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Data / Analytics Strategies

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

November 19, 2020

9:00am-5:00pm CST

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Conference location: ONLINE

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:

• Data Science, AI & Machine Learning: How to Break Through the Hype
• Unifying Analytics – Changing Data Architecture to Unite BI and Data Science
• How to Build a Modern Data Analytics Platform
• How to Evolve Your BI and Analytics Architecture
• Cloud BI Success Strategies
• The Future of Analytics in the Cloud
• KPIs, Performance & Execution: Building and Sustaining an Effective Data and Analytics Strategy

Conference Price: $0.00 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: Virtual Networking

9:00am-10:00am: Data Science, AI & Machine Learning: How to Break Through the Hype

Rob Whelan, Head of Data Engineering, 2nd Watch
Sam Tawfik, Data Engineering & Analytics, 2nd Watch

• Learn how to set the table for AI/ML in 2021
• Get an understanding of general use cases within reach today
• See how classification, anomaly detection and NLP play a part in your data strategy

   
Whelan     Tawfik

10:00am -10:30am: Networking Break

10:30am-11:30am: Unifying Analytics – Changing Data Architecture to Unite BI and Data Science

Paige Roberts, Open Source Relations Manager, Vertica

The data warehouse has been an analytics workhorse for decades for business intelligence teams. Unprecedented volumes of data, new types of data, and the need for advanced analyses like machine learning brought on the age of the data lake. Now, many companies have a data lake for data science, a data warehouse for BI, or a mishmash of both, possibly combined with a mandate to go to the cloud. The end result can be a sprawling mess, a lot of duplicated effort, a lot of missed opportunities, a lot of projects that never made it into production, and a lot of financial investment without return. Technical and spiritual unification of the two opposed camps can make a powerful impact on the effectiveness of analytics for the business overall.

• Look at successful data architectures from companies like Philips, the TradeDesk, Uber, …
• Learn to eliminate duplication of effort between data science and BI data engineering teams
• See a variety of ways companies are getting AI and ML projects into production where they have real impact, without bogging down essential BI
• Study analytics architectures that work, why and how they work, and where they’re going from here

Roberts

11:30am-12:30pm: How to Evolve Your BI and Analytics Architecture 

Karthik Kandamuri, Enterprise Architecture, Business Technology Solutions, Abbvie

New technologies are everywhere but your current architecture still holds tremendous value. The key is to determine how new technologies should be implemented in your existing architecture.

In this session, content that will be covered includes:

• Disruptive trends for BI/Analyics/Big Data
• What a modern extended architecture looks like
• How the pieces fit together
• What your organization can gain in the real world

Kandamuri

12:30pm – 1:30pm Lunch break

1:30pm-2:30pm: Cloud BI Success Strategies 

David Fields, Principal, Solve

Many organizations we speak to have aspirations to move their BI Applications to the cloud. Hurdles to making this a reality in your organization have straightforward answers in 2020. Solve will present a best practices approach to making cloud BI a reality, achieving the benefit of cloud and lessening the risks traditionally associated with it.

Fields

2:30pm – 3:00pm: Networking Break

3:00pm-4:00pm:  KPIs, Performance & Execution: Building and Sustaining an Effective Data and Analytics Strategy (Panel discussion)

Moderator:
Steve Shelton, RSM, Vertica
Panelists:
Karthik Kandamuri, Enterprise Architecture, Business Technology Solutions, AbbVie
Deanna Jacob, Enterprise Data Management Director, Alight Solutions
Nishant Budhiraja, Director, Data Services, United Airlines
David Hoffenberg, Senior Director of Platform Analytics, Epsilon
and other BI/Analytics leaders from enterprise organizations sharing strategies, tactics and lessons learned

                        
Kandamuri     Shelton         Jacob            Hoffenberg

Conference Price: $0.00 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 breaks you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.