Wednesday, August 19
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
2025 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
| 8:00am to 9:00am | Registration and Networking Breakfast |
| 9:00am to 9:10am | Welcome and Opening Remarks Julia King, 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 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 crowd sourced innovation. |
| 9:40am to 10:05am |
Creating a Data-Driven Culture Manav Misra, VP, Chief Knowledge Architect, CenturyLink 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. |
| 10:05am to 10:30am | High Performance Platforms for Data Driven Business Bob Rogers, Ph.D., Chief Data Scientist, Big Data Solutions, Intel Corporation Technologies can generate vast troves of data. These collections hold tremendous potential to solve problems, create economic growth, and improve our quality of life. |
| 10:30am to 10:50am | Networking Break |
| 10:50am 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 Architect, CenturyLink Bob Rogers, Ph.D., Chief Data Scientist, Big Data Solutions, Intel Corporation Joe Weinman, Author, Cloudonomics Moderator: Julia King, Contributing Editor, CIO magazine |
| 12:00pm | Program Concludes |
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Julia King Contributing Editor CIO magazine @JuliaKingWriter Julia King is a national award-winning business and technology journalist with more than 25 years’ experience covering IT executive leadership and advancing discussion of digital disruption and business innovation. Ms. King was the founding executive editor of the award-winning ComputerworldROI magazine and for 10 years served as chief content creator and moderator of Computerworld's flagship IT Leadership event, the Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference. Her IT reporting has earned her a Jesse H. Neal Award, often referred to as the Pulitzer Prize of the business prss. Most recently, she received a 2014 Folio Gold Award for Editorial Excellence. She is also the recipient of numerous national editorial awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors. |
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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. |
 | Bob Rogers, Ph.D. Chief Data Scientist, Big Data Solutions Intel Corporation @scientistBob Bob Rogers, PhD, is Chief Data Scientist for Big Data Solutions at Intel, where he applies his analytics experience to help Intel build world class customer solutions. Prior to Intel, Bob was co-founder and Chief Scientist at Apixio, a healthcare analytics company. He believes that accurate understanding of patient conditions, physician behavior and the characteristics of the healthcare delivery network are foundational to the future of healthcare, and that Big Data analytics is essential to driving this transformation. |
