1. Big Data Public Private Forum
Big Data Public Private Forum (BIG)
Edward Curry (DERI)
European Data Forum 2013
Project co-funded by the European
Commission within the 7th Framework
Program (Grant Agreement No. 257943)

2. Motivation BIG
Big Data Public Private Forum
Technology Adoption Lifecycle
Rogers, Everett M. (1962). Diffusion of Innovations. Glencoe: Free Press. ISBN 0-612-
62843-4.

3. Motivation BIG
Big Data Public Private Forum
Early Adopters Early Majority
(Visionaries) (Pragmatists)
• Survey of 750 European senior IT
Michael Gorriz CIO
decision makers
• Only ¼ have explored and made a
successful business case for big data
European Data • 7% see as a current priority
Innovator 2013
• 62% believe a priority within 3 years

4. The BIG Project BIG
Big Data Public Private Forum
Overall objective
Bringing the necessary stakeholders into a self-sustainable
industry-led initiative, which will greatly contribute to
enhance the EU competitiveness taking full advantage of Big
Data technologies.
Work at technical, business and policy levels, shaping the
future through the positioning of IIM and Big Data
specifically in Horizon 2020.

5. Key facts about BIG-project BIG
Big Data Public Private Forum
▶ Type of project: CSA
▶ Project start date: September 2012
▶ Duration: 26 months
▶ Call: FP7-ICT-2011-8
▶ Effort: 552,5 PM
▶ Budget: 3,038 M€
▶ Max EC contribution: 2,499 M€
▶ Consortium: 11 partners

6. Goals and Objectives BIG
Big Data Public Private Forum
• BIG aims to promote a well-developed EU industrial
landscape in Big Data
– Providing a clear picture of existing Big Data technology
trends and their maturity
– Acquire a understanding of how Big Data can be applied
to innovative use cases within different sectors
– Foster adoption of current Big Data technology solutions
– Contribute to EU competitiveness and position in
Horizon 2020
– Building a self-sustainable industry-led initiative beyond
the project duration

7. Major Activities BIG
Big Data Public Private Forum
Identification ▶Requirements and use cases from all
of Sector’s Sectors
requisites ▶Industry-driven Sector Forums
Applicability ▶Big Data technologies and its
of Big Data capabilities
technology ▶Technical Working Groups
Elaboration of ▶Sectorial roadmaps
Roadmap ▶Cross-sectorial integrated roadmap

8. BIG: project structure BIG
Big Data Public Private Forum
Industry driven working groups
Manufacturing,
Finance & Telco, Media &
Health Public Sector Retail, Energy,
insurance Entertainment
Transport
Needs Supply
Value Chain
Data Data Data Data
Data acquisition
analysis curation storage usage
• Data preprocessing
• Structured data • Decision support
• Semantic analysis • Trust
• Unstructured Data • RDBMS limitations • Decision making
• Sentiment analysis • Provenance
• Event processing • NOSQL • Automatic steps
• Other features • Data augmentation
• Sensors networks • Cloud storage • Domain-specific
analysis • Data validation
• Streams usage
• Data correlation
Technical areas

9. Subject Matter Expert Interviews BIG
Big Data Public Private Forum
Interviews available on: http://www.big-project.eu/blog
10.04.13 9

10. GETting Involved in BIG… BIG
Big Data Public Private Forum
• Participate in Subject Matter Expert Interviews
– Technical Experts
– Corporate Strategic Decision Makers (CIO & CTO)
– One-on-One Engagement (Face-to-Face, Email, Phone, etc.)
• Become Associate Partner
– Access to internal project discussion
– Early access to project results (whitepapers, roadmaps, etc)
• Collaboration on Dissemination Events
– EDF co-organisation
– What is the key Big Data event
in your Industry?

11. Timeline of the most important deliverables BIG
Big Data Public Private Forum
Q2/2013 Q2/2013
D2.2.1 D2.3.1
Initial Technical White Papers Initial Sector’s requisites
D4.2.1 Q3/2013
Q4/2013 Initial IPR, Standardization
Initial recommendations
D2.4.1
Big Data Public-Private Forum D4.3.1
Q3/2013
Q1/2014 D2.2.2 Initial Sector´s Roadmap
Final Technical white paper
Q2/2014
Q2/2014 D4.2.2 D2.3.2
Final version of
Final version of IPR, Sectors requisites
Standardization
recommendations D2.5 Q4/2014
Cross-sectorial roadmap
consolidation

12. Contact Details BIG
Big Data Public Private Forum
Sector Forum Leader Contact
Health Sonja Zillner sonja.zillner@siemens.com
Public Ricard Munné ricard.munne@atosresearch.eu
Telco, Media & Entertainment Helen Lippell helen.lippell@pressassociation.com
Finance & Insurance Pedro Soria pedro.soria@atosresearch.eu
Manufacturing, Retail, Tilman Becker sebnem.rusitschka@siemens.com
Energy, Transport
Technical Working Group Leader Contact
Data Acquisition Axel Ngonga ngonga@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Data Analysis John Domingue john.domingue@open.ac.uk
Data Curation Edward Curry ed.curry@deri.org
Data Storage Herman Ravkin hravkin@agtinternational.com
Data Usage Tilman Becker becker@dfki.de
http://www.big-project.eu/

13. BIG can help you be the next…. BIG
Big Data Public Private Forum
European Data Innovator 2014
European Data Innovator 2015
European Data Innovator 2016
….