Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup: Roger Ehrenberg on Big Data
- February 21, 2012 · 6:30 PM
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This month, we're pleased to host Roger Ehrenberg, celebrated New York angel investor, UM alum, and founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on big data investments.
Abstract:
Data has touched every industry for decades, so why is Big Data such a hot topic now? In this talk, Roger frames what Big Data means, how it's generated, and how scale companies and startups alike use data as an active asset. He compares sources of data and end-products for example companies, and discusses how to use data as a source of natural competitive advantage.
Bio:
Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures.
Roger currently sits on the boards of Datasift, Kinetic Global Markets, Metamarkets, Recorded Future, Simple, The Trade Desk and TransferWise, and is a Board observer of SavingStar. Formerly, he served on the boards of Alphacet, Buddy Media, Global Bay Mobile Technologies, Magnetic, Selerity and Stocktwits.
Prior to forming IA Ventures, Roger was an active angel investor through IA Capital Partners, a seed-stage investment firm focused on digital media and financial technology. From 2004 to 2009, Roger seeded 40 companies, including bit.ly, Buddy Media, Clickable, Global Bay Mobile Technologies (sold to VeriFone), Invite Media (sold to Google), Magnetic, MyTrade (sold to TD Ameritrade), Solve Media, Stocktwits, TheLadders, TweetDeck (sold to Twitter) and Wallstrip (sold to CBS Interactive).
Earlier in his career, Roger served as President and CEO of DB Advisors, LLC, Deutsche Bank’s internal hedge fund trading platform where his 130-person team managed $6 billion in capital across multiple strategies with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Before DB Advisors, Roger was Global Co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Strategic Equity Transactions Group. In 2000, Roger’s team won Institutional Investor magazine’s “Derivatives Deal of the Year” award. As an investment banker and Managing Director at Citibank, Roger held a variety of roles in the Global Derivatives, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Structuring groups.
Roger holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Management from Columbia Business School and a BBA in Finance, Economics and Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. Roger blogs at informationarbitrage.com and tweets at @infoarbitrage.
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Elizabeth Saunders
Given the discussion of privacy, I thought you might enjoy this Lifehacker.com article: Everyone's Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here's How to Stop Them: http://lifehacker.com/5887140/e...
February 23, 2012
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Robert
The tech group meeting was insightful, it was my first group meeting and I’m eager to learn more and continue these groups for future references to my own ventures in the high tech world of technologies and information.
February 22, 2012
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Phil
I'll preface this by saying I respect the need to analyze huge data sets, we do it daily in engineering. However, I got the impression from Roger that privacy is something you have to sacrifice if you want a rich web experience. While his success speaks for itself, he does not speak for a significant portion of society that is increasingly concerned at the profits-are-good-and-privacy-be-da
mned business model. I personally don't 'need' a website to guess what I want to see, I'll simply tell it at that moment. Yes, ads pay for an otherwise free internet... and most reasonable people will accept that. Yet, I've had plenty of rich web experiences where I didn't have to give up one shred of personal information. I shouldn't need a law degree to comprehend the implications of lengthy EULAs or guess what new clever way companies will try to thwart my privacy preferences (blaming victims if challenged).February 22, 2012
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Ed Farrell
Great presentation and insightful framework for understanding the opportunities. It would be valuable to have the presentation posted (in addition to the video).
February 22, 2012
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A former member
Great presentation, discussion and insights!
February 22, 2012
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Gary Hazen
A very interesting and informative presentation from both a general and investor perspective. Roger was passionate and inspiring.
February 22, 2012
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Greg Austic
good talk: relevant, smart guy, knew a lot, some good questions from the audience also
February 22, 2012
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Rahmad Dawood
Great discussions. Awesome insights into directions of the big data sector.
February 22, 2012
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kateohara
Thank you so much for the informative talk...I took notes and loved the questions and energy of the room. I will attend again.
February 21, 2012
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Roger Rayle
Video of Roger's talk is at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/...
(Feel free to add "highlights" to share your favorite parts.)February 21, 2012
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Troy
Actually.. also big data architectural analyst, a big data developer, and a big data operations leader
February 21, 2012
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Troy
Speaking of Big Data.... If anyone is looking for a position in big data, in a IT security envornment please contact me. Fortune 5 company looking for big data operations analyst. Position is not posted locally, but I may be able to change that.
February 21, 2012
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Dug Song
Also, the February meeting of the R User Group will be Thursday, 2/9 from 5-7 in North Quad Space 2435.
Directions to North Quad: http://northquad.umich.edu/spac...
North Quad Space 2435: http://g.co/maps/dwk24This month's presentation will be on Data Management, including the popular plyr and reshape packages by Hadley Wickham: http://had.co.nz/
(see the http://groups.google.com/group/...
mailing list)February 3, 2012
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Dug Song
Anybody interested in this event might also want to check out the A2 DataDive ( http://a2datadive.weebly.com/
) weekend Feb 10-12!February 3, 2012
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Dug Song
Would love to get Roger's take on Accel's $52m investment (out of their $100m big data fund) in Minnesota's Code42 :-)
http://gigaom.com/2012/01/17/me...
January 23, 2012
220 attended
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Dug Song
Assistant Organizer
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Greg Austic +1
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