PAST EVENTS

9:00am-10:00am: How Business and IT Should Partner to Build a Data Strategy

Greg Marsh, Principal Consultant, 2ndWatch

Schafer Gizel, Senior Insights Consultant, 2ndWatch

IT’s data relevancy is how positively it impacts business success. To be effective, IT needs to understand the following:

• What is the main goal of the business?
• What are trying to accomplish?
• How is the architecture built to support the business?

Marsh                      Gizel

10:00am-10:30am: Refreshment Break

10:30am-11:30am: Go Beyond Dashboards – Infuse Analytic and Data Insights Everywhere

Michael Scarpelli, Solutions Engineer, Sisense

It’s time to think differently about data and analytics strategies. While many organizations have progressed from relying on static outputs, generated by dedicated teams, to bringing data and analytic insights to knowledge workers everywhere. Learn how terms like infuse and embed help provide these insights inside interfaces that users love.

Learn more about:

• The future of business intelligence and how your organization can stay ahead of the curve by thinking about life beyond the task-specific dashboard
• Enhancing your data strategy to get more out of your data
• How organizations are infusing analytics to get information when they need it, and where they need it

Scarpelli

11:30am-12:30pm: How to Create Data Warehousing and Reporting Strategies

Volker Schulmeyer, Owner/Consultant at EAdvisory – Former Director of IT Strategy and Architecture at Caterpillar

Cloud computing opened up a great opportunities to create an incredibly flexible data warehousing strategy. Take advantage of this to delight your different business customers. The cloud also brought some watch-outs when dealing with SaaS Vendors. With the right data strategy you have nothing to worry about.

Schulmeyer

12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch Break

1:30pm-2:30pm: Breakout Session: The 6 Principles of Modern Data Architecture

2:30pm-3:00pm: Refreshment Break

3:00pm-4:00pm: Graph Data Science and Machine Learning – Workflows, Strategies, and Architecture Design

Zach Blumenfeld, Data Science Product Specialist, Neo4j

Graph based Data Science and Machine Learning (DS & ML) are becoming increasingly sought after as technology evolves and the complexity and scale of data continues to grow. However, it isn’t always clear what patterns to follow when designing enterprise architecture to support real-world graph DS & ML and how to implement practical graph DS & ML workflows that accomplish goals specific to your organization’s use case(s).

In this session you will learn about:

1. Technologies and best practices for graph DS & ML
2. How to evaluate whether your use case can benefit from a graph DS & ML approach
3. A framework for understanding different types of graph DS & ML workflows and which can best satisfy your use case goals
4. Reference architecture for applying graph DS & ML workflows in your enterprise architecture with specific examples

Blumenfeld

4:00pm-5:00 pm: 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:

• Rob Fosnaugh, Sr. Manager – Enterprise Information Management, Brotherhood Mutual Insurance
• Atif Usman, Global Director, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Zimmer Biomet
• Nick Jones, Business Intelligence Analyst, Loyola University Chicago
• Peter Chung, Director – Software Engineering, Wolters Kluwer
• Other Data Analytics Executives sharing strategies, tactics, and lessons learned

Fosnaugh                Usman                   Jones              Chung

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