Expo Program : September 29th 2020
All sessions will be live streamed online and available on-demand until Oct.31.
Big Data Demo Stage
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Fairness and Bias in AI
09h30 - 10h00AI has shown many real-world successes over the past few years, including in areas like medical assistants, chatbots, inventory robots, and self-driving cars. At its core, AI makes predictions: will person X pay or default? Does person X have cancer or not? Will person X buy product Y or not? These predictions have the tremendous benefits of being automated, accurate, and consistent.
However, troubling reports have recently surfaced that show how AI predictions can be biased and unfair to certain protected subgroups of the population. For example, AI predictions have discriminated against women in lending decisions; against Blacks in recidivism predictions; against low-income neighborhoods in crime predictions; against poor families in abuse predictions; and against women in HR decisions.
How does this happen and how can we fix it? In this talk, we explore the three main causes of AI bias and discuss four practical solutions to ensure AI fairness and get back on track to reap the rewards of AI predictions without discrimination and bias.
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Stephen Thomas Assistant Professor and Director, Master of Management Analytics and Master of Management in Artificial Intelligence Smith School of Business, Queen’s University
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Leverage Dialog Insight to deliver an authentic customer experience.
10h00 - 10h30Learn about the solutions and tools Dialog Insight has to offer, in order to deliver a better customer experience. Leverage Dialog Insight to gather more data and use it to personalize and customize your communications. Easily create personalized campaigns. Become more efficient and effective by using a flexible tool to fit every need you may have.
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Benjamin Guay-Marceau Business Development Representative Dialogue Insight
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Application Augmentation - Using a Data Fabric to make your Apps Smarter
10h30 - 11h00The Cinchy Autonomous Data Fabric is the only way to eliminate integration and double your IT capacity.
Imagine enriching your rigid and brittle legacy applications in days. In this demo, we will show you how a Data Fabric can 'augment' your existing on-prem and SaaS apps with new capabilities and intelligence, saving you all kinds of time and money.
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Dan DeMers CEO Cinchy
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Session Presented by: Air Miles
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Jane Moran Senior Vice President, Data & Technology AIR MILES Reward Program
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Couchbase Cloud™, the Future of NoSQL in the Cloud
11h30 - 12h00Couchbase Cloud is a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) that:
- Empowers developers with self-service access to multi-model and multi-service NoSQL databases
- Increases business agility and decreases the go-to market timelines
- Streamlines operations and costs
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Wael Emam Sr. Solutions Engineer Couchbase.
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How to Innovate with Data at Scale
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Sudheendra Chilappagari Product Manager Segment
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Data Processing, the simply way, with Apache Spark
13h00 - 13h30Apache Spark is one of the most famous framework's for data processing. As some of you may know from experience, setting up and managing an Apache Spark cluster at times isn't the most exciting task and can be very time consuming! What if a cloud provider could take this strenuous task off your hands? Discover OVHcloud Data Processing, a new approach to using Apache Spark, with job submission in just a few seconds. You submit jobs, not clusters. We deploy, we scale, you win!
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Claire Gallot Software Engineer OVHcloud
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Newcomp Analytics: How to deploy your Data Science Insights
13h30 - 14h00In our presentation, our analytics experts will be discussing how to deploy your machine learning and data science insights to help business users understand and manage model outcomes for their organization's growth. Our experts will discuss how a customizable end-to-end solution can help you manage model production and understand model outcomes to help make more efficient business decisions.
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Mike Roberts Practice Lead Newcomp Analytics
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Xiaojun Su Data Scientist Newcomp Analytics
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SIMPLE, AUTOMATED MIGRATION OF HADOOP DATA TO CLOUD WITH WANDISCO LIVEDATA MIGRATOR
14h00 - 14h30Migration of small, static data sets is an easy problem to solve. When you're dealing with truly 'Big Data', and moreover when that data is undergoing constant change, there are many additional challenges to consider. Can you freeze the data long enough to move it without interrupting your critical business processes? If not, how will you manage the ongoing updates to ensure the data you've migrated matches your live data at the source? Join this session to hear how customers are using WANdisco's LiveData Migrator to solve these problems and get their data into the cloud, at scale, with no business impact.
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Steve Kilgore VP Field Technical Operations WANdisco
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Scott Gaspard Solutions Architect WANdisco
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Detecting Supply Chain Anomalies to Save Money
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Anil Gupta Sr. Sales Engineer Imply.io
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Drive Smart Data Insights with Graph Data Science
15h00 - 15h30As data science continues to be increasingly relevant for enterprises, graph technology and algorithms have emerged as powerful tools for answering complex questions based on connections and patterns in diverse data sets. With this approach Neo4j customers, like Caterpillar, BMO Financial and AstraZeneca, are proving that graphs bring tremendous value to advanced analytics, machine learning and AI.
