2018 Nashville Analytics Summit

Registration & Breakfast

07:00 AM 08:00 AM Legends DEFG

Welcome & Remarks from Presenting Speaker, Amazon Web Services - How Building Data Lakes on AWS Can Accelerate Data Driven Innovation

08:00 AM 09:30 AM Legends DEFG

How building data lakes on AWS can accelerate data driven innovation:

Are you looking to improve customer experience and innovate faster? Data driven development allows you to efficiently use data to experiment and build products that customer really love. In this session you will learn what is a data lake and how AWS customers are using data lakes to inform their decisions when building new experiences.

Speakers

Roy Hasson

Amazon Web Services

The Digital HR Function: How People Analytics is transforming HR's strategic capability

09:30 AM 10:30 AM Music Row 5

People Analytics is delivering HR's 20+ aspiration for elevated strategic impact. It's also transforming the way CHRO, HRBPs and COE-leaders do their work. Join us as we look at HR's next service delivery model, key capabilities for digital HRBPs and a future model for the people analytics function

Speakers

Paul Rubenstein

Visier

Utilize IoT Data and Machine Learning to Predict and Prevent Device Failures

09:30 AM 10:30 AM Legends A

This talk will showcase the capabilities of ingesting equipment data across multiple industry verticals, storing that data in a data warehouse, running machine learning to detect and predict maintenance for devices before they fail, and show the ML precision over time as the data grows.

Speakers

Gustavo Rincon

Customer Engineer

Google

Data Ethics, or, how not to have a Cambridge Analytica moment

09:30 AM 10:30 AM Legends B

A key question in data ethics today is not just: ˜are we doing what's legal? But also: "are we doing what's right?" Based on a 105 org. survey & workshops in SF, NY, and London I will show that data ethics is foundational for successful analytics work and give concrete guidance how to do it.

Speakers

Dirk Petersen

Insight222

Data and Analytics @ GitLab - Transparency, Iteration, and Open Core Data Science

09:30 AM 10:30 AM Legends C

GitLab built its world-class Data & Analytics team from nothing by sticking to its values of rapid iteration and radical transparency. We've built an open core framework (Meltano) for analytics, BI, and data science that we dogfood daily to make it better for our business and our customers.

Speakers

Taylor Murphy

GitLab

The Role of the Data Translator: Effectively Closing the Gap Between Data and Decisions

09:30 AM 10:30 AM Music Row 3

There is often a significant gap in understanding between business executives and analysts regarding the true value of analytics to an organization. This talk will provide analytics professionals with information they can use to help close this gap within their own organizations.

Speakers

Eric Stephens

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

People Matter: Analytics Talent Supply and Demand in Middle Tennessee

09:30 AM 10:30 AM Music Row 4

This talk offers insight into the analytics jobs and skills that are hot in Middle Tennessee - and a forum for discussing how we, as a community, can make this talent data matter. It also serves as a sneak peek into the larger IT workforce report being released by MTSU and the NTC later this year.

Speakers

Amy Harris

Associate Professor

Middle Tennessee State University

Speakers

Martin Vioski

Client Executive

Information Builders

Keynote: Infonomics: Monetizing, Managing and Measuring Information as an Actual Asset

11:30 AM 12:30 PM Legends DEFG

Increasingly, information is understood to be a critical enterprise asset yet is neither treated nor formally valued as one. Gartner analyst Doug Laney will introduce the emerging discipline of “infonomics” which helps clearly define information’s economic value and why becoming infocentric is demonstrably critical to enterprise success. He will discuss why information should now be recognized as a formal asset and how organizations can better treat it like one. Mr. Laney will also share a variety of innovative ways organizations around the world are innovating with information.

Speakers

Doug Laney

Vice President

Gartner

Top Killer Use Cases of IOT Analytics with Machine Learning at Scale

01:30 PM 02:30 PM Music Row 5

Does the thought of capturing massive volumes of streaming sensor data from your hundreds or thousands of connected assets give you heartburn? No matter where you are on the IOT analytics maturity curve, learn how an analytical database derives bottom-line business value from IOT initiatives.

