Data / Analytics Strategies
Strategies to help leverage full value from your design and implementation of an effective Business Intelligence / Analytics / Big Data framework.
April 11, 2019
9:00am-5:00pm
7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded
Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois
Overview
Data is the lifeblood of every business, but to empower the organization, it needs to be used carefully and strategically. How can IT leverage BI initiatives to become a stronger partner and ally to business units? What pitfalls should be avoided?
What You Will Learn
In this one day conference attendees will learn:
- A BI Journey – From “Why do we need a BI Analyst?” to “He is literally amazing at his job… period?”
- Data and Analytics for Competitive Advantage: A Conversation and Case Study
- Design Thinking & Architecture Design methodologies, discussed in scope of our Big Data/ Data Strategy
- Data Lakes Don’t Have To Be Camp Crystal Lake
- Top Data/Analytics Challenges – How to Overcome Them
- How to Partner with the Business to Best Leverage Business Intelligence for Operational Benefit (panel discussion)
Conference Price: $289.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
Conference Program
8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am-10:00am: A BI Journey – From “Why do we need a BI Analyst?” to “He is literally amazing at his job… period?”
Edward Marchewka, Director IT/CIO, Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network
Tyler Roesler, Business Intelligence Analyst, Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network
- Moving from data requests to self-service data pulls
- Non-traditional uses of a BI platform
- Data quality for better reporting – The Story of AQuA Man!
Marchewka Roesler
10:00am -10:30am: Refreshment Break
10:30am-11:30am: Data and Analytics for Competitive Advantage: A Conversation and Case Study
Jim Ingle, Executive Vice President, Messina Group
Data-driven decision making and advanced analytics are no longer just for Big Businesses with big budgets. If you understand the opportunities for data and analytics as an outsourced service you can dramatically change your company’s competitive advantage.
What you will learn:
- How to leverage Data and Analytics for competitive advantage
- What are your outsourcing options?
- When does it makes sense to consider outsourcing?
- What are the risks?
- What are the benefits?
- Case Study: Leading aftermarket auto auction company.
Ingle
11:30am-12:30pm: Design Thinking & Architecture Design Methodologies, Discussed in Scope of our Big Data/ Data Strategy
Taras Bachynskyi, Director of Big Data & Analytics, SoftServe
Taras will share his practical experience and provide a brief overview of methodologies and approaches (e.g. Design Thinking, ADD, ATAM) intended to assure efficiency and effectiveness of proposed solutions. Specifically targeted answers will be covered for the following:
- How to define and ensure required quality of solution architecture
- Why the excessive focus on technologies is a common misconception
- What needs to be addressed during the design phase, and not later
You will also learn why software service providers utilize Design Thinking approach and how Design Thinking and architecture design methodologies complement each other.
Bachynskyi
12:30pm – 1:30pm Luncheon
1:30pm-2:30pm: Data Lakes Don’t Have To Be Camp Crystal Lake
Kevin McGinley, Field CTO, Snowflake Computing
The concept of the Data Lake is becoming an ugly word in data architectures, with the term “Data Swamp” often being substituted instead. This session will explore how to use a better design to solve the “Data Swamp” problem and how the Cloud can be an enabler for obtaining more value from a Data Lake.
In this session, attendees will learn:
- What are the challenges companies are facing delivering a valuable Data Lake?
- What architecture design approaches can be used to deliver a more valuable Data Lake?
- How would you implement those architecture design approaches in the cloud?
- What capabilities should you look for in a PaaS or SaaS offering when building a Data Lake in the cloud?
McGinley
2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment Break
3:00pm-4:00pm: Top Data/Analytics Challenges – How to Overcome Them
Annur Sumar, CTO, Maetech
In this session, Annur Sumar, CTO, Maetech will lead an audience discussion on top analytics challenges.
Attendees will share their challenges and gain insights from Annur as well as fellow audience members.
Sumar
4:00pm-5:00pm: KPIs, Performance & Execution: Building and Sustaining an Effective Data and Analytics Strategy
Moderator:
Lee Corning, AE, ThoughtSpot
Panelists:
Sree Pillai, Senior Global Director, Regal Beloit
James Jackson, Director ESA Business Administration, Assistant Director Data Analysis & Systems Integration, University of Chicago
Dilip Balachandran, Director – Analytics and Applications, USG
Aureo Zanon, Senior Manager – Predictive Data Analytics, Corporate Safety, United Airlines
Jimmy DeBlasio, Manager, Analytics, Central States Health & Welfare and Pension Funds
and other BI/Analytics leaders from enterprise organizations
In this panel discussion, attendees will learn from seasoned BI/Analytics leaders as to how they are executing and proving the value of their BI/Analytics strategies.
Pillai Balachandran Zanon DeBlasio Corning Jackson
Conference Price: $289.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
Exhibits
As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.
CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORS
