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BIG DATA WEEK KUALA LUMPUR

2-11 MAY 2014
HARNESSING VALUE FROM YOUR DATA VARIETY

POST-EVENT REPORT

Table Of Content
What is Big Data Week?
BDWKL 2014 overview
MDeCs anchor event: Big Data: Endless
Possibilities
BDWKL 2014 KL partner events
Big Data Week 2015

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What Is

One of the most unique global platforms of interconnected

community events focusing on the social, political and

technological impacts of data

Brings together a global community of data scientists, data

technologies, data visualizers and data businesses spanning six
major commercial, financial, social and technological sectors

Events are designed to provide a platform to educate, inform

and inspire organized by people who are passionate and

knowledgeable about data

Big Data Week KL (BDWKL) 2014 Overview

Organized and facilitated by MDeC, 18 key events (highest number of

among 30 cities), more than 1500 participants in all events consisting of

workshops, hackathons and seminars

Anchor/Keynote event on 6 May officiated by YB Deputy Minister KKMM,

and received an overwhelming response

10 sponsors, 25 speakers and over 200 senior-level (out of 600) attendees

3 breakout tracks (Business, Technology & Public Sector) on a vast array of BDA
subject matters and case studies

Big Data Roundtable jointly organized with IBM and attended by TKSU1,

KKMM and other ministry reps who discussed the BDA Framework and Open
Data

Big Data Week KL 2014 Schedule

BIG DATA: ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES

MDECS ANCHOR EVENT
6 MAY 2014

Sponsors & Supporters

Event Highlights

10 sponsors, 25 speakers and over 200 senior-level (out of 600) attendees from over
388 unique organizations

Breakout tracks (Business, Technology & Public Sector) on a vast array of BDA
subject matters and case studies

A panel discussion that provided industry insights

Networking opportunities during tea-breaks and lunch that saw vendors and endusers connect. An opportunity to speak with BDA industry leaders and peers

Lucky draw prizes sponsored by Seagate

Presentation slides can be downloaded from: http://bit.ly/1jYs0Ba

Attendee Profile
Public Sector Attendees

Sector Breakdown
15%

5%

Private
Public
Edu

80%

MIMOS, MDeC, PEMANDU, MPIC, JPA, MOD,

WATER, DBP, EPF, IDFR, JKR, MOH, KLN, MPIC,
MOSTI, KETTHA, KPDNKK, MCMC, MIROS, MIDA,
MAMPU, MARDI, KKMM, MOE, MOHA,
RURALLINK, MOTAC, MOHR, MYIPO, JPN,
KELANTAN, PERAK

Attendees from IHLs

UTAR, MUST, INTI, MONASH, APU, MMU, IMEC,
UM, UPM, IIC, MPM, NOTTINGHAM, HELP,
TARC, LEG, QUIP, IIUM, APIIT, UITM, UTP,
USIM, UTM, MARA, UTHOM, UUM, HELP, LKW,
MSU, TAYLORS

Job Function
CxOs, Directors, Chairmans,
VPs

1%
14%

5%
39%

Managers
Software architects,
scientists, developers

17%

Executives
25%
Lecturers

Media

Companies Attended

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Companies Attended

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Customer Survey Results

How helpful were our representatives in
providing their assistance during the
event? 4.20/5.00
How do you rate the coordination and
organisation of the event? 4.25/5.00
How do you rate the overall event
content and was the information useful
to you? 4.18/5.00
How would you rate the overall event?

4.20/5.00
Overall customer satisfaction

4.2/5.00
Will you attend event of this nature
again in the future?

