Name: Data-driven success: How modern data architecture unleashes business value
Start: 2023-04-19T15:00:00Z
End: 2023-04-19T15:00:48.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.3

The Enterprise Architecture channel  presents the next generation of Enterprise IT: recognizing the strategic importance of digital transformation and the data center to make companies more nimble and competitive. These presentations will help demanding IT and BizOps professionals achieve flexibility, scalability and performance with reduced risk and complexity.

Modern infrastructure is a dynamic ecosystem where workloads move fluidly across cloud regions, edge nodes, and on-premises systems. Traditional management methods are no longer sufficient to handle the scale, speed and complexity of these environments. As organizations adopt AI-driven architectures and face increasing regulatory demands, the need for intelligent, autonomous cloud management has become critical. 

At the same time, zero-trust security models are reshaping how businesses protect their systems requiring constant validation of every user, device and transaction. This is a challenge that adds significant operational strain. 

Join Ekambar Kumar Singirikonda, Director of DevOps Engineering at Toyota, to discover actionable strategies for building resilient, predictive, and cost-efficient hybrid infrastructures that align with business priorities.

Key Takeaways:
- Learn how to unify cloud, edge, and on-prem systems with intelligent orchestration platforms that optimize workloads for performance, cost, and compliance.
- Discover how to implement zero-trust security at scale without disrupting operations or user experience.
- Explore AI-driven architectural patterns, including predictive resource management, policy-based orchestration, and self-healing systems.
- Understand strategies to reduce hybrid infrastructure complexity through automation frameworks and unified management tools.
- Gain a roadmap for transitioning from manual oversight to predictive, business-aligned infrastructure operations.

Simplify Hybrid Infrastructure with Autonomous Cloud and Zero-Trust Strategies

Modern CIOs are pivotal drivers of business transformation. As AI reshapes industries, organizations have to embed intelligence into every aspect of their operations to remain competitive. From automating processes and enhancing decision-making to elevating customer experiences, AI's potential to drive change is huge —but unlocking its value requires strategic leadership and a clear roadmap.

This session will explore how CIOs can leverage AI as a catalyst for enterprise-wide transformation, aligning initiatives with business goals and delivering measurable outcomes. 

Join Ekambar Kumar Singirikonda, Director of DevOps Engineering at Toyota, to uncover how to embed AI into your enterprise DNA and lead with confidence in the AI era.

Key Takeaways:
- Discover strategic AI integration techniques that embed AI across enterprise functions to achieve measurable business impact.
- Understand how to evolve as a modern CIO, building executive influence and aligning AI initiatives with business objectives.
- Explore frameworks for evaluating emerging technologies and demonstrating ROI.
- Gain practical approaches to foster innovation, manage change, and upskill teams for AI adoption.
- Learn how to structure multi-year transformation plans that balance innovation with operational stability.

Harnessing AI to Drive Enterprise Transformation and Leadership Excellence

CIOs face a dual mandate with AI: they oversee the infrastructure that sustains trust in data and AI systems, but they must also narrate that infrastructure persuasively. Technical excellence means little if boards see only cost centres and regulators see only opacity. The session addresses how to measure and communicate AI value in terms that resonate beyond IT.

Effective measurement requires distinguishing two forms of transparency that executives often conflate. Data lineage describes how information flows through systems: origins, transformations, dependencies. Data provenance records the documented history of specific values: who created or modified them, when, under what parameters. Lineage answers architectural questions relevant to planning and change management; provenance answers forensic questions relevant to audit and dispute resolution. Metrics derived from each capability speak to different audiences. Time to audit readiness concerns board risk committees; value reconstruction time concerns legal and compliance; data preparation hours concern COOs and budget owners.

The session presents a metrics framework that translates governance capabilities into business language. Participants will examine how lineage coverage, provenance depth, error detection time, and downstream impact incidents can be reported in ways that demonstrate value rather than merely documenting activity. The goal is not dashboards for their own sake, but communication that builds confidence among stakeholders who will never examine the underlying systems directly.

Key Takeaways:
- Lineage and provenance serve different purposes and speak to different audiences.
- Metrics must translate technical capabilities into business outcomes.
- Time-based metrics (audit readiness, error detection, value reconstruction) communicate operational value.
- Governance framed as enabling rather than defensive builds broader organizational support.

