Big data and UTS:AAi’s reputation are booming in China. The Chongqing Municipal Government delegation, led by the Vice-Mayor Mr Gang Wu and accompanied by a group of senior executives from government units, universities/institutions and companies, visited UTS and AAi on 27-28 April 2014. Chongqing is particularly interested in AAi’s model and achievements, and exploring collaborations with UTS:AAi in ‘cloning’ AAi’s RED Business Model in Chongqing for building and upgrading Chongqing’s big data strategic plan and industrialisation. Within three years since its establishment as a priority university research institute at UTS, AAi has been widely recognized as Australia’s first and leading group in data science and big data analytics. Mr Wu and his team were very impressed by AAi’s unique RED Analytics model, the so-called “Analytics Cathedral” in the elegant and leafy UTS Blackfriars campus, real-life challenge-inspired theoretical breakthroughs, and actionable technology applied to many tier-one government and business organizations through its fast-developing international research network on data science and big data analytics in Australia, China, India, Europe and North America. A broader discussion between Chongqing and UTS representatives from Engineering and IT, Business, Research Innovation Office and Graduate School, chaired by the Vice-Mayor Mr Gang Wu and the UTS DVC-International Prof William Purcell, and supported by the DVC-Research Prof Attila Brungs, outlined a blueprint for UTS-Chongqing’s further action-taking plan for building strategic and concrete partnership in big data industrialisation.
