The document provides an overview of Big Data Week Kuala Lumpur (BDWKL) 2014, which was organized by MDeC from 2-11 May 2014. It consisted of 18 partner events with over 1500 total participants, including workshops, hackathons, and seminars. The anchor event on May 6th was officiated by the Deputy Minister and had over 200 senior-level attendees. Partner events included hackathons, workshops, and seminars focused on big data applications in business, technology, and the public sector. The events were well-received and generated over 30 media mentions. Lessons learned centered around event logistics and promotion.

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BIG DATA WEEK KUALA LUMPUR
2-11 MAY 2014
HARNESSING VALUE FROM YOUR DATA VARIETY
POST-EVENT REPORT

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Page
What is Big Data Week? 3
BDWKL 2014 overview 4
MDeC’s anchor event: Big Data: Endless
Possibilities
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BDWKL 2014 KL partner events 18
Big Data Week 2015 41
Table Of Content

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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

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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

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Big Data Week KL 2014 Schedule

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BIG DATA: ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES
MDEC’S ANCHOR EVENT
6 MAY 2014

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Sponsors & Supporters

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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 end-
users 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

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Attendee Profile
80%
15%
5%
Sector Breakdown
Private
Public
Edu
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
Public Sector Attendees
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
39%
25%
17%
14%
5%
1%
Job Function
CxOs, Directors, Chairmans,
VPs
Managers
Software architects,
scientists, developers
Executives
Lecturers
Media

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Companies Attended

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Companies Attended

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Photo Gallery

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Photo Gallery

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Photo Gallery

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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
Will you attend event of this nature
again in the future? YES: 98% NO: 2%
Overall customer satisfaction
4.2/5.00

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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

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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…
 Sourcing for sponsors:
 Connected Experian (sponsor) to VLT’s BDW opening party
 Connected Fusionex (sponsor) to UTAR’s 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: Malaysia’s 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

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Transit: Distillation Big Data Week KL 2014
Opening Party By VLT
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.

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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
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.
UM.

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Big Data Discovery Hackathon By Teradata-MMU-MDeC

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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.
Technology & Marketing: How To Collect & Analyze Data To Make
Informed Business Decisions By Mindvalley

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

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

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Home Grown Malaysia: Malaysia’s 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 Facebook’s
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 Taylor’s University
About 200 students participated in the Making Sense of
Journalism through Big Data forum at Taylor’s 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 country’s
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
telco’s 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 Malaysia’s hackathon
started at 10:00 am on 9 May. After 24 hours of intense programming,
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 cross-
platform app which filters out potentially harmful search results.
Mustapha Taiwo Taipei Medical
University team
Organizer, contestants & judges
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)