Big Data has emerged as a booming buzzword in the past decade, having the potential to catalyze business and provide real time analytics for business decisions. Bringing to the fore various opportunities in big data for the energy and utilities sectors, Fleming Gulf Conferenes will organize the Big Data Energy Innovation Summit on 19-20 May 2015 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The event will convene professionals associated with data management, cloud, IoT and business intelligence to discuss best practices and explore new technologies to extract optimum value from data. The conference, accommpanied by a workshop will provide solid facts, information and enlightening discussions to help oil, gas and utilities companies select and implement best data practices to improve productivity, energy efficiency and customer engagement.

Big Data management has the potential to revolutionize the energy industry at every step of it's value chain. From data collected by sensors during exploration and drilling, a company can guage the quality, quantiy of produce. Similarly, companies are levaraging big data to optimize production, predict and avoid equipment breakdowns, maintain safety, monitor consumption patterns and optimize the supply chain.

Topics related to decoding seismic data, extracting business value through analytics, role of big data in smart cities and in securing networks and preventing fraud will be discussed in length by experts from national and international oil, gas and utilities companies. Eminent speakers from Petroleum Development Oman, Halliburton, Alliander, ADNOC, Emirates Global Aluminum and Shell and scheduled to speak at the summit.

The summit will also include an engagement roundtable, where attendees split into two teams will present 5 challenges each and present probable solutions to the other team's challenges. Day 2 of the summit will be dedicated to workshops on “Data Analytics and the use of Intelligent Agents” and “Big Data Security and Privacy”.