BigData2017 - Brochure
BigData2017 - Brochure
Strategies from
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Big Data Leaders
A Building an Advanced
Analytics Team to
Achieve Results
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Leverage IoT and machine learning: Save your spot now for Canada’s largest gathering of big
Exploit emerging opportunities data and analytics professionals.
11:15 AM Industry Expert: Information Builders 11:15 AM Industry Expert: Data Debt
Information Builders Session Details Assessing Your True Readiness and
Coming Soon Ensuring Successful integration Into Your
Overall Company Performance Management
Strategy
Data debt is the primary challenge in measuring your
company’s performance management. Big data and analytics
is an excellent way to grow your business, but also your data
debt. Learn how you can minimize or eliminate your existing
data debt, take advantage of the big data and analytics
revolution, and accelerate your company’s performance
management to move your company to the next level. Your
“Goodie Bag” will include instructions for:
• Determining the composition of your data debt and reducing
or eliminating the problem
• Reduction of your vendor and product spend on big data
and analytics (and other vendor initiatives) while maximizing
your ROI
• Bolstering your performance management strategy in
line with your big data and analytics strategy to gain the
necessary insights to drive your company forward
Go back to your Organization with the necessary tools in hand to
ensure that you’re doing what’s right for you.
Ted Crouse, Owner,
LiteData Corp.
Exploring the Future of Big Data to Exploit 7:45 AM Registration and Breakfast
Emerging Opportunities
8:15 AM Opening Comments from the Chair
Big data is a fast-moving field. Stay on top of the latest
Bala Gopalakrishnan, Managing Director,
trends and identify emerging opportunities for your
Data Solutions at Pelmorex
organization. Gain insights on how to:
• Manage new data sources in an IoT world 8:30 AM Keynote
• Benefit from machine learning and AI Driving Organizational Strategy with
• Incorporate new technologies and methodologies Journey Analytics
Stay ahead of new trends to develop your competitive advantage. The majority of analytics being used in today’s businesses
Joe Greenwood, Program Director, Data Catalyst, are vertical “in-lane” analytics. Employ horizontal journey
MaRS Discovery District sciences to tap into the full power of your organization’s data
and better understand the experience from a customer’s
perspective. Empower your company to:
Carlos Medeiros, Chief Risk Officer, Mogo
• Increase customer satisfaction
• Improve operational efficiency and revenues
Christopher Dingle, Director, Customer • Make analytics an enterprise capability
Intelligence, Rogers Communications
Source tangible ways journey sciences drive organizational value.
Prof. Jean-François Plante, Professor, Lori Bieda, Vice President, Business Analytics and
HEC Montréal Insights, BMO
11:15 AM Case Study: The Weather Network 11:15 AM Case Study: MLSE
Developing IT Architecture to Process Technology Is the Easy Part: Lessons
Complex Data and Deliver Meaningful Learned On the Journey to Become a Data-
Information driven Company
A big data and analytics program needs to be supported Most organizations seek to unlock the promise of big data, yet
by technology. Create a strategic plan to develop your few succeed because they underestimate what is required.
organization’s technical architecture. Create a plan to: Fast track your learning through the experience of one of the
world’s leading sports and entertainment companies. Create
• Architect complex systems
a blueprint to:
• Explore open-source and proprietary technologies
• Develop algorithms to transform data into information • Transform your business to a data-driven company
Provide your big data program with the IT architecture needed
• Develop a culture that embraces data
to be effective.
• Learn from the experiences of industry leaders
Discover how your organizations can apply lessons learned.
Bala Gopalakrishnan, Managing Director,
Data Solutions at Pelmorex Jonathan Carrigan, Senior Director of Strategy,
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE)
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