YES: 98% NO: 2%

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Some Wonderful Testimonials

Interesting speakers, well organized, short and sweet informatics
Good topics, good location, well-run event with great speakers
Takes marketing research to another level with technology
An eye opener good information sharing
New ways of data manipulation and data analytics!
MDeC did a good job in organizing this event
[This event] turns data into intelligence

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There Were Also Lessons Learned

To have buffets instead of sit-down meals so everyone can

choose what they want or can eat

To enforce slide submission deadline so that we have enough

time to check all presentations for relevancy and potential
topic overlaps

To have longer technology track sessions

To start promoting the BDW earlier so more people know

about it

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BDWKL 2014 KL PARTNER EVENTS

2-11 MAY 2014

KL Partner Event Highlights

2 hackathons on Big Data Analytics, resulting in 23 proof-of-concepts:

One hackathon had a team from Taiwan who flew in to participate.

Another one had oil-palm genome datasets from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board that
challenged the participants to identify and determine the location of certain oil palm genes
in the oil palm genome

6 hands-on workshops with 280 participants trained

3 university partner events

More than 30 media mentions on BDWKL 2014

The Malaysia webpage in Bigdataweek.com was # 1 in terms of traffic, beating the

US and UK.

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MDeC Value-Added By

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Sourcing for sponsors:

Connected Experian (sponsor) to VLTs BDW opening party

Connected Fusionex (sponsor) to UTARs event

Secured prize sponsorship from:

Seagate for 3 events (MDeC, F-Secure and Teradata-MMU events)

Reapfield Technology (MDeC & VLT events)

Amazon (F-Secure event)

We had our 8 PCF recipients, Data Storage Asean (DSA) and IT

Enterprise News promote the BDW2014 on their website
Engaged with our campaign partner, DSA, to develop the Big Data Guide
which was released during the BDWKL 2014. The guide is downloadable
at http://bit.ly/UrnzDh
Facilitated the availability of the MPOB oil palm genome sequence
datasets for the Teradata-MMU hackathon

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KL Partner Event Statistics

Event Name

Organizer

Actual
Attendees

Target
Attendees

Performance

Transit:Distillation (BDW 2014 Opening Party)

VLT

383

300

128%

Get Started with R!

Strateq-Revolution
Analytics

56

40

140%

Teradata-MMU-MDeC Big Data Discovery Hackathon

Teradata-MMU-MDeC

65

45

144%

Technology & Marketing: How to Collect & Analyze Data to Make

Informed Business Decisions

Mindvalley

100

100

100%

Creating More Headroom for your Big Data

SGI-MDeC-MIMOS

66

75

88%

Homegrown Malaysia: Malaysias Contribution to Advancing Big Data

MDeC-DSA

116

200

58%

Surfing the Big Data Wave (Closed-Door)

Abyres

50

50

100%

Mining FB to Discover Yourself

Sunway University

20 (>50
RSVPs)

20

100%

Making Sense in Journalism through Big Data

Taylors University

200

200

100%

UTAR Big Data Workshop: A HOW-TO for Mining Big Data

UTAR (Kampar)

80

60

133%

Roundtable on Big Data Analytics with Govt. Officials (Closed-Door)

MDeC-IBM

40

40

100%

Big Data Info Retrieval and Representation in Telcos

TM R&D

71

70

101%

Large-Scale File Systems for Big Data Analytics

SNIA

26

40

65%

DSA CxO Roundtable (Closed-door)

MDeC-DSA

10

15

67%

F-Secure Hackathon

F-Secure

25

50

50%

Create Your Own Business Analytics Apps In Just Half A Day!

Qlik

30

30

100%

BDW 2014 Closing Party: Unleashing the Power of Big Data (Closed-Door)

Fusionex

NA

NA

NA

Transit: Distillation Big Data Week KL 2014

Opening Party By VLT

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The opening party boasted 350 attendees from various

industries - technology, design, art and music. Advertising
was sponsored by Experian and Wall Tailor, and Malaysia
SME was the official media partner.
The opening party was held at the semi-outdoor space of
PJ Trade Centre.
This Transit featured a mixture of debutants from various
industries such as KakaoTalk, ZALORA Malaysia, MyTeksi,

Abah & Sons Co. Motoworks, Piktochart, Thyme Out,

Barista Guild Asia, EPIC ARMY, Serviceclicks Malaysia,
ZENO Group, EnSurvey, Smooshie Juice, Mile High Sounds
and Skyward.

