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Agenda & Speakers

DAY 1 - Wednesday October 7, 2020 — 10am - 4:45pm EST

Track

SESSION

SPEAKER

10:00AM - 10:40AM ET

It’s Time to Manage Enterprise Data as an Asset

Digital transformation is an urgent competitive necessity. What does it take to reach total digital transformation? The first step is to manage data as an asset. 

Tamr's CEO, Andy Palmer, kicks off DataMasters Summit with a vision: a world where people in large organizations are empowered to deliver business value with mastered enterprise data @ scale across silos.

10:40AM - 11:10AM ET

Building Data Teams for Tomorrow's Challenges 

When building successful companies, there are generally three elements to this success: great people, streamlined processes, and key core and integrated technology. Salema Rice, CDO at Geometric Results, and her team are focused on answering the question:
How to have the right team and processes to win our data challenges?

The answer is simple, it’s in the data.

By delivering better hires to companies through innovative data analysis, companies can ensure future success. Coupled with the right processes and tech stack - an organization can turbo-charge its data and analytics outcomes. Join Andy Palmer, Tamr’s CEO, and Salema Rice as they dive into the people part of data.

11:20AM - 12:05PM ET

The Future of Data Mastering At Scale

Creating cloud-native data mastering solutions that scale. Hear from Anthony Deighton, Chief Product Officer of Tamr, on our product innovations from this past year that accelerate business outcomes and the future of data mastering from Tamr.

12:45PM - 1:30PM ET

Data Mastering for COVID-19 Disease Tracking

Data is an asset to fight the spread of COVID19. Data also needs to be clean and mastered for accurate reporting. Paul Balas embarked on a project to master COVID19 data using Tamr for the data mastering part of the project. He will share his work and his findings in this session.

12:45PM - 1:30PM ET

7 Components of the DataOps Ecosystem

DataOps is an emerging set of practices, organizational structures, and technologies for building and automating data pipelines to enable governments to make data-driven decisions quickly. Mark Marinelli, Head of Customer and Partner Enablement at Tamr, shares the key components needed to transform data initiatives.

1:30PM - 2:05PM ET

Best Practices for the CDO and Data Leaders in Times of Change

CDOs and data experts share their perspectives about how to deal with uncertainty and change within a data organization and how they used data to lead change in their organizations. Join this panel with data leaders from  KeyBank and Poshmark.

1:30PM - 2:05PM ET

DataOps Architecture: Keep the Human in the Loop

Leverage human intelligence for training the model. Receive trusted results, delivered quickly and at large scale.

2:15PM - 3:00PM ET

Leveraging Data to Reduce Spend

Procurement professionals are tasked with driving cost reductions. By mastering and enriching data, procurement teams increase visibility into all aspects of the procurement process flow. This includes building a more resilient supply chain, providing a 360 degree view of your customers to drive more sales and more. Clean mastered data is the key to driving cost savings.

2:15PM - 3:00PM ET

Don't Boil the Data Lake

 Setting clear objectives to improve the quality of data in your organization is critical. But, being too ambitious could hinder your ability to achieve quick wins and gain support from key stakeholders. To overcome this, you need to avoid ‘boiling the data lake’, a phrase that describes taking the impossible task of transforming your organization’s data management processes overnight. Instead, you should focus on one specific area and follow the DataOps methodology to incrementally change the processes, technology and people’s behavior within your organization. Marc Alvarez, has applied this ‘entrepreneurial’ approach to data management as Vice President of Data Management and Operations at Thomson Reuters. This session will cover why business leaders should treat data less like an IT project and more like a business asset.

3:05PM - 3:40PM ET

Data Secures the World

Information Security is an increasingly growing data problem. To be able to assess the security posture of organizations, one needs to process and assess massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, sourced from external resources, such as threat intelligence, and from internal IT systems. In this open conversation, Christopher Ahlberg, CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future and Andy Palmer, CEO and Co-founder of Tamr will discuss the challenges of handling security data at scale and how to overcome them.

