Conference on Big Data Dairy Management from November 1-4

Big Data Dairy Management will be the subject of the Discover Conference that will be held November 1-4, 2016 at the Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Centre in Oak Brook, Illinois. This event will be hosted by the American Dairy Science Association.

The availability of increasingly powerful computers and new technologies provides new business management opportunities in many fields.  In the last few years, most large companies have embraced the concept of "big data" techniques as part of their management strategy.

The dairy industry remains a perfect application of decision science and big data because: (1) it is characterized by considerable price, weather and biological variation, and uncertainty, (2) technologies, such as those that monitor dairy cow yield, physiology, and behaviour are easily available, (3) and the primary output, fluid milk, is difficult to differentiate, increasing the need for alternative means of business differentiation.  Big data represents a potential management breakthrough for the dairy industry.  Various industry and academic players have been working within this area without a venue to discuss overall strategies and opportunities. The Discover conference will provide such a venue.

Conference Themes:

*               What is Big Data?

*               How is it being used in other industries

*               Big data analysis techniques

*               Data integration and visualization

*               Sensor data use and management