DAY 1
1 DECEMBER 2020

Building Trust in Big Data

The Business Case for Big Data Regionally

Are your Business Models ready for the 4th Industrial Revolution

Big Data, Big Business- Unlocking the potential of Big Data smarter business future

11.55 pm – 1:00 pm

Panelists: Mr. Liam Donnelly, General Manager of Digicel Business Trinidad & Tobago, Mr. Ian John, CEO PBS Technologies Group, Ms. Frances Seignoret, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Trade and Industry (35 minutes + 30 minutes question time)

The Business Case for Big Data – Big Data for Technical People

The Future “Normal” using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

2:55 pm – 3.45 pm

Keynote Speaker: John Quinn, Google (20 minutes)

Panelists: John Quinn, Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis, Innovative Adviser, Global Pulse (20 minutes + 10 minutes question time)

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• Data-driven future smarter society
• Role of big data in providing smarter services for societal benefits
• Predictive analytics

Big Data Capabilities, Attitudes and Value Opportunities – How organizations can work in collaboration with Academia to exploit their Big Data assets

4 pm – 4.50 pm

Keynote Presentation: Dr. Maurice McNaughton, Dr. Lila Rao and Dr. Suzana N. Russell: The Case of Jamaica’s Public and Private Sector Organizations (20 minutes)

Panelists: Dr. Letetia Addison, Dr. McNaughton, Dr. Rao and Dr. Russell, (20 minutes + 10 minutes question time)

DAY 2
2 DECEMBER 2020

Transformational role of Big Data in smart societies – The Future Smart Trinidad and Tobago: How Digitalization helps in advancing the society

10:00 am – 10.50 am

Keynote Speaker: Senator the Honourable Allyson West, Senator and Minister of Public Administration and Digital Transformation (15 minutes)

Panelists: Senator the Honourable Allyson West, IBM, Dr. Ricardo Rodriguez, University of the Southern Caribbean (25 minutes + 10 minutes question time)

Transformational role of Big Data in smart societies

11:00 am – 12 pm

Keynote Speaker: Robert Kirkpatrick, Executive Director, Global Pulse (20 minutes)

Panel Discussion –The case for a Center of Big Data Analytics in the Caribbean

Panelists: Robert Kirkpatrick; Abdullahi Abdulkadri, Coordinator, Statistics and Social Development, ECLAC; Dr. Maurice McNaughton, Mona School of Business & Management; CARICOM (30 minutes + 10 minutes question time)

Building Trust in Big Data: Big Data for Non-Technical People

1:00 pm – 1.40 pm

Speaker: Luis Ayala, Databases & Analytics Leader LATAM (20 minutes + 20 minutes Q&A) Amazon Web Services

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• Understanding the concept and realizing the nuances of building a confident source of data and acting upon insights.
• Needs for achieving Big Data, business barriers to overcome

Building Smart Communities for Resilient Tourism: A Case Study

1.55 pm – 2.20 pm

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Maurice McNaughton, Director, Centre for IT-enabled Innovation, Mona School of Business & Management, UWI (15 minutes + 10 minute question time)

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Tourism has long been identified as one of the sectors that can contribute significantly (both positively and adversely) to sustainable development for the Caribbean, often considered the most tourism-dependent region in the world.

As the sector looks to rebound post-Covid19, new innovative approaches to the role of data and digital technologies must be contemplated to rebuild tourism in an efficient and resilient way.

We present a case study of a Smart Community project in Treasure Beach Jamaica, a well-known destination for community tourism.

Building trust in Big Data-Big Data Analytics for Evaluation: How Social Science & Data Science Will Need to Work Together to Make It Work

2.30 pm – 3:00 pm

Keynote Speaker: Mr. Peter York, Chief Data Scientist, BCT Partners (30 minutes)

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• Dissecting Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Relationship between social science and data science principles
• Leveraging machine learning algorithms and big data to create predictive, prescriptive and rigorous evaluation models and tools for social change agents

The Future “Normal” using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence – Opportunities and Challenges for Development Evaluation

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Bamberger (30 minutes)

Panelists: Dr. Michael Bamberger, Dr. Lennise Baptiste, Mr. Andre Blanchard, Ag. Director of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and Development (20 Minutes +10 minutes question time)

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• The New World of the 4th industrial revolution and the implications for evaluation
• New evaluation technologies that big data offers
• Transforming the nature of evaluation in the age of big data
• Why are big data technologies considered potentially disruptive for
• evaluation?
• Potential applications of big data in Caribbean development evaluations
• Implications for evaluation in the age of the pandemic