3:40PM - 4:10PM ET

Changing the Rules on MDM: Data Mastering at Scale

Today's data challenges need new solutions. MDM needs machine learning. A.M. Turing award winner Michael Stonebraker offers a thought-provoking session on the next generation of MDM and why human-guided machine learning is the critical advancement in big data that unlocks data to drive analytic insights.

4:15PM - 4:45PM ET

Live CTO Chat with Turing Award Winner, Michael Stonebraker

We're hosting live Q&A with Michael Stonebraker, who was awarded the 2014 A.M. Turing Award (known as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”).

Stonebraker will host an unfiltered live Q&A session with Summit attendees - topics he’ll cover is up to the audience. Join us live and ask Stonebraker your questions .

DAY 2 - Thursday October 8, 2020 — 10am - 4:30pm EST

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SESSION

SPEAKER

10:15AM - 10:30AM ET

A Welcome to DataMasters Day Two with Tamr's Customer Leadership Team

Hear what's in store for the second day of the DataMasters Summit with Tamr's customer leadership team. Melissa and Larry are coming to you from Fenway Park and looking forward to discussing the most important aspects of the Summit and what data leaders are focusing on today.  

10:30AM - 11:05AM ET

The Business Benefits of Establishing "Data as an Asset"

Hear first-hand why data mastering at scale is critical to achieving their businesses goals, and how they are proving to the business the truth behind the phrase: data as an asset.

Join this roundtable discussion led by Anthony Deighton, Tamr’s Chief Product Officer, with SK Group’s chief data officer, Young Kim, and Credit Suisse’s, Sarah Gadd to learn more about why Tamr customers value data mastering at scale and what it allows them to accomplish for the business.

11:15AM - 12:05PM ET

Using Data for Digital Transformation in Financial Services

Jonathan Holman, Head of Digital Transformation at Santander UK, and Mark Wilson, Senior Manager at Accenture, will discuss the role data management plays in digital transformation projects at financial services organizations. You’ll learn why mastering customer data was a key part of Santander UK’s digital transformation initiative and what Accenture sees as the stumbling blocks that prevent financial services institutions from leveraging data for digital transformation and how they can be overcome.

11:15AM - 12:05PM ET

Best DataOps Practices for Pharmaceutical Organizations

David Cowen, Director of Data and Computational Sciences at GSK, will share why adopting modern DataOps approaches is effective to manage a high volume of data assets.

11:15AM - 12:05PM ET

Best DataOps Practices for Public Sector

During this session, Donna Cotton, CDO the U.S. Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office (AFSEO) discusses how the Air Force leveraged 50+ years of accumulated data in its data lake to synthesize previously approved analyses rather than building new analysis from scratch.
Join to learn how both efforts helped engineers certify new stores and capabilities with the agility required to support the modern-day US Air Force.

12:45AM - 1:20PM ET

Accelerating business outcomes with Tamr and Amazon Web Services

Learn why customers are turning to Tamr and Amazon Web Services to master data at scale. Topics this session will cover include the cost saving generated by leveraging Tamr's cloud-native capabilities, how Tamr works with the various data services of Amazon Web Services, and what customers should know about migrating to Amazon Web Services from on-premise systems.

12:45PM - 1:20PM ET

Accelerating business outcomes with Tamr and Google Cloud

Learn why customers are turning to Tamr and Google Cloud to master data at scale. Topics this session will cover include the cost saving generated by leveraging Tamr's cloud-native capabilities, how Tamr works with Azure's data services, and what customers should know about migrating to Google Cloud from on-premise systems.

12:45PM - 1:20PM ET

Leveraging Federal Data as a Strategic Asset

The U.S. government developed the 2020 Action Plan which establishes a solid foundation to support agencies in the implementation of the government’s data strategy over the next decade. Panelists will start a dialog on the tools and cultural changes that need to be in place in order to support agencies to better leverage their data.

