Sep 23–26, 2019

Schedule: Culture and organization sessions

9:00am–5:00pm Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Location: 1A 08

Findata Day

Alistair Croll (Solve For Interesting), Jennifer Yang (Wells Fargo ECS), Brian Lynch (TD Bank Group), Dan Barker (RSA Security), Rochelle March (Trucost), Catherine Gu (Stanford University), Karan Jaswal (Cinchy), Moto Tohda (Tokyo Century (USA)), Viridiana Lourdes (Ayasdi), Peter Swartz (Altana Trade), Mikheil Nadareishvili (TBC Bank)

From analyzing risk and detecting fraud to predicting payments and improving customer experience, take a deep dive into the ways data technologies are transforming the financial industry. Read more.

9:00am–5:00pm Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Location: 1A 06

Data Case Studies

David Boyle (Audience Strategies), Richard Evans (Statistics Canada), Rosaria Silipo (KNIME), Leah Xu (Spotify), Arup Nanda (Capital One), Victoriya Kalmanovich (Navy), Tusharadri Mukherjee (Lenovo), David Boyle (Audience Strategies), Richard Evans (Statistics Canada), Leah Xu (Spotify), Victoriya Kalmanovich (Navy), Moise Convolbo (Rakuten), Martin Mendez-Costabel (Bayer Crop Science), gloria macia (F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG), Gwen Campbell (Revibe Technologies), Moise Convolbo (Rakuten), Muhammed Idris (Capria VC | TeraCrunch)

From banking to biotech, retail to government, every business sector is changing in the face of abundant data. Get better at defining business problems and applying data solutions at Strata. Read more.

2:55pm–3:35pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 1A 21/22

Creating a data engineering culture

Jesse Anderson (Big Data Institute)

In this talk, we will cover the most common reasons why data engineering teams fail and how to correct them. This will include ways to get your management to understand that data engineering is really complex and time consuming. It is not data warehousing with new names. Management needs to understand that you can’t compare a data engineering team to the web development team, for example. Read more.

11:20am–12:00pm Thursday, September 26, 2019

Location: 1E 10/11

Executive Briefing: Creating a center for data science from scratch—Lessons from nonprofit research

Secondary topics: Culture and Organization

Gayle Bieler (RTI International)

Gayle Bieler explains how she built a thriving center for data science within a large, well-respected nonprofit research institute and shares some of its most impactful projects and best adventures to date, that have solved important national problems, improved local communities, and transformed research. Read more.

1:15pm–1:55pm Thursday, September 26, 2019

Location: 1E 12/13

An in-depth look at the data science career: Defining roles, assessing skills

Secondary topics: Culture and Organization

Usama Fayyad (Open Insights & OODA Health, Inc.), Hamit Hamutcu (Analytics Center)

If you've ever been confused about what it takes to be a data scientist or curious about how companies recruit, train, and manage analytics resources, Usama Fayyad and Hamit Hamutcu are here to explore insights from the most comprehensive research effort to date on the data analytics profession and propose a framework for the standardization of roles and methods for assessing skills. Read more.

3:45pm–4:25pm Thursday, September 26, 2019

Location: 1E 10/11

Executive Briefing: Building a culture of self-service from predeployment to continued engagement

Secondary topics: Culture and Organization, Transportation and Logistics

Jonathan Tudor (GE Aviation), Ross Schalmo (GE Aviation)

Jonathan Tudor and Ross Schalmo explore how GE Aviation made it a mission to implement self-service data. To ensure success beyond initial implementation of tools, the data engineering and analytics teams created initiatives to foster engagement from an ongoing partnership with each part of the business to the gamification of tagging data in a data catalog to forming a published dataset council. Read more.