Denodo Datafest 2017

Piet Loubser, VP Product and Solutions Marketing, Hortonworks presents how the optimizer is one of the most complex parts of any big data engine; it must ensure that the execution engine is performing at its best, so understanding how it works is crucial.

Phoebe Bakanas, Sales Engineer, Denodo presents how to find the right data efficiently, even when users are unfamiliar with the data models.

Panel discussion by: Kyle Quass, BI Data Architect, Indiana University; Nicolas Brisoux, Sr. Product Manager, Tableau; Geoff Guerdat, VP Customer Success, Looker; Phoebe Bakanas, Sales Engineer, Denodo.

Panel discussion by: Nagaraj Vijapurkar, Data Virtualization Lead, CIT Group; Alberto Pan, Chief Technology Officer, Denodo; Rakesh Verma, Practice Head, Data Integration, Analytics, Wipro; Itai Weiss, Solution Architect, Mainline.

Panel discussion by: Alex Rosenthal, Head of EDO and Big Data Technologies, Guardian Life; Arif Rajwani, Founder, Data Architect for BI and Analytics, SimplicityBI; Simon Ummard, Manager of Data Assurance, Enmax; Michael Hiskey, Chief Marketing Officer, Semarchy.

Pablo Alvarez, Director Product Management, Denodo presents how edge computing enables IoT-driven businesses and the role of data virtualization in Internet-of-Anything.

Nicolas Brisoux, Sr. Product Manager, Tableau presents why data virtualization is the best-fit technology for data democratization

Nagaraj Vijapurkar, CIT Group presents how businesses can move faster than their competitors with the right architecture

Kyle Quass, BI Data Architect, Indiana University presents how to architect a universal semantic model - a common business definition layer that simplifies integration

William McKnight, President, McKnight Consulting Group will share from experience some of the hallmarks of mature, leading data environments that leaders will be guiding their data environments towards in the next few years, with the goal of helping true data leadership emerge.

Alex Rosenthal, Head of EDO and Big Data Technologies, Guardian Life presents how to create a data abstraction layer so that business users are insulated from underlying system changes.

Arif Rajwani, Founder, Data Architect for BI and Analytics, Simplicity BI presents how a custom marketplace fueled by Denodo can provide a solution, a single access point for all of an organization's data assets exposed as reusable services and enriched with searchable metadata.

Arun Murugan, Sr. Director, Data Architecture, GE Capital explains the benefits of aggregating the data without having to move them into a centralized repository.

Tom Christian, Solutions Consultant, Tableau explains the importance of self-service BI and the ability to find the data you are looking for.

Timm Grosser, Head of Consulting BI & Data Management at BARC Research explains the main challenges that modern companies face regarding data management.

Tekin Mentes, SM, Enterprise Data Architect, Data Evangelist, Logitech presents how Logitech migrated their on-premise data warehouse and big data systems to the cloud and minimizing costs and immensely improved their time-to-market.

Schoeman Loubser, Information Architect, GetSmarter presents how GetSmarter are using microservices to improve their business intelligence.

Paul Grooten, Data Architect, Statistics Netherlands presents how Statistics Netherlands are using a Spark-based data lake with Denodo's data virtualization in a multi-zone architecture to enable the statisticians to quickly find and use the data in the format they need.

Panel discussion by: Timm Grosser, BARC Research; Kishan Shri, Advisor Business Intelligence, Erasmus University Medical Center; Schoeman Loubser, Information Architect, GetSmarter; Sebastien Fabri, Data Analyst, Looker; Andreas Schuldt, Director Business Analytics Services Europe, HCL.

Panel discussion by: Mike Ferguson, Independent Analyst; Gordon Griffin, Altus Analytics; Bart de Groeve, InfoRoad; Gavin Targonski, Wipro; Alberto Pan, CTO, Denodo.

Panel discussion by: Paul Grooten, Data Architect, Statistics Netherlands; Tekin Mentes, Enterprise Data Architect, Logitech; Sue Cameron, Technical Director, UK and Northern Europe, Semarchy; Tom Christian, Associate Sales Consultant, Tableau.

Mike Ferguson, Independent Analyst presents how to use data virtualization to solve challenges and aid the promise of digilitization.

Mark Pritchard, Director, Sales Engineering, Denodo presents the perks of a logical data warehouse vs. the physical data warehouse.

Lakshmi Randall, Denodo presents how data virtualization plays a critical role in enabling edge analytics.

Kishan Shri, Advisor Business Intelligence, Erasmus MC-Netherlands presents the key takeaways that Erasmus University Medical Center learnt in the process of building their logical data warehouse.

Gordon Griffin, Chief Architect, Altus Analytics presents how Altus Analytics built a 3 tier modular architecture to tackle particular BI data modelling challenges.

Gavin Targonski, Director Sales and Business Development, Wipro presents how data virtualization facilitates real-time analytics.

Alberto Pan, Chief Technical Officer, Denodo presents how data virtualization uses in-memory fabric to further accelerate the delivery of data to business users.