Join this panel to hear from the former CTO of the Obama administration, the former CIO of Navy - Medicine and tech and government innovation center panelists from Dcode as they gather to debate how agencies should find and use the best tools that ultimately enable them to meet mission success.

1:30PM - 2:05PM ET

Getting the Most Out of Your Data Warehouse: Data Movement and Mastering with Snowflake, Redshift, and BigQuery

Data warehouses have transformed the data management ecosystem. But what else is needed to ensure that data is accessible and optimized for business outcomes? Hear from George Fraser, CEO of Fivetran, and Andy Palmer, CEO of Tamr, about modern data movement and data mastering capabilities that ensure data warehouses are composed of enterprise-wide data assets that are analytics-ready.

1:30PM - 2:15PM ET

Meeting Mission Requirements with Mastered Geospatial Data

As the proliferation of imagery data and mapping information grows across the federal and commercial markets, there is a growing need to consolidate, catalog and curate this data from a variety of sources. Hundreds of data sources across GPS, social media, satellite imagery and other integration points can measure into hundreds of millions of records, perhaps billions. Conflation of geospatial data is necessary to ensure that all data sources (both internal and external) are grouped to provide the most complete information about points and entities of interest.

1:30PM - 2:05PM ET

3 Common Challenges Associated with Customer Mastering and How to Overcome Them

Gaining a holistic view of your organization’s customers across touchpoints is essential to maintain a comprehensive, up-to-date view of consumers. But, many organizations struggle when consolidating internal data sources (e.g. CRM systems) and connecting structured and unstructured external data sources. This session will demonstrate how organizations like Toyota, Johnson & Johnson and Staples master their customer data at scale to improve sales and marketing efforts which drives increased customer satisfaction and retention.

2:15PM - 2:50PM ET

Developing a Modern Data Architecture with the Cloud

In this fireside chat, Tamr Chief Product Officer Anthony Deighton and Pankaj Dugar, vice president of product partnerships at Databricks, share how the cloud offers the scalability, favorable total cost of ownership, and elasticity organizations need to better leverage their data. You’ll also learn how Tamr fits with Databricks’ lakehouse approach to data management.

2:15PM - 2:50PM ET

Scaling in the Cloud with Azure

What does it take to move your data to the cloud? And allow your data to scale as you do? Join this session to hear from key cloud providers and data leaders on why the cloud is the essential building block of agility and scalability in today's changing environment.

2:15PM - 2:50PM ET

Driving Transformative Data Projects with AI and ML

AI and ML are enabling a new paradigm for deploying truly transformational data projects. By leveraging voluminous real-time information and new algorithms, there is a promise of better and more efficient decision making and processes. Join this session, led by two data titans, DataRobot's CEO, Jeremy Achin and Tamr's CEO, Andy Palmer. Together they will discuss why AI and ML should have a front row seat in your next data project and what are the most critical best practices to establish the right technology, people and processes to drive project and mission success.

2:50PM - 3:25PM ET

How 5G, IoT, and Cloud Shift Data Management Paradigms

Mobile, cloud, and IoT technologies have forced enterprises to change how they manage data. Handling data at scale, eliminating data silos, and using data to drive better business outcomes are now essential. But what do these rapidly evolving technologies mean for future data management practices?

In this conversation, Rich Miner, GV investment partner and co-founder of Android, Inc, and Andy Palmer, CEO and Co-Founder of Tamr, discuss how Android came to the world, how data was a critical part in building the Android ecosystem, and the advantages of open, best-of-breed ecosystems for data management.

2:50PM - 3:35PM ET

Breaking all the rules: Why Finance is Turning to Machine Learning to Manage Data

The sun is setting on the “old ways” of managing data at modern financial institutions. Spurred on by new regulation, intense competition, and the scale of modern data challenge -- mapping and managing information principally based on rules is on the way out. In its place, the largest financial organizations are turning to machine learning to more precisely manage their complex and diverse data ecosystems.