Mbwana Alliy Big Data from Silicon Valley to Africa THE WORLD WE LIVE IN Speaker 1 of 17 Followed by Mike Mc Dougal @mbwana
Jul 13, 2015
Mbwana Alliy
Big Data from Silicon Valley to Africa
THE WORLD WE LIVE IN Speaker 1 of 17
Followed by
Mike Mc Dougal
@mbwana
I began “BI“ in Aerospace (2004) • Proprietary telemetry systems supporting
certification of complex systems. • Aerospace telemetry market is worth $16B
(2016) without factoring in consumer drone market
Business Intelligence @ Microsoft (2007-2010)
• Bringing BI to the hands of ordinary “Information Workers”
• Shift to the cloud away from client-server PC architecture
• Governance was a real worry esp. after financial crisis and drove BI market
Venture Capital: Moneyball for Startups (2010)
• The cost of launching startups has dropped dramatically.
• Emergence of Startup Ecosystems beyond Silicon Valley
• "little bets"- new category of Global Micro VCs
• From Airtime lending, financial services..
• To energy asset leasing…
• personalized education
Africa (2014): Extending Access
Next Wave of Technology • AI/Cognitive Computing (e.g. IBM
Watson)
• Internet of Things (Affordable Smartphones)
• Query user interfaces (e.g. Siri, Cortana..)
Challenges for Africa • What is our path to an "open data and access"
culture?
• Developing "data scientist" discipline and the right mindset
• Affordable internet access may still be a short/medium term problem