In October 2013, GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru presented at the John Deere Big Data Summit 2013, designed "to bring together analytic and big data thought leaders from inside and outside the company to showcase cutting edge academic thinking, applications and real life examples." Over the past decade Kalev has worked with a number of the Fortune 50 on a vast array of big data and bleeding-edge analytic projects, helping to reshape and rethink how we leverage the opportunities and potential of big data analytics for the corporate world.