May 26, 2016 (subject to change)

7:30-8:00 am              Registration and Light Breakfast

8:00-8:15 am               Opening Remarks
                                   
David Capodilupo, Executive Director, Office of International Programs,
                                    MIT Sloan
                                    Philip G. Laidlaw, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Bogotá

8:15-8:40 am               "Colombia Enters the Era of Big Data"
                                    Simón Gaviria, General Director, Departamento Nacional de Planeación

8:40-9:40 am              "Social Physics"
                                    Sandy Pentland, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Sciences, MIT

9:40-10:00 am             "IT Infrastructure for the Future"
                                    Eliuth Andrés Triana, Channel Market Development Manager, Intel

10:00-10:30 am            Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 am            "Big Data to Tackle Urban Mobility Challenges"
                                    Marta González, Associate Professor, Civil and
                                    Environmental Engineering, MIT

11:30 am-12:30 pm      "Big Data, Smart Beta, and Other Things Investors Are Afraid Of"
                                    Andrew Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor,
                                    Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan

12:30-1:30 pm              Lunch

1:30-2:30 pm               "Big Data, Innovation, and Industry-University Intersections"
                                    Elizabeth Bruce, Executive Director, Institute for
                                    Data, Systems, and Society, MIT

2:30-3:30 pm              "Big Data in Economic Measurement"
                                    Roberto Rigobon, Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of
                                    Management, Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan

3:30-4:00 pm              Discussion and Closing Remarks
                                    Andrés Felipe Archila, Under Secretary of Sectoral Policy, Secretary of
                                    Mobility, Bogotá, Colombia