Measuring AI Value: Metrics That Speak to Boards and Regulators

Modernization presents a critical yet complex opportunity for enterprises striving to balance innovation with operational excellence. Technology leaders often find themselves performing a precarious trapeze act—innovation attracts funding, but operational failures dominate headlines, exposing organizations to significant risks. With 79% of application modernization projects failing and 88% of transformations falling short, the stakes have never been higher.

This session uncovers the root causes of modernization failures, with a focus on applications and data—the foundation of enterprise transformation. Attendees will gain practical strategies to navigate these challenges, ensuring their initiatives align with business goals and deliver tangible results.

Join Jeffrey Tefertiller, Founder of Service Management Leadership, to explore proven approaches that can significantly improve your chances of modernization success.

Takeaways:
- Identify the key reasons behind modernization project failures.
- Align application and data strategies with overarching business objectives.
- Apply actionable frameworks to mitigate risks in transformation initiatives.
- Examine real-world examples of successful modernization efforts.
- Gain insights to future-proof your enterprise technology landscape.

Driving Modernization Success in 2026

Technology initiatives fail most when organisations scale complexity before they’re ready. Teams are asking CIOs to fund ‘enterprise-grade’ platforms for data, AI, security and more before they’re even clear on data ownership, platform priorities and use cases. In turn, organisations invest in high-ticket technologies that teams don’t adopt, yielding unsatisfactory outcomes.

This session introduces a practical framework for starting small and scaling smart when implementing complex enterprise capabilities. Focusing on the real-world example of data catalog and data quality, we’ll explore how starting with small, user-driven solutions allows teams to get to what really matters - ownership, definitions, quality metrics and operational decisions. Rather than focusing on which technology to choose, it’s about sequencing - knowing what can be built first, what can be delayed and understanding when scaling makes the most sense.

The framework has a broad application that CIOs can use for any initiative where tooling, behaviour change and governance need to evolve together. Join Inigo Antolin, Head of Data Management and Governance at the British Council, to receive a practical mental model to reduce risk, preserve optionality and scale with confidence rather than hope.

Key Takeaways:
- Why scaling enterprise platforms too early results in wasted resources and lost trust.
- How starting small can strengthen decision-making across ownership, definitions and quality.
- Discover the Start Small, Scale Fast framework that you can apply across all new tech initiatives.
- How to use constraints as a strategic advantage rather than a limitation.

Start Small, Scale Fast: Hard Lessons from Data Catalog & Data Quality

In today’s evolving IT landscape, selecting the right storage architecture is critical for optimal performance, scalability, data governance, and cost-efficiency. Furthermore, AI workloads have uniquely influenced how we meet these demands from our storage infrastructure. This webinar provides a technical deep dive into three fundamental storage deployment models – on-premises, cloud, and hybrid – examining their architectures and operational trade-offs through the lens of two key concepts: indirection (accessing data through mapping layers that provide flexibility and abstraction) and redirection (rerouting data requests to enable failover, load balancing, and optimized performance). 

We are going to take some of the key stages of AI lifecycle development as sample use-cases (such as data ingestion, preparation, training, inferencing, and retrieval) and compare how each storage model can serve these use-cases across varying access patterns, data volumes, and performance requirements.

Attendees will gain a practical framework for aligning AI workloads with the most suitable storage architecture, balancing cost, scalability, and latency. Whether you are building AI infrastructure from scratch or optimizing existing deployments, this session will help you make informed decisions for AI-ready storage.

Learning Objectives and Key Takeaways:

• Introduction to the 3 different types of storage deployment models – on-prem, cloud, and hybrid
• Trade-offs for each deployment model
• Importance of indirection and redirection
• Understand how AI-specific data types and access patterns (e.g., embeddings, checkpointing) influence storage performance and design
• Evaluate trade-offs in latency, scalability, security, and cost when choosing storage for different stages of the AI pipeline
• Gain a decision-making framework for selecting the right storage model based on workload characteristics and infrastructure goals

AI Meets Storage: Comparing On-Prem, Cloud, and Hybrid Architectures Across the AI Lifecycle

As AI workloads continue to scale, the physical infrastructure supporting them must evolve to deliver the performance, reliability, and efficiency required by modern data-intensive applications. This webinar will focus on the interconnect foundations of AI infrastructure, including storage. There will be an emphasis on the form factors, connectors, cables, and transceivers standards that enable scalable and interoperable systems.

