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Make Data Work
29 April–2 May 2019
London, UK
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BMW’s journey to the data-driven enterprise from the edge to AI

Amr Awadallah (Cloudera), Tobias Burger (BMW Group)
9:50–10:00 Thursday, 2 May 2019
Location: Auditorium
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BMW Group is an extraordinary company. As a technology pioneer it’s an enterprise that recognizes the value that data to offers to the business. The company’s global platform draws data from over 150 different systems and delivers governed data to various divisions.

Amr Awadallah and Tobias Burger discuss some of BMW’s most important use cases leveraging data from the edge to AI.

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Amr Awadallah

Cloudera

Amr Awadallah is the cofounder and CTO at Cloudera. Previously, Amr was an entrepreneur in residence at Accel Partners, served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo, and ran one of the very first organizations to use Hadoop for data analysis and business intelligence. Amr’s first startup, VivaSmart, was acquired by Yahoo in July 2000. Amr holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

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Tobias Burger

BMW Group

Tobias Bürger leads the Platform and Architecture Group within the Big Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Department at BMW Group, where he is responsible for the global big data platform that is the core technical pillar of the BMW data lake and is used across different divisions inside the BMW Group, spanning areas such as production, aftersales, and ConnectedDrive.