Started in 1989, KDD is the oldest & largest data mining conference worldwide. Some of the first and most highly cited research papers on "Big Data," "Data Science," and "Predictive Analytics" were published in the KDD conference. Other notable innovations that originated at KDD include crowd sourcing: Large scale data mining competitions with over 10,000 participants, personalized advertising, graph mining algorithms, and recommender systems. After 25 years and an explosive growth in this industry, KDD is still the home for the latest cutting-edge research in these topics.

 

More information about KDD can be found on their website, http://www.kdd.org/kdd2015/index.html.