Informatica World Tour

Chicago, IL
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
8:30am - 4:00pm CT
Four Seasons Chicago 

Informatica World Tour

Chicago, IL
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
8:30am - 4:00pm CT

All Things Data — Bringing the very best of Informatica World 2015 to you.

Informatica World 2015 was sold out, but that doesn’t mean you have to miss out. The Informatica World Tour is bringing the highlights of the week-long event to Chicago, IL. Register today to reserve your seat.  

This complimentary single-day program will feature:

  • Keynote from industry thought leader, Jer ThorpCo-Founder, Office for Creative Research
  • Insightful customer panels debating the hottest issues
  • Meet-the-Experts sessions
  • Interviews with leading technologists

See highlights from the first three Informatica World Tour 2015 stops in the video below and register now to be a part of the Chicago, IL stop of the Informatica World Tour.

 

Keynote Speaker

Jer Thorp

Jer ThorpCo-Founder, Office for Creative Research

Jer Thorp is a data artist whose work focuses on adding narrative meaning to huge amounts of data. In other words, he makes data more human. Through cutting edge data visualization techniques, Thorp helps people and corporations take control of the information that surrounds them, using technology and data as a new way to tell stories.

Originally from Vancouver, Jer Thorp lives in New York City, where he teaches in NYU’s ITP program. To investigate the results of Big Data, Thorp helped launch The Office for Creative Research with his peers. He has been a vocal advocate around data, ethics, and privacy, and is currently spearheading a new project with The OCR called Floodwatch: a collective ad monitoring tool that empowers individuals to see how advertisers are profiling them, and to share data with privacy researchers in an effort to combat discriminatory practice.

 

Customer Speakers

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Mike HartVP, Director of Data Management & Technology Americas Research, JLL

Mike leads a team and technology platform that manages property, company, lease, sale and tenant demand data for JLL’s brokerage and investment sales organization. He also drives the strategy and data management of JLL’s public property listing site. Furthermore, Mike tracks, categorizes and manages relationships with over 75 CRE Tech startups companies that can add value to the JLL’s platform.

Prior to joining JLL, Mike worked 7 years in a variety of research, data and leadership positions at Hanley Wood Market Intelligence. He focused on the research methodology and data governance of data collection for the new construction real estate market.

Chris Brummett

Chris BrummettData Architect, Chicago Cubs

Chris Brummett is currently the sole Data Architect for the Chicago Cubs Business Operations Team. He has created and maintains the entire Enterprise Data Warehouse used for operational and historical reporting of business sales and goals. Prior to joining the Chicago Cubs, Chris worked as the Lead ETL & Database Developer for CNO Incorporated. At CNO, he was part of a team that built and maintained an integrated new business system for captive and third party agents. Chris has developed integration solutions in Informatica for over 8 years, and he has developed ETL and database solutions for over 15 years. He is a graduate of Purdue University at Indianapolis.

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Scott JohnsonETL Architect, CHE Trinity Health

Scott Johnson is an Architect at Trinity Health, an integrated delivery network including 88 hospitals and over 100 continued care facilities which services patients across the continuum of care. Scott leads a team of Informatica software developers who are responsible for the enterprise data warehouse relied on for patient analytics and research. Scott ensures that data is reliable and accessible when and where it’s needed.

Prior to joining Trinity, Scott played an active role in the Informatica practice at Accenture where he worked with Pharma, Healthcare and Government clients.

When Scott isn’t neck deep in data, he enjoys spending time with his wife, sons and their two dogs in Chicago.

 

Partner Speakers

Ed Licul

Ed LiculPractice Director, Cloudera, Inc.

Edward is an IT Professional who has leveraged IT for the benefits of real business value for his clients. With 26 years of industry, domain and technology experience, Edward is well versed in how IT integrates into today’s business world. By working in a consulting environment (EDS), moving into industry (Coors), exploring the start-up world (Transora & Trigo), working for IBM and their multinational client base, and currently exploring the huge growth market of Big Data at Cloudera, Edward is well balanced for today’s complex business world.

Gus Metropulos

Gus Metropulos,Senior Manager, Accenture

Gus Metropulos is a senior manager based out of Chicago within Accenture’s Digital practice. He is currently the Data Integration Lead within the Informatica 100, a specialty practice within Accenture comprised of the best Informatica practitioners geared at strengthening our market-leading position in delivering data and analytic solutions utilizing Informatica. He has 10+ years of work experience in information management, business intelligence, and solution architecture across many industries—almost always using Informatica—and is currently the overall lead of an Integration Competency Center (ICC) at a Midwest insurance client.

