Reboot Helsinki, Tampere and Finland with Big Data

When:

Thursday 26 January 2017

Time:

Where:

Helsinki City Hall, Pohjoisesplanadi, Helsinki, Finland

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UBDC Director Professor Vonu Thakuriah will be giving a keynote presentation on An Overview of the Urban Big Data Centre at this event in Finland.

Cities of Helsinki and Tampere and the University of Tampere have launched the Urban Big Data Project. With this Project Helsinki and Tampere will develop their capability to create exploitable big data to be utilized as an innovation ecosystem and platform for agile digital enterprises in Helsinki and Tampere.

This conference asks forth understanding of big data and the potential of utilizing analytics to improve public services and decision-making. Big data leads to proclaim the emergence of data-intensive exploration that can also be seen as a challenge for learning and old-fashioned management concepts. Technical challenges of using big data are very real, but managerial challenges are even greater.