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Alation: GDM Tech Matter Marathon 22

Let AI, Embedded in the Alation Product do the Cumbersome Data Discovery

Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. More than 330 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realize business outcomes with Alation including AbbVie, American Family Insurance, Cisco, Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Finnair, Munich Re, NASDAQ, New Balance, Parexel, Pfizer, US Foods, and Vistaprint. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation was named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list and is backed by leading venture capitalists including Blackstone, Costanoa, Data Collective, Dell Technologies, Icon, ISAI Cap, Riverwood, Salesforce, Sanabil, Sapphire, and Snowflake Ventures. For more information, visit alation.com. 

SingleStore: GDM Tech Matters Marathon 22

The Database for the Data-Intensive Era

SingleStore is a distributed, relational, SQL database management system that features ANSI SQL support and is known for speed in data ingest, transaction processing, and query processing. SingleStore is the ideal all-in-one database for operational analytics and AI/ML-powered applications that requires fast data ingest, high performance queries and elastic scaling with familiar relational SQL. SingleStore is dedicated to helping businesses adapt more quickly, embrace diverse data and accelerate innovations.

Thought Leadership: 3 Critical Things for Data Engineers to Know in 2022

Join GDM and the co-founders of Ternary Data, Joe Reis and Matt Housley, as we explore the 3 key things that data engineers need to know in 2022 (and beyond).

We will explore the top technologies that are a must-know, the technical skills that can make or break the job, and concepts/methodologies that are hyper relevant to the data engineers day-to-day.

Grab your coffee and join us for this slide-free discussion that can help new engineers up-level their game and seasoned engineers find renewed inspiration.

 

ABOUT MATT + JOE:

Matt and Joe fondly consider themselves "recovering data scientists". They are the authors of Fundamentals of Data Engineering, which is being published by O'Reilly Media later this year.

 

ABOUT TERNARY DATA:

Ternary Data is a data engineering & data architecture consulting firm led by veteran data engineers, data scientists, and college professors. Rest assured that you’re dealing with people who have deep, real-world experience (and the battle scars to prove it).

Ternary Data is not your typical data consultancy. Get no-nonsense, no BS data engineering strategy, coaching, and advice. Trusted by great companies, both huge and small.

Leadership Perspectives: Borut Olenik - Zavarovalnica (Insurance) Triglav

These days, data & analytics leaders hold key importance for guiding their organizations toward digital transformation and evolution. They are the lighthouses that help direct their organizations toward the incredible value that is unlocked through the leverage of properly-run data and analytic programs.

But, they are also are humans, and just like many of us, they must work through conflict, company politics, time zone changes and other challenges.

Please join us for our new monthly Leadership Perspective Series where we talk to some of the greatest data & analytics leaders across the globe. These quick, slide-free discussions will highlight the leader's perspectives, challenges and triumphs. What are they working on? How do they keep their heads above water? What creative approaches they are using to bring a data-driven culture to the forefront of their organizations?

This month we will feature Borut Olenik, Director of Business Intelligence at Zavarovalnica Triglav, a Slovenia-based insurance company. We are honored to have met with Borut in Slovenia last summer. He is a caring leader and outspoken evangelist for proper data analytics practices and methodologies.

Join us as we talk to Borut about his goals for 2022, his team, the tech culture in Slovenia and what he is doing to move data analytics forward, not only at Triglav Insurance, but also in his country.

 

ABOUT BORUT:

Borut carries a natural optimism and is genuinely excited about technological innovation.

He is driven to help stakeholders make better decisions using information derived from data. For Borut this goes beyond just business decisions, he believes that data can (and should) help inform personal decisions as well.

At Zavarovalnica Triglav, d.d. Borut serves as a director in the Business Intelligence (BI). He is responsible for the development of a world-class business intelligence system.

With his vast knowledge of business intelligence process (data analysis, data modeling, data visualization) and technology (including data warehouse, business intelligence tools, machine learning, etc.) he is happy to help decision makers get the information they need to work more confidently and purposefully.

Thought Leadership: Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer @ Thoughtspot

Join GDM and Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer at Thoughtspot, as we dust off our crystal ball and take a peek into the future of data analytics in the coming year. Cindi will share her predictions for what we can expect in our ever-changing, always dynamic world of the modern data cloud.

 

ABOUT CINDI:

Cindi Howson is the Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot and host of The Data Chief podcast. Cindi is an analytics and BI thought leader and expert with a flair for bridging business needs with technology. As Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot, she advises top clients on data strategy and best practices to becoming data- driven, influences ThoughtSpot’s product strategy, and is the host of The Data Chief podcast.

Cindi was previously a Gartner research Vice President, as the lead author for the data and analytics maturity model and analytics and BI Magic Quadrant, and a popular keynote speaker. She introduced new research in data and AI for good, NLP/BI Search, and augmented analytics and brought both the BI bake offs and innovation panels to Gartner globally.

Author Series: The Chief Data Officer’s Playbook

Join Mike Lampa as he interviews Caroline Carruthers about her bestselling book "The Chief Data Officer's Playbook".

Written by two of the world’s leading experts in data driven transformation, it addresses the changes that have taken place in ‘data’, in the role of the ‘CDO’, and the expectations and ambitions of organisations. Most importantly, it will place the role of the CDO into the context of a c-suite player for organisations that wish to recover quickly and with long-term stability from the current global economic downturn.