Speakers

Jeff Healey

Vertica

Data Revolutions: How to survive and capitalize on them

01:30 PM 02:30 PM Legends A

All economic revolutions are data driven revolutions. It is the invention of some new method of capturing and analyzing data that propels new inventions and industrial growth. We will discuss how to survive and profit in the 4th industrial revolution by managing and monetizing data.

Speakers

Michael Corcoran

Chief Marketing Officer

Information Builders

Visionary, Builder, Guide: Finding the Right Data Scientist for Your Organization (or, for Data Scientists: Finding the Right Organization for You!)

01:30 PM 02:30 PM Legends B

Guide. Builder. Architect. Visionary. Data scientists (DSs) come in all types. DS types that thrive in businesses with mature DS programs may fail at less mature businesses. Match your org's DS maturity level to the best DS for you (DSs: find what type of org you'll thrive in)!

Speakers

Jesse Spencer-Smith

Director of Enterprise Data Science

HCA

Workshop

Operationalizing Python for Machine Learning

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Legends C

The use of Python and its libraries has quickly become the most common language for data science. Although Python is considered a relatively easy language to learn, it can be daunting to pick up Python for data science, but by creating templates and snippets anyone can get started.

Speakers

Charles Apigian

Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University

Data that supports true sales & marketing alignment

01:30 PM 02:30 PM Music Row 4

What data do sales & marketing leaders need in order to achieve alignment and growth? Anna & Justin Talerico, married co-founders who led sales and marketing at a marketing technology company, will take you through how shared data can be used to quantify business results & increase marketing ROI.

Speakers

Anna Talerico

Beacon9

Justin Talerico

Beacon9

The Future Belongs to the Intelligent Enterprise

01:30 PM 02:30 PM Music Row 3

The intelligent enterprise is the ultimate data-driven organization. It harnesses traditionally counteractive forces – agility and governance, convenience and security, ease of use and enterprise functionality – to go beyond business intelligence and deliver transformative insights to every user, constituent and partner. Today, every forward leaning company is racing to become an intelligent enterprise. Why? Because organizations that build this intelligent edge over competitors will be the dominant force of tomorrow. Hear about how you can start mapping out how to transform your organization into an intelligent enterprise.

Speakers

Moacyr Passador

MicroStrategy

Solutions Director, South

Workshop

Nashville Software School Cohort 1 Talks

03:00 PM 04:30 PM Music Row 5

Have you been toying with the idea of taking up data science but are not sure if it is for you and if you have the bandwidth for it? Come and hear from the horse's mouth. The first cohort of NSS is out and is ready to share their story and their learning.

Brandon Sanders: Brandon Sanders has been with Ingram Content Group for 12 years, spending 9 years auditing the IT environment, and the last 3 years developing business strategies supported by data. He holds a B.B.A in Accounting and IT, an MBA, and currently attending the first Data Science Cohort at Nashville Software School. Mid-way Capstone: https://DataScienceBS.shinyapps.io/summer_olympic...

Evan Lancaster: Evan is a high school math teacher-turned-programmer who has always loved the Chicago Cubs. He wants to be a data scientist when he grows up, because he actually enjoys cleaning up dirty data. All these things point to an unnaturally high tolerance for pain. Mid-way Capstone: https://evanplancaster.shinyapps.io/ds5-rizzo_ana...

Mahesh Rao: Mahesh Rao received his PhD in Biological Sciences from Vanderbilt before becoming a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Throughout his research, Mahesh has studied regeneration and development of the retina. Mahesh is transitioning into data science with the help of a bootcamp at the Nashville Software School. Mid-way Capstone: : https://evanplancaster.shinyapps.io/ds5-rizzo_ana...

Sanjay Mishra: Sanjay Mishra is currently a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University where is studying how the proteins in the body stay healthy under physiological stresses. Since his own discoveries are not as newsworthy, he writes about other's exciting works in various news outlets. He is also expanding his analytical skills through a Data Science Bootcamp at the Nashville Software School. He holds a masters degree in Biochemical Engineering, and has previously worked in Pharmaceutical production and sales.

Shruti Sharma: Shruti Sharma has been part of the BI team at Ingram for 3 years, where among other things she was involved in designing and execution of a sales and operations reporting dashboard for publishers. She is extending her skill set by doing a Data Science Bootcamp at the Nashville Software School. She also holds a PhD in Cellular Biochemistry. Mid-way Capstone: https://shrutijalewar.shinyapps.io/bechdel-test-s...