We’ll explore how SNIA’s SFF Technical Work Group is contributing to the development of physical layer standards that support high-performance interconnects and storage devices used in AI environments. Topics will include the importance of transceiver innovation and the need to evolve; the role that form factors like EDSFF play; and how innovative cabling and connector designs support the adoption of high-speed signaling technologies like PCIe 8.0 and beyond.

This session is ideal for architects, engineers, and technologists who want to understand how physical infrastructure standards are enabling the next generation of AI systems.

Key Concepts:
• Transceiver development for out-of-box signaling 
• Connectors and cables for high-speed inbox signaling
• Copper vs. optical and the challenges of both
• SSD form factor innovations and their impact on density and thermal design

Accelerating AI Infrastructure: The Role of 400G and PCIe 8.0 in Next-Gen Interconnects

Storage security changes and adaptations are a fact of life to deal with the ever-changing threat and regulatory landscapes. A black swan event, a new standard, or a regulation often serves as a catalyst for organizations to review their controls and practices. The recent publication of NIST Special Publication 800-88 Rev. 2, Guidelines for Media Sanitization, is drawing attention to storage security, but it is not the only development worth noting. SNIA, Open Compute Project (OCP), Trusted Computing Group (TCG), and IEEE are developing or have developed standards and specifications that could be important going forward. One central theme underlying several of the activities is in storage sanitization (i.e., controlled eradication of data).

This session brings together a unique panel of experts who have served as editors of some of the most important storage sanitization standards. These experts also have broad knowledge of storage security. As a panel, they will provide insight into these new developments as well as observations on what organizations are experiencing. A moderator will engage the panel with thought-provoking questions, but participants are also encouraged to bring their own questions.

Join us to understand: 
• Changes to storage sanitization and what that means to organizations
• Primary drivers for storage security
• Difference between Storage Sanitization and Data Sanitization
• Interplay and interdependencies for storage security standards/specifications

The Storage Security Shake-Up: Adapt Now or Get Left Behind

Magnetic RAM, Resistive RAM, Ferroelectric RAM, and other new memory technologies have been pushed to the forefront by issues with Moore’s Law scaling, but the ancillary benefits they bring to computing will provide significantly more important longer-term benefits.  In this session, analysts Jim Handy and Tom Coughlin will explain how these new nonvolatile technologies will help accelerate and cost-reduce inference through compute-in-memory engines while standard computing will also see lower costs and higher performance by bringing inexpensive persistence closer to, and even within the processor chip itself.  The session will also address ways that new frameworks like CXL will help provide persistence-friendly structures at all levels of the computing hierarchy.

How New Memories Will Accelerate Both Inference and General-Purpose Compute

Smarter data management is the key to unlocking the full potential of next-generation data infrastructure for AI. This webinar explores how the SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI™) standard enables government labs, HPC centers, and organizations leveraging the power of AI/ML to reimagine and innovate their infrastructure to meet next-generation data management demands. CDMI is a mature ISO standard (ISO/IEC: 17826:2022) with over 15 years of development and implementation, and is purpose-built for cloud data management. CDMI's extensive capabilities enhance key aspects of AI operations by transforming data management challenges into streamlined, intelligent workflows. 

CDMI 3.0 (in development now) will further extend the standard with:
• Automated resource discovery that accelerates AI workload efficiency
• Portable data movement that enables preservation of metadata fidelity during data migration, data replication, and data archival, including graph relationships and knowledge graph
• MCP-based data management that enhances AI accuracy while improving access speed

Building on a proven, standards-based foundation, CDMI enables true machine-readable data management. CDMI 3.0 will further improve how teams discover resources, orchestrate AI agents, and protect data across complex cloud environments while establishing the infrastructure for automated, self-describing data ecosystems with full auditability that drive future innovation. 