 

ABOUT CARRUTHERS + JACKSON:

Carruthers and Jackson was founded by global leaders in data transformation, Caroline Carruthers, and Peter Jackson, to support organisations to fully drive the value of their data.

With so many exciting developments being made around innovations, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, organisations first need to get their data right to ensure the right foundations.

At Carruthers and Jackson, we place data literacy at the heart, ensuring an organisational wide approach to data transformation.

As authors of best-selling books Data Driven Business Transformation and The Chief Data Officer’s Playbook, Caroline Carruthers, and Peter Jackson, embed their principles, models, practical, hands on approach combined with their years of experience in leading data driven businesses, to transform organisations across the world.

 

More information and book sales can be found here.

Author Series: The Unified Star Schema by Francesco Puppini and Bill Inmon

Do you want to become a master of the most agile and resilient design for building analytics applications? If so, you need to know about the Unified Star Schema (USS) approach, and you are in luck because we're sitting down with the team that wrote the book on it - literally.

The USS has many benefits over traditional dimensional modeling. Witness the power of the USS as a single star schema that serves as a foundation for all present and future business requirements of your organization.

Data warehouse legend Bill Inmon and data warehouse expert, Francesco Puppini, explain step-by-step why the USS approach is the preferred approach for business intelligence designs today, and how to use this approach through many examples.

Join our conversation with Bill and Francesco to get the story behind the book and see the value live in action.

If you would like to review the book prior or after the event, you can find it at: https://www.amazon.com/Unified-Star-Schema-Resilient-Warehouse-ebook-dp-B08KQF3QL7/dp/B08KQF3QL7/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

Data & Analytics Leadership Perspectives: Khaled Chowdhury - CMC Materials

These days, data & analytics leaders hold key importance for guiding their organizations toward digital transformation and evolution. They are the lighthouses that help direct their organizations toward the incredible value that is unlocked through the leverage of properly-run data and analytic programs.

But, they are also are humans, and just like many of us, they must work through conflict, company politics, time zone changes and other challenges.

Please join us for our new monthly Leadership Perspective Series where we talk to some of the greatest data & analytics leaders across the globe. These quick, slide-free discussions will highlight the leader's perspectives, challenges and triumphs. What are they working on? How do they keep their heads above water? What creative approaches they are using to bring a data-driven culture to the forefront of their organizations?

This month, we will feature Khaled Chowdhury, Global Director of Data & Analytics at CMC Materials. Khaled will share how he (based in Singapore) manages an American company's globally dispersed team. He will also explain his unique "Analytics Underground" program and how it is ushering in some great change at CMC Materials.

May I Have Your ATTENTION, Please: An ”Attention Economy” Fireside Chat

Please join Mike Lampa, Great Data Minds Chief Analytics Officer as he interviews Patty Klauer for an intriguing Executive Insights discussion. Mike and Patty will discuss the ethical concerns around the collection and use of individual psychographic data. They will also explore issues around online marketing, social media practices and how/why we all need to develop 'attention literacy’.

Although social media has inspired new levels of connection and brought heaps of new entertainment to our daily lives, it has also come under major review for issues around data privacy and lasting negative psychological effects.

Patty will share her invigorating ideas around “The Attention Economy” and draw awareness to the fact that your attention is valuable. Valuable enough that companies of all sizes engage in behind-the-scenes bidding wars to get your eyes on their messages. Patty believes that we can flip the current advertising model on its head to better respect the individual (and their personal data) who are targeted by companies that are pushing their advertising messages.

Join this passionate discussion to unpack not only the concerns but also the solutions that could help move our society forward towards maintaining a balanced relationship with social media.

ABOUT PATTY
Patty is a long-time data guru who uses her technical expertise to identify solutions to large-scale societal issues. She is currently the Principal Consultant at Global Data Strategy and sits on the Leadership Team at Future Capital. Future Capital is committed to activating the power at the nexus of consciousness and capital for the purpose of societal transformation. Patty is a part of the core team that guides the joint exploration in the power of our personal and collective attention and how through our attention we create the systems that form the fabric of our society.

Demystifying Geospatial Data

Please join Mike Lampa, Great Data Minds Chief Analytics Officer, as he interviews Matt Krusemark (CEO of Kspatial) and Brian Timoney (Owner and Geospatial Data Architect at The Timoney Group) for an intriguing Executive Insights discussion. This session will open your eyes to the new and improved world of readily available/accessible geospatial data.

If you think of geospatial data as elusive, niche, or really hard to work with, this session is for you. Gone are the days when you needed a geospatial expert to help you work with the data, as the old barriers to getting started with geospatial data have gone away:

• Geospatial support is not just in your BI software - it’s likely baked into your enterprise database, data warehouse, and some of your favorite Cloud-native tools like your Sales and CRM software.
• Maps are becoming more commoditized/mainstream and the data has been essentially unlocked as a means to solve business problems.

Matt Krusemark and Brian Timoney are experts on the nuances of geospatial data. They will share simple tips and tricks for leveraging the tools and the people you already have in house (likely without a new investment).

They will also explore using 3rd party data - both where to get it and how to use it - to really drive insights. This will make for a quick ROI exercise to share with your executives so that you have the funding and support to expand into the more complex internal (proprietary) and external (public & commercial) data blending.