The past 12th of April, IDAL organised the event “Big Data and Predictive Analytics: new opportunities for industry and society”, at the School of Engineering. The event was focused on the application of Data Science techniques to real problems. The event was held by several relevant figures of the industry, who exposed to the public their experiences and their vision onto the future of the Big Data topic. The event was sponsored by the consultancy companies TINÁMICA, EVERIS, GMV and CAP GEMINI.