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