Taylor Perkins: Taylor Perkins is currently employed as a backend python developer for icitizen in Nashville where he helps maintain their API while also creating detailed dashboards to provide insight to the development team using tools such as Kibana, D3, and Jupyter Notebook. He is currently attending Nashville Software School's Data Science Bootcamp.

Speakers

Shruti Sharma

Ingram Content Group

Customer Obsession: Leveraging Data Science, AI and Optimization for Tackling a Diverse Set of Problems to Provide Premium Customer Experience

03:30 PM 04:30 PM Legends A

With 300+ million customers, Asurion has grown its analytics team to support multiple functions in delivering a scaled, world-class customer experience. Learn about Asurion's customer-centric approach to analytics by using machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance customer experience.

Speakers

Peng Xie

Director of Data Science

Asurion

Beyond Information Visualization: How To Leverage Your Data into Opportunities and Strategies for Business Success

03:30 PM 04:30 PM Legends B

Visual storytelling about your data is a critical step beyond information visualization. In today's€™s business environment, quick visual storytelling is more important than ever. Hear€™s how you can streamline your storytelling and protect your investment in collecting and analyzing your data.

Speakers

Chris Sloan

Transmedia Design

Automating Machine Learning: A Practical Guide to AI Adoption

03:30 PM 04:30 PM Legends C

Though machine learning is more accessible, major challenges still exist. Iterative approaches are needed as well as people with both skills and domain knowledge. This session shares how advanced techniques can be automated, unlocking machine learning for users with diverse technical backgrounds.

Speakers

Jeff Holoman

DataRobot

Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys and What Middle TN is Doing to Prevent It

03:30 PM 04:30 PM Music Row 4

With the use of extensive data, the NY Times released an article in March 2018 proving there is a punishing reach of racism for black boys.

Speakers

Kenyatta Lovett

Executive Director

Complete Tennessee

Lorelei Samuelson

CGI

Digital Transformation with Microsoft Artificial Intelligence

03:30 PM 04:30 PM Music Row 3

85% of organizations will be using Artificial Intelligence in at least one process. This session will walk through Microsoft’s approach to AI and how customers are transforming their business using Microsoft’s Azure data platform

Speakers

Charlie Butler

Principal Solution Specialist

Microsoft

Happy Hour - Hosted by the Nashville Post & Sponsored by Microstrategy

05:30 PM 07:00 PM ONE Historic Event Space at Cannery Row, 1 Cannery Row Nashville, TN 37203

Registration & Breakfast

07:30 AM 09:00 AM Legends DEFG

Complete Tennessee, a non-profit organization advocating postsecondary education, has also gathered data that will highlight if TN fares any better.

Speakers

Brian Moyer

President & CEO

Nashville Technology Council

Workshop

Go with the Flow: Creating Data Flows with Tableau Prep

10:00 AM 11:30 AM Music Row 5

Attendees will be able to learn how to clean data & create data flows with Tableau’s new product Tableau Prep. Users will then be able to take the data & learn how to analyze it with Tableau Desktop. Finally, attendees will apply their new skills to answer questions using Tableau to win prizes.

Check out the latest innovation from Tableau. In this session, you will see Tableau Prep in action and get hands on experience with the latest capabilities of the Tableau Platform. For those new to Tableau, get familiar with Tableau’s flagship product ,Tableau Desktop, where you can visualize any data through an intuitive and simple interface. At the end of the session you will apply what you learned to answer a series of questions using Tableau to win PRIZES!

Speakers

Steven Mostello

Tableau

Workshop

Make a Map of Downtown Nashville Art using Python

10:00 AM 11:30 AM Legends A

Open data let's us explore the places where we live and work. Using maps to visualize data is a fun way to bring open data to life. This workshop will guide attendees in creating a map of public art in downtown Nashville using two datasets from metro Nashville's open data site.

Speakers

Mary Van Valkenburg

Nashville Software School

Avoid the Blank Stare: How to Tell a Great Story with Data

10:00 AM 11:00 AM Legends B

Have you ever got stuck trying to figure out how to showcase vast amounts of data so that decision-makers can quickly understand and act on findings? In this training, we'll cover how to bring your data to life through the power of storytelling and highlight some data visualization best practices.

