Technology and Data Summit 2016

This conference is designed to offer a bracing and illuminating view of how technology and data help researchers and brands connect ever closer with customers and society.

We’ll present you with a picture that is anarchic, challenging and insightful.

We’ll showcase technologies, examine data implications, debate the challenges and listen in as industry leaders point to potential future pathways.

• How can we use technology to better understand trends and huge data sets?
• How can the fusion of creativity and technology help us to better understand behaviours?
• How can we maximize on our understanding of customer data?
• How can technology reveal our most hidden motivations?
• How can we create a unified view of the world when we are only faced with disparate sources of data?
• How can data science drive innovation?
• How can technology and data engineer the world we live in?
• Will the research world really benefit from a more automated approach to its work?

This is a conference for insight professionals and brand managers who are both curious and have a vested stake in the development of the tools and techniques of their trade. If you are using technology or big data to better understand our world, you’ll need to book your place at this event.

Eleven research, technology and data professionals offer you level-headed, unbiased and expert views of an ever-changing landscape. It’s a landscape that demands agile, fresh-thinking and fearless approaches to research and insight.

This interactive conference allows professionals on both side of the agency divide the time and space to examine some of the profound strategic and technical issues facing us all.

Be prepared to immerse yourself in a world of edgy technology, big data and prepare yourselves for the next wave of consumer understanding.

Participants include

• Masters of Pie
• Starcount
• Future Foundation
• weseethrough
• White Swan
• IBM
• Accenture
• Verve
• Ipsos Mori
• Nesta

Harassment and Safeguarding Policy

By booking this event, you agree to abide by the MRS Harassment and Safeguarding Policy. A copy of the policy can be viewed here: MRS Event Harassment and Safeguarding Policy.

MRS is committed to providing a safe, inclusive and respectful environment for all attendees. Failure to adhere to this policy may result in you being asked to leave the event without a refund. In addition, MRS reserves the right, at its discretion, to refuse future bookings and attendance at MRS events.

If at any point during the event you experience or witness anything concerning, please speak to a member of the MRS team immediately so we can address it promptly and appropriately.

If you wish to raise a concern after the event, please email conference@mrs.org.uk. Concerns will be handled sensitively and proportionately, and MRS may take action where expected standards are breached.