DRIVE is a unique event healed at the University of Washington that brings together the a growing community of non-profit IT professionals seeking to leverage big data in order to maximize the efficiency of their organizations. This two day event encompasses a robust range of data topics: analytics, classification systems, predictive modeling, fundraising, statistics, cloud services, reporting strategies, security issues, and the impact and leverage of social media. In the past professionals from higher education, medical centers, nature conservatories, and other non-profit agencies have attended.
On Thursday, February 21, 2013, Casaba has been given the honor of introducing the CISO of UW, Kirk Bailey, who will be delivering the opening keynote. Robert Mooney will also be giving a talk in the first afternoon block on the importance of transferring data securely across disparate systems.