In December 2012 GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru traveled to London to speak at Big Data Analytics 2012, the United Kingdom's "largest and most prestigious cross-industry event for the Large Enterprise Sector… bringing together CEO's, Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Financial Officers, Business Directors, Heads of BI and Chief Data Scientists to discuss how to find oppotunities in Big Data Streams with advanced analytics." Kalev spoke on his latest work on modeling global societal function using the largest shared memory supercomputer in the world, the SGI UV2000 system.