in three core areas: Networks, Security and Big Data Science & Deep Learning (through its deepsense.io subsidiary). The company was established in 2011 by a group of Polish computer scientists and mathematicians with outstanding technical backgrounds and professional experience gained at leading global IT companies in Silicon Valley. Currently, CodiLime is made up of approximately 200 carefully chosen team members (mostly software engineers and data scientists). CodiLime clients such as NTT, Intel, NVIDIA, IBM, Nielsen, AT&T, Hitachi and Juniper Networks have come to rely on our team to provide them with the highest quality in services and products.

Please visit:
www.codilime.com

deepsense.io

Contact Singapore

Contact Singapore is an alliance of the Singapore Economic Development Board and Ministry of Manpower. We engage overseas Singaporeans and global talent to work, invest and live in Singapore.

Contact Singapore actively links Singapore-based employers with professionals to support the growth of our key industries. We work with investors to realise their business and investment interests in Singapore.

For information on working, investing and living in Singapore, please visit www.contactsingapore.sg or contact our worldwide offices.

To apply for careers in Singapore, please visit our Contact Singapore Job Portal: www.contactsingapore.sg/jobs

Criteo Labs

At Criteo, personalized digital performance advertising is what we do. And it’s what we do best. Known for the quality of our digital advertising technologies, developed by the 300+ world-class engineers working for our R&D in Paris, Grenoble and Palo Alto.

For each of the 3B ads we display every day, we need to dynamically choose around 4 products to put in the banner. Not only the choice of algorithm has to be driven by the size of the catalog, but also by a time constraint: the system has less than 100ms to make a recommendation. These two constraints make quite challenging the design of algorithms that can take into account the others complexities of the problem such as the heterogeneity of the catalogs or the cold start problem induced by the fact that products come and leave very frequently. On top of that, the system interacts with a human user across several displays, which requires to introduce either some diversity or some structure across recommendations. Read more about us here: http://labs.criteo.com/

OVH Group

The OVH group was founded in 1999. It innovates at the very heart of the web, data centers and networks, and today it is a key player in the global cloud arena. Through OVH.com, So you Start, RunAbove, Kimsufi and hubiC, the OVH group offers simple and powerful tools and solutions that put technology at the service of business and significantly improve the working practices of its 1 million customers around the world. As always, the company remains firmly committed to respecting individuals and their freedom, and providing equal opportunity of access to new technology. For OVH, “Innovation is Freedom”.

Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble is one of the top global consumer goods companies with many well-known and trusted brands such as Pampers, Oral-B, Gillette and Old Spice. We are present in Poland since 1991, with our portfolio of Brands, as an employer and investor. We consider Poland as one of our key hubs for global innovations. On daily basis 300 of our employees based in Warsaw, in the second biggest P&G IT center across the world, equipped with the newest technologies such as Big Data, Machine Learning and Cloud, design innovative solutions in the fields of business analytics, marketing and supply chain management, which are then implemented globally.

We have loads of experience but also a strong belief that an organization like P&G could greatly benefit from diversifying the sources of innovations. P&G in Poland provides unique opportunities for local talents to combine their innovation and intellectual potential with the global scale of the company work directly with top internal and external experts from all over the world to develop solutions that can be implemented on a global scale, while at the same time growing their own business and capabilities.

You can find more information on our website: http://www.pg.com/pl_PL/

Samsung

Samsung R&D Institute Poland is one of the biggest and fastest growing R&D centers in East-Central Europe. Within its structure, the AI Team  is the largest team of experts in the areas of Deep Learning, Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Vision and Big Data Analytics in Poland. If you dare to face exciting challenges of artificial intelligence, check out our job offers: http://rd.samsung.pl. Search job titles by „AI”.

PATRONAGE

Ankara Big Data Meetup

This is a group for anyone interested in Big Data and related technologies in Ankara, Turkey. All skills levels are welcome. We started this group to meet other Big Data enthusiasts and share our knowledge. Looking forward to see you all Data Nerds. 🙂

BigDataUkraine

We are a non-profit project, functioning as an association of the largest Data and Analytics communities in Ukraine and organise events on a regular base. We are partnering with co-working spaces, incubators and innovation hubs as well as international tech organisations to develop and nurture Ukraine’s data enthusiasts.
Our main focus is to provide free education and access to resources, within that particular aspect we organise meetups, conferences, workshops and competitions, which are completely free of costs for participants. On top of that we support our communities with publishing digital content for knowledge sharing purposes.
As part of our events we are very interested to invite international speakers, speakers which will inspire Ukraine’s talent to achieve greater ambitions or speakers who simply like to share the next cool technology trends.