Technical R Workshop By Strateq & Revolution Analytics

The Get Started with R workshop was hosted by Revolution Analytics and Strateq in Kuala Lumpur at
Connexion @ Nexus.
Revolution Analytics' data scientists, Mr Julian Lee and Mr William Tjhi shared Big Data Analytics from an
infrastructure neutral perspective and covered all the layers hardware, databases, analytics engines,
presentation - of the most innovative, or rather 'hottest' data mining / analytics platform in town.
During this workshop, Strateq provided their cloud infrastructure for online demos to participants. Strateq

also shared its COVEO solutions - a single interface for users to search and perform deep levels of business
analytics.

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Big Data Discovery Hackathon By Teradata-MMU-MDeC

UM .

For the first time ever, an open dataset consisting of oil palm genome sequences from the
Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), a government agency, was used in the Teradata-MMU
hackathon.

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Big Data Discovery Hackathon By Teradata-MMU-MDeC

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Technology & Marketing: How To Collect & Analyze Data To Make

Informed Business Decisions By Mindvalley
The event was successful! We had Arzumy from
says.com talking about scaling and infrastructure and
how they cope with the amount of data they process
everyday.
Then we had Damien and Tim from Geomash talking
about Geo services and strategies for summarizing and
presenting data so access time is fast.

Finally, we had Yongho from Mindvalley discuss how to

use data to drive good business decisions.
100+ attended the event and the majority were from
outside the KL Ruby Brigade and NoSQL groups.

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Home Grown Malaysia: Malaysias Contribution To Big Data By MDeC-DSA

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Home Grown Malaysia: Malaysias Contribution To Big Data By MDeC-DSA

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Home Grown Malaysia: Malaysias Contribution To Big Data By MDeC-DSA

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Mining Facebook to Discover Yourself By Sunway University

Mine your Facebook workshop was organized
by the Faculty of Science and Technology in
Sunway University on the 7th of May 2014.

This workshop was an introductory hands-on

session to text mining which allowed
participants to identify their Facebooks
content and social conversations.
The workshop also featured the use of social
network analytical tools which are able to
highlight the strength of ties and closeness of
friends in a social media platform.
Participants of the workshop were from a
diverse range of organizations including GPS
research, Farseer Consulting, Millenium
Radius, Maxis, UTeM and the Home Ministry.

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Making Sense In Journalism Through Big Data By Taylors University

About 200 students participated in the Making Sense of
Journalism through Big Data forum at Taylors University
Lakeside Campus on the 7th May.
Ahmed Kamal, founder of Politweet, talked about data
journalism. He spoke about how he retrieved data from
Twitter updates during Bersih 3.0 rally.
Dr. Wong Chin Huat, who is a political activist, explained
how data journalism can help to investigate the countrys
political activities.
The next speaker was Irene Jay Liu, a reporter from
Thomson Reuters who is based in Hong Kong. If you want
a career in media, you have to deal with data
journalism, she said. The final speaker was Professor

Zaharom Nain, who is a lecturer at the University of

Nottingham Malaysia Campus.

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Roundtable on Big Data Analytics With Govt. Officials (Closed-Door)

By MDeC-IBM
A Roundtable Discussion was organized by MDeC in
collaboration with IBM Malaysia with the purpose of
creating awareness among government officials on the

impact of Big Data in the public sector. The theme was Big
Data Analytics, a blue print for success. The event was
chaired by Datuk Badlisham Ghazali, CEO of MDeC, and was
attended by a total of 40 representatives from 15 different

government ministries and agencies.

Mr. Amish Patel gave a presentation on Big Data, which
covered topics such as Developing the National Big Data

Framework, Open Data.gov and public sector BDA

implementation case studies in other countries.
The Roundtable discussion provided a better insight and
understanding among government officials on the potential
and benefits of Big Data to the public sector and how IBM
can contribute to the building of the National Big Data
Framework.