Read the SNIA CDMI 3.0 white paper https://www.snia.org/educational-library/introduction-cloud-data-management-interface-cdmitm-30-2025

Intelligent Data Management: Shaping the Future for AI Workloads

Join us for an insightful webinar and demonstration as we explore the foundational process of training machine learning models, with a special focus on computer vision applications. This session will guide participants through the essential stages of model development—from data preparation to algorithm selection—highlighting how these steps influence performance and accuracy.
Through practical demonstrations and conceptual discussions, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how vision models are built and validated, and how these techniques can be extended to broader predictive analytics. We’ll also examine common challenges and share strategies to overcome them, emphasizing the value of simplicity, modular design, and thoughtful evaluation.

Key Takeaways:
• Core steps in the model training lifecycle
• Why data quality is critical to success
• Understanding inferencing and metrics for model validation
• Shifting from engineering mindset to modeling intuition
• Avoiding common pitfalls in training workflows
• Embracing parsimony and modularity in design
• Using checkpoints to monitor and refine progress

From Data to Decisions: Understanding How AI Models Learn

Storage networking consumers are fully aware of the classic benefits of Fibre Channel as a dedicated storage networking solution that provides reliable and lossless data transfer as well as high availability and redundancy.  What is less known is that Fibre Channel supports several Upper Layer Protocols (ULPs) including SCSI, FICON, NVMe, Avionics and RDMA. In this webinar, we explore the FC-4 layer of the Fibre Channel architecture that provides the services used by the various ULPs deployed in Fibre Channel products. Join us for an exploration into:

• The history of Fibre Channel’s versatility 
• Fibre Channel architectural layers
• Overview of the current FC-4 transports: FCP, FC-SB, FC-NVMe, FC-RDMA

Attendees of the webinar will become well versed in the scope and capabilities of Fibre Channel and develop a well-rounded understanding of the technology.

Versatility of Fibre Channel: Multi-Protocol Magic

Edge computing is transforming AI deployment by processing data locally rather than in distant cloud data centers. This session explores how distributed intelligence enables both sustainability and capabilities that centralized architectures cannot provide.

Through two contrasting deployments—precision agriculture in resource-constrained environments and real-time manufacturing optimization in advanced facilities—we demonstrate how edge computing addresses fundamentally different challenges using the same architectural principles. Both achieve 50-70% energy reduction with compelling ROI, while solving problems where cloud computing fails due to latency, connectivity, bandwidth, or data sovereignty requirements.

Beyond the case studies, attendees learn decision frameworks for edge versus cloud architecture, strategies for deploying AI in environments with limited infrastructure, and how to build business cases that balance sustainability goals with operational performance. The session provides actionable guidance for organizations seeking to scale AI deployments while reducing their environmental footprint and enabling new capabilities.

Edge AI from Farm to Factory: Building Sustainable Intelligence across the world

This webinar will explain the process of model inferencing and deployment options. We will discuss how trained models are used to make predictions and the considerations for deploying models. Attendees will understand the challenges and strategies for optimizing model performance, covering:
 
• What is model inferencing  
• Model inferencing process 
• How inferencing deployment differs in Gen AI and visual inspection
         - Inferencing deployment software options 
          - Inferencing hardware considerations (e.g., on the edge, on-prem, etc.)
• Deploying AI models for production best practices and lessons learned 
• Strategies for maintaining model performance post-deployment

AI Model Inferencing and Deployment Options

On-premises enterprise data centers have been in decline since the creation of co-lo’s and the cloud, but a new age is emerging with the advent of AI. While most AI is served by the mega data centers mushrooming in “data corridors”, some applications require the low latency response times that edge computing was designed to provide. The industry readily builds large numbers of small processing centers at the edge to serve things like 5G cell service. But constructing AI data centers close to every high demand user is financially impractical and subject to local restrictions due to their enormous demands on power and water.

Tune into this session presented by industry thought leader Bob McFarlane to learn how reviving enterprise data centers as edge facilities may be the answer to acquiring virtually instant response times. Despite significantly greater power and cooling demands, they are unlikely to reach the levels that concern local citizens, enabling them to be renovated or built where necessary without pushback. Companies with significant AI demands may need to start planning and budgeting for high capacity, high reliability infrastructures with costs and staffing beyond anything they have previously experienced.

