Big Data Week, an international touring conference featuring a series of events and meetups, will be in Atlanta starting April 22nd and will continue through the 28th. If you're unfamiliar with the now three-year running event, which this year is being produced by media140 Worldwide, here's the description from the official BDW site:

Big Data Week is one of the most unique global platforms of interconnected community events focusing on the social, political, technological and commercial impacts of Big Data. It brings together a global community of data scientists, data technologies, data visualisers and data businesses spanning six major commercial, financial, social and technological sectors.

Guest orators listed to speak at the kick-off on Monday, April 22nd will include:

 Steve Lohr, New York Times
 Michael Hickins, Wall Street Journal
 Thomas Madden, CDC
 Joseph Guerrisi, UPS
 Bob Candelmo, SunTrust
 William VanCuren, NCR
 Greg Hart, McKesson

You can register for Big Data kick-off at Eventbrite. Tickets are $25 in advance, with drinks and networking beginning a full hour before the speakers take to the stage at 7pm. Visit BigDataWeek.com/Atlanta to see the full calendar of scheduled events and meetups.