The purpose of the GSV Pioneer Summit is to scale and accelerate transformative ideas. The three-day gathering will unite entrepreneurs, global corporations, and growth investors from all corners of the world'the Global Silicon Valley. Participants will have the opportunity to meet leading startup CEOs, influential investors, and executives from global corporations using … [Read more...] about GSVlabs to Host the GSV Pioneer Summit – Silicon Valley
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How Big Data is Driving the Next Wave of Mass Customization
Today I was in Johannesburg, South Africa, to give a keynote speech at the Retail Africa event. The below is an excerpt of my presentation. We live in a world with information overload. Every day so much new data is created that customers feel overwhelmed and they dont know what to do with all that information. In fact, it is estimated that this year we will create almost 8 … [Read more...] about How Big Data is Driving the Next Wave of Mass Customization
Are you Overlooking these 5 Critical IT Security Measures?
Let me ask you something: How well equipped is your company to deal with and respond to a potential data breach? On a scale of 1-10. Do you know? Not sure? Experian put out an interesting report regarding data breach preparedness. They found that 23% of respondents believed that their organization doesnt understand what needs to be done following a material data breach to … [Read more...] about Are you Overlooking these 5 Critical IT Security Measures?
The Big Data Trends for 2013
A lot has been written already about Big Data trends for 2013 and here at Datafloq we want to add a few that we believe will be important for 2013. According to the Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle published by Gartner in the summer of 2012, the trend Big Data has just entered the Peak of Inflated Expectations, meaning that everyone expects everything from Big Data. Gartner has … [Read more...] about The Big Data Trends for 2013