Join us for a product demonstration of Neo4j’s Graph Data Science framework to see firsthand how you can uncover and use connections in your data to improve predictions and drive better business decisions. All attendees of this session will receive a FREE copy of Graph Databases For Dummies, a Special Neo4j Edition.
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Dave Voutila Solutions Engineer Neo4j
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Soar Higher with SkySQL - The Ultimate MariaDB Cloud
15h30 - 16h00MariaDB SkySQL is a new database-as-a-service (DBaaS) engineered to support mission-critical databases for transactions, analytics, or both – and on any cloud infrastructure courtesy of a cloud-agnostic foundation, Kubernetes, and a powerful ITSM portal built on ServiceNow.
In this session, you'll be introduced to MariaDB SkySQL with a live demo showing:
- How to get started with SkySQL
- How to connect to and communicate with SkySQL
- How to integrate SkySQL into your apps
- How to create and manage custom database configurations in SkySQL
- How to investigate and utilize real-time data metrics using SkySQL Monitoring
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Rob Hedgpeth Director, Developer Relations MariaDB
AI Demo Stage
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Dataiku Supervised Machine Learning Demo: Campaign Response Prediction
11h00 - 11h30New technology gives banks the power to collect, store, and analyze exponentially more information than was imaginable not too long ago. Many banks have taken first-step initiatives to align their people, processes, and technology.
Join Dataiku’s Solutions Engineer, Emma Irwin, as she showcases how to use Dataiku DSS 8.0 to predict customer response to a new product’s marketing campaign. Using data from a Portuguese bank and socio-economic context data such as employment variation rate and consumer price index, we will create a machine learning model able to predict if future customers will say yes or no to the product. Results are displayed on dashboards, accessible through an API, and automated using scenarios.
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Emma Irwin Solutions Engineer Dataiku
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An Overview of Algorithmia: The Industry Leading Machine Learning Operations and Management Platform
12h00 - 12h30Learn about Algorithmia's machine learning operations and management platform that empowers teams to deploy models, connect to various data sources, automatically scale model inference, and manage the ML lifecycle in a centralized model catalog.
We'll demonstrate the process of deploying a machine learning pipeline to Algorithmia that uses different languages and frameworks. Data science workflows include deploying a model, adding an OCR tool to the pipeline, testing a new version of the model, then calling the model from different languages. We'll also discuss how Algorithmia handles the underlying MLOps infrastructure and operations related to security, scalability, and governance.-
Kristopher Overholt Sales and Solution Engineer Algorithmia
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A Technology Provider's Journey with Artificial Intelligence
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Konrad Konarski Artificial Intelligence and IoT Practice Head V-Soft Consulting
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Fighting Financial Crime with Automated Machine Learning
14h30 - 15h00A key component of any financial crime compliance program is to monitor transactions for suspicious activity. Typically the systems that aim to detect potentially suspicious activity are commonly rule-based, and suffer from ultra-high false positive rates. Automated machine learning provides a solution to address this challenge by dynamically learning patterns in complex data and significantly improving your accuracy in predicting which cases will result in suspicious activity reports.
In this session, Ray Mi, a Customer-Facing Data Scientist for DataRobot will show how banks can implement automated machine learning to improve alert investigation efficiency, reduce false positive alerts and lower operational cost.
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Ray Mi Customer Facing Data Scientist, Team Lead DataRobot
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AI FOR ENTERPRISE REQUIRES UNIQUE TOOLS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF TEAMS WITHIN BUSINESS
15h00 - 15h30Attributes and real-world examples of the next-generation of software for AI in enterprise: a better means to collaborate, work smarter and get buy-in for your AI projects.
Previous software tools first designed to develop AI in academic research contexts are less-than-ideal for developing applied AI solutions for enterprise today. Here we present core attributes required for the next-generation of software tools needed to expedite the application of AI in business and industry. We begin with an overview of our research where we assessed the needs of hundreds of AI professionals as well as completed prototypes and simulations of various applied machine learning projects. These findings guided our development of a novel integrated development environment (IDE) for advanced machine learning projects that is visual and less abstract. Our discussion will focus on why features of our software help better meet the needs of AI professionals in enterprise, focusing on issues related to:
- Better debugging of models and streamlined workflows;
- Facilitating collaboration and input from non-technical members within the business as well as oversight by domain experts such as clinicians for health-related projects
- Strengthened abilities to simulate outputs and renderings from machine-learning models in order to better demonstrate AI innovations to clients and regulators.
