AccuWeather founder gives keynote presentation at Big Data Innovation summit

Dr. Joel N. Myers, Founder, President, and Chairman of AccuWeather, the global leader in weather information and digital media, presented one of the Keynote Presentations at The Big Data Innovation San Jose 2015 summit, hosted by Innovation Enterprise, at the San Jose Convention Center. In the presentation, Dr. Myers shared his insights on the challenges of big data and the age of transformative innovation and his views on the keys to success and growth during this period of rapid and dramatic change.

“I welcome the opportunity to speak at the Big Data Innovation summit and to share my vision of how technology and big data are accelerating the transformation of virtually all types of human activity,” Dr. Myers said. “AccuWeather has built its success by adapting to the rapid transformational change driven by big data, integrating weather data with health information in new ways to help people make better decisions and ultimately lead safer, more productive lives.”

AccuWeather is the world’s fastest-growing digital weather company, partnering with every major manufacturer on Earth and supporting over 10 billion data requests each day. The company’s global reach is supported by its superlative handling of data ingestion and data processing to create forecasts with Superior Accuracy™ that help people everywhere plan their lives, protect their businesses, and get more value from their day.

According to its website, The Big Data Innovation summit “brings together the leading experts in multiple industries to discuss the ideas and innovations that are changing business” and “will boast some of the world’s leading data experts offering use cases, best practices, challenges to face, successes to be had, and lessons to learn.”