Czech & Slovak Hadoop User Group (CS HUG)

CS HUG stands for Hadoop User Group connecting people interested in Hadoop and all other related technologies across Czech and Slovak Republic. The group includes over 600 members from different areas of both academia and industry from the founders of local startups to experts from big international corporations. The “huggers” meet regularly once a month to listen to the talks delivered by speakers from all around the world – the meetup has hosted sessions with experts from Spark, Flink, Amazon, MSD, NCR and many more. All the sessions are sponsored by Ataccama.

Data Science Group

Data Science Group at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (DSG @ WUST) gathers reseachers and practitioners interested in both scientific and applied solutions related to data science (PL: danologia) (https://datasciencegroup.pl). The group has just launched an open web portal for contests in analytics on data provided by companies – https://scicup.com.

Data Science Serbia

Data Science Serbia is an association of Data Science professionals in Serbia. Our goals is to provide an education and promote Data Science and other related fields among young people and IT professionals who want to work with data.
We are organizing three different meetup groups – Data Science Serbia, BelgradeR and Belgrade Spark with more than 1000 meetup members. Our courses and workshops are always free for all interested participants.
Data Science Serbia cooperates with other IT communities, companies and co-working spaces and is a member of Serbian government Open Data Working Group.

Data Scientists Ireland

Data Scientists Ireland meetup is a one stop place for events and workshops related to Data Science happening in Ireland. We organise and feature meetups/events around Big Data, NoSQL, Analytics, Statistical computing etc to advance knowledge and expertise in this area.

DataKRK

Data KRK brings practical Data Science to Krakow. It is everything you always wanted to know about Big Data, NoSQL or Machine Learning, but were afraid to ask.
Our main area of interest is Hadoop Ecosystem and bringing business value out of it, but we don’t forget about anything related to Data Science.
We meet each month to present an inspiring talk or organize a data-hacking session.

Hadoop User Group Ireland (HUG IRL)

The Hadoop User Group Ireland is a forum to discuss Big Data related questions. Our scope is broad and not focused on a particular Big Data framework. Our purpose is to raise awareness of the benefits and use cases of Big Data applications. We run one event each month. Come and join us.

ICM

ICM is a leading CEE supercomputing centre. We use our HPC infrastructure for solving advanced computational challenges as well as for simulations of complex systems and data driven modelling. Our goal is to understand data and provide innovative solutions to organizations. Our track record includes successful cooperation with different industries, i.e. transport, energy, medicine, environment and network economy. We are also the organizer of Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2018 – first edition of an annual international conference providing a platform for thought leaders from both academia and industry to interact and discuss visionary ideas, important trends and substantial innovations in supercomputing. If you need more detailed information about ICM, please visit our website.

Students Scientific Association of Data Analysis

Students Scientific Association of Data Analysis is operating at Departments of Statistics, Econometrics and Operational  Research at Cracow University of Economics.

Our mission is propagation of the importance of data analysis in business practice.

We organize many trainings related to the use of statistical and econometric methods, we conduct own Economic and Marketing Research, actively and successfully participate in scientific conferences in the country and abroad.

We invite you to contact us. https://www.facebook.com/knad.uek

Data Science Student Club

Data Science Student Club at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of Warsaw University of Technology gathers people interested in broadly defined data analysis. We are a group of aspiring students who constantly develop their skillset by taking actions extending our syllabus. Active participation in Club’s events gives us the opportunity to improve our knowledge and discover useful tools, gathering valuable experience and improving our soft skills.

Koło Naukowe Estymator

Koło Naukowe Estymator działa przy Grupie Uczenia Maszynowego (MLG @ Wrocław) na Wydziale Informatyki i Zarządzania Politechniki Wrocławskiej od 2010 roku. Naszym celem jest zgłębianie wiedzy, doskonalenie umiejętności i śledzenie nowych trendów w dziedzinie uczenia maszynowego. Przez kilka lat działalności udało nam się zbudować silny zespół, który z powodzeniem prowadzi prace badawcze i aplikacyjne. Organizujemy regularne zajęcia dla studentów, realizujemy projekty R&D i zlecenia prywatne w zakresie uczenia maszynowego.

