Big data workshop in Tokyo, 18–19 November

France and Japan have a shared interest in Big data. The French government has identified Big data as a key driver of the country's industrial competitiveness, and it is one of the 34 major projects highlighted in France's new industrial regeneration policy announced in September. At the same time, the Japanese government has made Big data part of its overall science, technology and innovation strategy, adopted in June 2013 as one of the country's technological priorities.

With this in mind, the science section of the French Embassy in Japan and the Japanese National Institute of Informatics are holding a joint workshop on big data at the embassy building in Tokyo on 18 and 19 November, in partnership with INRIA (French national institute for research in computer science and control), CNRS (French national scientific research centre) and Japan's National Institute of Information and Communication Technology.

Thales is taking part in the workshop, which is being attended by around 80 experts and other public and private sector stakeholders to take stock of French and Japanese expertise and look at how the two countries can work together in this field.

Yves Mabiala, research engineer at Thales's CeNTAI laboratory (Centre de Traitement et d'Analyse de l'Information), is presenting the Group's current R&D work in Big data analytics and how it relates to the security and transportation markets.

To find out more, visit www.ambafrance-jp.org/Workshop-sur-les-Big-Data-a-Tokyo