Learning Objectives:
- Understand the key elements of Edge Computing, and how they relate to AI applications.
- Learn the limitations AI services providers confront in constructing edge facilities.
- Learn to identify AI applications that require the fast response times of the “edge”.
- Prepare for the challenges your organization may face in utilizing AI in critical applications.

Will Enterprise Data Centers Become ‘The Edge’ for AI?”

As breakthrough technologies like AI mature, they inevitably evolve from centralized to decentralized architectures. With global edge computing spending projected to reach $378 billion by 2028, organizations that continue relying solely on centralized AI risk falling behind in both efficiency and performance. The pervasive waste and expense of centralized generative AI models have underscored the urgent need for intelligence at the edge.

While edge computing concepts have existed since the 1990s with content delivery networks, today's businesses face the complex challenge of transforming their architectures to process data closer to its source. This session explores how leading organizations are navigating this transition, reducing latency and costs while competing with decades of established centralized cloud infrastructure.

Join Alan Morrison (Advanced Data Technologies Consultant and Writer) to discover how decentralized AI and edge computing are revolutionizing data processing across industries.

Key Takeaways:

- Understand why centralized AI approaches are becoming unsustainable and how edge computing addresses these limitations
- Learn practical strategies for implementing edge intelligence from organizations already succeeding with this approach
- Discover the economic benefits of processing data at the edge versus transmitting everything to centralized systems
- Gain insights into market growth projections and how to position your infrastructure investments accordingly
- Identify the architectural transformation challenges of edge computing and how to overcome them

Decentralized AI: The Future of Edge Computing

Today’s enterprise workflows don’t live in one place — they move across edge devices, cloud infrastructure, and on-prem systems in milliseconds. Some start at the edge — like sensor data or customer interactions — while others finish there, after running through cloud analytics or AI inference. The result is a constantly shifting architectural boundary where speed, security, and compliance collide.

This session looks at how to design cross-architectural workflows that maintain consistency, security, and data integrity from end to end. We’ll unpack how different architecture types — edge-native, hybrid, and multi-cloud — impact data handling, governance, and latency. And we’ll dive into the new layer of complexity AI introduces: model hallucinations, prompt injections, and evolving regulatory constraints when sensitive customer data moves from edge to cloud.

Join Eugina Jordan, CEO of YOUnifiedAI, as she breaks down how to architect distributed systems that are both intelligent and compliant — not in theory, but in practice.

Key takeaways:

- Understand how modern workflows traverse edge, cloud, and on-prem environments — and where control points break down
- Design architectures that protect customer data and maintain compliance even when processing happens across geographies
- Implement AI workflows that minimize hallucination risks and prevent prompt-injection attacks at the edge
- Balance performance with governance — using architecture, not just policy, to enforce trust
- Build an operational model that lets security, data, and AI teams collaborate on a single distributed workflow

Building Secure AI Workflows Across Edge, Cloud & AI Without Breaking Trust

Data architecture-as-a-service or DAaaS is a new self-service paradigm that is ideal for data meshes. It empowers local data owners to create architecturally compliant data repositories, domains, and pipelines without IT assistance. It is the culmination of self-service, where business units liberate themselves almost entirely from enterprise IT. If done right, DaaS eliminates data silos, reduces data bottlenecks, eases the burden on enterprise data teams, and empowers local domains to service their own data needs. It’s also a key ingredient in the data mesh, an emerging distributed architecture for data ownership and management. 
 
Data architecture-as-a-service is a verbal twist on cloud processing environments, such as software-as-a-service or platform-as-a-service. This moniker conveys that it’s possible to abstract architecture and build it into easy-to-use, customer-facing tools. When we abstract data architecture, we solve the most enduring data pain point in the data world: the proliferation of data silos and pipelines that wreak havoc on data consistency and trustworthiness.
 