 

Informatica Speakers and Moderators

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Amit Walia, EVP & Chief Product Officer, Informatica

Amit Walia is the Senior Vice President and General Manager for Informatica’s Data Integration and Data Security business unit. Walia is responsible for product management, business development, product marketing and engineering. The Data Integration business includes all editions of PowerCenter, Big Data, Meta Data Manager/Live Data Map and all shared technologies. The Security business includes Test Data Management, Dynamic Data Masking, Data Archiving, Cloud Test Data Management and Secure@Source.

Prior to Informatica, Walia worked in leadership positions across a variety of functions at Symantec, Intuit and McKinsey & Company. He spent the earlier part of his career working for Tata Group and Infosys Technologies in India.

Michelle Blackmer

Michelle Blackmer, Senior Director Customer Advocacy, Informatica

Michelle Blackmer leads Customer Advocacy at Informatica. She and her team focus on fostering relationships with Informatica clients, understanding their challenges and successes and providing channels for clients to share their stories. Michelle previously led Healthcare Industry Marketing at Informatica where she was responsible for healthcare go-to-market. With over 15 years of enterprise software and application marketing experience there is no place Michelle would rather be than in front of a client whether that be meeting with them face-to-face or conveying “voice of customer” to her colleagues. Michelle sees an opportunity to free the value locked in application data silos for organizations to realize their potential.

Prior to joining Informatica, Michelle launched the first Watson based predictive analytics solution at IBM, led healthcare product strategy at Initiate systems (successfully acquired by IBM), implemented Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and Medication Administration Record (MAR) for GE Healthcare and drove delivery and project management of beta projects at scheduling.com and Dynamic Healthcare. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in business administration and marketing from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Michelle is a frequent blogger on Informatica Perspectives and often speaks on the value that can be realized when organizations deliver clean, safe and connected information about the things that matter most to their business. Michelle is based out of her home office in Seattle, Washington.

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Jakki Geiger, Senior Director of Information Quality Solutions (IQS) Marketing, Informatica

Jakki Geiger is the Senior Director of Information Quality Solutions (IQS) Marketing at Informatica, responsible for the go-to-market strategies of solutions such as: Total Customer Relationship, Total Supplier Relationship, and Financial Hierarchies Management, among others. Over the course of her 15 year career spearheading marketing for companies of all sizes — from 10 employees to 50,000 employees — Jakki has experienced the pain of not having clean, consistent and connected customer information to drive marketing programs and reporting. Of course, this was before joining Informatica. Jakki joined Informatica following the Siperian acquisition, where she was responsible for solutions marketing. Before Informatica, Jakki held marketing leadership positions at several venture-funded startups resulting in exponential growth and successful acquisitions by Oracle, Thomson Reuters and Informatica. She graduated magna cum laude with an M.A. in integrated marketing communications from Emerson College in Boston and earned a B.A. with honors in Psychology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Jakki is a published author and frequent speaker on the business value that can be gained when people have access to clean, consistent and connected information about the things that matter most to their business. She’s based at Informatica’s headquarters in Redwood City, California.

 

Pre-registration for the Informatica World Tour Chicago is now closed.

We welcome walk-in registrations. Please proceed to the 8th floor of The Four Seasons Chicago for walk-in registration. We look forward to seeing you.

Session Descriptions

Informatica Intelligent Data Platform: Deliver Great Data By Design
Amit Walia, EVP & Chief Product Officer, Informatica

Organizations that focus on being data -driven have been shown to have better financial performance. We are moving from an era of cost optimization and productivity to an age of engagement. This engagement is with customers, partners, third parties, and machines. At the center of every winning business strategy is data to fuel every process and interaction. We will talk about how to accelerate your organization’s results using the Intelligent Data Platform to manage data of any type and from any source to drive better business outcomes.


Best Practices for Data-driven Success Panel
Moderator: Michelle Blackmer, Senior Director Customer Advocacy, Informatica
Panelists: Chris Brummett, Data Architect, Chicago Cubs
Mike Hart, VP, Director of Data Management & Technology Americas Research, JLL
Scott Johnson, ETL Architect, CHE Trinity Health


The world is increasingly being run on data. Whether driven by regulatory compliance or a desire to analyze what leads to more engaged consumers, or both, success depends on the ability to deliver clean, safe and connected data to the right stakeholders. Having great data like this available where and when it is needed doesn’t happen by accident; people, process and technology have to work together seamlessly. Most importantly, successful data-ready enterprises demand an interlock between business and IT. This panel will include Informatica clients and a partner who gained consensus and collaborated with business and technical colleagues to define and advance data-related best practices across their organizations. Emphasis will be on exposing practical, efficient and reusable approaches.