Speakers

Candra McRae

Ramsey Solutions

Serverless Streaming Web Analytics with AWS Kinesis and Lambda

10:00 AM 11:00 AM Music Row 3

Want to use streaming data but don't know where to start? I'll€™I'll talk about how I moved a leading college football website with millions of users and tens of millions of page views daily, 247Sports.com, from an outdated custom analytics application to serverless streaming using AWS Lambda and Kinesis

Speakers

Rob Harrigan

Data Engineer, CBS Interactive

Healthcare Data, No Limits

10:00 AM 11:00 AM Music Row 4

A story of two journeys; first, of moving from an on-premise healthcare data warehouse that was too slow and not scale to a cloud-native data warehouse that scales on demand and delivers analytics in seconds, and second, of how to evolve from retrospective, to near real-time, and finally ML and AI.

Speakers

Todd Crosslin

Vice President of Healthcare Strategy

Snowflake

John Foss

Vice President of Strategic Products

PDX

Forests and Trees: An analytical methodology for customer segmenting for value and focus

10:00 AM 11:00 AM Legends C

Our businesses have customers, users, patients, consumers, and prospects. Yet, amazingly we know so very little about them. In this session, we'll outline a methodology to grow your business by creating an automated customer data asset so you can see the forest and the trees.

Speakers

Bryan Huddleston

LogicPlum

Workshop

Unlocking the Power of R from within Power BI

01:00 PM 02:30 PM Music Row 5

Learn how Power BI can bring advanced analytics to the front-lines business decision process, allowing users to extract useful knowledge from data to solve problems. In this workshop, we will cover R integration with Power BI, and the several ways in which to leverage R from within Power BI.

Speakers

Aaron Kelly

Think Data Insights

Workshop

Developing a Data Ethics Foundation for your Organization

01:00 PM 02:30 PM Legends A

This workshop will provide attendees with a summary of current data ethic initiatives, language and sample conversations to help lay the foundation for data ethic discussions in their organizations.

Speakers

Harold Ball

Co-Founder

Longbow with Getui

Michel Guillet

Georgia State University

From Metrics to Messaging: What it takes to make your data matter

01:00 PM 02:00 PM Music Row 4

Eureka! Your team just made a breakthrough. But will its significance resonate outside of your team? Can it be positioned well enough to be monetized? Too often brilliant findings go misunderstood and underutilized. Learn to craft a message that conveys the meaning needed to make your data matter.

Speakers

George Farmer

Senior Digital Content Specialist

Intermedix Corporation

Maren Kiemen

Intermedix Corporation

What is Digital Transformation and how does IT lead the way?

01:00 PM 02:00 PM Legends C

The term Digital Transformation is used so often that business and IT leaders can’t separate the hype from the facts. We’ll explain what it really means, provide you with concrete examples of how companies are using technology to shift their business models and practical advice on how to get there.

Speakers

Austin Gresham

RoundTower

How We Think On Reddit

01:00 PM 02:00 PM Music Row 3

When people come together and talk about an issue on Reddit, they generate an understanding of what the issue means and how it should be approached. Groups on these forums chew up complex nuanced ideas into simpler ones.

Speakers

Antone Christianson-Galina

Invisible College

Workshop

Intelligent DataLake on Amazon Web Services

01:00 PM 05:00 PM Legends B

This session will cover how to build the modern and intelligent data lake on AWS platform to enable streaming Analytics, Big Data analytics and AI/ML with serverless ETL tool AWS Glue. This whole talk will be based on an Industrial IoT use case to detect the anomalies in the data streaming sensors.

Speakers

Ramesh Adabala

Solution Architect

Amazon

Workshop

Love to Think: A Data Science Strategy for Impacting Community

03:00 PM 04:30 PM Legends A

In your own backyard, discover a unique network of organizations and talented individuals who combine hearts and minds to tackle real-world problems using data.

Speakers

Damian Mingle

Love To Think

Building from the Ground Up: Data in Local Government

03:00 PM 04:00 PM Music Row 4

Government is the biggest producer of data in the world. Local governments have a plethora of data given the variety and complexity of services we offer. Come find out how the City of Franklin has taken on the era of "Big Data" - what we are doing to harness it and what we will do in the future.

