Mutaz M. Al-Debei

Biography

Dr. Mutaz M. Al-Debei is currently working as a Territory Manager for Cloud Technology & Business Analytics at Oracle. Also at Oracle, Al-Debei had a previous role as a Principal Cloud Platform Consultant - Big Data & Business Analytics. Before Joining Oracle, Al-Debei was working as the Director of Big Data & Advanced Analytics at INTRASOFT MEA. Moreover and before joining INTRASOFT, Al-Debei was serving as an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Computing at the University of Jordan (UJ), and also as an ICT Chief Consultant at the National Center for Security and Crises Management. He also worked as an IT Manager for Arab Radio & Television (ART) in Jordan Media City and he held other positions in Al-Ahli Bank (Master Card Department) and Royal Scientific Society. Al-Debei earned his PhD from Brunel University London (BUL) in Information Systems and Computing in May, 2010. Furthermore, Al-Debei has received many international and national significant research awards such as Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers – ICTs, 2015, the prestigious Vice Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Research from Brunel University London in 2010, the Distinguished Researcher Award from The University of Jordan - three times in 2012, 2014, and 2019; and best paper awards from UKAIS (2008), and another one from IFIP 8.2 (2010).

Topic: Data Science for Data-Driven Innovations

The idea of Big Data being associated with substantially increased data volumes, velocity and variety has been discussed for years. This isn’t really that interesting. What is interesting is if we look beneath the surface of the technologies emerging to support the Big Data phenomenon and look at the economic implications of Big Data. We believe that data (and data management systems) have become equally important as Land, Labour and Financial Capital as a fourth necessary factor of production. In this keynote, I will be discussing the rise of data capital and its economic impact on the way we do business today. Then we will dive deeper into the implications and opportunities for organizations that this rise of data capital can bring.