MBN Solutions

In a field saturated by many lookalike recruitment consultancies, MBN is a truly different business. Priding ourselves on values of deep, real subject matter knowledge, a passionate approach to developing our own consultants and a strategy placing our clients at the heart of our business, MBN are a true market defining ‘People Solutions’ business.

Munich Datageeks

The Munich Datageeks e.V. is a nonprofit organisation for data science in Munich. Our root is the Datageeks Meetup where we cover machine learning, natural language processing, large scale data analytics, data visualization and open data. To further improve the networking aspects of the community we have established partnerships with other data science meetups to help each other and to gain more visibility among people also interested in data science. We work closely together with companies in the data science Industry and we are a platform for Researchers to present their studies, thesis, current projects, theories to a broader audience and also get in touch with companies that may be interested in their findings. If you are interested you can find further information at www.munich-datageeks.de

Scotland Data Science and Technology Meetup

This is a group for anyone interested in Data Science, Big Data, Analytics and Technology trends. We started this group to build a community to discuss general insights into the market and share personal experiences of working and operating in this area. We hope to cover skills shortages, technological advancements and organisational implications in Data Science and Technology during our series of meetups. All skill levels are welcome.

SkuteczneRaporty.p­l

SkuteczneRaporty.p­l jest wiodącym polskim blogiem o wizualizacji danych i projektowaniu dashboardów. Jego autor, Bartosz Czapiewski, uczy, w jaki sposób prezentować dane, aby były zrozumiałe dla odbiorców i dawały im największą liczbę wniosków i pomysłów, umożliwiając podejmowanie lepszych decyzji. Praktyczne przykłady są tworzone w programach Excel i Tableau, a grupą docelową stanowią specjaliści, analitycy i menedżerowie z różnych działów – sprzedaży, marketingu, kontrolingu, finansów, księgowości, informacji zarządczej i analitycznych. Serwis SkuteczneRaporty.pl prowadzi także działalność edukacyjną i szkoleniową w zakresie wizualizacji danych. Od 2010 roku w konferencjach i szkoleniach z tego zakresu wzięło udział ponad 1000 osób z różnych firm i branż w całej Polsce. Więcej informacji na: http://skuteczneraporty.pl­.

Scientific Students’ Association for Business Analytics

Scientific Students’ Association for Business Analytics was created in 2012 at the Event History and Multilevel Analysis Unit at Warsaw School of Economics. It provides its members with place for sharing knowledge and interests – predominantly connected with statistics and econometrics. We emphasize the practical use of the newest analytical tools, such as Hadoop, Tableau, Python, SAS and R.

At our meetings we get acquainted with new technologies. We invite guests from top IT companies and prepare presentations ourselves. Additionally, during the semester we organize workshops for our members, e.g. on programming in R or Python.

Our Association closely cooperates with SAS Institute in organizing an open scientific conference “Modelowanie dla Biznesu”, which aims to showcase the newest data analysis techniques. This year’s edition takes place on 10th April.

Swiss Big Data User Group

The Swiss Big Data User Group brings together people from all industries who are interested in dealing with big amounts of data. It aims to bring both the technical and the business side to one table, offering interesting talks, hands-on advice and a forum for exchange on topics of big data. This includes but is not limited to Apache Hadoop, NoSQL storage, and Search technologies.

Vienna Data Science Group

The Vienna Data Science Group is a nonprofit association which aims to promote knowledge about data science methods and big data techniques. The aims to become the go-to-address in Europe for Data Scientists and Machine learning practitioners in related domains.

We were founded in Vienna but our scope is europe wide!

The VDSG caters to the Data Science community by organizing meetups, with the aim of proliferating knowledge about Data Science and its social impact. Furthermore, hands-on projects, workshops and seminars are conducted on a regular basis, together with various cooperation partners.

Warsaw Hadoop User Group

Warsaw Hadoop User Group was founded in 2012 as first in Poland and third in Europe group of Hadoop and Big Data enthusiasts. So far, numerous great and well-known organisations have given talks at WHUG including Spotify, Cloudera, Hortonworks, DataStax, Teradata, GetInData, Allegro, University of Warsaw and we will work hard to ensure that this trend continues.

Warsaw R Users Group Meetup

Enthusiasts R Meetup aims at integrating community of users and data analysis enthusiasts using R. Meetings are held every month on Thursdays. Each meeting consists of two half-hour lectures separated by a half-hour break for a quiet discussion on the sidelines.

Participation in meetings is free, but requires pre-registration.

We invite novices and veterans, everyone will find something for everyone!