ODSC West 2019

Year 2032. What will keep digital leaders of today relevant 10 years from now? What will allow these companies to stay ahead of the competition and make better, precise decisions? How should they leverage the use of data for accelerating their sustainability goals? This event will unpack answers and insights to such questions and more by experts within the field and experienced thought leaders from companies across the Nordic region.

Big data and artificial intelligence are game changers when it comes to gathering insights and automating tasks. Integrating these technological advantages into organisations and the whole value chain poses big challenges to companies wanting to future-proof their business models. Concrete steps towards this goal come with a multitude of questions regarding necessary data foundations, successful scaling of intelligent applications, and legal and social circumstances.

Under vision 2030, the Kingdom has set specific targets to transform into a digital society and economy utilizing big data as a national asset to achieve this objective. Big data and AI are already disrupting several sectors in the country and have created tremendous achievements especially in disaster management, road safety, and energy consumption management. The Saudi big data and AI market is expected to reach USD 891.74 million by 2026 (Mordor Intelligence report) as the country is creating AI-friendly ecosystems and supporting adoption of data analytics solutions and smart city programs such as NEOM.

The exponential growth of data analytics in power and utility industries has motivated worldwide response by forming big data analytics in power and utility summits. Numerous transformations have been witnessed in the application of modern technologies by industries leading to the growth in volumes and variety of data and its analytics. These summits have witnessed a huge gathering of experts and decision-makers from the European powers and utilities industry to discuss trends and challenges of digital technologies data analytics and build business relationships. Therefore, the forthcoming summits to be held in Amsterdam will certainly provide the best platform for discussing a lot of topics on big data dynamics on power and utilities. Some of the preliminary topics that will undoubtedly be addressed will include.