Last Friday saw AT&T presenting new prototypes and discussing the future of technology at their Innovation Showcase in New York. Among the prototypes displayed were GPS sensors for luggage, software for streamlining equipment management in businesses and accessible data visualisation software than can be run from a laptop or tablet.

Why did you change your mind? Imagine being able to answer that question. Understanding PEOPLE (i.e. not shoppers, not consumers, not respondents) – but people – across platforms and touch-points in an increasingly interconnected world threaded together with always-on technology, presents an opportunity for you to know people more deeply

Whether you’re a startup, work for the government or are within business and academia, The Open Innovation Summit: Data Transparency & the Future of Data will bring you right up to speed on everything surrounding open data this year. In attendance we have technologists, business executives, strategists and policy makers

EVENTS HAPPENING ON THE 8th MAY May 8, 2014 – Budapest Big Data Budapest @ 500 We are celebrating our 500th member with a talk jam session on every flavor of Big Data topics and a few beers. Come and join us! May 8, 2014 – Barcelona Inauguració Big Bang Data L’exposició

EVENTS HAPPENING ON THE 6th MAY May 6, 2014 – Chicago The State of Illinois Presents: Budgeting for Results and Paying for Success in State Government Learn more about a pay-for-success social impact initiative, where a child welfare service provider works closely with “dually-involved youth” to reduce their chance at recidivism.

May 7, 2014 – London Big Data and NoSQL: the cross-over As part of Big Data Week London NoSQL is hosting a meet-up will – we’ll be exploring three key points in which big data and NoSQL cross-over. May 7, 2014 – Nova Scotia Lunch n’ Learn in Cape Breton An informal