You will learn:  
• What DAaaS is
• Why DAaaS is critical for governed self-service
• How DAaaS prevents data silos and empowers data domains

About the speaker:
Wayne Eckerson is an international thought leader in data and analytics who thinks critically, writes clearly, and presents persuasively about complex topics. He is a best-selling author, sought-after consultant, and noted speaker. Eckerson has advised a range of companies about how to implement data and analytics programs, architectures, and infrastructure, including Walmart, New Balance, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Eckerson is President of Eckerson Group, a consulting and research firm that helps organizations get more value from their data. He has degrees from Williams College and Wesleyan University.

Unlocking the value of data mesh with Data Architecture as a Service

Data architecture provides a blueprint for how an organizations can collect, store, manage, and utilize their data to meet business objectives. It defines the rules, standards, and guidelines for managing data as a valuable organizational asset and supports the integration of data from disparate sources into a coherent and usable whole. 

Anti-patterns of data architectures refer to common mistakes and pitfalls that data architects may encounter while designing and implementing data solutions. These anti-patterns can lead to suboptimal performance, data inconsistencies, and high maintenance costs. For example, over-normalization, complex data models among other specific characteristics. 

This webinar from data industry thought leader Dr. Pragyansmita Nayak will identify and analyze the most prevalent anti-patterns in data architectures, along with their root causes and potential solutions. By understanding these anti-patterns, data architects can systematically avoid them and design more effective and efficient data solutions while continuing to meet the needs of their organizations.

Speaker bio:
Dr. Pragyansmita Nayak is the Chief Data Scientist at Hitachi Vantara Federal (HVF). She explores the "Art to the Science" of solution architectures orchestrating data, APIs, algorithms and applications. She has over 24+ years of experience in software development and data science (Analytics, Machine Learning and Deep Learning). She has led projects for several Federal Government agencies (DoD/Civilian) in the domain of Federal Accounting, Operational Analytics, Data Fabric, Object Storage, Metadata management, Records Management and Data Governance.  She holds a Ph.D. in Computational Sciences and Informatics from GMU (Fairfax, VA) and Bachelors of Science in Computer Science. For more information on Pragyan's professional experience, please visit her LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/pragyansmita and Twitter profile at https://twitter.com/SorishaPragyan.

Anti-patterns of data architectures

Many businesses are looking to gain more impactful insights out of their data. Snowflake is a modern data analytics platform many businesses use to help gain those insights. However, going from the starting point of knowing what you want your data to provide to actually extracting valuable business insights is challenging. Whether you’re trying to figure out how to collect all of your disparate data from various sources or you’re struggling to analyze your data effectively - it’s hard work. It takes a ton of time, resources, and expertise to create and build the infrastructure required to collect the data and analyze it effectively.

Luckily, Growth Acceleration Partners (GAP) can help overcome those challenges. GAP has a team with the knowledge, expertise, and experience to help your business get what you want out of your data using Snowflake and Microsoft Azure. Learn how GAP can help any company accelerate their timeline and get to valuable data insights faster.

What you’ll get out of this webinar:
- A detailed understanding of what it takes to build the infrastructure required for a modern data analytics platform with Snowflake and Azure
- A better understanding of why Snowflake is the right choice for your data platform needs
- An overview of how the GAPAccelerator helps you get value out of your data faster
- Technical details of how the infrastructure is built and what goes into
- Description of how the experts at GAP can work with your team to provide continuous data analysis after implementation

Accelerating Time to Value with Snowflake

Data management methods are evolving quickly, as enterprises invest in gaining data agility to accelerate insightful decision-making. Modern data management is being driven by an accelerated shift to data in the cloud and the subsequent innovation in data technologies and advanced analytics. Enterprises are recognizing new opportunities to derive value from their data and to save time and money, and they’re taking a fresh look at new data management approaches to reap the rewards of smarter and accelerated decision-making. 

In response to this demand for more modern data treatments, a confusing array of architectures, technologies, and approaches has sprung up – and it’s not easy to tell which ones will truly deliver better business outcomes and which ones are just hype. Should you invest in graph technology and metadata management? What exactly is a data fabric? How can you leverage the power of AI and machine learning? 

This session will take a look at trends in data management that are worth investigating, and explain how a modern data platform can help you implement them in a way that delivers business value for your enterprise.

