CIE Annual Convention: Big Data - Big Potential

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What: Big Data - Big Potential

When: Sat, Sept 21th, 2013 1:00 -- 4:30 PM

Where: Westin Hotel @ Bellevue Downtown

Co-host company: Chinese Institute of Engineers (http://www.cie-sea.org/)

Admission: Registration required

Parking: Free at nearby (Bellevue Square Mall)

We are expecting 300+ people from local IT companies, organizations and startups, not necessarily technical people, but maybe marketing, PM, recruiters, investors...

Besides the world-class-expert speakers, there will be VIP guests from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Boeing, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Ebay, Intel, IBM, HP, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, HTC, Hulu, Oracle, SAP, CA, EMC, Expedia, Tableau, Zillow, SEOmoz, Bungie, Nintendo, Disney, Nordstrom, Costco, Alaska Airlines, Dice, Salesforce, SGI, VMWare, Citrix, UW, City University, Seattle University, Puget Sound Energy...

===Tentative Agenda =====

1:00 - 1:30pm registration and networking

1:30 - 2:00pm tech talk

Life of a Data Project

Yong Sheng, Staff Engineer, Ads, Google

2:00 - 2:30pm tech talk

Big Data & Its Killer Domain -- Web Search

Zijian Zheng, Partner Dev Manager, Bing Data Mining, Microsoft

2:30 - 3:00pm tech talk

Display Ads Targeting Nuts and Bolts

Jason Zhu, Principal Dev Manager, Ads, Microsoft

3:00 - 4:00pm panel discussion

MC: Weiling Li, VP, iSoftStone

Min Zhu, Director, Windows Phone Store, Microsoft

Yong Sheng, Staff Engineer, Ads, Google

Jason Zhu, Principal Dev Manager, Ads, Microsoft

Peter Huang, Senior Manager, BI Architecture, T-Mobile

Rudy Huang, CEO, Progenist Systems

Dennis Yu, CEO, BlitzLocal

Zijian Zheng, Partner Dev Manager, Bing Data Mining, Microsoft

4:00 - 4:30pm networking

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