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Big Data Info Retrieval And Representation In Telcos By TM R&D

TM Research & Development (TM R&D) organized the 5th
Big Data in Telecommunication in conjunction with Big
Data Week Kuala Lumpur 2014.
Big Data Analytics in Malaysia is emerging as datasets are
becoming so large and complex that it becomes difficult
to process using conventional database management
tools or traditional data processing applications. Thus,

TM R&D has taken this challenge to lead the big data

trend in Malaysia.
The objective of this gathering was to provide exposure
and detailed explanation on Big Data technology from a
telcos viewpoint and to support the Big Data Week.
The event saw five key speakers share their insights on
respective expertise related to the Big Data Information

Retrieval and Representation in the Telco Domain

theme.

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Large-Scale File Systems For Big Data Analytics By SNIA

In this event, the topics covered were:

1) Massive scale file system for Big Data Analytics - SNIA Malaysia

2) Converged systems/Software Defined Storage for Big Data - Nutanix

3) Object filesystem - HDS

The crowd found the topics revolving around storage interesting because it was never presented the way it
should be appreciated. Based on the interactive conversations, there is much interest leading towards
requirements and advisory services. And this Big Data Week is a good platform to inject many opportunities
toward the storage networking industry.

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DSA CxO Roundtable By MDeC-DSA

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DSA CxO Roundtable By MDeC-DSA

Roundtable objectives:

Feedback:

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DSA CxO Roundtable By MDeC-DSA

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F-Secure Hackathon By F-Secure

With the slogan "Big Data - Big Ideas", F-Secure Malaysias hackathon
started at 10:00 am on 9 May. After 24 hours of intense programming,

Organizer, contestants & judges

the participants demonstrated their apps. The jury consisted of

representatives from Big Data Malaysia, MDeC, and F-Secure.
A total of three prizes were awarded. The Best Big Data analysis
reward was given to the Project-F-team and their F-Secure production
analysis app. Taiwanese TMU-team won the Best usage and

visualization category for their Android app. The Best overall app
award was given to a young developer, Mustapha Taiwo, for his crossplatform app which filters out potentially harmful search results.

Mustapha Taiwo

Taipei Medical
University team
Low Chin Kian, Then Yao Bin,
Tan Yen Ken & Wayne Chew

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Media Mentions (Partial List)

Pre Big Data Week

Connecting data professionals, Business

Today, 25 April 2014
MDeC to host Big Data Week Kuala
Lumpur in May 2014, SC Cyberworld, 25
April 2014
Big Data Week 2014, Max-IT Online, 25
April 2014
MDeC to host Big Data Week Kuala
Lumpur 2014, IT-Sideways, 26 April 2014
MDeC to host Big Data Week Kuala
Lumpur in May 2014, SME Magazine
online, 28 April 2014
MDeC anjur Minggu Data Besar, Kosmo, 28
April 2014
MDeC to host Big Data Week KL, Digital
News Asia, 29 April 2014
Big Data Week, pertaruhan segmen BDA,
Interview with Dr Karl (MDeC) and Ivan
Teh (Fusionex), Astro Awani, 2 May 2014

During Big Data Week

MDeC to host Big Data Week Kuala

Lumpur in May 2014, Enterprise IT News,
5 May 2014
Government To Build Malaysia's Big Data
Analytics Capability, Bernama, 6 May
2014
Big Data Week 2014 @ Kuala Lumpur,
TechViewAsia, 6 May 2014
ICT industry gets help to build big data
analytics capability, The Edge Malaysia, 6
May 2014
MDeC Raises the Game for Malaysian
Businesses with Big Data Week Kuala
Lumpur 2014, SC Cyberworld, 7 May 2014
Use big data analytics to enhance
productivity, MDeC tells Malaysian
businesses, Computerworld Singapore, 7
May 2014

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Sample Media Clipping

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And By The Way

We will be hosting BDWKL 2015!

(20-26 April)

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