When Big Data Meets Big Movies (and Big Series)! Together with Berlin-based producer Jannis Funk, Professor Thorsten Hennig-Thurau will co-chair a conference for those who love the movies & TV and are intrigued by the powers of big data and analytics.

Join them at a unique, small-scale conference in Potsdam and Berlin this September to retire the industry's "Nobody-knows-anything" mantra. The conference entitled "Big Data, Big Movies: How Algorithms Transform the Film & TV Industry" will be a joint event of the Film University Babelsberg, the Erich Pommer Institute, the Marketing Center Münster, and the DFG Research Group on Hedonic Media.

In addition to providing a platform for cutting edge research, the conference is also intended to facilitate the dialogue between scholars and the industry, featuring roundtables, a "science-meets-practice" dinner, and a tour of globally renowned Studio Babelsberg guided by the studio's COO. Further information can be found on http://www.bigdatabigmovies.org.