Wednesday, 25 March 2015

1:00 p.m.
Registration

Conference Opening and Welcome

2:00 p.m.
Welcome Address: Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation

Session 1: Big Data and Science - Idle Potentials (Chair: Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom)

2:10 p.m.
Keynote
Christine L. Borgman, Presidental Chair and Professor of Information Studies, Department of Information Studies, UCLA, USA: Data, Scholarship, and Disciplinary Practice

3:30 p.m.
Coffee break

4:00 p.m.
Statements and Discussion
- Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, DC, USA
- Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and Member of the Steering Board of Research Data Alliance: Data Science: Practices and Ambitions

6:00 p.m.
Dinner

Session 2: Public Lecture (Chair: Thomas Petzold, Head of Department Media- and Event Management, University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication, Germany)

7:00 p.m.
Keynote
Stephan Fischer, Head of Software Department, Trumpf Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH, Germany

8:00 p.m.
Get together

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Session 3 - Big Data and Economic Challenges (Chair: Arnold Picot, Research Center for Information, Organization and Management, University of Munich)

9:00 a.m.
Keynote
Anindya Ghose, IOMS Department & Marketing Department, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, USA (tbc)

10:00 a.m.
Coffee Break

10:30 a.m.
Statements and Discussion
- Mark Wilkinson, Managing Director, SAS UK & Ireland (tbc)
- Stefan Bender, Head of the Data Research Center, Institute for Employment Research, Germany: Researcher Access, Economic Value and the Public Good

12:30 p.m.
Lunch Break

Session 3 – New Research Projects (Chair: Amir Zeldes, Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA)

1:30 p.m.
Lightning Talks und Poster Session (Young researchers)

3:00 p.m.
Coffee Break

Session 4 - Coping with Big Data (Chair: Thomas Lippert, Director of the Institute for Advanced Simulation, Head of Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany)

3:30 p.m.
Keynote
Dirk Helbing, Professor of Sociology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

4:30 p.m.
Coffee Break

5:00 p.m.
Statements and Discussion
- Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, 2014 IBM Fellow and Senior Manager, Cognitive Computing, IBM, San Jose, CA, USA
- Rajendra Akerkar, Senior Researcher, Western Norway Research Institute, Sogndal, Norway

7:00 p.m.
Dinner

Friday, 27 March 2015

Session 5 - Big Data and Legal Framework (Chair: Matthew Woollard, Director, UK Data Archive and UK Data Service, University of Essex, UK)

9:00 a.m.
Keynote
Julia Lane, American Institutes for Research, University of Strasbourg and University of Melbourne: Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement

10:00 a.m.
Coffee Break

10:30 a.m.
Statements and Discussion
- Thomas Hoeren, Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, University of Münster, Germany
- Nikolaus Forgó, Institute for Legal Informatics, University of Hannover

12:00 p.m.
Lunch Break

Session 6 – Digital Humanities (Chair: Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom)

12:45 p.m.
Keynote
Andrew Prescott, AHRC Digital Transformations Theme Fellow and Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom: Big Data in the Arts and Humanities

Session 7 - Big Data and Challenges for Research and Research Funding (Chair: Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation)

1:45 p.m.
Introductory Remarks
Volker Markl, Chair of the Database Systems and Information Management, University of Berlin

Statements:
- Oscar Corcho, Associate Professor Ontology Engineering Group, Faculty of Informatics, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain
- Michael Dunn, Head, Genetic and Molecular Science Team, Science Funding, The Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom (tbc)
- Joshua M. Greenberg, Program Director, Digital Information Technology Program, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York, USA
- Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of Unit Data Value Chain, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission, Luxemburg (tbc)
- Stefan Winkler-Nees, Scientific Library Services and Information Systems, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany
- Volker Markl

3:00 p.m.
End of Conference