Big Data Week 2012 (April 23-27) is a gathering across the globe, spaning 3 countries - US, UK and Australia. BDW offers a series of interconnected activities and conversations around the world amongst four core communities:

• Data Scientists
• Data Technologies
• Data Visualisation
• Data Business

There is a calendar of events available, and all events are blogged about, with Twitter Q&A sessions available as well.

Big Data Week has also teemed up with Open Data Week, see here for more information.