Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Loews Atlanta Hotel
Overlook East Room
1065 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
| 8:00am to 9:00am | Registration and Networking Breakfast |
| 9:00am to 9:10am | Welcome and Opening Remarks John Eckhouse, Contributing Editor, CIO magazine |
| 9:10am to 9:40am |
Digital Disciplines: Attaining Market Leadership via the Cloud, Big Data, Social, Mobile and the Internet of Things Joe Weinman, Author, Cloudonomics Data isn't just for marketing and promotions. Big data can deliver unparalleled customer value by optimizing real-time processes, building stickier product/service solutions focused on customer outcomes, delivering better personalizing and contextualizing services, and as fodder for open and external crowdsourced innovation. What are the top digital strategies to get there? Join us to find out. |
| 9:40am to 10:05am |
Cracking the Big Data Code: Uncover the Link Between Infrastructure, Implementation and Insights Jeff Spiller, Sr. Big Data Solution Architect, CenturyLink It’s no secret. Enterprises want to leverage advanced analytics for driving sweeping business improvements. Cracking the big data code however requires looking beyond analytics applications to your overall infrastructure. From data lakes to enterprise data warehouses, from orchestrating your infrastructure and processes -- there are numerous variables to consider for collecting, storing and maintaining data so that it is optimized for analytics. |
| 10:05am to 10:30am |
Creating a Data-Driven Culture Manav Misra, VP, Chief Knowledge Officer, CenturyLink Cognilytics From massive data to machine learning, the data explosion is unmistakably creating a 'data economy' that is transforming business. IT must create a data-driven as the new norm for success. |
| 10:30am to 10:45am | Networking Break |
| 10:45am to 11:10am | Network Strategies for Split-Second Business Decisions Chris Janson, Director of Industry Strategy, Alcatel-Lucent Global data is exploding, now exceeding 7 zettabytes today. This talk looks at the mushrooming cloud ecosystem that can safely store data and make it ready for customers any time and any place. |
| 11:10am to 12:00pm | Building Your Big Data Infrastructure and Culture: A Moderated Panel Discussion Chris Janson, Director of Segment Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent Manav Misra, VP, Chief Knowledge Officer, CenturyLink Cognilytics Jeff Spiller, Sr. Big Data Solution Architect, CenturyLink Joe Weinman, Author, Cloudonomics Moderator: John Eckhouse, Contributing Editor, CIO magazine |
| 12:00pm |
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John Eckhouse Contributing Editor CIO magazine @eckhouse John Eckhouse is a Contributing Editor of CIO magazine and has been writing about business and technology for more than 20 years at publications including Businessweek, the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle and HomePC magazine. Eckhouse has programmed, hosted and moderated conferences and events ranging in scale from intimate focus groups to 2500-person trade shows in the USA, the UK, Italy and The Netherlands. He also produced events at The Industry Standard and InformationWeek. |
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Joe Weinman Author Cloudonomics @joeweinman Joe Weinman has held a variety of executive leadership positions at AT&T, Bell Labs, HP, and Telx. His background spans R&D, software development, operations and engineering, sales and marketing, product management, and corporate strategy. He has been awarded 21 U.S. and international patents in cloud computing, distributed storage, homomorphic encryption, pseudoternary line coding, mobile applications, and related technologies. He is the author of Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing, available in English and Chinese and considered the seminal text on cloud economics, including cost, performance, and user experience optimization. He is also the author of Digital Disciplines: Attaining Market Leadership via the Cloud, Big Data, Social, Mobile and the Internet of Things (Wiley CIO, 2015), which focuses on digital strategies. He is the Cloud Economics Editor for IEEE Cloud Computing magazine, and a contributor to Regulating the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015). He has keynoted and presented at well over 100 industry and academic conferences around the world, appeared on broadcast and satellite television, and is frequently quoted in the trade press. Weinman received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University and UW-Madison, respectively, and has completed executive education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. |
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Manav Misra VP, Chief Knowledge Officer CenturyLink Cognilytics As the Chief Knowledge and Science Officer at CenturyLink Cognilytics, Manav leads our Decision/Data Science and Product Development team. He consults with leaders at several Fortune 50 companies, understands their key pain points, and helps our teams architect innovative solutions to business problems leveraging best of breed Big Data technologies and Advanced Analytics algorithms. Combining his knowledge of business, technology, and machine learning, he is a thought partner with many of our customers. The Product Development teams under Manav focus on creating solutions that integrate the “Data to Decisions” journey for our customers. Examples include unique machine learning based cybersecurity solutions, and vertical-specific advanced analytics solutions designed for verticals such as financial services, retail, and health care. Manav is a frequent speaker at industry events, and hosts regional thought leadership dinner events for our customers and partners. |
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Chris Janson Director of Industry Strategies Alcatel-Lucent Chris Janson is currently Director of Industry Strategies at Alcatel-Lucent. In this role, he follows networking technology trends and their application to enterprise customers, including finance, healthcare, utilities, transportation and government. He also serves on the boards of directors of the Rural Telecommunications Congress and OpenCape Corporation. He holds an MBA from Boston University and Bachelor of Science in engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology. |
 | Jeff Spiller Sr. Big Data Solutions Architect CenturyLink Jeff Spiller has over 30 years of experience architecting highly available and scalable multi-tier business analytics platforms for Fortune 500 companies. As a big data solution architect, Jeff guides businesses through the management and processing of their data, allowing companies to monetize their data as a strategic asset. Jeff has a proven track record for designing, tuning and performing capacity planning in OLAP, ROLAP, analytics, OLTP and consolidated environments. |
