Big Ideas, Better Cities to focus on the impact of ‘Big Data’
What’s the role of “Big Data” in diagnosing, treating and living with disease? How can data help reshape the urban landscape, build sustainable societies and drive creative solutions to some of the complex challenges facing cities today?
Explore these questions and more at Big Ideas, Better Communities: Health and Social Innovation through Big Data, the next event in the Big Ideas, Better Cities* series.
On November 2-3, 2015, the McMaster and Hamilton communities are invited to join McMaster researchers, community leaders and industry partners for two nights of public talks and thought-provoking discussions on how Big Data can be harnessed to improve the way we all live, work and play.
The first evening of talks will explore how data is helping to drive health innovation and how McMaster researchers, together with their industry and community partners, are contributing to this transformation. The next evening will focus on how McMaster’s big-data experts are working with community experts to fuel social innovation and build smart, creative communities.
On both evenings, McMaster experts will deliver a series of 10 minute mini-lectures, or MacTalks, followed by informal, interactive conversations sparked by community leaders, students and McMaster researchers focused on how Big Data is influencing public policy and fuelling social and health innovation.
Student-focused event: Hack your Community
As part of the Health and Social Innovation through Big Data event, students are invited to participate in Hack your Community taking place from October 31 to November 1.
Using a collection of data provided by the Community Foundations of Canada (CFC), and with the help of peers and community mentors, students will work in teams to come up with ideas that could make a difference in the Hamilton community.
REGISTER FOR ONE OR MULTIPLE EVENTS
*Big Ideas, Better Cities is a year-long series showcasing how McMaster research can help cities respond to 21st century challenges and is funded through Forward with Integrity.
