“Big Data Day Baku 2016” under the sponsorship of Azercell

Azercell Telecom has supported another international forum held in our country. Big data Day Baku 2016 International Forum (BDDB2016) was organized by Barama Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center under the sponsorship of Azercell in Qafqaz University on May 17, 2016. Big Data Day Baku 2016 International Forum dedicated to big data was conducted for the second time in our country. This time, experts from global and local companies such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Azercell and ATL which are famous for their solutions in this field gave lectures in the event held under the slogan of “Get Business Value from Bid Data”.

Imran Baghirov, Head of Strategic Adjacencies and Customer Channels department, delivered presentation on the subject. Imran Baghirov emphasized demand on Big Data in measuring the level of Customer Services and achieving good customer experience practice. 

Main purpose of the event is to expand ideas about new opportunities and challenges in the society created by Big Data, share experiences on development of data analysis technologies with business, industrial and state agencies, encourage students and young researchers to make career and researches in Data Science. This event was attended by persons engaged in finance, energy, telecommunication and marketing, as well as businessmen, researches, state officials and students.

It should be mentioned that, international competitions such as Barama Hack Day 2016 , Seedstarts World were organized by Barama Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center under the sponsorship of Azercell. Meanwhile, Azercell supports every event oriented on increasing awareness of youth about ICT and encouraging them to become world-wide experts. Tens of the youth in Barama Innovation Center have been able to present their projects to the world and establish a personal company.

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Azercell Telecom LLC was founded in 1996 and since the first years sustains a leading position in the market. Azercell introduced number of technological innovations in Azerbaijan: GSM technology, advance payment mobile services, M2M,MobilBank, GPRS/EDGE (mobile internet), 24/7 Customer Care, full-time operating Azercell Express offices, mobile e-service “ASAN imza” (ASAN signature) and others. With 48,2% share of Azerbaijan’s mobile market Azercell’s network covers 99,8% of the country’s population. In 2015, the number of Azercell’s subscribers reached 4,5 million people. In 2011 Azercell deployed 3G and in 2012 the fourth generation network – LTE in Azerbaijan. The Company is the leader of Azerbaijan’s mobile communication industry and the biggest investor in the non-oil sector. Azercell is a part of Telia Company  Group of Companies serving 186 million subscribers in 17 countries worldwide with 27,000 employees.