Throughout the presentation, we will frame each topic within actual case studies and projects we completed with our enterprise clients in industries that include defense, transportation, biomedical research and more.
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Guillaume Hervé CEO, Co-Founder Zetane Systems
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Access live, ready-to-query data to unlock new insights with just a few clicks
15h30 - 16h00Snowflake Data Marketplace gives data scientists, business intelligence and analytics professionals, and everyone who desires data-driven decision-making access to live and ready-to-query data from your ecosystem of business partners and customers, and from potentially thousands of data providers and data service providers.
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Robert Guglietti Senior Sales Engineer Snowflake
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Cloud & Cybersecurity Demo Stage
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Mitigating COVID-19 With Remote Access
09h30 - 10h00Social distancing and shelter in place orders can severely impact worker productivity and business revenue. Learn how to quickly enable business continuity in response to the pandemic.
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Luis da Silva Systems Engineer Array Networks
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Critical Rebuild Materials for Cyber Recovery
10h00 - 10h30Whether it is phishing, ransomware or insider attacks, the sophistication and intensity of modern cyber threats can be difficult to keep up with.
Are you modernizing your cyber resilience strategy with secure managed services that adapt to the ever-changing approaches of modern attacks? What happens if you no longer have access to any of your systems? How do you recover?
Join Dell Technologies’ Jason Proctor - Cyber Security Expert from the Global Technology Office - as he focuses on Critical Rebuild Materials for cyber recovery, addresses your chances of successfully recovering from a cyber-attack quickly and the solutions and services that can help your business keep its most valuable data secure.-
Jason Proctor Advisory Systems Engineer, Cyber Recovery, Global Technology Office Dell Technologies
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Collaborate, Build, and Share: Quality Pipelines & Datasets
10h30 - 11h00Talend Data Fabric is a forward-looking data management platform that provides data integration with superior connectivity, flexibility, and scalability while incorporating best-in-class data quality. In this session on our latest platform capabilities, we will take a deeper look into how Talend’s suite of cloud-based applications work in unison to enable data professionals to collaborate, build, and share quality pipelines and datasets.
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Mitchell Ogilvie Solutions Engineer Talend
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Access live, ready-to-query data to unlock new insights with just a few clicks
11h00 - 11h30Snowflake Data Marketplace gives data scientists, business intelligence and analytics professionals, and everyone who desires data-driven decision-making access to live and ready-to-query data from your ecosystem of business partners and customers, and from potentially thousands of data providers and data service providers.
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Robert Guglietti Senior Sales Engineer Snowflake
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FINDING THE BREACH IN A HAYSTACK
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Oren Koren Senior Product Manager Check Point Software Technologies
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Offensive AI vs. Defensive AI: Battle of the Algorithms
12h00 - 12h30Among rapidly evolving technological advancements, the emergence of AI-enhanced malware is making cyber-attacks exponentially more dangerous and harder to identify. In the near future, we will begin to see supercharged, AI-powered cyber-attacks leveraged at scale. To protect against Offensive AI attacks, organizations are turning to defensive cyber AI, which can identify and neutralize emerging malicious activity, no matter when, or where, it strikes.
In this session, learn about:
- Paradigm shifts in the cyber landscape
- Advancements in offensive AI attack techniques
- The Immune System Approach to cyber security and defensive, Autonomous Response capabilities
- Real-world examples of emerging threats that were stopped with Cyber AI
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Nabil Zoldjalali Director of Cloud Security Darktrace
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Using a Consistent Hybrid Cloud Experience for Migration and Application Portability
14h00 - 14h30With requirements to embrace change and adapt to the new normal, more organization are trying to do more with less, and utilize the public cloud to help drive business initiatives. However most organizations were not born in the “Digital Age” and need to utilize existing experience and applications. They bring legacy systems and operating models that constrain and keep them from achieving what might be possible in the face of these new opportunities. No company is better positioned to help make your Digital and IT Transformation a reality than Dell Technologies. During this session we’ll review the Dell Technologies Cloud, the power of VMware and Dell EMC infrastructure, and see how simple application migration can be, with a consistent cloud operating model using VMware HCX.
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James Scott Field CTO, Canada Dell Technologies
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Anatomy of an IoT attack on IP Cameras
15h00 - 15h30Join us to learn how IoT protections can be integrated into your security stack, and watch a live attack prevented in real time.
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Steve Skoronski National Security Architect Check Point Software Technologies
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