Looking at data – sure. But hearing it? Kasper will talk about how he turned real-time data into an auditory experience and what innovative immersive experiences the future may hold.
Kasper Fangel Skov is an Audio Designer based in Denmark. He works on innovative audio designs. aiming for engaging and immersive experiences to create social and cultural impact through art, design, and technology. He sees a huge potential in the further development of innovative sonic experiences in collaborations across disciplines.
Mark Higgins of EUMETSAT talks about why operating Europe's weather satellites is Big Data at the rate of 200 GB/day and how a failed power amplifier led to a much wider data access, getting it to the remotest places where there is no internet.
Mark Higgins leads the training activities of EUMETSAT – Europe's weather satellite organisation. He started out his professional career using GPS data to improve rainfall forecasting but for the last decade has been involved in education and training.
Überwachungsgesamtrechnung – Welche Auswirkungen haben technologische Möglichkeiten auf unsere Privatsphäre und welche Rolle nimmt der Staat in einer digitalisierten Gesellschaft ein.
Klaus Landefeld was also the Founder of nacamar, one of the first privately held Internet Providers in Germany. He has been a Member of Advisory Board of DE-CIX Management GmbH since January 2004. He is also a Member of the board at eco – German Internet Industry Association.
Open Data and Big Data are popular buzzwords. Now the next big challenge is to create data-driven social impact. Tobias Pfaff talks about how cities and nonprofits can leverage the power of reusing successful data projects. Pascal Weinberger shows what's possible with an open, intelligent platform for catastrophe awareness and risk evaluation.
Pascal is the winner of the TEDxRheinMain Datanauts contest, a competition for ideas how big data can be used for social good and has created https://nostradamiq.org (now http://climateviewer.net).
Tobias is the founder of http://datalook.io. Tobias and Pascal are the winners of the TEDxRheinMain Datanauts contests; where we looked for ideas that showcase how you can use big data for social goods.
How to democratise science by bringing tools and diverse datasets together, that allow scientists to create new associations, new scientific discoveries and eventually new science domains. This approach should allow a wider community to participate in creating a new era of Science 2.0+.
Maryline Lengert has initiated the a European "Strategic Plan for a Scientific Cloud Computing infrastructure for Europe" called Helix Nebula, which is to support the massive IT requirements of scientists and create a dynamic ecosystem for Science in Europe. She is Senior Advisor in the IT department of ESA.
Dr. Fritz Kahn (1888–1968) was a Berlin based gynaecologist and popular science writer who visualized the structure and function of the human body in a very unique way. His magnum opus "Das Leben des Menschen" (The Life of Man, 1922–1931) fascinated laymen as well as scientists with its visual analogies and metaphors and their unusually expressive and contemporary design.
Thilo von Debschitz studied Communication Design, before working as an Art Director for renowned international advertising and creative companies.