Washington, DC – May 27, 2014 Since the White House announced the Big Data Initiative in 2010, there have been a series of activities for government agencies, academia, and industry to participate in to develop data scientists, perform research, and to develop applications, which this presentation will summarize. The work of the Federal Big Data Senior Steering Work Group, the NSF Big Data Funding Opportunities, and the Federal Big Data Working Group Meetup will be described and specific examples will be shown.
The roles of the Presidential Digital Government Strategy and Open Data / Open Government Policy, the new Congressional Data Act, and the Open Research Data Policy will be described and specific examples of their implementation will be given.
Attendees should be able to see where they might participate in the Federal Big Data Initiative as a result of attending this presentation.
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Dr. Brand Niemann, former Senior Enterprise Architect & Data Scientist with the
US Environmental Protection Agency, works as a data scientist, produces data science products,
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About COM.* Conference
COM.* 2014 has expanded to three more emerging tech areas, Big Data, driverless cars, and geospatial computing. COM.Geo has been playing a guiding role to advancing the technologies in computing for geospatial research and application since it was initiated 5 years ago.
This year, COM.* conferences and summits will focus on COM.BigData 2014, COM.DriverelessCar 2014, and COM.Geo 2014. All three will take place in the same time frame and conference center in August in Washington DC, USA as well as COM.* online Virtual Conference center.
Several leading keynotes and insightful panels from U.S. federal government and world-class industries and universities will be open to all the attendees of the three conferences and summits. There will be a great opportunity for everyone to learn trends, share visions, exchange ideas, discuss details, and expand networking circles.
