Match-Making in Big Data with Academia and Industry

NRP 75 “Big Data” provides foundations for the effective and appropriate use of big data. The projects focus on computing and information technology. They deal with the effects on society as well as on big data applications in various areas of society.

In collaboration with the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services, three match-making events were held in November to enable possible collaborations between NRP 75 projects and representatives of the industry. Short pitches of the projects focused on technology transfer and were followed by poster sessions to answer questions, make contacts, and exchange ideas.

Blog post about the first event.

Tuesday 10 November 2020
with the following projects:

• Automatic analysis of solar eruptions
• “Big Brother” in Swiss companies? Trust, data and personal privacy of employees
• Economic impact analysis using Big Data
• The legal challenges posed by Big Data: questions of exploitation and protection
• Using data traces to improve transport systems
• ICU cockpit: computer assistance for intensive and emergency medicine
• Can a combination of theory and Big Data better predict extreme weather impacts?
• Machine learning to predict the properties of chemical compounds
• Regulating Big Data in trade agreements
• Efficient machine learning via summarizing large data sets

Thursday 19 November 2020
with the following projects:

• BioSODA: An intuitive search function for bioinformatics databases
• Efficient analysis of genomic data
• High-performance computing on very large networks
• Making sense of metadata by means of automatic integration
• PIG DATA: Health analytics for Swiss pig farming
• Programming language support for Big Data
• Regulating Big Data research: A new frontier
• Supplying Swiss buildings with a combination of renewable energy sources
• An ethical framework for the use of health-related Big Data

Tuesday 24 November 2020
with the following projects:

• Hungry to learn: Ultrafast algorithms devour Big Data
• Smartphones to monitor and understand the burden of low back pain
• Confronting Big Data: Methods and skills for a 21st-century sociology
• Eyewitness videos as an aid to crisis management
• Big Data Monitoring
• Big Data in insurance: personalisation versus solidarity
• The global structure of knowledge networks

Event Partner

The aim of the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services is to help companies develop new products and services. They rely on three pillars for their success:

• Innovation projects
• Top employees and best-in-class education
• Inspiration and exchange via connecting domain experts and joint workshops or conferences