Eric Little is an Industry Innovation Principal Director of Life Sciences at Accenture. He received a dual Ph.D. in Philosophy and Cognitive Science in 2002 from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University at Buffalo’s Department of Industrial Engineering (2002-2004) focused on developing ontologies for multisource information fusion applications. He has worked in both academia as a professor in several fields at several universities, as well as held multiple management positions in the software development industry across several different industry verticals. Dr. Little is a world-recognized expert in semantic technology, Big Data, analytics applications and formal ontology. Dr. Little has designed and helped to implement semantic technologies and analytics for use in various applied domains including: biomedicine, medical device manufacturing, medical fraud, waste and abuse detection, pharmaceuticals, medical management, threat prediction/mitigation, disaster management, national defense/intelligence, steel production and petrochemicals. He gives numerous talks each year around the world and is actively involved in many professional organizations. He has been quoted in numerous technology magazines for his work in developing next generation tech solutions for multiple different industries.