Big Data Definitions: What’s Yours?

The Wealth of Data Nations

Speaker

Yahoo Japan Corporation
CSO
Dr. Kazuto Ataka
Google Inc.
Google Asia Pacific, Market Insights, Senior Research Manager
Masao Kakihara
OgilvyOne Japan K.K.
Representative Director
Kuniyoshi Mabuchi

Session summary

At present all sort of digital devices are feeding various data, but in future IoT, so called "Internet of Things" will move into full swing to further feed an enormous amount of life data. We are now asked to analyze such data in real time, utilize it and create affluent life. But, there are also many mounting issues to solve.

In the past 20 years, ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has driven the nation's growth. Such technology innovation remains to be sought for. However, in order to have more affluent society, data utilization is essential and the capacity to leverage the data will serve as key driving force to keep international competitiveness.

Three prominent data experts now talk about the Importance of "data" and "society to utilize data" as well as the challenges to face.