Speakers

Michael Walters Young

City of Franklin, TN

Data Operations Problems Created by Deep Learning, and How to Fix Them

03:00 PM 04:00 PM Legends C

There are numerous problems which have been exposed by deep learning models due to the sheer ability of the current generation of GPUs to create and run a large volume of models, and we are going to show people how to fix them.

Speakers

Jim Scott

MAPR

Label Noise in Classification

03:00 PM 04:00 PM Music Row 3

Label noise or 'errors in labels' is a huge problem in classification tasks. In fact, many traditional classifiers (and novice data scientists!) assume that the training set is correctly labeled. In this talk, I will discuss the impact of label noise and examine methods to remove/mitigate it.

Speakers

Jason King

XSOLIS

Concluding remarks & Giveaways

05:00 PM 05:30 PM Legends DEFG

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2018 Nashville Analytics Summit

Speakers

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Schedule

Registration & Breakfast

Welcome & Remarks from Presenting Speaker, Amazon Web Services - How Building Data Lakes on AWS Can Accelerate Data Driven Innovation

The Digital HR Function: How People Analytics is transforming HR's strategic capability

Utilize IoT Data and Machine Learning to Predict and Prevent Device Failures

Data Ethics, or, how not to have a Cambridge Analytica moment

Data and Analytics @ GitLab - Transparency, Iteration, and Open Core Data Science

The Role of the Data Translator: Effectively Closing the Gap Between Data and Decisions

People Matter: Analytics Talent Supply and Demand in Middle Tennessee

Remarks from Premium Sponsor, Information Builders

Keynote: Infonomics: Monetizing, Managing and Measuring Information as an Actual Asset

Lunch

Top Killer Use Cases of IOT Analytics with Machine Learning at Scale

Data Revolutions: How to survive and capitalize on them

Visionary, Builder, Guide: Finding the Right Data Scientist for Your Organization (or, for Data Scientists: Finding the Right Organization for You!)

Operationalizing Python for Machine Learning

Data that supports true sales & marketing alignment

The Future Belongs to the Intelligent Enterprise

Break

Nashville Software School Cohort 1 Talks

Customer Obsession: Leveraging Data Science, AI and Optimization for Tackling a Diverse Set of Problems to Provide Premium Customer Experience

Beyond Information Visualization: How To Leverage Your Data into Opportunities and Strategies for Business Success

Automating Machine Learning: A Practical Guide to AI Adoption

Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys and What Middle TN is Doing to Prevent It

Digital Transformation with Microsoft Artificial Intelligence

Happy Hour - Hosted by the Nashville Post & Sponsored by Microstrategy

Registration & Breakfast

Remarks from Brian Moyer, Nashville Technology Council CEO

Break

Go with the Flow: Creating Data Flows with Tableau Prep

Make a Map of Downtown Nashville Art using Python

Avoid the Blank Stare: How to Tell a Great Story with Data

Serverless Streaming Web Analytics with AWS Kinesis and Lambda

Healthcare Data, No Limits

Forests and Trees: An analytical methodology for customer segmenting for value and focus

Break

Lunch

Unlocking the Power of R from within Power BI

Developing a Data Ethics Foundation for your Organization

From Metrics to Messaging: What it takes to make your data matter

What is Digital Transformation and how does IT lead the way?

How We Think On Reddit

Intelligent DataLake on Amazon Web Services

Break

Love to Think: A Data Science Strategy for Impacting Community

Building from the Ground Up: Data in Local Government

Data Operations Problems Created by Deep Learning, and How to Fix Them

Label Noise in Classification

Break

Concluding remarks & Giveaways

Ramesh Adabala

21 August

Intelligent DataLake on Amazon Web Services

Charles Apigian

20 August

Operationalizing Python for Machine Learning

Harold Ball

21 August

Developing a Data Ethics Foundation for your Organization

Charlie Butler

20 August

Digital Transformation with Microsoft Artificial Intelligence

Antone Christianson-Galina

21 August

How We Think On Reddit

Michael Corcoran

20 August

Data Revolutions: How to survive and capitalize on them

Todd Crosslin

21 August

Healthcare Data, No Limits

George Farmer

21 August

From Metrics to Messaging: What it takes to make your data matter

John Foss

21 August

Healthcare Data, No Limits