As a speaker at this summer school, I found the experience to be enriching and far beyond my already high expectations. I was impressed by the evident thoughtfulness of the organizers and sponsors, and their commitment to having a first rate experience for the audience and the speakers. I was pleasantly surprised that the organizers were able to attract such caliber of speakers, stay focused on the extremely high impact theme of “Big data”, and to manage to bring all their speakers to the country, in time. The organizers knowledge of the field and frontier research is always key, and was evident throughout the process, including preliminary effort to attract participants to this event. All the speakers were unanimous in their reactions concerning the graciousness and hospitality of the organizers and sponsors, at all levels. For me, this effort competed with the best I have seen from some seasoned organizers from China who are engaged in a massive international effort to bring the best of frontier research and training to their country and institutions. I have been a participant and contributor to those Chinese efforts, and really liked what I have seen of this effort by Pasargad and Khatam. For this reason and evident success of this first effort, I expect to support similar future efforts and conferences. I congratulate all the organizers and sponsors of this extremely successful and meaningful scholarly gathering. I took very positive memories and impressions from this event and it is already having an impact on social and other media.