Programma 2011

9.00 Registration & Welcome Coffee

9.45 Kick-off; Riccardo Luna, Journalist

10.00 Introduction to Complexity, Big Data and Living Web; Alessandro Vespignani, Scientific Director, ISI Foundation;

10.25 Systems challenges in online social media; Alan Mislove, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

10.50 Economic Complexity and The Wealth of Nations; Cesar Hidalgo, Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory and a faculty associate at Harvard’s University Center for International Development. 

11.15 RoundTable – Models: Complex, big and (r)evolutionary; chairman Riccardo Luna
Alessandro Vespignani, ISI Foundation;

Alan Mislove, Northeastern University;

Cesar Hidalgo, MIT/Harvard University

11.50 42: Life, the Universe and Everything; Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

12.10 RoundTable-Infrastructure: Big Data as call for opportunity; chairman Riccardo Luna

Nicola Villa, Senior Director and Global Lead, Urban Innovation Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco;

Michaela Kraft, Open Source Lead for Western Europe, Microsoft;

Gabriele Elia, Head Future Internet Technology and Research at Telecom Italia;

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Video – Tech@State; Richard Boly, Director, Office of eDiplomacy, US Department of State

14.40 Turning data into dollars; Jaime Fitzgerald, Founder and President of Fitzgerald Analytics

15.05 From data visualization to data interfaces; Marco Quaggiotto, ISI Foundation/Politecnico di Milano

15.25 Video – Data as a Medium: A Human-Centered Perspective; Alejandro Jaimes, Director of the Social Media Engagement Group Yahoo! Research Barcelona

15.50 RoundTable – Socioeconomics Impact: Should we care about data complexity?; chairman Riccardo Luna

Roberto Moriondo, Direttore della direzione Innovazione, Ricerca ed Università della Regione Piemonte;

Jaime Fitzgerald, Founder and President of Fitzgerald Analytics;

Alejandro Jaimes, Director of the Social Media Engagement Group Yahoo! Research Barcelona;

Raffaele Cirullo, Head of New Media – Corporate External Relations at Enel s.p.a.

16.35 Wrap-up & Farewell Coffee