Big Data London 2021

The last 18 months have seen the pandemic wreak unimaginable damage to the health of the world’s population and devastated the economic prospects of the strongest and weakest economies around the globe.

The race to find vaccines and the impact of the pandemic on both healthcare systems and the world’s wider economies proved the need for Big Data and how to ensure good data can be analysed, is greater than ever.

The world economies are fighting back however, and the role in which data will drive the recovery was clearly in the spotlight at a London tradeshow last month, with global data leaders returning to the UK for Big Data LDN (London) 2021.

Having been a victim of the economic shutdown and bans on international travel, some 8,000 visitors flocked to the Kensington exhibition centre for the UK’s biggest data analysis and management sector show. It was great to see so many able to mingle and share experiences after so long.

The theme post-lockdown was “dealing with data demons.” Bill Hammond, Big Data LDN’s event director, said: “UK organisations share a number of common pain points around data. They face the same challenges, and are looking for the same solutions: innovative, effective, efficient.

“The pandemic proved businesses now need to meet their data demons head-on.”

“As UK businesses strive to overcome and thrive in this landscape, Big Data LDN brings together global data leaders and businesses to learn from each other and share guidance and inspiration.

“This year, we were delighted to welcome back our delegates and celebrate the opportunity to hear from industry leaders, network with fellow data experts and explore innovative technologies with exhibitors.”

Big Data LDN took place alongside Blueprint LDN, a gathering for the Cloud-native infrastructure community, over the two days. Visitors were able to mingle among trade stands at both shows all under one roof, with 12 dedicated theatres covering presentations from SOME 180 guest speakers from around the world on Fast Data, DataOps, AI & Machine LearningOps, Modern Analytics, Customer & Marketing Analytics, Governance & Privacy, Data Driven, The Cloud, Modern Software Development, Modern Software Architecture.

As well as the keynote speech by Harfod, a leading behavioural economist, on ‘How We Fool Ourselves’, there were presentations by AWS, Microsoft, Snowflake’s chief technical evangelist Kent Graziano,

The First Big Data LDN show took place in 2016, with the number of delegates nearly tripling over the last five years.

Over the next few weeks, Datavault will examine some of the key topics covered during presentations at Big Data LDN.