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Data Architecture / Analytics Strategies: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare), Illinois

Strategies to help leverage full value from your design and implementation of an effective Business Intelligence / Analytics / Big Data framework.

July 13, 2023

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:

  • Unleashing the Power of Modernity: Translating Data into Dollars
  • Data as a Product – the Key to Gaining Influence
  • Six Trends That Will ‘Make Or Break’ Your Data Strategy
  • AI/ML, Generative AI and ChatGPT
  • Data Architecture and Artificial Intelligence: How Do They Work Together?
  • How to Align Your Data Architecture with the Strategic Plan – Panel Discussion

Conference Price: $299.00 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 AGENDA

9:00am – 10:00am: Data Architecture and Artificial Intelligence: How Do They Work Together?

Jose Hernandez, VP, Analytics, Dunn Solutions

 

Well-managed Data Architecture and AI technologies have emerged as powerful tools that can drive success and foster innovation in the IT industry. In this presentation, we will discuss what it takes to successfully create the infrastructure, both organizationally and technically, to support operationalized prescriptive analytics.

In this session, attendees will learn:

  • What is AI / ML and what role does it play in different business roles/departments?
  • Managing Data to build AI/ML
  • Building Predictive Models
  • Operationalizing Predictive Models
  • How different business roles play a part in Data Architecture and AI

Hernandez

10:00am – 10:30am Refreshment & Exhibit Break

10:30am – 11:30am: Six Trends That Will ‘Make Or Break’ Your Data Strategy

Saptarshi Sengupta, Global Sr. Director of Marketing, Denodo

Putting data to work in your business is changing rapidly and the challenge is growing exponentially. It’s hard to keep up with the demands of putting all of that data to work.

It seemed like only yesterday we only had to rely on moving data into our trusted data warehouse from which we could do our reporting and analytics. Nowadays, we have an alphabet soup of technologies that are supposed to help us meet the voracious data needs of the business but yet not much has changed in our success rate.

What if there was a better way?

What if we could futureproof our data and analytics capabilities today to keep from having to rebuild them in a few years’ time, as new technologies, approaches, methodologies and processes emerge?

In this session, we will look at six trends – and their underlying technologies – that should influence your future data strategy for long term success.

 

Sengupta

11:30am – 12:30pm: Data as a Product – the Key to Gaining Influence

Brenden McGlinchey, Information Management Practice Lead, Kenway Consulting

 

Everyone in technology has great ideas. The next revenue-generating breakthrough, efficiency driver, security mitigation, and much needed modernization. How do we advance these from great architecture diagrams and logical models to reality? Product Management has been an answer within application development, but its applicability to the data world has been slow to realize. We’ll tell the story of how we went from a good and necessary idea to a transformational reality through Product Management in the data world.

Along the way we’ll cover:

  • Data as a Product fits into the Modern Data Stack/Lifecycle
  • Leveraging this concept for career advancement
  • Real-world application
  • How to apply in your context
  • How to answer the elusive ROI question

 

McGlinchey

12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch & Exhibit Break

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Unleashing the Power of Modernity: Translating Data into Dollars

Andrew McGrath, VP, Digital Product Strategy, KeHE Distributors

Dive into the lucrative world of modern data infrastructure, replacing outmoded legacy systems to drive an exceptional return on investment. This presentation is designed to light the path toward a more profitable corporate future, revolutionizing strategy, empowering teams, and harnessing the transformative power of data products. Explore the secret formula that’s making CFOs everywhere stand up and take notice. Turn your data into a goldmine and redefine your bottom line. Elevate your fiscal narrative and witness the numbers every CFO dreams of.

McGrath

2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment & Exhibit Break

3:00pm – 4:00pm: AI/ML, Generative AI and ChatGPT – Is this the next big Frontier of technology or Hype? How does this new paradigm impact Data Architecture and Analytics Strategy?

Karthik Kandamuri, Director, Enterprise Architecture, AbbVie

Join Karthik as he covers:

 

  • Emergence of Generative AI and ChatGPT has put Data Architecture and Analytics Strategy into a high gear, which was already hugely impacted by explosion of AI and ML
  • Businesses are exploring potential ways of leveraging ChatGPT for solving their business problems quickly with minimal risks
  • ..However, is it safe for every enterprise to open the flood gates of ChatGPT to business users?
  • What are the strategic approaches organizations need to consider for leveraging ChatGPT to mitigate risks?
  • What are the policies and procedures organizations need to follow from a Governance, Risk and Compliance standpoint?

 

Kandamuri

4:00pm – 5:00pm: How to Align Your Data Architecture with the Strategic Plan (Panel Discussion)

In this session, attendees will learn how enterprise IT organizations have partnered with the business stakeholders to ensure their data strategy is supporting the organization’s requirements.

Moderated by: Dan Horwich, President & Executive Director, CAMP IT Conferences

Panelists include:

  • Rich Olejniczak, SVP – Data Programs and Business Analytics and Reporting, Wintrust Financial Corporation
  • Dena Wilson, Manager, Data & Digital Services (DDS) Great Lakes Region Data Analytics, RSM US
  • Mark Miller, Data & Analytics Manager, Steel Warehouse
  • Karthik Kandamuri, Director, Enterprise Architecture, AbbVie
  • Other Data Analytics Executives sharing strategies, tactics, and lessons learned

 

Horwich                     Olejniczak                Wilson                      Miller                     Kandamuri

Conference Price: $299.00 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 SPONSORS