How to Make 'Big Data' Easier to Use and Transform into 'Smart Data' so Users Have Faster Time to Insight

Analyst group IDC predicts Big Data worldwide to grow from 1.8 Zettabytes to 35 Zettabytes by 2020 (a Zettabytes is 1 billion Terabytes) where 80% will be unstructured so requires new technologies to integrate, link, and manage web and enterprise sources making it more actionable for applications especially for cloud computing.

Altilia will present customer use cases and underpinnings of its MANTRA Big Data Contextual Processing Platform that combines semantic structure with information flow that enables high precision contextual information extraction, filtering, annotation, classification, transformation, interpretation, analytics, and reporting.

Attendees will learn:

The process-oriented 'smart data' management paradigm of MANTRA platform that extracts taxonomy and meaning using both rule based and 'automatic' contextualization algorithms.
How to integrate this 'smart data' into predictive analytics, knowledge collaboration, collective intelligence and other information management applications.
The architecture of the MANTRA Platform offered as a Hybrid Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) with extensible API capabilities
How 'smart data' allows faster time to insight with better predictions and decisions.

Massimo Ruffolo is CTO of http://www.altiliagroup.com/, researcher of the Italian National Research Council http://staff.icar.cnr.it/ruffolo, and subject matter expert in knowledge management, semantic technologies, business intelligence, analytics, information extraction, web wrapping, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language processing. Massimo Ruffolo is a serial entrepreneur, with 15 years of experience, as co-founder of academic spin-off companies and start-ups operating in the fields of knowledge management and semantic technologies. He is author of many scientific papers appeared in books, international conferences proceedings and journals belonging to the computer science field.

Steve Ardire advises #AI and #machineintelligence startups (40+ startups in over 20 years) in business strategy/market innovation, close funding, go-to-market, and customer/partner engagement. Steve speaks at AI conferences and authors occasional blog posts. For more see Inside the Mind of an AI Startup Advisor at https://goo.gl/ysaKL1.