ermany, ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig and BBDC, organized the 4th International Summer School on Big Data and Machine Learning in their summer school series. The summer school took place at Leipzig University.

Program & Highlights 

The Summer School was preceded by a “streamline” hackathon which centered on the hands-on development of an application for real-time analytics of streaming data. The Hackathon focused on the practical application of stream-based event processing. The challenge was to select one or more real-time data sources and build real-time analytics workflows or tools to improve strategic planning or decision making. Afterwards, a Summer School jury selected the best hackathon results. The Institute for Applied Informatics at the University of Leipzig e.V. (InfaAI) donated a price of 500 euros for the winning team.

The main program of the Summer School 2018 included the following topics:

•  Deep Learning
•  Data Mining in Stream Data
•  Machine Learning for the Sciences
•  Declarative machine learning with Apache SystemML
•  Confidentiality and Integrity of Cloud Databases
•  Visual Analytics for Big Data
• Cypher-based Graph Analytics on Spark
•  Web-scale information extraction
•  Big Data Integration
•  Big Data and HPC

In addition to the scientific program, the Summer School offered several social activities such as a city walk and a dinner in a traditional restaurant.

For a review with photos from the summer school and hackathon, see our blogpost: Review of the ScaDS Summer School 2018.

Below is the full program with addition

Monday 02.07.18

Time	Person	Topic
13:45 – 14:00	Prof. Erhard Rahm	Welcome
14:00 – 15:30	Dr. Matthias Böhm (IBM Research)	Apache SystemML: Declarative Machine Learning for Low-Latency to Large-Scale Deployments
15:30 – 16:00	BREAK	BREAK
16:00 – 17:30	Dr. András Benczúr (SZTAKI)	Learning from data streams: Theory and Practice
19:00		City Walk Leipzig

Tuesday 03.07.18

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 10:30	Prof. Hans-Joachim Bungartz (TU Munich)	Big Data meets HPC
10:30 – 11:00	BREAK	BREAK
11:00 – 12:30	Prof. Ulf Leser (HU Berlin)	Web-Scale Domain-Specific Information Extraction
12:30 – 14:00	LUNCH	LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30	Dr. Alessandro Margara (Politecnico di Milano)	Managing streams of data: lessons learned and open challenges
15:30 – 16:00	BREAK	BREAK
16:00 – 16:45	Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel	Infrastructure for Big Data and Machine Leraning
16:45 – 17:30	Prof. Morris Riedel (FZ Jülich)	Parallel Machine Learning and Deep Learning driven by HPC
19:00		Dragon Boating

Wednesday 04.07.18

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 10:30	Prof. Thomas Seidl (LMU Munich)	Big Data Science, Streams and Process Mining
10:30 – 11:00	BREAK	BREAK
11:00 – 12:30	Prof. Daniel A. Keim	Solving Problems with Visual Analytics: The Role of Visualization and Analytics in Exploring Big Data
12:30 – 14:00	LUNCH	LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30	Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller (TU Berlin)	Machine Learning and AI for the Sciences —Towards Understanding
15:30 – 16:00	BREAK	BREAK
16:00 – 16:45	Dr. Mikio Braun (Zalando SE)	Hardcore Data Science in Practice
16:45 – 17:30	Dr. Vesa Siivola (Rovio Entertainment Ltd.)	Stream Processing at Rovio: Where we are now / Where we would like to be at
19:00		Dinner and Hackathon Award Ceremony

Thursday 05.07.18

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 10:30	Donald Kossmann (Microsoft Research)	Confidentiality and Integrity of Cloud Databases
10:30 – 11:00	BREAK	BREAK
11:00 – 12:30	Prof. Erhard Rahm, Dr. Eric Peukert, Alieh Saeedi and Marcel Gladbach	Big Data Integration Research at ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig
12:30 – 14:00	LUNCH	LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30	Prof. Tilmann Rabl and Dr. Sebastian Breß	Scaling Stream Processing Out and Up
15:30 – 16:00	BREAK	BREAK
16:00 – 17:30	Sebastian Buschjäger	Deep Learning for small devices and FPGAs

Friday 06.07.18

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 10:30	Martin Junghanns and Max Kießling	Cypher for Apache Spark
10:30 – 11:00	BREAK	BREAK
11:00 – 12:30	Prof. Begüm Demir (TU Berlin)	Analysis of Big Data in Earth Observation
12:30 – 14:00	LUNCH	LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30		Closing

Organizers

The Summer School and the Hackathon were organized by the two Competence Centers for Big Data Research in Germany, ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig and BBDC, in cooperation with the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) e.V. at the Leipzig University.

Prof. Dr. Erhard Rahm ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University Prof. Dr. Volker Markl BBDC, TU Berlin Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden Dr. René Jäkel ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden Prof. Dr. Tilmann Rabl  BBDC, TU Berlin Dr. Eric Peukert  ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University Karoline Kricke  ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University

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