Data Platform Capabilities for Modern Data Management Architectures

When organizations build new applications and services, they often need scalable and lightning-fast data management platforms to support their innovations. What does it take to support new, innovative applications? Register for this tech talk to hear from Fern Halper, VP of Research at TDWI Research, who specializes in advanced analytics, along with representatives from Redis and Ekata, a Mastercard company, as they discuss one such use case: supporting Ekata’s smart identity verification solution to detect fraud. 

Presented by: 
• Henry Tam, Principal Solutions Marketing Manager | Redis
• Fern Halper, Ph.D., VP Research | TDWI
• Milena Babayev, Product Marketing Manager | Ekata
• Jason Frazier, Software Engineering Manager |Ekata

Real-time, Scalable Applications Powered by a Modern Data Platform

Data lineage and knowledge graphs are data management capabilities that many companies would like to or have implemented. These capabilities assist in getting value from data and sustaining competitive advantage. However, several challenges with the implementation of these capabilities exist:
- Data management professionals have different views on these capabilities. Their definitions are not aligned within the data management community. These capabilities have a lot in common.
- The implementation of these capabilities is time- and resource-consuming. The correctly defined scope is one of the implementation success factors.
- Many companies still document data lineage and knowledge graphs manually in Excel.
- Plenty of various automated solutions exist. However, finding a proper solution is problematic as providers don’t have an aligned terminology to describe functionality. Often, quite differently labeled solutions deliver similar functionality.

In this session, we will discuss how to solve challenges and:
1. Demonstrate a metamodel of data lineage and knowledge graphs.
2. Show differences and similarities of these capabilities in terms of business drivers, architecture, and use cases.
3. Provide an overview and comparison of various data lineage and knowledge graphs IT tools.

About the speaker
Dr. Irina Steenbeek is a data management practitioner with more than 12 years of experience. The key areas of her professional expertise are the data management maturity assessment, implementation of data management frameworks, and data lineage. Irina has practical experience in software implementation such as ERP and DWH/BI, management consultation, financial and business controls, and data science.

Social links:
1. https://datacrossroads.nl/
2. www.linkedin.com/in/irina-steenbeek

Data Lineage & Knowledge Graphs: Similarities and Differences

As businesses strive to make data-driven decisions, choosing the right data platform has become a critical component in today's data-driven world. However, with a plethora of options available, it can be overwhelming to identify the best fit for your business. This webinar offers a comprehensive guide to the most popular data platforms, helping businesses evaluate critical factors such as data processing speed, scalability, cost-effectiveness, security, and integration capabilities to determine the ideal platform. 

Participants will gain insight into the advantages and limitations of both cloud-based and on-premise data platforms, and how different modern data platforms can support various business needs and objectives, such as data analytics, machine learning, and big data processing. By the end of this webinar, participants will have a clear understanding of which modern data platform is the best fit for their business context and objectives.

Key Takeaways:
1. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of the most popular data platforms available in the market today.
2. Learn how to evaluate crucial factors, such as data processing speed, scalability, cost-effectiveness, security, and integration capabilities while selecting a data platform for your business.
3. Recognize how different data platforms can support diverse business needs and objectives, including data analytics, machine learning, and big data processing.
4. Identify the advantages and challenges of cloud-based and on-premise data platforms and guidance on how to choose between them.

About the speaker:
Gopinath Manimayan is lead architect of digital experience at Moonraft Innovation Labs, he has over 15+ years of experience crafting exemplary technology solutions. You can always count on him for guidance with the best architecture to suit any need, or for learning about the latest technologies in the market.

Choosing the right data platform for your business

The problem with data warehousing and lakehousing is that they don’t go far enough. They don’t attack the root input problem: dumb, increasingly siloed and duplicative data and stranded, duplicated logic. It’s the proverbial garbage in, garbage out scenario, unless companies allocate their entire innovation budgets to integration.
 
More and more apps create the need for more and more reinvent-the-wheel integration, because each app has its own repository and its own data model. This is one reason why big banks have more than 10,000 databases each.
 
More and more apps with their own repositories is one reason we could be in the Yottabyte Era by 2030. If the world has to store two yottabytes of data per year, 40% of the economy could be dedicated to just storing data–90% of which is duplicated data that’s hard to reuse. 
 
