2nd European Palantir Government Conference
The conference is scheduled for May 24, 2012 at the St. Regis Grand Hotel in Rome. GovCon EU2 will feature presentations and live demos highlighting deployment successes, recent and on-going product advancements, along with a selection of breakout and demonstration sessions.
Since the last European GovCon, Palantir has made major strides in addressing the biggest challenges of the world’s most important organizations. We’re excited to showcase innovations in data, operational and analytical problems as well as our global impact across an ever-growing set of industries.
Palantir continues to invest in building the best analytical platform in the world. We remain committed to providing a proven solution to free our customers of the risks of bespoke development projects so that they can focus on solving critical analytical problems. Particularly in times of great austerity, Palantir has proven that we can provide customers with twice the capability at half the price and in one quarter of the time.
Come learn about how, as budgets are shrinking, you can do a lot more with much less, very quickly.
Program Guide
Welcome & Introduction
Dr. Alex Karp, Co-Founder & CEO, Palantir
Palantir 101
Lekan Wang, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
For those who are completely new to the Palantir Platform or could simply use a refresher, this talk will start from scratch and provide a broad overview of Palantir’s origins and mission. A live demonstration of the product will help to familiarise newcomers with Palantir’s intuitive graphical interface and revolutionary analytical functionality, while highlighting the major engineering innovations that make it all possible.
Palantir 101 Italiano
Marco Ramilli, PhD, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
Per tutti coloro che non hanno mai utilizzato Palantir e per chiunque abbia voglia di riscoprire le sue numerose potenzialità. Questo seminario offre una introduzione a Palantir evidenziandone storia e missione. Verra’ effettuata una dimostrazione del prodotto per aiutare tutti I presenti a comprendere come l’interfaccia, facile, elegante ed intuitiva di Palantir rivoluziona il modo di effettuare qualsiasi tipo di analisi. Verranno sottolineate le innovazioni ingegneristiche più importanti che rendono Palantir unico e rivoluzionario nel suo settore.
Palantir in Europe
Asher Sinensky, PhD, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
Palantir is rapidly growing in the European market and considers it one of the most important geographies for the future of the company. Europe is facing major challenges from austerity to security — challenges that represent some of the hardest problems in the world. Palantir has been built to help organisations solve many of the world’s most difficult problems and we fully expect to carry that legacy to our growth in Europe. In this talk, we will discuss our current and future plans for developing our European presence.
The Impact of the Palantir Platform
Shyam Sankar, Director of Business Development, Palantir
The Palantir Platform has made incredible strides over the last several years. Amongst our achievements, the expansive scope of our impact across industries is perhaps rivalled only by the breadth of exceptional technical innovations from our engineers (though the two are no doubt causally related). What enables the continued success of Palantir is our commitment to building and executing a solution that serves — off the shelf — as a complete integration and analysis platform, rather than as a limited component of a cobbled architecture. This talk will highlight some of our recent deployment successes in expanding the analytical capabilities and visions of our customers by addressing the emergent challenges of immense data scales and complex operational structures, while doing it all for a fraction of the cost of the bespoke alternative.
Harnessing Petabyte-Scale Data For Efficient Analysis
Rob Giardina, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir,
Eric Lee, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
Most organisations with limited analytical resources have a need to objectively score and prioritise leads based on domain-specific heuristics. However, running even basic computations across large-scale data sources often entails prohibitively difficult data integration. This presentation introduces novel techniques for algorithmically processing and presenting complex, real-world, terabyte- and petabyte-scale data sources that are designed to run across hundreds or thousands of servers. The final output is a dashboard that allows the analyst to focus on those cases requiring the most immediate attention.
Palantir in a Big Data Environment: A High-Tech Crime Perspective
Bas Eikelenboom, Project Leader, National High Tech Crime Unit, National Crime Squad, Netherlands’ Police Agency
Within eighteen months, the High Tech Crime Unit faced several simultaneous large investigations against organised crime. These investigations had as subjects; Anonymous, the child exploitation network of Robert M, Diginotar (RSA Hacker) and the KPN hacker. With only thirty investigators, the High Tech Crime Unit had a challenge to find new ways of analysing large volumes of data in a relatively short period of time. This presentation describes how the investigators, together with Freddy Machiavello and Nathalie Looijmans from Capgemini, used advanced tools such as Palantir in their Big Data refinery to develop a new strategy, new ontologies, and several new analysis techniques to reach their investigation goals.
The IAEA’s Illicit Trafficking Database
Stephen Kittley, Office of Nuclear Security, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Established in 1995, the ITDB is the IAEA’s information system on incidents of illicit trafficking and other unauthorised activities and events involving nuclear and other radioactive material outside of regulatory control. The ITDB is a unique asset helping participating States and selected international organisations to combat illicit nuclear trafficking and strengthen nuclear security. One of the challenges faced by the IAEA is how best to exploit the various databases and other resources it has throughout the organisation. This presentation will first explain the ITDB, and then discuss analytical requirements, information management and how to promote cooperation within the organisation.
Global Defence Update
Doug Philippone, Palantir
Palantir continues to extend its presence in defence deployments around the globe in the Allied community. This update will provide a brief view into the information sharing and collaboration, reach-back support, and massive cost savings to coalition members enabled by the Palantir Platform.
Palantir Innovations for Operational Environments
Timothy Ronan, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
Palantir is continuously innovating to solve many of the world’s most challenging problems. The demand for advanced analytic capabilities in operational environments is one of the many domains in which Palantir is taking enormous leaps forward. Palantir Mobile was released in 2011 in response to the demand for a solution to facilitate real-time secure collaboration between an operations centre and resources in the field. In 2012, Palantir’s next game-changing innovation will be the capability to analyse vast quantities of data in a tightly integrated solution with the rest of Palantir’s revolutionary analysis platform. This presentation will focus on what is new with Palantir Mobile and provide a preview of Palantir’s latest innovation, Palantir Video.
Protecting Privacy and Civil Liberties: A Core Commitment
John Grant, Civil Liberties Engineer, Palantir
Bryan Cunningham, Information Security and Privacy Lawyer, Senior Counsel & Advisory Board Member, Palantir
Palantir has been recognized for designing a platform that marries its peerless analytic capabilities with fundamental privacy and civil liberties protections. The Palantir Platform offers numerous capabilities designed to support a rigorous data protection regime. We will review these capabilities and discuss how they can enable compliance with the existing European Union Data Protection Directive. In addition, we will discuss the European Data Protection Regulation proposed in January 2012, how it could change data handling practices throughout the European Union, and how Palantir can facilitate its implementation.
The Palantir Platform: Version 3.7 and Beyond
Brian Schimpf, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
In April 2012 we released Palantir Version 3.7, a release marked by major advancements in our product. With Version 3.7, we dramatically improved application scalability, as well as focused on usability and presentation functionality. We also made leaps forward in our nexus peering technology to enable secure information sharing. We’ll cover these as well as exciting in-progress product work.
Homegrown Radicalisation — How Data Analytics Can Help Prevent Terrorism
Prof. Peter R. Neumann, Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King’s College London
How do people become terrorists? How can they be stopped? Prof. Neumann, Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King’s College London, presents an overview of the radicalisation process. Using Western homegrown terrorism as an example, this presentation shows what contribution data analytics, especially Palantir, can make to disrupting the process. It also touches on challenges and unsolved problems, especially internet-driven radicalisation processes and ‘lone wolf’ attacks.
