Collision

Collision is Web Summit’s sister event, and found a home in Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project in Vegas. It will take place at the World Market Center Pavilions. You can also check out our first Asian conference: Rise in Hong Kong.

In 4 short years, Web Summit has become Europe’s largest tech conference attracting over 20,000 attendees from around the world. Collision is our vision for a new type of tech conference for America: A meeting place for people who are both building the companies of tomorrow and managing the companies of today.

From the 5th to the 6th of May 2015

203 - 205 Symphony Drive Las Vegas, NV 89106

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09:00 am - 09:30 am
Opening speech
09:30 am - 10:30 am
Big Data and Urban Informatics
The workshop brought together researchers from diverse disciplines motivated by sustainability and social equity concerns, the need for efficient resource management, and a desire to leverage technological developments that have the potential to provide solutions to these concerns particularly in urban areas. Over 60 research works were presented at the workshop and about 150 people participated in the workshop
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture
With recent developments in wireless access, sensor, and mobile device technologies, the mobility of users, terminals, and networks has become an indispensable component of today's Internet vision. Wireless access devices by far outnumber stationary Internet hosts and an increasing share of traffic traverses at least one wireless link. These trends can be expected to continue in the near future and call for a reexamination of the architectural design of the current and future internets.
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Challenges of Running Scientific Workflows in Cloud Environments
This talk will touch upon the challenges of running scientific workflows in distributed environments such as academic and commercial clouds. It will describe the Pegasus Workflow Management System and how it manages the execution of a variety of scientific workflows
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm
Cloud Risk Reduction: How to Keep Your Data Safe in the Cloud
Many users are leveraging the cloud independent of IT which continues to be a huge risk. How do you embrace the benefits of cloud while maintaining security controls over your enterprise’s assets? When using a third party cloud provider, how can you maintain confidence that your data is secure? How do you manage reporting, compliance and regulatory mandates?

In this session, attendees will learn from a panel of security executives as to how they are mitigating cloud risk.
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm
Delivering Great Customer Experiences at the Speed of Digital Business
03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Mobile and social strategies
04:00 pm - 05:00 pm
Lead management & Business Analytics
08:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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