For their part, applications duplicate the core description and predicate logic that should live with the data, where it can be shared and reused repeatedly within a knowledge graph.
 
A better, data-centric approach puts data and data models first. A FAIR data approach -- smarter data that’s designed to be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable–addresses the integration problem up front. No more garbage in, so no more garbage out. Data becomes self-describing with the help of the logic that used to be trapped in applications. 
 
This talk will examine how organizations in various industries use semantic knowledge graphs to solve their data integration and analytics problems at a fraction of the cost of data warehousing or lakehousing. It’s an organic approach to data and logic that can eliminate growing amounts of waste and complexity. Companies can run these systems at low cost in parallel with their legacy environments until they commit to graph data model-driven development, which is when even more substantial benefits will accrue.

FAIR data: Superior data visibility and reuse without warehousing

As companies build their data analytics practice, they quickly outgrow running analytics off their operational store that powers their applications. Building a read replica only buys them time until they hit scalability limits with their growing internal and customer demand. This is where one hits the crossroads of going all in with a cloud data warehouse or choosing an open data lake house approach to future-proof them for scale, performance, and cost efficiency. In this workshop, Matt Fuller and Tom Nats lead you through how you can easily build and manage an open data lake house architecture using open-source technologies such as Trino and Apache Iceberg to support your growing analytics. Trino is an open source highly parallel and distributed query engine built from the ground up at Facebook for efficient, low-latency analytics. Iceberg is an open source, high performant table storage format that enables an engine like Trino to perform data warehousing SQL functionality such as UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE commands on the data lake house. In addition, Matt and Tom will lead you through combing these technologies to perform near real-time analytics with streaming ingestion with database functionality on the lakehouse. This workshop will use the Starburst Galaxy SaaS product making it simple to leverage these technologies for your modern data lake house without having to worry about the operational aspects of running Trino and other software.

Building an Open Data Lake House Using Trino and Apache Iceberg

Embedded analytics has become a vital aspect of business intelligence, enabling organizations to gain insights from their data at the point of decision, in their operational applications. 

This webinar will explore the architecture and experience of embedded analytics, showcasing how it can be effectively implemented to drive informed decision-making and enhance user experiences. Join us to learn about the various components, best practices, and real-world applications of embedded analytics in modern data architectures. With this webinar, you will:

- Understand the role of embedded analytics in the context of decision intelligence.
- Gain insights into the architecture of embedded analytics, including its components, scalability, performance and security.
- Explore best practices for designing effective embedded experiences.
- Discover real-world applications and use cases of embedded analytics across various industries.
- Stay informed on future trends and opportunities in the embedded analytics space including natural language.

Embedded Analytics: Architecture and Experience

Data Architecture Best Practices

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape data plays a critical role. Modern data architecture provides the tools and practices to harness the power of data and turn it into strategic advantage.  Whether it is data lakehouse, data fabric, data mesh or cloud data governance modern data architecture is enabling business leaders to make better decisions, quicker.
 
In this talk, Rajeev Pai, Director of Technology Strategy & Transformation at Deloitte, will explore what does modern data architecture entail and how it can be used to unlock business value. 
 
Key takeaways:  
- The need for newer ways for bringing, processing and distributing data in the enterprise. 
- Leading patterns and practices organizations are adopting in this journey with examples.
- Challenges organizations may face when adopting some of these new approaches.
- And how to overcome those challenges.

Whether you are a business leader looking to drive growth and innovation or a data professional seeking to help your business this talk will provide valuable insights from frontline and research.

About the speaker:
Rajeev is a leader in the space of Technology Consulting & Transformation with over 20 years of experience across the globe in the financial services industry, helping business leaders navigate change. He combines deep domain expertise in Capital Markets F2B Processes and Banking to provide thought leadership and tailored advise while challenging business leaders to achieve their vision. He is experienced in large scale System Integration, Platform Re-engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Data Management (Data Strategy, Architecture and Management), Analytics & Data Visualisation, Operating Model constructs, Design Thinking, and has strong familiarity with Emerging Tech. He is a certified in Business Sustainability Management from the 
Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership(CISL).

Data-driven success: How modern data architecture unleashes business value

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Data-driven success: How modern data architecture unleashes business value

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