Cloudera Spotlight: Advice From the Trenches: How to Succeed with Big Data Initiatives
Jakki Geiger, Senior Director of Information Quality Solutions (IQS) Marketing, Informatica
Edward Licul, Practice Director, Cloudera, Inc.

All modern enterprises strive to be information-driven, to make decisions based on data, not hunches, but getting there isn’t easy. Join Informatica and Cloudera for an interactive session to hear about real life success and failure patterns we've seen when taking on big data initiatives. Learn how companies like yours are successfully taking advantage of this evolving, innovative big data platform.

Making Data More Human
Jer Thorp, Co-Founder, Office for Creative Research

In this talk, Jer Thorp shares his beautiful and moving data visualization projects, helping audiences put abstract data into a human context. From creating interfaces for NASA, to mapping the way people share articles across the internet, to data performances at the Museum of Modern Art, Thorp's cutting-edge work uses technology and data to help us learn about the way we use digital technologies, become more empathetic in the data age, and ultimately, tell the story of our lives. How can understanding the human side of data lead to innovation and effective change? What value is there in the novel and interactive approaches to data visualization? And, what are the business applications of creative data-focused research? Thorp teaches audiences how adding meaning and narrative to huge amounts of data can help people take control of the information that surrounds them, and revolutionize the way we utilize data.

Accelerate your Analytics Initiatives
Scott Johnson, Architect, CHE Trinity Health

Analytics is all about delivering actionable business insights faster than your competitors. Growing data volumes and complexity can impair timely and trusted decision-making. The lack of standardization and interoperability can also impede efficiency, repeatability, and maintainability. These bottlenecks ultimately inhibit business stakeholders from getting timely and trusted data to drive business decisions. Join this session to learn how Informatica can help to accelerate your analytics initiatives with an integrated data management platform that works with any data, any analytics use case, and any BI/Analytics tool.

Build Data Competency to Transform your Business
Gus Metropulos, Senior Manager, Accenture

Now more than ever, data management is being tied closely to not only measurable business value but also to an organization’s overall business strategy. We will discuss how Integration Competency Centers (ICC) help to transform, define and run a capability that can successfully deliver a pipeline of complex, large-scale data. This industrialized delivery approach provides elastic capacity to efficiently develop new, or enhance existing, assets by leveraging a pool of the skilled resources, enabled through common standards, tools and processes, supported by a non-disruptive governance model. We will provide a glimpse into a proven in-flight, matured ICC use case to discuss how it provided increased, consistent quality and quantifiable value, all with finite cost savings. Finally, we will explore how ICCs can grow as analytics capabilities expand with emerging technology like big data lakes, data visualization tools & new ways of thinking.

Mastering the Digital Transformation
Mike Hart, VP, Director of Data Management & Technology Americas Research, JLL

On the digital transformation journey to become a customer ready enterprise, great customer data isn’t just maintained, it’s managed. Our vision is to predict the next logical action based on master data. To attain strategic success, information must be relevant to both business users and customers. A Total Customer Relationship solution empowers companies to rethink the way customer data is managed and shared so you can innovate faster and adopt new technologies and trends, evolve the customer experience across all interactions to surpass customer acquisition and retention goals, and differentiate the business to sustain revenue growth. Companies that provide consistent, integrated, and seamless customer experiences across channels deliver great experiences that customers are inspired to share with their family and friends at dinner parties and on social media.

 

Agenda

8:30 am - 9:30 am   Breakfast and Registration
9:30 am - 9:40 am   Welcome
9:40 am - 10:20 am   Informatica Intelligent Data Platform: Deliver Great Data By Design
10:25 am - 11:15 am   Best Practices for Data-driven Success Panel
11:15 am - 11:35 am   Break | Partner Showcase 
11:35 am - 11:45 am   Cloudera Spotlight: Advice From the Trenches: How to Succeed with Big Data Initiatives
11:45 am - 12:30 pm   Keynote: Making Data More Human, Jer Thorp
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm   Lunch | Meet-the-Experts | Partner Showcase
1:30 pm - 1:55 pm   Accelerate your Analytics Initiatives
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm   Build Data Competency to Transform your Business
2:25 pm - 2:50 pm   Mastering the Digital Transformation 
2:55 pm - 3:55 pm   Networking & Dessert Reception
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm   Raffles | Closing Remarks

 

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