2018 Dataworks Sessions You Should Check Out

2018 Dataworks Summit is just around the corner. As you’re preparing your travel to San Jose, it’s time to think about how to maximize your time at the Dataworks Summit. Dataworks Summit will take place from June 18 to June 21. Sessions, keynotes, and workshop are spread across eight different tracks. Check out the full agenda. Everyone may have different goals for this summit. While you’re going through the agenda to select the best sessions for you and your organization, here are our recommendations.

Driving Enterprise Adoption: Tuesday, Jun 19, 4:50pm

Learn about Standard Bank’s Hadoop journey from beginning to end. Hear about their implementation on their multi-tenant enterprise data lake, data science workbench, and appropriate data management.

The “60-year-old Startup”: Reshaping Data Architecture & Analytics in the Information Age: Tuesday, Jun 19, 11am

How to be data-driven is a hot topic. Attend this session to learn how one enterprise became data-driven by transforming its data architecture. Hear what others are doing to design a data platform for today while preparing for tomorrow’s data needs.

What is New in Apache Hive? Tuesday, Jun 19, 11:50am

Hive is constantly evolving to satisfy the needs of the big data ecosystem. Learning about what’s coming to Apache Hive can help you optimize your current Hadoop environment.

How to Achieve a Self-Service and Secure Multi-Tenant Data Lake in a Large Company with Strict IT Security and Diverse Analytics Use Cases: Tuesday, Jun 19, 2pm

Every BI user wants self service BI and every IT team wants to provide self service BI. Yet not every enterprise has self service analytics platform. In this session, the team from Northrop Grumman will share their experience with designing and building a Hadoop-based enterprise data analytics platform.

Cloud Security and Hadoop: Wednesday Jun 20, 11am

A hybrid data environment is definitely a trending topic. While everyone understands how to provide security for an on-premise Hadoop environment, security in the cloud may be different. Attend this session to learn how you can secure your data in a cloud environment.

Data Transformation and Its Impact on Our Digital Transformation: Wednesday Jun 20 4:40pm

Digital transformation is on a lot of executives’ mind. Hear Canadian Tire’s digital transformation story and learn how they overcome challenges in adoption, technical skills gap and data culture and interpretation.

After all these insightful sessions, stop by AtScale’s Happy Hour at Scott’s Seafood on Jun 20 from 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm. Enjoy a cocktail with us while networking with your peers in the industry. RSVP here. In addition to Happy Hour, be sure to check us out at the exhibit hall. We look forward to meeting with you!