Expert Panel: Automating the Data and Analytics Life Cycle
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Thursday, May 25, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET
As the diversity and volume of data increases, the challenge of managing the data becomes increasingly complex. It is becoming more prevalent to automate and augment tasks associated with the data and analytics life cycle. This includes software for identifying sensitive data, classifying data, metadata mapping, building data warehouses, automatically surfacing insights, and automatically building models.
This expert panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with automating the analytics life cycle. Can the whole data and analytics life cycle be automated? Should it?
Guest Speakers
Conor Jensen
Field CDO
Dataiku
Conor Jensen is a technology, AI, and strategy executive leading the Field CDO team at Dataiku. His path to here meandered along a circuitous route through the worlds of barista, archery and climbing instructor, mathematics student, Air Force weather forecaster, insurance actuary, and consultant.
Joey Jablonski
VP of Analytics
Pythian
Joey Jablonski is VP of analytics at Pythian, he leads strategic engagements assisting customers in developing their data strategy, defining and executing on data governance programs, and building analytical models to power the modern data-driven organization. Prior to Pythian, Joey was VP of product at Manifold, where he brought a product mind-set to all engagements—allowing for value delivering quickly in any project and building over time through adoption of new data-centric capabilities in an organization. Joey led engagements across industries including retail, high tech, pharmaceuticals, and the federal government. Before Manifold, Joey held executive leadership positions at Northwestern Mutual, iHeartMedia, and Cloud Technology Partners. He brings 20+ years of experience in software engineering, high performance computing, cybersecurity, data governance, and data engineering.
Jose Valladares
Principal Solutions Advisor
SAP
Fern Halper, Ph.D.
Sponsored by the following vendors:
Dataiku, Pythian, SAP